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.

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a m...

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

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

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...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

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...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

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.