Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as...

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

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

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...

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up f...

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his uns...

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

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

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.

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...