Dead Layer

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the...

New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise visit. Later, Eva moves in with...

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a...

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress,...

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.