Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

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.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

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

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

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...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

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...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...