The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.
Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love.
Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse-thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the sheriff, the bank - and each other.
The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in ...
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.
'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer ...
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme.
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the Hells Angels gang finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns just how brutal they are.