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...

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poison...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police inves...

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...

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

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it h...

Chimo develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto wit...