One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related ...

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starti...

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attac...

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him t...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from th...

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los ...

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells...

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigma...

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his ...

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...