Sudden Fear

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

ชายคนหนึ่งได้รับมากกว่าที่เขาต่อรองไว้หลังจากมีสัมพันธ์กับภรรยาของนายธนาคารเพื่อการลงทุน ในไม่ช้า การเสียชีวิตอย่างน่าสงสัยและกรมธรรม์ประกันชีวิตจำนวนมากก็ทำให้เขาเข้าไปพัวพันกับเรื่องอื้อฉาว

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David and see if he gives in to temptation — but events spin out of control when Chloe spills the details of her torrid encounters.

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.