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.

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly...

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...

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

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wi...

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murde...

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...