Film noir and melodrama collide in Otto Preminger’s tale of the shoplifting wife of a psychoanalyst, who finds herself drawn into in a web of blackmail and murder.
John Cassavetes’s powerful drama stars Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk as a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with the wife’s slide into mental illness.
A samurai drifts into a rural town divided between two gangs and proceeds to play one side off against the other, with events soon spiralling into violence.