The Secret People is the title of a 1952 film starring Audrey Hepburn in her first major starring role in a film (just prior to her discovery by Hollywood for Roman Holiday). A suspenseful film Hepburn plays a ballerina, making use of her extensive training. The film starred Valentina Cortese as a woman who witnesses the accidental murder of a bystander by a group of assassins.

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed. Written by Ray Hamel

In 1930, Maria Brentano (Valentina Cortesa) and her younger sister Nora (Audrey Hepburn) flee to London after their father is murdered by a European dictator. Seven years later, during a weekend trip to Paris, Maria unexpectedly meets Louis (Serge Reggiani), her former lover who is now plotting the assassination of the dictator. Maria and Nora become involved in the plan, which goes tragically wrong when the time bomb they plant kills an innocent bystander. Written by alfiehitchie

Although it has conjured horrific images of society's most feared outcasts ever since Biblical days, leprosy is in fact a mildly communicable disease that has been treatable since the 1940s. "Secret People" recounts the shocking history of this disease in America through the voices of victims who live in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium, in Carville, Louisiana Written by Julius Rocco