A burnt-out British spy becomes the recipient of tapes implicating senior MI-6 officers in some light treason. Before he even knows what he has, most of his office has already been killed.
Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston, Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which their seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbors, Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realize a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotion flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki...
윌리엄 태커(휴 그랜트분)는 웨스트 런던의 ‘노팅 힐’에 사는 소심한 남자. 역시 독신의 괴상한 친구 스파이크(리스 아이판스 분)와 함께 살고있는 그는, 노팅힐 시장 한쪽 구석에 위치한 조그마한 여행서적 전문점을 운영하며 살고 있다. 그에게는 미래에 대한 포부나 설계는 사치에 불과하다. 여느 때와 마찬가지로 무미건조한 하루를 보내고 있던 그는 세계적으로 유명한 인기 영화배우 안나 스콧(줄리아 로버츠 분)이 그의 책방 문을 열고 들어와 책을 사고 나가자 잠깐 동안에 일어난 이 엄청난 사건에 어쩔 줄을 모른다.
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.
'Any man was better than no man at all. After what I did to you, I couldn't let go the idea that I loved him. Love was the only justification for my cruelty.'
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.
