At Heathrow Airport, a man is razored to death in a toilet cubicle. A young woman, Peggy Foster, is concerned about the disappearance of Michael, her photographer boyfriend, who has been in Vietnam for months. In order to pay the rent, she reluctantly sub-lets her garret flat to a man called John Kirk Lawford. The new tenant wears sunglasses indoors and acts suspiciously. Peggy is lured to an abandoned airfield by a call from Michael but is shot at by a sniper. Back at her apartment block she is shocked to find that a man has apparently committed suicide by jumping from her balcony. While the police question Peggy, a stranger turns up and announces himself as John Kirk Lawford! Shirley, secretary to Peggy's lascivious publisher, is killed by a black-gloved intruder and the mystery deepens...

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tr...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

A small town cop finds himself investigating the murder of a prominent citizen.

A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himsel...

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 San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psyc...

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to u...

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

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

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinc...

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lo...

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch ...