A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Helen Ferguson
John Lund
Bill Harkness
Jane Cowl
Mrs. Harkness
Phyllis Thaxter
Patrice Harkness
Lyle Bettger
Stephen Morley
Henry O'Neill
Mr. Harkness
Richard Denning
Hugh Harkness
Carole Mathews
Blonde
Esther Dale
Josie
Milburn Stone
Plainclothesman
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When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation steeped in sex, corruption and crime. District Attorney David Corelli gets assigned to the case and discovers that a key suspect is his ex-lover Katrina Gavin, a beautiful psychologist who has settled down with his old friend and peer. As Corelli gets deeper into the case, he uncovers dark secrets with far-reaching implications.
The love story between two teenagers, children of incomprehensible parents.
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A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Set in an exclusive boy's school, about a man who plans to kill off his wealthy teacher wife by encouraging her to drink and pushing her into suicide. To assist him he recruits a young student who will claim that he was sexually assaulted by her. (from: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/390627)
When an incident occurs on an Alaskan oil rig, Becca Collins must work with the oil company's new PR rep, Logan Johnston, to bring her brother-in-law safely home for the holidays. Becca begins to fall for the handsome stranger, but can she trust Logan's motives?
A young man is going through a deep dilemma between killing his brother to keep his father's inheritance or leaving him alive, so he decides to meet a lawyer in a cafe to ask him for advice. The story is intertwined with an event in his family past, because when the boy decides to act, he is surprised by the consequences of an infidelity that occurred 25 years ago.
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Sarah is a children’s book author who returns to her hometown, where she reconnects with her family and Travis, her teenage crush. She soon discovers that a long-held family legend might actually be true.
Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected friendship with her older neighbor Irene.
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
