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- A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
- A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
- Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.
- A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
- A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
- Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
- A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
- The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
- A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
- The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
- Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
- Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
- A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
- A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
- A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
- During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
- A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
- A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
- A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
- An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
- A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
- A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
- A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
- A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
- A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
- As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
- A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
- An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
- A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
- A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
- Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
- A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
- Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
- A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
- A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
- Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
- A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
- Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
- Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
- In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
- Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
- Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
- The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
- After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
- A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
- The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
- A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
- The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.