High and Low
- -An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.
Reporter Giorgio D'Amato agrees to meet his friend Enrichetta at Edmondo Parisi's villa, but when he arrives the model has been stabbed to death with a pair of scissors. Her presence at the villa had been requested by the crippled and neurotic Parisi who had invented a device which allows him to photograph thoughts. The other guests are a strange bunch: there is Eleonora, Parisi's lesbian wife; Alberto, the omnipresent butler and Lucia, the uninhibited housekeeper. The only normal person seems to be young Sara, Edmondo's niece, who enlists D'Amato to find the murderer. Soon the mysterious hand strikes again and this time it's Lucia's turn...
Venice: The bodies of a married couple, Flavia and Fabio, are discovered on the dockside. She has drowned and he has been stabbed to death with a large pair of scissors. Marzia, Flavia's best friend, is questioned by the police and a chain of slaying is set in motion. The victims include a prostitute who is stabbed in the crotch; Marzia's lover, who is shot in the kneecaps before being doused in petrol and set alight; and Marzia herself, tied to a kitchen table and dismembered, before being stuffed in a fridge. Meanwhile, extended flashbacks reveal that Fabio gained perverse pleasure from forcing his young wife to take part in degrading sexual acts...
A young woman bound in the front seat of a parked car watches helpless as her captor methodically digs a grave in the desert ground. The bloody lifeless body of her boyfriend lies framed in the rear-view mirror, a fate she will fight at all costs to avoid for herself. But this is only the beginning of a brutal struggle where survival could be worse than death.
When a beloved supermarket owner is killed in the early morning hours before opening, restauranteur and TV chef Billie Blessings (Robinson Peete) becomes involved in the investigation of what quickly appears to be the work of a clever and darkly sinister serial killer. Even as her relationship with police detective Ian Jackson (Fox) begins to take a more romantic turn, Billie cannot resist involvement in the case, despite putting herself in tremendous danger.