Backfire (2017)

A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

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…

Jail house tensions mount as a killer’s execution approaches.

Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece…

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo’s Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong’s return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs…

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the…

Set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and prostitutes, this story involves Charlie Smith, private eye, whose job it is to find Carrie Friskine and fast! Carrie, a cat…

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family…

After throwing a job, an ex-Marine seeks refuge in a safe house where he is swarmed by mercenaries sent to kill him.

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy’s wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for…