Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud ...

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...

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a doze...

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

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

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...

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...

A man discovers his wife is having an affair, which leads him down a morally uncertain path.

Wealthy Socialite Julian Livingston has been murdered, his fiance seeks out a lone Detective Liam Gr...

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...

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...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...

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

In-Ja, the madam of a cabaret is a mistress of the boss of espionage agent. She gathers information ...