Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.