When David, Juliet, and Alex are searching for a fourth roommate for their flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo. However, they soon find Hugo dead, with a large sum of cash being among his belongings. The three friends decide to keep the money, dismembering and burying Hugo's body. However, their newfound fortune begins to corrode their friendships, with each roommate resorting to manipulation tactics to scam the others out of the money.

雨夜，雷伊（John Getz 飾）跟艾比（Frances McDormand 飾）在酒店偷情。雷伊是酒吧夥計，而艾比則是酒吧老闆瑪迪（Dan Hedaya 飾）的妻子。瑪迪懷疑妻子出軌，因此僱傭偵探維斯調查。知悉真相的瑪迪怒不可遏，潛入雷伊家，企圖綁走妻子，卻在廝打中受傷。瑪迪密會維斯，決定花錢做掉二人。維斯潛入雷伊家翻到了艾比的手槍。回來後，維斯給瑪迪看了兩人被殺的照片，趁瑪迪不備，將其擊斃。雷伊發現瑪迪屍體，誤以為艾比所為，因此毀屍滅跡。晚上，雷伊再次回到酒吧，赫然發現了威斯假造的照片。這時，雷伊和艾比都不知道，死亡的威脅正在步步緊逼……本片為科恩兄弟（Joel Coen, Ethan Coen）的處女作，創作於1984年，只用了80萬美元，2個月即拍攝完成。2009年，製片人張偉平斥資200萬美元購得本片版權，邀請張藝謀據此拍攝了《三槍拍案驚奇》。

蘇聯街頭出現殺人犯專對無辜年輕遊民下手，該罪犯手段兇殘，並且隨機殺人。然而要靠著遲緩耗時的官方體系來調查本身就是一種謀殺。俄羅斯法醫布拉克夫一心想要破解此案，但多年的追查已經危害到他自己的人生。如今他唯一的靠山，就只有頂頭上司費特索夫。時間如此地急迫，街頭上每一個年輕遊民即使還沒被兇手殺害，也會被這些政府的繁文縟節所害。

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a new life with your mistress - then don't be too surprised if your wife returns and is more than a little angry about the situation! Like Shabl's two previous features, the film was released theatrically before also becoming a minor hit on home video.