A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the...

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection....

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who...

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

A young detective in 1950’s Los Angeles comes to terms with their identity while tracking down a serial killer targeting the city’s top...

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory...

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the...

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in...

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a...

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.