A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.
Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.
A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.