In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Nick Curran, inspecteur de police à San Francisco, enquête sur le meurtre d'une star du rock, Johnny Boz, tué de trente et un coups de pic à glace par une inconnue alors qu'il faisait l'amour. Nick apprend que le chanteur fréquentait Catherine Tramell, riche et brillante romancière. Au cours de son enquête, il s'aperçoit que les parents de Catherine sont morts dans un accident suspect, que son professeur de psychologie a été assassiné dix ans plus tôt à coups de pic à glace et qu'enfin, une de ses meilleures amies a, en 1956, tué ses trois enfants et son mari.
Nicky rencontre Jess dans un bar un soir. Cette dernière le convainc de devenir sa stagiaire dans le crime. Ensemble, ils escroquent de nombreuses personnes et amassent une fortune colossale. Un jour, après avoir accompli un gros coup, Nicky abandonne Jess dans un taxi et lui demande de quitter la ville, ce qu'elle fait. Trois ans plus tard, à Buenos Aires, Nicky est engagé par un pilote automobile qui lui demande de vendre un faux logiciel à son compétiteur le plus féroce afin qu'il le batte sur la piste. Il est sur le point de réussir sa mission quand Jess apparaît.
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
Une nuit, Caleb, un jeune fermier de l'Oklahoma, rencontre la belle Mae. Fasciné, il tente de la séduire et obtient d'elle un baiser qui devient une morsure. Ce contact va entraîner Caleb dans le monde des compagnons de Mae, des vampires. Il devra apprendre à tuer pour s'abreuver du sang de ses victimes.
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Une femme fatale médium se met à fréquenter trois hommes en même temps, dont l'un sera son assassin.
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
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.
Three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca Saint John, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.