Jules Dassin

Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. With a history of nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime. But there is no easy money in this underworld and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film, and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural was shot entirely on location in New York. Influenced as much by Italian neorealism as it is by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism...

A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.

Just out of prison, a master thief is persuaded to orchestrate the nearly impossible robbery of an upscale jewelry store.

For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.

"Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. But when Figlia gets wise to his plan, Nick finds himself in a web of treachery and heartbreak." -- Container.

Four ex-convicts pull off a seemingly perfect jewel heist, but then a rival gangster decides he wants part of the loot.

A squad of homicide detectives roam through the seamier parts of New York City as they solve a murder case. Gives viewers an unvarnished look at life in the city using the technique of neorealism.