Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. ...
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy ...
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn
Per usual, we've added the award winners from last year (2021), and updated our rankings!
As always, we've added the award winners from last year (2020), and updated our rankings!
We've added all the award winners from 2019, and updated our rankings!