Body of Sin

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 ...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Roman Polanski

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

G.W. Pabst

Cast

Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's insurance.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Todd Robinson

Cast

John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet