Lumet's complex and atmospheric thriller is based on a real event. Pacino is superb as the neurotic and incompetent gay bankrobber who needs the money from the robbery to finance his lover's sex change operation. The film's beauty is it's closely detailed psychological observation. Excellent.
find out more...Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...
Audrey Hepburn gives a fantastically theatrical performance as Suzi Hendrix, a blind woman terrorised in her own home by a gang of ruthless criminals intent on retrieving a doll stuffed with heroin that Suzi's husband has unwittingly smuggled for them into the country. A wonderfully claustrophobic and gripping cat-and-mouse thriller featuring a deliciously devilish turn from Alan Arkin.
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