After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evo...

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.