An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify the culprits, he opens himself up to a campaign of intimidation from the gang involved.
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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...
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally ...
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for h...
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by ...
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete st...
While running for her life, a witness with fragmented memories of a brutal murder crosses paths with...
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford Un...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...