Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.

"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...

Next of kin : When his brother is murdered by a gangster, Chicago policeman Truman Gates is caught between his devotion to the law and his Appalachian family's desire for revenge. Point Break : FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover to infiltrate a group of Southern California surfers suspected of being bank robbers. Ghost : After being killed in an alley, a dead man tries to protect his fiancee from his killers who are after her next, using a woman...