Trailers from Hell Presents: The Movies That Made Me: Connecticut in the Movies Author Illeana Douglas

Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.

A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

A successful executive and womanizer finds his lifestyle choices have turned back on him when his new female boss turns out to be an even bigger deviant than he is.

Angela (Debra Winger) hires/lures a P.I. (Nick Nolte) to prove a convicted teenager is innocent of his uncle's murder.

Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.

The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.

In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

In the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean and his mother are newly employed by the Sala Post tobacco farm that is engaged in a competition war with the neighboring Judd Raike tobacco corporation.

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

A poor writer rivals a rich man's son for a young woman with a secret out-of-wedlock child.

In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes.

Twentyish daughter Cassie of newly-deceased psychotic magician Duke Duquesne is his sole beneficiary and must stay in his isolated Los Angeles mansion for seven nights in order to inherit his $300,000 fortune.

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.

Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.