Lee Holloway（玛吉·吉伦哈尔 Maggie Gyllenhaal 饰）生活在一个不和谐的家庭里，从小就有“自毁”的行为，在精神治疗中心治疗一段时间回到家后，她要重新融入正常人的生活。于是她学习了打字，在一家律师事务所找到了一份打字员的工作。一开始，Lee打字出现了很多毛病，被她的雇主E. Edward Grey（詹姆斯·斯派德 James Spader 饰）发现，Grey把Lee叫到了他的办公室，为了让Lee深刻记得她的错误，他让Lee趴在书桌上，然后他开始拿起皮鞭对她进行性虐待。久而久之，两人产生了一种奇妙的情感，这也从另一方面减弱了Lee的“自毁”倾向。Lee爱上了Grey，然而Grey却羞于让人知道他的怪癖，于是他解雇了Lee。Lee的男友Peter（杰瑞米·戴维斯 Jeremy Davies 饰）向她求婚，她答应了，然而在婚礼当天，她却逃到了Grey的办公室.....
In this gritty film noir, cynical ex-RAF flyer Morgan, bored with civilian life, joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed as the driver and sent to jail. Seeking revenge, he escapes and heads for London. Along the way he's helped by a woman (Mrs. Fenshaw), who wants him to murder her husband. In Lo...
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
