Fader Michael Logan, en idealisk förebild för prästerlig fromhet, lyssnar till en mördares bekännelse. Samtidigt upptäcks mordet med bevis och ögonvittnen som pekar på att mördaren är en präst. Men tystnadsplikten hindrar honom från att tala ut. Katastrofer och sammanträffanden målar in Logan i desperationens hörn och han tvingas bekänna sin egen mänskliga svaghet.
Den småkriminella John och hans flickvän bor i Cutter som är en typisk håla på landet. En dag när John kommer hem så är hans tjej borta, han misstänker sin skumma granne. Han tar sig ner i grannens källare och upptäcker att grannen har en del hemligheter utav den fasansfulla sorten.
Utpressning och mördade kvinnor är några av beståndsdelarna i denna välgjorda kriminalhistoria, där den eleganta Brooke och världsmannen Daniell bildar ett respektingivande motståndarpar till Holmes och Watson.
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Taking his kids to school with the car, Berlin real estate developer Karl gets a call from a blackmailer: If he doesn’t pay up, the car will blow up. A deadly race against time begins.
En järnvägsmagnat med politiska ambitioner, och som är en av de fasta punkterna i New Yorks-societeten, har tröttnat på sin fru och inleder en romans med en vacker ung dansare som han räddat från att drunkna. När dansarens manager upptäcker relationen ser han chansen att pressa magnaten på stora pengar. När de två slutligen konfronteras uppstår dock ett tumult där både managern och dansaren skjuts ihjäl och för att undvika en skandal manipulerar magnaten brottsplatsen. En kvicktänkt polis börjar dock fatta misstankar mot magnaten och nu får den omhuldade societetsmannen använda sitt mäktiga kontaktnät för att undkomma rättvisan.
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Chloe's dream trip to Borneo transforms into a waking nightmare when she realizes she's the target of a ruthless scam. With her private photos held hostage, she races to outwit the blackmailer before her secrets are exposed to the world.
After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.
As closeted teenager, Yuval, loses his mobile phone which is then found by a stranger. When the pair meet at the park, at first the stranger asks for a reward for finding it, but it soon becomes apparent that he wants more than what the boy is prepared to give.
For years, a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangeness and finds Holmes falling in love.
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Zting Airs VD, Nils Lidman, hotas av utpressning. "Betala tre miljoner - annars spränger vi ett plan och dödar er hustru". I hemlighet kontaktar hustrun sin vän kommisarie Ruda. Utpressarna får reda på att hon kontaktat polisen och sätter sina hot i verket. Samtidigt som fallet tagits över av andra hos polisen, så kontaktas Ruda angående ett nytt hot. Han gör det hela till en personlig jakt på utpressarna med hjälp av Roland Hassel.