Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man...

On a cold and lonely night, a hapless driver stops to investigate an isolated rest stop. He finds himself caught in a series of deadly...

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege...

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly...

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum....

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

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

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

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be...

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of...

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

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly...

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...