A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to i...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug ...

The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes...

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the n...

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking...

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles...

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...