3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

Devastated by his girlfriend's sudden death, Joey tries to keep her spirit alive by carting her corpse along with him on an interstate road trip. But when his lover's body begins to decompose, Joey's morbid journey only serves to make his loss more painful.

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…

Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

Benátky, 16. storočie. Násilnícky židovský úžerník Shylock je ešte horší ako jeho zlá povesť. Nevynechá žiadnu príležitosť, aby si vychutnal problémy kresťanských šľachticov, ktorých chce zaviesť do svojho domu. Jedného dňa lichvára požiada o pôžičku vážený kupec Antonio, ktorého mladý priateľ Bassanio zúfalo potrebuje peniaze, aby získal ruku svojej milovanej Portie. Keď však Antonio nedokáže peniaze včas splatiť, Shylock si môže vybiť svoje roky ponižovania a opovrhovania na nenávidenom svete aj s úrokmi. Cena, ktorú musí Antonio zaplatiť, bude skutočne bolestivá. Klasická hra Williama Shakespeara ožíva s novou naliehavosťou v rukách režiséra Michaela Radforda. Nadčasový príbeh rozpráva nielen o náhode a osude, ktoré riadia ľudské životy, ale aj o antisemitizme. S využitím špičkového hereckého obsadenia a s dôrazom na vizuálnu krásu svojich filmových obrazov sa Radford vydal cestou klasickej adaptácie.

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.

Maji, skúsený samuraj, je po legendárnom boji prekliaty nesmrteľnosťou. Mátaný brutálnou vraždou svojej sestry, Manji vie, že iba boj so zlom mu navráti jeho dušu. Prisľúbi pomôcť mladému dievčaťu Rin pomstiť jej rodičov, ktorí boli zabití skupinou šermiarov pod vedením neľútostného bojovníka Anotsu. Táto misia zmení Manjiho takým spôsobom, ktorý by si nikdy nevedel predstaviť.

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

Policajný detektív sa zaľúbi do ženy, ktorej vraždu vyšetruje.

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

Royal Tenenbaum a jeho manželka Etheline mali spolu tri deti - Chasa, Richieho a Margot, potom sa rozišli. Chas začal kupovať prvé nehnuteľnosti ešte na základnej škole a mal až takmer nadprirodzený cit pre medzinárodné financie. Margot písala hry a už v deviatej triede získala Bravermanovu cenu s finančnou odmenou 50-tisíc dolárov. Richie bol skvelým tenistom a tri razy za sebou vyhral majstrovstvá USA v tenise. Všetky spomienky na geniálnosť mladých Tenenbaumovcov sa počas nasledujúcich 22 rokov, plných zrady, neúspechu a katastrôf, vymazali. Podľa nich za všetko mohol on - Royal Tenenbaum. A ten teraz chce, aby sa rodina znovu dala dokopy...

Forrest Gump je jednoduchý muž, ktorý od detstva robil, čo mu povedali, riadiac sa dobrými radami svojej starostlivej mamičky a osvedčeným pravidlom, že keď nastanú problémy, je potrebné utekať. Tak postupne prebehol vysokou školou i bojiskami Vietnamu a dostal sa i do Bieleho domu. Jeho rozprávanie je prierezom americkými dejinami od päťdesiatych do osemdesiatych rokov, podaným z pohľadu zdanlivo nezaujatého pozorovateľa...

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.