讲述曾是天才白帽黑客的主人公野原（阿部宽 饰）因被陷害而失去一切，他策划欺骗金融市场的AI“守门人”，试图获取巨额财富的故事。 本片改编自川村彻彦的小说《止损：外汇模拟交易成功故事》，片名“CANDLESTICK”源自金融交易中的K线图。
The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
在知名补习班里，流传着一个恐怖传言：只要在深夜走上被封锁的四楼，填写桌上的报名表，写下上榜的愿望，不论再困难的考试与科系，都能如愿考取。资优生贝儿与好友们前去试胆，愿望竟奇迹般一一成真，却伴随着接连不断的离奇死亡。肩负母亲对医学院的期待，贝儿也在名单上留下自己的名字，自此怪事频频缠身；姐姐精神逐渐崩溃，弟弟贝斯为救她挺身而出，决心以自己的名字改写命运。随着真相逐渐揭开，他们赫然发现四楼深埋的秘密，竟与一段骇人师生往事紧紧相连……当对考试的渴望仰赖超自然力量，而这种成功却要以生命为代价时，是毕业，还是毙命？他们能够在疯癫的教育体制内活下来吗？
大唐天宝年间，曹家村世代守护着一柄镇村宝刀。曹叔公欲将守刀人之位传给弟子，却左右为难：大弟子文远志大才疏，实力不足；二弟子文武沉稳可靠，却突患手抖之症，难以持刀。与此同时，各方势力早已对宝刀虎视眈眈，外有混混贼人明抢，内有村长暗中设局，宝刀甚至一度遭人调包。在种种艰难险阻之中，文远与文武将如何识破阴谋？他们又能否守住这柄世代相传的宝刀与家族使命？
