Ergebnis für "Filmer" in Noir

Ein fesselnder Hollywood-Thriller aus den 1920er Jahren über die Entstehung des furchterregendsten Stummfilms aller Zeiten und die tödliche Suche nach der einzigen Kopie, die angeblich noch existiert. 1927: Mary Rourke - eine Hollywood-Studioausstatterin - wird dringend in das palastartige Haus von Norma Carlton gerufen, einem der bekanntesten Stars des amerikanischen Stummfilms. Norma hat an dem geheimen Film gearbeitet, über den alle reden - ein schrecklicher Horrorfilm mit dem Titel The Devil's Playground, der Gerüchten zufolge einen Fluch auf alle an der Produktion Beteiligten gelegt hat.

North San Diego County. A gifted pianist. A beautiful violinist. A multimillion-dollar land deal. A story of intrigue, mystery and murder in the comic-noir tradition.

Here are 50 short stories about investors in musicals, angels taking walks on the wild side, a man risking his life for a jelly donut, and much more.

How does a man escape from himself...? A classic masterpiece of American noir fiction. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, unscrupulous journalist working for tyrannical Earl Janoth's media empire. And he's involved with the wrong woman - his boss's mistress, Pauline Delos. One day...

Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book, and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series, returns in an all-new assignment that takes the hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that for the first time someone has taken out a hit on him. And is the mysterious killer assigned to hit the hitman someone from Quarry's past? Maybe even a past lover?

Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, and beyond - to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living - and most reclusive - artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff?

Ravens in the Rain is an unconventional noir love story between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale, fantasy is foreplay, and sex is had on second dates. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other's intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who's the villain and who's the hero and how it will all play out.