Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

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

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

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...

Doctor who lived at the edge of a swamp was found murdered with his neck slaughtered. Investigator, ...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

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...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-trippi...

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the...

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a...

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob...

This film was based on Zoran Zivkovic's stories, in which the main motif is number two: a number tha...

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he mee...

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned...

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi...

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old sec...

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tension...