Posts Tagged ‘blackmail’

Office Space (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ron Livingston | Jennifer Aniston | David Herman | Ajay Naidu | Diedrich Bader | Stephen Root | Gary Cole | Richard Riehle | Alexandra Wentworth | Joe Bays | John C. McGinley | Paul Willson | Kinna McInroe | Todd Duffey | Greg Pitts
Directors: Mike Judge
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Peter Gibbons just can’t seem to catch a break. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he’s completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech. Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who dies just after putting Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job, just as the company is going through a massive downsizing. However, his new attitude only makes him more valuable in the company’s eyes, and his friends Michael and Samir are fired instead. Together, they scheme to plant a virus inside Initech’s computer system that will pull money into their own account.

The Woman in Green (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

Cherry Crush (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nikki Reed | Jonathan Tucker | Julie Gonzalo | Michael O'Keefe | Haviland Morris | Dennis Boutsikaris | Frank Whaley | Alessa Neeck | Christopher Jon Martin | Patricia Lewis Browne | Billy Powell | Thomas Tripiciano | Nick Lang | Ferdinand Jay Smith | Sarah Anderson
Directors: Nicholas DiBella
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Jordan Wells, a talented, seventeen-year-old photographer struggles between falling in line with his father’s plans for his future and following his desire to pursue photography. After he gets throw out of his upscale prep school for taking provocative pictures of some of the girls in his class, he transfers into a public school and becomes involved with Shay, a beautiful girl from the other side of the tracks. As the passion of their relationship heats up, Jordan soon finds himself an accessory to murder —twice.

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Timothy Hutton | Sean Penn | Pat Hingle | Joyce Van Patten | Rob Reed | Rob Newell | Karen West | Art Camacho | Annie Kozuch | Richard Dysart | Priscilla Pointer | Chris Makepeace | Dorian Harewood | Mady Kaplan | Macon McCalman
Directors: John Schlesinger
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

Zero Effect (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Pullman | Ben Stiller | Ryan O'Neal | Kim Dickens | Angela Featherstone | Hugh Ross | Sarah DeVincentis | Matt O'Toole | Michele Mariana | Robert Katims | Tyrone Henry | Aleta Barthell | Tapp Watkins | Wendy Westerwelle | Lauren Hasson
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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Shifty timber tycoon Gregory Stark (’Ryan O’Neal’ (qv)) is being systematically blackmailed and the use of regular private detectives have proved ineffective. Stark decides to call upon the services of the renowned, reclusive Daryl Zero (’Bill Pullman (qv)), supposedly the world’s greatest detective. Stark is very surprised to find himself discussing the intimate details of the case with Zero’s amiable associate Steve Arlo (’Stiller, Ben’ (qv)) who explains Zero’s propensity for never meeting with clients. Zero, using his two ‘obs’ of objectivity and observation, quickly discovers the identity of the blackmailer but continues the case in order to discover exactly why the seemingly ordinary Gloria Sullivan (’Kim Dickens’ (qv)) is attacking Stark in this fashion. As Zero becomes more engrossed in the case and, even worse for him, becomes personally involved with Gloria he is forced to decide between the blackmailer and his client!

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Demi Moore | Dane Cook | William Hurt | Marg Helgenberger | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Danielle Panabaker | Aisha Hinds | Lindsay Crouse | Jason Lewis | Reiko Aylesworth | Matt Schulze | Yasmine Delawari | Traci Dinwiddie | Michael Cole
Directors: Bruce A. Evans
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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Frémont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Minéo | Jean Chatel | Stéphane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Perfect Stranger (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Halle Berry | Bruce Willis | Giovanni Ribisi | Richard Portnow | Gary Dourdan | Florencia Lozano | Nicki Lynn Aycox | Kathleen Chalfant | Gordon MacDonald | Daniella Van Graas | Paula Miranda | Patti D'Arbanville | Clea Lewis | Tamara Feldman | Gerry Becker
Directors: James Foley
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?

Rear Window (1954)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Grace Kelly | Wendell Corey | Thelma Ritter | Raymond Burr | Judith Evelyn | Ross Bagdasarian | Georgine Darcy | Sara Berner | Frank Cady | Jesslyn Fax | Rand Harper | Irene Winston | Havis Davenport | Marla English
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?