Detective Sam Spade goes in search of a priceless statuette after the death of his partner.
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Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the...
A young man is shocked when he learns his aunts like to serve men elderberry wine with arsenic, and then bury their bodies in the cellar.
Captain Nemo and the fantastic submarine Nautilus carry three survivors from a shipwreck who observe the dangers of the underwater world.
His girl Friday: "When a conniving newspaper editor learns that his ex-wife is retiring, he will stop at nothing to keep her on staff and win back her heart!"--Container.
Adventure story set aboard a steamer bound for Africa. The passengers attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a piece of land they think has uranium on it.
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why, and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder.
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, w...
A reporter provides eyewitness testimony that helps sentence a small-time loser to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him?
The patsy: When a top comedian is killed in a plane crash, his sycophants try to groom a bellhop into taking his place.
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon fi...
A Baroness mistakes a photographer for a private investigator, hiring him to help her track down a missing uncle. The trail leads to an eerie sanitarium where they escape from some creepy characters, but not before being framed for murder.
A politician, bitter because he believes big business is responsible for his election loss, and his secretary vow to expose big business for the evil monster it is. He must change his mind when the town's biggest company goes to the rescue of his sister when she is trapped in a c...
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
A stern Communist lady comes to Paris to retreive three wayward comrades and a Russian composer. Instead she warms up to capitalist attractions like champagne, silk stockings, and an American man who convinces her that they were fated to be married.
Suspense based on the exploits of the Dusseldorf child-murderer. Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.
Quicksand: A well-intentioned mechanic, desperate for cash, becomes involved in a robbery, and, from there, a series of crimes that destroy his life. T-Bird gang: A high school student joins a gang whose members agree to help him find his father's murderer. High school Caesar: A ...