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.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

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

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was l...

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern A...

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one o...

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters o...

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interl...

Billy Hill and Jack 'Spot' Comer were among the most notorious criminals in London up until the 1950...

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old phot...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother...

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of wome...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

After receiving a letter calling for a secret conspiracy meeting, a woman is mistaken for a controve...

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fell...