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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...

Cliff is the leader of an enterprise he runs with his two best friends. His time in the life has tak...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...