The Harder They Fall (1956)

Seven (or six – depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Four teenagers from a rural village in South West Nigeria stumble upon a pouch of uncut diamonds — but before long, others come looking for the bounty.

A teenager wakes up near a cliff, injured and unable to remember how he got there. He is chained to a man in a suit and there is a gun…

In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One…

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.

1963 Military Industrialist Arthur Blackmark must race against the clock to stop an international incident which threatens to end the world.

Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to…

Upon hearing of his mentor’s impending death, haggard musician Kino Warren begins a journey on foot across country, and through a place not of this world referred to as “the…

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution’s football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a…

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors…