Ryoko's husband forges art for a living and beats her for trying to work outside the conjugal home. Her young son mimics her husband's behavior and her mother-in-law sanity slowly disintegrates as she treks to the cemetery everyday.
A woman goes to a psychiatrist to find out about the strange dreams she's been having. It turns out that they're not dreams at all, but a plot by her husband to get her money and kill her.
Resigned to a life of sadness and regret at his hideous treatment of his wife many years ago, Trevor, an aging ex-con, spends his lonely life walking his dog and staying out of trouble. One morning he stumbles upon Melissa, a woman desperate, afraid, and operating on a knife's edge of panic. She's killed her abusive husband and is frantically trying to bury him. Sizing up the situation, Trevor recognizes the pain in her eyes and sees a way to save Melissa, and to redeem himself in the process. But the price of freedom and redemption will be higher than either of them could have ever imagined...
Jenny Harris has a rather difficult time with the men in her life: her husband is an abusive clown who cheats on her, and her boss is a rude jerk. Her new neighbor Rebecca proposes that finding herself a fantasy lover is the way to solve her problems. A little séance later, and Jenny does in fact have her very own dream lover. Despite him being a beer-bellied guy with a creepy face, he seems rather irresistible and at first improves Jenny's mood quite a bit. What our heroine doesn't suspect is that her dream lover is in fact an incubus.
Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
Sister wives living on a secluded ranch decide to plot revenge against their abusive husband.
After becoming a priest, Paul reunites with ex-con brother Luke. Learning his ex Donna had his child, he tries rescuing them from her abusive husband Tony, who vows revenge.
A crime writer gets involved in a murder investigation.
Yoshio, un homme brutal, et Saeko, sa jeune épouse tranquille, sont en voyage. Celui-ci va prendre une mauvaise tournure lorsque Yoshio décide de prendre un auto-stoppeur en chemin. Lorsque l'homme se révèle être un braqueur de banque dérangé et un tueur en série, le couple est forcé de coopérer à sa fuite. C'est maintenant au tour de Saeko de se venger de l'homme qui lui a fait vivre l'enfer !
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
An old acquaintance of newlyweds shows up at their doorstep. They seem glad to see her, but what they don't know is that new guest harbors a deep grudge against them for something that happened years before, and is plotting her revenge.
Dans le Tokyo de la fin des années 60, une femme est victime des assauts répétés de son amant instable qui abuse sexuellement de sa personne sans jamais se soucier ni du jour ni de l'heure. Ses perversions conduisent le couple vers une impasse malgré les inquiétudes de la belle-famille et l'intrusion d'un second amant synonyme d'espoir.
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her attention to the conniving Lionel Filmore who's determined to marry into the family no matter what.
PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.
Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
While pulling lobster traps from the sea, fishing couple Sara and Ben recover a buoy containing half a million dollars. Ben hopes to use the money on booze and babes while Sara sees the cash as her ticket out of her unhappy marriage and miserable coastal village. Her masterplan: to kill Ben with the help of her lover and Ben's brother, Don. But her plan suffers a major glitch when the owner of the buoy returns to claim the loot. And he is not the only one after it, there's also a gang of heavily-armed mobsters and Kim the mob boss' mistress.
Meredith Redmond, journaliste primée et reconnue par ses pairs, vit avec ses deux filles dans la peur. Elle redoute que son ex-mari, Robert, un homme jaloux et violent qui a juré de récupérer ses deux enfants, ne réussisse à les retrouver et à se débarrasser physiquement d'elle.