Annotation:A psychiatrist at a mental institution becomes romantically involved with the new director, and shields him from the police after discovering that he is an imposter. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck.

Annotation:A beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begin to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Marion Lorne.

Annotation:Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous young wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together. Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed.

Annotation:Taut drama involving gangsters, one of whom is a carrier of Bubonic plague, and the manhunt to find him. Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes.

Annotation:Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con agrees, to be part of a bank job planned by a former cop until he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For this job only, he'll put his racism aside ... until moments away from the score, hatred erupts. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame.

Annotation:A psychotic self-styled preacher marries and murders a young widow for her money. He then pursues her children to get his hands on the money, only to meet his match in a farm woman who becomes the children's protector. Directed by Charles Laughton; screenplay by James Agee. Director: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Peter Graves.

Annotation:Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder. Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett.

Annotation:Melodrama about psychotic child murderer who is brought to justice by the Berlin underworld. Director: Fritz Lang. Cast Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens.

Annotation:A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. The film culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors. Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia.

Annotation:Disgruntled ex-cop Tim Foster masterminds a foolproof million-dollar bank robbery. But he's also hatched a scheme to double-cross his accomplices and frame hapless truck driver Joe Rolfe for the crime. Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Dona Drake, Mario Siletti.

Annotation:Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal casino in a South American city, and quickly rises to become Mundson's ?main man.? All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda--a woman from Johnny's past. Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George MacReady, Joseph Calleia.

Annotation:2005. (DVD 791.4372 Dark 2005) A convict escapes from San Quentin to prove he was framed for the murder of his wife. Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea.

Annotation:2006. (DVD 791.4372 Mr) American smuggler Guy van Strattan decides to investigate the mysterious Mr. Arkadin after hearing about the wealthy man from a prison cellmate, but Arkadin claims amnesia about his own life, sending van Strattan off to investigate Arkadin's past. Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff.

Annotation:2004. (DVD 791.4372 Asphalt) An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang for one last heist. Based on the book by W.R. Burnett. Director: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore.

Annotation:An amoral newspaper reporter trapped in dead-end Albuquerque happens upon the story of a lifetime and will do anything to get the scoop. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal, Frank Jaquet.