James Hadley Chase

Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him. (Warner Home Video)

Set in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will teach her ancient principles of magic. She is being trailed by a detective hired by her fiancé. He's a former photojournalist traumatized by what he saw in Hiroshima. The photojournalist joins her in the search for the Mayan shaman, and falls in love with her; the feeling is not reciprocated. When she finds the shaman, she drinks a potion which empowers her to do magic.(imdb)

A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers. (imdb)

What do you do when you want to commit suicide whereas you have just had the suicide clause cancelled from your insurance contract? Just ask your wife! What do you do when the attractive new chauffeur surprises you in the process of distorting the truth? Just make him your lover! But beware : even the most elaborate schemes can backfire! (imdb)

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him. (imdb)

The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder. (imdb)

Set in the 1920s Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film "No Orchids for Miss Blandish. (imdb)

Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband. (imdb)

After denying a crime syndicate 100,000 pounds on demand, a British millionaire is soon dead. His nephew Don (Gotz George), heir to the fortune, is determined to get his vengeance and begins his own search for the guilty parties. It would seem Don has fortune on his side as the gang boss (Richard Muench) is having problems not only among his men, but also with his woman. (allmovie.com)

In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. (imdb)

A man plans a hold-up with a group of trusted fellows, he gets his hands on the money, and the girl - what could go wrong? Almost everything. (imdb)

Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool proof system during the refurbishing of a bank. But shortly after it's finished he is blackmailed into cracking the security. (imdb)

Virginal young heiress Miss Blandish is kidnapped by a couple of small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by gangster Slim Grissom. He isn't just interested in her for the ransom money - and neither are the other members of the Grissom gang. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but amongst gangsters life is cheap -and a double cross is always just around the corner. (Lovefilm)

American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly and they flee to a deserted village where he leaves Kay to hide out. (imdb)

Professor Forrester holds the formula of an ultimate weapon. For safety, he was ordered to keep the secret in his memory. Sudden, unpredictable emotional trauma makes the teacher amnesia. If this memory "stop frame" holds world peace for our sponsors, for others it is worth billions. Both sides snapped the teacher. Bloody fighting but in vain if the amnesia is revealed incurable. Against all ethics, the "Friends" Forrester chose to chemically destroy his brain, his memories, his secret. (Wikipedia)

A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. (imdb)