Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan,...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his...

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

When a son, Daniel Ortiz witnesses his father's brutal murder, he wrestles within himself if he should ignore his values and teachings or become a...

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach...

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of...

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent...

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious...

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous...

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

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...