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Jane is about to have a beautiful weekend in the mountains with her boyfriend – at least, that’s what she thinks. But instead of her boyfriend, three uninvited guests show up at her doorstep, and they’re not going away. It’s getting dark, a contest begins, and Jane happens to be the grand prize. There’s only one person who can help her.
Detective Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a Catholic priest turned distinguished investigator for the police, has agreed to hear the confession of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death in a just a matter of hours. What he promises to reveal to Ainslie is the truth behind the crimes and the reason he confessed to the one crime Ainslie doesn't even believe he committed. What unfolds between the two men is a serpentine trail into both men's pasts based on the bestseller from master storyteller Arthur Hailey.
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his delectable new wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff, is picked up by sexy dance teacher Anita Flores. Sensing trouble, Virginie follows him, only to find him circumstantially incriminated in murder. Soon, the dance school has a gorgeous new instructress, whose slightly scatterbrained attempts to clear her husband's name confuse both police and suspects...and bringing potential danger.
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
After a Tarot reading in New Orleans, a group of students are horrified to realize the cards are predicting their gruesome deaths one by one.
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.
A frustrated writer struggles to find the motivation behind a story that involves two brothers and their differences. While letting the story unfold, events escalate as he writes the final revision and the story takes him to places he did not expect.
When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
In this supernatural horror film, Carrie Baldwin is freed from prison under the conditions of a work-release program in Reaptown, Nevada. As she struggles to find her missing sister while working the night shift as a security guard for the Reaptown Railway Museum, Carrie soon finds herself in the presence of evil. Could the Railway hold the clues to her sister's mysterious disappearance?
In a self-assembly cabinet, bereaved parents find a monstrous substitute for their dead son.
After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of Boone and Murphy, private investigators. Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks, however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients, Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business, the filmmakers must resort to a more hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure the completion of their movie.
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").
When a group of teen girls set out to scare the reclusive girl next door, what seems like a simple prank goes horribly wrong.
A sexy young hospice nurse, is hired by a wealthy man to care for his sick wife who eventually dies. When the nurse becomes the widower's new bride and then he dies suspiciously leaving his vast fortune to the new Mrs., his daughter becomes convinced that her gold-digging stepmother is up to no good and could be a murderess.
Nora, a psychoanalyst, sees her routine turn into a nightmare when a man begs for her help. Not for him, but for his wife Luiza, a traumatized woman, who claims to be someone else.
Roommates Prasath and Balaji are both in love with Selvi. However, life takes an ugly turn when Balaji dies and Selvi is forced to marry Prasath's father.
When a young woman dies during a hiking trip with her two friends, the investigation soon reveals it is more than a mere accident.
Tawarat was born disfigured and weird looking. He was very rebellious and tortured many girls. He was a womanizer who mistreated women and beat them up if he didnt get his way. One day his father died and Tawarat was left in the big house cursed. All the workers left his side because they couldn't stand his meanness. Years past and he became the ghost of that house. Pakwan moved in the apartment with her friend Temjai. The apartment was next to Tawarat's big mansion. In the eyes of people, that house was so old and ugly. The owner of the apartment's mother had an affair with Tawarat but later killed herself because she didn't want to be Tawarat's slave. Pana is a photographer who takes pictures of superstition activities who also moves in one of the apartments too. He later on helps Pakwan to discover the true story behind Tawarat and his ugliness.
Oh Deok Hoon, who majored in psychic science at MIT and served as a researcher at the National Forensic Service, suddenly opened a licensed real estate agent to solve strange and mysterious cases related to his home. What is Deok Hoon's special ability? And why did he start being a licensed real estate agent?
A couple moves into a new apartment and discovers that the place is already occupied by their own ghosts. They soon realise they have time travelled and can see the person who killed them
Get ready to practice your investigative skills because of three high school spy girls, Sherbet, Chocco, and Yogurt, who have to disguise themselves to investigate drug cases at St. Butus School. In addition to the case, the agents also have to deal with the club's seniors who are constantly disturbing.
Pikul, a gifted flutist, and Luang Yot fall in love despite class barriers, eloping against the odds, but their romance is doomed by a cursed flute and Sarapee’s obsessive desire for Luang Yot, leading to betrayal, tragedy, and death.
Diane and Tim, a young American couple, give up their search for Tim's father in Patagonia only to encounter a local con man, Alejandro, who lures them back into their journey. As the three travel deeper into the woods, mysteries abound. Each searching for something, and ultimately discovering much more. They may be hunting a man...but what's hunting them?
None of the operatives voluntarily wanted to go to work in the new district of Vaselkovo, cut off by the railway "ring". Four "shot down pilots" were found in the department: Yegor Ozhogin, who began to drink frequently after the death of his wife, Anatoly Davydov, whose hussar adventures did not please the authorities, Mikhail Belsky, who carried out a successful and profitable operation with financial assistance, and the naive orphanage boy Sergei Matyukhin, who regarded his appointment to the department as a promotion.
A hiker is found dead in a remote forest that is popularly known as the "Murder Hole". Opposite the victim is a melting snowman with one eye missing. The start of a series of murders in the forest area near Freudenstadt. The handwriting is always the same: all victims show frostbite, while the left eye is covered with a black gem. The investigative team Maris Bächle and Konrad Diener has Florentin Sneelin in its sights, a reproductive doctor who lives in a romantic moated castle whose ice cellar not only stores champagne. The suspect knew the victims from a stay in a children's home many years ago. The teachers there enforced discipline and order using sometimes sadistic methods. Their wards did the same. There was a strict caste system among the children. Sneelin belonged to the lowest caste. He was a so called "Snow Child", one that his mother wanted "to foist" on his father.
Mike Deacon, a tough, lone-wolf reporter discovers that things are not quite what they seem when a tramp is found dead in the garage of a beautiful woman. He enlists the help of an elderly lawyer friend, a naïve photographer and a streetwise teenager during the investigation.
Tails is not a white-collar gentlemen's club. It's a borderline-legal bar with topless dancers and a back room where anything goes for the right price. Nick, the owner, keeps Tails afloat by taking advantage of the desperate women who dance for money and the desperate men who pay for female attention. When a dead body shows up in the bathroom, Nick's control begins to unravel. Hunted by an ambitious, relentless cop, Nick's enemies begin to surround him. He must decide how many friends to sacrifice in order to save himself.
An enterprise offers limitless opportunity to those wishing to escape reality, but this new world is not what it seems.
Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for eternity.
A series of events that seem to be a long-term curse worries TANG Yu and LI Wu-qing: the secret underground laboratory on the island, and the accidental deaths related to it 14 years ago, plus the fact that the two deceased died in the place of ancient legends. However, among the people trapped on the island by the typhoon, there are more secrets surging like sea water, ready to be revealed.
Where's Anne Rice when you really need her? Self-described medium Derek Acorah travels to Egypt where he communes with the spirits of King Tut and other long-departed personalities, aided by Sam, his Ethiopian spirit guide.