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.

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

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...

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.

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...

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...

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker ...

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the f...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

A cop, his partner, and his father uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into P...