Ο καθολικός ιερέας Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) , ενοχοποιείται για τη δολοφονία ενός φημισμένου δικηγόρου. Ο ίδιος γνωρίζει τον πραγματικό ένοχο, καθώς ο δράστης Otto Keller (O.E. Hasse) του εξομολογήθηκε το έγκλημα, αλλά δεν μπορεί να αποκαλύψει το όνομά του, αφού δεσμεύεται από το απόρρητο της εξομολόγησης. Ο επιθεωρητής της αστυνομίας Larrue (Karl Malden), επικεντρώνει την έρευνά του στον Logan, ο οποίος είχε κίνητρο να διαπράξει το έγκλημα εφόσον το θύμα εκβίαζε τη Ruth Grandfort (Anne Baxter), σύζυγο διακεκριμένου πολιτικού, για τη σχέση της με τον Logan πριν εκείνος ασπαστεί τον κλήρο. Ο Logan τελικά συλλαμβάνεται και οδηγείται στο δικαστήριο με την κατηγορία του φόνου...
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Στη μικρή πόλη Κάτερ του Μισισιπή, οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι είναι κλεισμένοι στον εαυτό τους. Αλλά όταν ο Τζον επιστρέφει σπίτι του, ανακαλύπτει ότι η κοπέλα του είναι εξαφανισμένη. Τρυπώνοντας στο σπίτι του γείτονα, βρίσκει την κοπέλα του και άλλα άτομα κλειδωμένα στο υπόγειο. Όταν ο γείτονας επιστρέφει, ο Τζον είναι αυτός που πρέπει να οδηγήσει τους απαγμένους και τον εαυτό του έξω με ασφάλεια, και κυρίως ζωντανούς.
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.
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.
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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?
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 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)
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.
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
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
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.
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.
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.