Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
A stoned father talks about kids, bullies and the grim state of affairs our children face in the "re...
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes an...
In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emot...
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up f...
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing b...
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Dr Sloan suspects that his flame of long ago, famous heart surgeon Dr Rachel Walters, has murdered U...
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several thing...
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and Cali...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...