The crook couple Peter and Gwen have run away from Germany and are dreaming of a sweet life on Mallorca. During a break-in at the villa of multimillionaire Walter Ekland, Peter discovers by chance that the old man is using a detective agency to find his son, who was given up for adoption years ago. Ekland has never seen his supposed last family member and heir and therefore does not know that he has long since died. Peter sees the great opportunity of a lifetime. He assumes the identity of the lost son in order to get his hands on the big money. But the unscrupulous Decker, a private detective who was tasked with finding Ekland's real son, discovers the fraud and blackmails Gwen and Peter...

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more...

After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with ...

An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - ...

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefariou...

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals...

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on ...

While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living...

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. ...

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and...

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional age...

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding...

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by t...

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...