Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a ha...

Séduit par la troublante Phyllis Dietrichson, l'agent d'assurance Walter Neff conspire avec elle le meurtre de son mari après lui avoir fait signer une police prévoyant une indemnité pharaonique en cas de mort accidentelle. Évidemment, la compagnie d'assurance va suspecter la fraude, mais Walter et ...

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bonedeep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monst...

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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir. From the T...

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Hyattsville, Maryland, début des années 1960. Joan Medford, une jeune veuve soupçonnée d´avoir provoqué l´accident de voiture dans lequel a péri son mari violent et alcoolique, est obligée de trouver rapidement un travail pour obtenir la garde de son fils, placé chez sa belle-soeur qui la hait. Grâ...