A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

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

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...

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

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

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

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

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

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

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

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

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th...

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A ...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut...

A detective, who writes about the city's darkness and crime, begins to see that by shifting his pers...

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...