When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

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

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up bo...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, ...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Co...

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.