Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek...

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

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

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 seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...

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

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...

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

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...

In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a y...