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.

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

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

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...

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

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living,...

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...

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...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

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

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...