Nightcrawler (2014)

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Lou Bloom is a desperate man living in Los Angeles who resorts to theft in order to support himself. One night, while on his way home from another unsuccessful job interview, he chances upon a terrible traffic accident where he meets freelance reporter Chris, who sells his footage to local news stations.
Seeing a chance to make it rich, Lou then trades in an expensive bike for a police scanner and a video recorder and begins hunting down the city`s crime scenes as they happen. Hiring Rick, a homeless man, as his assistant, Lou takes a journey into LA`s crime-ridden underbelly searching for footage to sell to Nina, a particularly twisted and ratings-driven news producer...