The Deadlier Sex

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old...

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the...

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is,...

The story revolves around a woman, who stays in a large mansion with her husband. She develops an obsession for her ornaments and refrains giving...