Up and coming ambitious boxer Tommy Shea must choose between making dishonest money with crooked promoter Harry Cram or honestly winning a title, as advised by his manager Dave Bernstein.

A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.

Charles Castle, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn't taking the news too well, and he'll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line, even if it means exposing dark secrets.

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film, and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural was shot entirely on location in New York. Influenced as much by Italian neorealism as it is by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism...

Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.

An heiress is kidnapped by small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by a gangster who isn't just interested in her for the ransom money. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but a double cross could be just around the corner.

Ex-racketeer Chet Chester is being blackmailed by his former criminal partners. Chester's girlfriend Sally kills one of his enemies but Chester takes the blame, assuming that he has enough clout to escape with a lighter sentence. Meanwhile, Dona Williams arrives on the scene, certain that Chester is her long-lost husband. When Sally is murdered, Chester escapes from jail intending to find her killer and clear his name.

In this Victorian-era film noir, the mesmerizing Merle Oberson is Ruby, the new wife of wealthy archaeologist Nigel. Unbeknownst to her husband, Ruby has had quite a checkered past, involving several divorces and extramarital affairs. While Nigel is out digging up an ancient mummy, Ruby takes up with Baroudi, a slick but impoverished Egyptian opportunist. When Baroudi threatens to leave Ruby unless she puts her husband out of the way, she plots to...

Cosh boy: A gang of teenage delinguents, led by Roy, is earning money by mugging women on the streets of London. The police catch up with them and at their hearing, the judge sentences them to a youth club to reform their ways. The boys use the club as the base for their growing operation. Time is my enemy: Radley is a small-time crook, believed to be dead, who returns to his wife after a long absence to find her remarried to a wealthy publisher....

To have and have not: An American fisherman becomes involved with a beautiful young drifter and a French freedom fighter on Martinique. The big sleep: Private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder. Dark passage: A man wrongfully accused of his wife's murder escapes from prison to find the real killer. Key Largo: A man visits the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous...