A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
A cop, his partner, and his father uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.