A great Hammett mystery, with the most charismatic screen couple ever--William Powell and Myrna Loy. Don't forget Asta, dragging Myrna on his leash toward the funniest comic entrance in the history of film.

Few noirs have a more charismatic lead than Robert Mitchum, or a more enveloping sense of doom.

Hitchcock's own favorite among his films, and probably his best delineation of the evil that lurks behind everyday life. Sensational performances by Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, and Patricia Collinge.

The thriller that set the standard for all the Hitchcock masterpieces to come. Robert Donat, an unfairly forgotten actor, is sensational.

Cagney gave his greatest, most dazzling performance in this brilliant cross between police procedural and film noir. "Made it, Ma--top of the world!"

Hitchcock's masterpiece--terrifying, moving and hypnotic--about murder, obsession and lost love. James Stewart and Kim Novak give performances that are great beyond praise.

Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Paris...and a rogues' gallery of murderers chasing them. If this doesn't make you want to buy this DVD immediately, check your pulse to make sure you're still alive!

Witty, hypnotic, surprising, and terrifying--infinitely superior to the remake. If you know Angela Lansbury only as Jessica Fletcher, prepare for the surprise of your life.

The first movie to feature Hannibal Lecter, and for my money the scariest of all of them, even "The Silence of the Lambs."

There should have been a whole series of Easy Rawlins movies, starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle--who are, of course, sensational in this movie. "Devil in a Blue Dress" had everything it needed to be a box-office smash. So why wasn't it?

Far and away the Coen Brothers' best film. The best-laid plans of brutal, brainless criminals go horribly, bloodily awry, partly because of their own greed and stupidity, partly because of the courage and moral splendor of a pregnant, earth-motherly police chief. A moral tale for the ages.