A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

In 1940s Buenos Aires, a private detective's search for a mysterious woman entangles him in a chilli...

William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when h...

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

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

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

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offer...

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.

As Rabab escapes from the cruelty of his stepmother and stays with an actress, she meets the young m...

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small Cali...

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem...

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known ...

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inm...