James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founders of the hardboiled crime genre.
Works
National Theatre Live: Obsession
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
Release Date:2017-05-11
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:5
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.
Release Date:2011-03-27
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:229
Buai Laju-Laju
Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.
Release Date:2004-09-09
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:2
Passion
A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
Release Date:1998-10-22
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:10
Girl in the Cadillac
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
Release Date:1995-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:6
The Power of Speech
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
Release Date:1988-12-31
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:13
Big Trouble
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.
Release Date:1986-05-30
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:40
Butterfly
Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes to visit him and tells him she's his daughter. Jess finds it hard to adapt to his newfound parenting role, as a mutual attraction grows between them.
Release Date:1982-02-05
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:30
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Release Date:1981-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:500
Double Indemnity
A 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.
Release Date:1973-10-13
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:16
Interlude
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Release Date:1968-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:10
For the Sake of a Woman
Insurance representative of the client rich go to the work of an insurance policy, a wealthy married to a beautiful young tempted even located in the nets and cemented their relationship, offer him salvation from her husband, then grab the value of the insurance policy, the husband dies, you go for the company to capture the amount of insurance, but the company have doubts about the death of husband and it suggests that he died unnatural way especially that the wife was a nurse before her marriage, knows insurance this information delegate who was behind the seizure of the wealth of the husband goes to meet her, surprises her in the arms of her lover kill her but they call it lead endure and on his deathbed in hospital admits the full truth then death throes the latter.
Release Date:1959-03-16
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Interlude
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
Release Date:1957-10-30
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:4
Serenade
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Release Date:1956-03-23
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:19
Slightly Scarlet
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Release Date:1956-02-29
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:30
Everybody Does It
Leonard 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 meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Release Date:1949-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
Out of the Past
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.
Release Date:1947-11-25
Department:Crew
Job:Additional Writing
Vote Count:597
The Postman Always Rings Twice
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Release Date:1946-05-02
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:340
Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Release Date:1945-10-20
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:402
Gypsy Wildcat
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.
Release Date:1944-08-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Double Indemnity
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.
Release Date:1944-07-06
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:1829
Obsession
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
Release Date:1944-04-08
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:250
The Shanghai Gesture
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Release Date:1941-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:64
Money and the Woman
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Release Date:1940-08-17
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:3
When Tomorrow Comes
A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
Release Date:1939-08-11
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:12
The Last Turning
Frank, 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 offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
Release Date:1939-05-17
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:15
Wife, Husband and Friend
Woman 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.
Release Date:1939-03-03
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:1
Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Release Date:1939-01-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
Blockade
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
Release Date:1938-06-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
Algiers
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
Release Date:1938-01-16
Department:Writing
Job:Dialogue
Vote Count:37
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, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
Release Date:1934-04-26
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2