Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
สก็อตตี้ สมัยยังเป็นนายตำรวจ เขาเป็นเหตุให้เพื่อนร่วมงานตกตึกตายขณะไล่ล่าคนร้ายบนตึกสูง ทำให้เขาเป็นโรคกลัวความสูง (Acrophobia) นับแต่นั้นมาและหันหลังให้อาชีพตำรวจ จนวันนึงเพื่อนเก่าของเขา เกวิน เอลส์เตอร์ เศรษฐีเจ้าของกิจการต่อเรือ ได้ว่าจ้างให้สก็อตตี้ตามสืบแฟนสาวของเขาที่มีพฤติกรรมแปลกประหลาดคล้ายโดนผีสิงชอบเดินทางไปสถานที่เดิมๆซ้ำๆว่าที่แท้เธอเป็นอะไรกันแน่
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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 beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
สุภาพสตรีสาวขี้อายไปเที่ยวมอนติ คาร์โลกับนายจ้างจอมจู้จี้ ที่นั่นเธอได้พบกับเศรษฐีชื่อ แม็กซ์ เดอ วินเทอร์ ทั้งคู่ตกหลุมรัก แต่งงานและย้ายกลับไปอยู่คฤหาสน์ของฝ่ายชายที่ชื่อว่า แมนเดอเลย์ แม็กซ์ยกคงทำใจไม่ได้กับการตายของภรรยาคนแรกที่ชื่อว่า รีเบคคา ซึ่งเสียชีวิตด้วยอุบัติเหตุทางเรือเมื่อปีก่อน คุณนายเดอ วินเทอร์คนที่สองไม่ลงรอยกับแม่บ้านและอดีตคนรับใช้ส่วนตัวของรีเบคคา ต่อมาภรรยาใหม่ของแม็กซ์ก็ค้นพบว่ารีเบคคานั้นยังคงส่งผลกระทบต่อผู้คนในแมนเดอเลย์อยู่แม้กระทั่งจะตายไปแล้ว
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.