The Naked Edge (1961)
ONLY THE MAN WHO WROTE PSYCHO COULD JOLT YOU LIKE THIS!
장르 : 미스터리, 스릴러
상영시간 : 1시간 40분
연출 : Michael Anderson
각본 : Joseph Stefano
시놉시스
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
2003년 영화 '네드 켈리 (Ned Kelly)'의 각본을 쓴 존 마이클 맥도나 감독의 데뷔작품
살인, 협박, 마약 밀매등 지방경찰의 부패를 그린 이야기로 국제 마약밀수 조직을 상대로 대항하는 아일랜드 경찰과 FBI요원의 유럽판 투캅스
Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Kairo Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his new student, Sora Amakami, is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual intrigue, prostitution and blackmail, other students, including Sora's nerdy roommate and the sinister campus bully, are pulled down the same torrid path of unquenchable desire toward the inevitable moment when obsession turns deadly.
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
사립탐정인 힌튼은 복잡한 스파이 사건과 마약사건을 주로 해결하는 댄디이다. 컴퓨터의 기밀 사항을 꺼내어 팔려는 음모를 파헤치고자 탐사를 펼치던중, 섹스행위를 몰래 비디오로 촬영하여 주인집 여자들을 위협하던 하인의 살인사건을 대하게 된다.
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department after the young man was arrested for drunk driving. The arresting officer's story is highly suspicious and everyone involved, from the investigating detective to the FBI, appear to be aiding in covering up what actually happened that fateful night. With a promise made to the Thacker family to expose the truth, Stu dives head first into an uphill battle against lies and corruption. What transpires will change this lawyer's life forever.
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
찰리는 라스베가스에서 사는 남부러울 것 없는 10대 소년이다. 예쁜 여자 친구 덕분에 학교에서도 꽤 잘 나가는 킹카. 한ㅍ가지. 찰리에게는 지우고 싶은 과거가 있는데 그건 바로 어릴 적 친구인 학교의 찌질남 에드가 그의 단짝 친구였다는 사실. 어느 날, 에드는 친한 친구들이 하나 둘 없어지고, 에드는 라스베가스에 뱀파이어가 나타났다고 경고한다. 하지만 찰리는 그런 에드의 경고를 무시한다. 그날 밤 이후, 에드를 볼 수 없게 된 찰리는 에드의 집으로 찾아가 에드가 남긴 동영상을 보게 된다. 동영상에는 에드가 뱀파이어로 의심했던 남자의 영상이 담겨 있고, 하필이면 그 남자는 바로 얼마 전 찰리의 옆집으로 이사 온 제리라는 남자다. 이제 찰리는 여자 친구 에이미와 엄마를 뱀파이어로부터 보호하기 위해서 라스베가스에 유명한 뱀파이어 해결사 피터 빈센트를 찾아가는데...
Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary, later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
A spoiled little rich girl arrives at Sorority High with studying the last thing on her mind. Spreading malicious rumours and splitting people up are just some of the things she finds amusing. Her behaviour not surprisingly though, starts to alienate her from her fellow classmates.
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenaged boy who is able to translate Black Jack's odd speech into something comprehensible. They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse her family imprisoned her in when she grew troublesome. Together, the three join a carnival. However, as it becomes clear that the girl is far from crazy, love between Tolly and Belle grows. This story, set in the mid-18th century, is based on a novel by Leon Garfield.
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.
The executive of Zting Air is blackmailed. He has to pay 3,000,000 SEK or else his wife will be killed and a plane will explode mid-air.
여자친구와의 오랜 연애 끝에 헤어진 사이먼. 실연의 슬픈 기억을 잊기 위해 파리로 떠나지만 상심한 마음을 쉽게 추스르지 못한다. 신비로운 매력이 물씬 풍기는 매춘부와 사랑에 빠진 사이먼은 그녀와의 만남으로 인해 치명적인 운명의 소용돌이에 휩쓸리게 된다. 평범한 청년이 살인자가 되어가는 과정을 차분하지만 오싹하게 그려내고 있는 문제작.
(2013년 제17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)