CRISS CROSS (1949)
byAn armoured truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed.
1940s
REBECCA (1940)
byA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife’s spectral presence.
BLACK ANGEL (1946)
byWhen a man is convicted of a singer’s murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent… aided by the victim’s ex-husband.
NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
byA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
WHITE HEAT (1949)
byA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist…
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
byA distant poor relative of the Duke of D’Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
byWith his family away on vacation, a respectable psychology professor succumbs to the siren call of adventure, with deadly results.
THE BIG CLOCK (1948)
byAfter murdering someone, a magazine tycoon tries to frame an unknown, innocent man of the murder instead, while the innocent man tries to solve the murder himself.
PHANTOM LADY (1944)
byA devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn’t murder his selfish wife.
SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946)
byA detective takes a vacation to a small inn, where he meets and falls in love with the hotelier’s daughter, who’d been betrothed to a neighbouring farmer, but on the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear…
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)
byA woman is employed to work for a wealthy widow, but awakens to find it’s two days later and she has a new identity as the daughter-in-law of her employer…
LAURA (1944)
byA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.