Screenplay: James M. Cain

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Synopsis Double Indemnity (1944) follows Walter Neff, a smooth-talking insurance salesman, who becomes entangled in a dangerous scheme with Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his clients. The two conspire to murder her husband and stage his death as...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Synopsis A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and a ferret-faced new husband (Zachary Scott).

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Lana Turner · John Garfield · Cecil Kellaway · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis In The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a drifter named Frank stops at a roadside diner and becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Cora, the young wife of the diner's owner, Nick. Their illicit romance leads them to plot...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Synopsis "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young...

Direction Todd Haynes

Cast Kate Winslet · Evan Rachel Wood · Guy Pearce · Melissa Leo

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

Direction Bill Plympton

Synopsis In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of Romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred...

Direction Bob Rafelson

Cast Jack Nicholson · Jessica Lange · Anjelica Huston · John Colicos

Synopsis Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with Nick's wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Rhonda Fleming · Arlene Dahl · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. But after falling...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Barbara O'Neil · Onslow Stevens

Synopsis Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Charles Boyer · Sigrid Gurie · Hedy Lamarr · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of Algiers. A French official insists that he be captured, but...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast June Allyson · Rossano Brazzi · Marianne Koch · Françoise Rosay

Synopsis The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. While working for America House, she meets a famous symphony conductor, Tonio Fischer (Rossano Brazzi), and begins a relationship...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Douglas · Linda Darnell · Celeste Holm · Charles Coburn

Synopsis Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Henry Fonda · Leo Carrillo · John Halliday

Synopsis Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Mario Lanza · Joan Fontaine · Vincent Price · Sara Montiel

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Peter Coe · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on...

Direction Matt Cimber

Cast Stacy Keach · Pia Zadora · Orson Welles · Edward Albert

Synopsis Jess Tyler, a staunchly religious silver miner, has been left alone out in the desert to guard an all-but-depleted mine. His dreary life is livened up considerably by the arrival of his long-lost daughter, Kady. The less-than-innocent young woman has...

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Richard Crenna · Lee J. Cobb · Samantha Eggar · Robert Webber

Synopsis A remake from the Wilder's classic. A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out...

Direction Lucas Platt

Cast Erika Eleniak · William McNamara · Michael Lerner · Bud Cort

Synopsis A runaway meets up with a young man in the bus station who leads her to a rendezvous with two others who are planning a bank robbery. She is convinced to drive the getaway car for $5,000 and assured that...

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Loretta Young · Warner Baxter · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Synopsis Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Jeffrey Lynn · Brenda Marshall · John Litel · Lee Patrick

Synopsis The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is very involved with all of his customers....