Dave Bannion és un policia honest que investiga el suïcidi d'un company. Bertha, la vídua, explica a Bannion que al seu marit li havien diagnosticat una greu malaltia. Però Lucy, l'amant del difunt, li explica que, en realitat, el policia havia descobert un complex entramat de corrupció al seu departament. Quan Lucy apareix brutalment assassinada, Bannion decideix acusar Lagana, el major mafiós de la ciutat. Al cap de poc temps, el cotxe de Bannion explota i mata la seva dona, fet que el portarà a iniciar una venjança salvatge.
Un conegut inventor novaiorquès és acusat de diversos assassinats. Quan arriben a la ciutat un famós detectiu i la seva dona i s'assabenten de l'assumpte, ella, moguda per l'esperit d'aventura, intenta convèncer el seu marit perquè accepti el cas.
Aquesta obra cabdal del cinema negre relata la planificació i l’atracament a una joieria amb una precisió i un estudi dels personatges exemplar.
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its own price.
Dusty Chandler is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance.
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
En un carrer de Nova York, la misèria i la delinqüència conviuen amb la riquesa dels llogaters d'un luxós bloc d'apartaments. Inevitablement aquests aguts contrastos acabaran desencadenant tensions entre els dos mons.
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 play of the same title, and The Miracle (Il miracolo), based on Ramón del Valle-Inclán's 1904 novel Flor de santidad.
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Història d'una família de ramaders, els Zachary: Mathilda, la mare, Rachel, la filla, i tres fills, dels quals Ben és l'hereu. Kelsey, un vell boig, passa de tant en tant prop de la casa i els amenaça cantant i brandant un sabre. Es descobreix que Rachel no és filla de Zachary, sinó que és mestissa. Els colons la discriminen i en Kelsey vol assassinar-la, i per això Ben el mata. Els indis kiowa volen recuperar la noia, però la família està disposada a tot per defensar-la.
El Gran Flamarion és un tirador excepcional que protagonitza un dels números més brillants d'un espectacle itinerant de varietats. Participen com a ajudants en la seva actuació el matrimoni format per l'Al i la Connie Wallace. Dona de temperament voluble i intrigant, la Connie aviat s'atipa del marit, que busca refugi en la beguda. Connie decideix fer servir els seus encants per seduir Flamarion per tal que l'ajudi a desempallegar-se de l'Al. Tots dos fingiran un tret accidental en una de les representacions i després li promet que es casarà amb ell.
Mentre es banyen durant tot el dia a la platja queer d'Atenes, els millors amics Demos i Nikitas rememoren els esdeveniments d'un estiu recent amb la perspectiva de convertir-los en un guió per a l'òpera prima de Nikitas, inspirada en els esdeveniments que envolten a una gossa anomenada Carmen.
Les relacions entre el doctor Brad i la seva exdona, Paula, són sorprenentment bones. Es van divorciar perquè Brad odiava estar involucrat en els assassinats a què Paula, escriptora de misteri, era addicta. Però Brad es veu involucrat en una mort estranya mentre disputava una partida de pòquer. Aleshores entra en escena la seva exdona, que pretén obtenir qualsevol pista sobre el cas.
A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.
Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of his house. Everyone wants to get their hands on his legacy. Will the protectors succeed?