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1) Nick of time
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Clio Dulaine arrives in her New Orleans birthplace with one goal: to exact revenge on her father's family, who exiled Clio and her mother to Paris years earlier. She meets a Texas gambler, Clint Maroon, who is also looking for revenge on the railroad baron who ruined his father. The two schemers scrap and spar through a tale of blackmail, lies, high finance, and sudden disaster before they finally come together.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Secret window: Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon...
5) Misconduct
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Terry and Bob are two crooked cops who frame and blackmail criminals all over town. Looking for the ultimate pay-off, they try to extort a strip club manager and his eccentric, junkie boss, but get more than they bargained for when their hair-brained scheme uncovers a bigger, darker secret.
8) Cymbeline
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Terry and Bob are two crooked cops who frame and blackmail criminals all over town. Looking for the ultimate pay-off, they try to extort a strip club manager and his eccentric, junkie boss, but get more than they bargained for when their hair-brained scheme uncovers a bigger, darker secret.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the creative team behind Vice Principals and Eastbound and Down comes Season one of this comedy series about a celebrity televangelist family behind a big-money megachurch. Danny McBride stars as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest of three grown children, who receives a blackmail video that could put his reputation at risk.
Follows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. Jesse Gemstone, the...
11) Striptease
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A single mother trying to win back custody of her daughter works as a stripper to pay her legal fees, but gets into trouble when a congressman takes a fancy to her.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
13) The big sleep
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000-].
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's young daughter from her indiscretions, and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her elder sister.
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with...
Publisher
Movie Classics
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Betrayal: A lonely widow hires a young woman to be her companion but unknown to her employer she and her boyfriend are planning a deadly extortion scheme.
Black brigade: All-black troop must deal with a racist officer as they are commanded to take over an important German bridge.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
[Sadie McKee] Story of a maid who has to choose between marrying for love or marrying for money.
[Strange cargo] Gritty drama of escaped cons and a dame confronting the elements and each other after a daring prison break.
[A woman's face] Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar.
[Flamingo Road] A tough carnival dancer is stranded in a small town and soon makes an enemy of the politically...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
A doll's house: Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled...
Series
Shout Select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
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