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- Clue (1985) Clue is a classic for a reason: it's fantastic. With a picture-perfect cast (Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, etc.) , the black comedy is based on the board game, with the backstory being that a dinner party is being thrown wherein all the guests are being blackmailed by a mysterious host.
- Strangers on a Train (1951) Hitchcock’s chilling retelling of Patricia Highsmith’s novel stars Farley Granger and Robert Walker as Guy Haines and Bruno Antony.
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Glenn Close and John Malkovich are at their best as former lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont in pre-Revolution Paris in this sumptuous period piece based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
- The Letter (1940) Bette Davis takes on the role of murderess in this drama based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham, which in turn was based on real events that took place in Kuala Lumpur in 1911.
- The Letter
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- I Confess
- Victim
- The Night of The Following Day
- Chinatown
- Clue
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- The Player
- L.A. Confidential
Bette Davis stars as Leslie Crosbie, the wife of a man who owns a rubber plantation in Malaysia. One night when her husband Robert is away from home, Leslie shoots and kills a man that she claims had tried to sexually assault her. But the Attorney General in Singapore believes there is more to the story and indicts Leslie for murder. Her lawyer is ...
John Garfield plays a rough-and-tumble drifter who takes a job at a remote California diner, where he meets a beautiful woman named Cora (Lana Turner), wife of the restaurant owner. The two engage in a torrid affair and scheme to take care of the only obstacle to their union—Cora’s husband—by murdering him. Cora’s lawyer prevents a prosecutor from ...
In this thriller directed by master of intrigue Alfred Hitchcock, Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) is a Catholic priest in Québec City, Québec. A caretaker who works for Father Logan’s church wears a priest’s cassock to rob a nearby house and in the process winds up killing the house’s owner. He confesses murdering the man to Father Logan, w...
Made back when anti-sodomy laws were still on the books and being outed as gay was career and social suicide, Victim stars Sir Dirk Bogarde as Melville Farr, a lawyer who is married to a woman but is also bisexual. His wife married him with full knowledge of his inclinations. Farr learns of the suicide of a young gay man named Jack “Boy” Barrett (P...
Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) are two thugs who kidnap an unnamed young girl (played by Pamela Franklin) at Orly Airport in Paris and spirit her away to a remote beach house owned by a drug-addicted airline stewardess named Vi (Rita Moreno). At first they intend to hold her for ransom, but infighting among the motley crew of ne’er-do...
Roman Polanski directed this 1930s period piece and also has a cameo as a small-time thug who accuses Detective Jake “J.J.” Gittes (Jack Nicholson) of being “nosy,” whereupon he slashes his nose with a knife. The plot is based on the “California Water Wars” of the 1930s in which William Mulholland took bribes to secure water rights for landowners i...
Clue is the best murder-mystery comedy based on a board game ever made. It is also one of the most fun blackmail movies ever. The story involves a group of people who are invited to the home of Mr. Boddy. It is revealed early in the film that each of the guests is being blackmailed by Mr. Boddy, and Wadsworth, the butler, brought everyone together ...
One of the two major plot themes of Crimes and Misdemeanorsinvolves Woody Allen as a disgruntled husband who seeks to escape his miserable marriage by starting an affair with a film assistant (Mia Farrow). The other theme involves ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a very well-respected member of the community who just so happens to b...
In this acerbic Robert Altman satire about the machinations behind Hollywood filmmaking, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is a studio executive who handles literally thousands of film pitches a year but is only permitted to green-light about a dozen of them. One day he starts receiving threatening post cards that he assumes were sent by someone whose fil...
Based on the gritty noirish crime novel by James Ellroy, L.A. Confidentialstars Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Spacey as a trio of policeman who each investigate a string of murders in their own unique way. Spacey is a police sergeant who on the side feeds tips to Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), a tabloid publisher. Hudgens decides to involve Spa...
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Dev Kaushal ( Irrfan Khan) is a toilet paper sales executive who is leading a dispirited life professionally and personally. One day, to surprise his wife Reena Kaushal ( Kirti Kulhari) he arrives early from the office. Instead, he finds his wife in bed with another man named Ranjit "Tommy" Arora ( Arunoday Singh ).
Feb 21, 2018 · We present to you the official trailer from the upcoming Bollywood movie "Blackमेल". Gulshan Kumar & Ramesh Deo present, T-Series & RDP Motion Pictures Film,...
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Apr 12, 2018 · April 4, 1953. 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. Discover new TV shows and movies tagged as 'blackmailer' and where you can watch them.
An average middle class employee living in Mumbai is stuck in a rut of paying EMIs, barely tolerating an over-imaginative boss, and a unexciting married life. One fine day he goes home early to surprise his wife, but ends up getting surprised when she's in bed with her lover.
The Master Blackmailer: Directed by Peter Hammond. With Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Hardy, Norma West. Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients.
