The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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

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

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

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

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

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

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

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...

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

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...