Jim Thompson

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.

A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.

Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.

The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

母はベテラン詐欺師、息子はおとなしそうだが実はケチ臭い詐欺師、そしてその息子の恋人はといえば、色仕掛けが得意なこれまた詐欺師。そんな3人の愛憎と運命とを描いたラヴ・サスペンス。

In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.

レイモンド・チャンドラーの傑作ハードボイルド小説をノスタルジックな雰囲気で映画化。名優ロバート・ミッチャムが孤高のヒーロー・フィリップ・マーロウを演じるハードボイルド・ミステリー。 1941年のロサンゼルス。ある女性の調査を依頼された私立探偵マーロウは、わずかな手がかりをもとに行方を追う。調査が難航するなか、マーロウは次々と事件に巻き込まれ、命まで狙われる。警察にも追われながら、事件の核心に迫る。

銀行強盗をしたマッコイは、ギャングに渡すはずの金を持って逃走した。彼を追うギャングをかわしながら、マッコイは妻と共にメキシコをめざす。スリリングなチェイスが全編に渡って展開するサム・ペキンパー監督によるアクション・サスペンス。

第一次世界大戦、フランスの最大の課題はドイツ軍の撃退だった。そんな中、ダックス大佐はドイツ軍の要所を攻略する命令を受ける。だが、兵士たちの疲労を知るダックスは、現在攻撃を仕掛ければ兵士たちが壊滅的打撃を受けると抗議する。が、軍上層部は無視、作戦は実行される。フランス軍は大敗し、ダックスは責任を問われ軍法会議にかけられる。

ジョニーは出所したばかりにも関わらず、競馬場の売上金強奪を企み仲間を集める。周到な準備の末、いよいよ決行の時が来るが、計画が成功したかに思えた瞬間、思わぬ展開がジョニーたちを待っていた……。

Film noir thriller in keeping with other collaborations between Kubrick and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Jim Thompson. "A dark and surprising mystery, in which the greatest puzzle is who, among several plausible candidates, is the true escapee from a nearby mental hospital."

A corrupt sheriff of a small town manipulates the people in his orbit in order to win the next election.