Movies by Writer - James M. Cain (22 [Missing: 4]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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She Made Her Bed"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But, she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, but refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even | 1934 | Ralph Murphy | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.3 (18 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
AlgiersBeautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah. | 1938 | John Cromwell | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Dernier tournant, LeFrank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's | 1939 | Pierre Chenal | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.8 (261 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Stand Up and FightIt starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Robert Taylor, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking for a job (first time in his life), and ends up working fo | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke | Drama,History,Romance | 6.4 (307 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
When Tomorrow ComesA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress. | 1939 | John M. Stahl | Drama,Romance | 6.8 (603 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Wife, Husband and FriendWoman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy,Romance | 6.1 (231 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Money and the WomanThe City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is very involved with all of his customers. When o | 1940 | William K. Howard | Crime,Drama | 6.4 (86 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Double IndemnityA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. | 1944 | Billy Wilder | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.3 (152.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Gypsy WildcatA wicked baron oppresses Gypsies but is fascinated by the beautiful Carla, who loves a stranger on a white horse. | 1944 | Roy William Neill | Action,Drama,Romance | 5.9 (131 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Mildred PierceA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.0 (25K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Postman Always Rings Twice, TheA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. | 1946 | Tay Garnett | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Everybody Does ItLeonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meet | 1949 | Edmund Goulding | Comedy,Music,Romance | 6.5 (296 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
SerenadeDamon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli's Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is spotted by Kendall Hale, a society girl who en | 1956 | Anthony Mann | Drama,Music,Romance | 5.7 (521 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Slightly ScarletAn urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in-love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor. | 1956 | Allan Dwan | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Madame Slender PlumNA | 1967 | | Mystery | | | Not Available |
Double IndemnityA scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it. | 1973 | Jack Smight | Crime,Drama,Romance | 4.6 (592 votes) | 74 | 20230715 |
ButterflyIn 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine. | 1981 | Matt Cimber | Crime,Drama | 4.7 (1.4K votes) | 108 | 20220315 |
Postman Always Rings Twice, TheThe sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband. | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.6 (23.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Puissance de la paroleNA | 1988 | | Drama,Romance,Short | | | Not Available |
Girl in the CadillacNA | 1995 | | Adventure,Crime,Drama | | | Not Available |
Passion [Szenvedély]In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. | 1998 | György Fehér | Drama | 7.0 (182 votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
Konto ausgeglichenNA | 1959 | | Crime | | | Not Available |