导演阿星（张国荣）因为接连的票房失利失业，今天生活的困顿虽令他觉得前路茫茫，今天却并没失去抱负，一直在等时机。功夫不负，阿星终又获拍片机会，但他没料到的是，老板只想制作低俗的三级片，只把他当拍片机器，沮丧拒绝，该片监制也是其好友的阿虫（罗家英）耐心开导一番，阿星向现实低头，可是 怀才不遇的委屈情绪仍无法挥去。 拍片过程中，阿星通过与男女主角华叔（徐锦江）梦娇（舒淇）以及摄影师等人的接触，晓得三级片也可以拍得很艺术，扭正拍片态度，又在女友阿May（莫文蔚）及母亲的支持下，立志拍出让人大吃一惊的好片来。
回复 :讲述了老道古玩商人李钱隆遇到了急于卖掉传家宝筹钱结婚的大龄青年张罗。交易中，张罗却无意卷入李钱隆的一桩大买卖。随之一环扣一环的曲折交易使二人在逐利路上不断奔忙。
回复 :因女友自杀而患上抑郁症的警察阿斌（祖峰 饰）和搭档磊哥（陈明昊 饰）在调查一起碎尸案中，与被害者的姐姐李雪（黄璐 饰）相识。李雪自称梦见弟弟被人杀害。在调查过程中，阿斌发现李雪痛失女儿并患上抑郁症的悲惨经历，两人彼此怜悯，相互理解。 这时，在城市漂泊的少女婷婷（张倩如 饰）也渐渐走入阿斌（祖峰 饰）的生活，和他产生说不清的牵绊。孤独的少女、备受抑郁症折磨的患者，他们都该如何面对自己的内心，又该如何在这个世界寻找光明……
回复 :This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
