Jack Torrance flytter sammen med hans kone og deres 5 årige søn Danny ind på det elegante, men isolerede Overlook Hotel i Colorados bjerge. Her har Jack fået job som vicevært i vintersæsonen. Han håber på at få ro til at skrive, - men efter meget kort tid opdager de, at hotellets bærer på mange grusomme hemmeligheder. Jack bliver gradvis mere utilregnelig og det går op for dem alle, hvor isoleret de er i bjergene.
Jamal Wallace er en yderst velbegavet ung sort dreng, som er vokset op i Bronx. Både i skolen og på basketball-banen er hans talent ikke sådan at overse, og netop det skaffer ham billet til et overklasse-college. Da han begynder at aflevere nogle meget geniale skriftlige opgaver, får en bitter lektor, som ikke selv kan forfatte noget stort og derfor mener, at han skal lære andre kunsten, en mistanke om, at Jamal snyder. En sort knægt fra Bronx kan umuligt have skrevet, hvad Jamal rent faktisk gør! Sideløbende er Jamal, uden at vide det, stødt på forfatteren til et yderst hædret og berømt mesterværk med den sigende titel Avalon Landing, nemlig William Forrester.
After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.
Melanie skal besøge Mitch i Bodega Bay, hvor han holder weekend med sin mor og søster. Umiddelbart efter sin ankomst, bliver Melanie angrebet af en havmåge. Det pludselige og voldsomme angreb viser sig blot at være starten på en art epidemi blandt områdets fugle der gør dem ekstremt aggressive. Store flokke af krager og måger viser sig at være dødsensfarlige, og mareridtet i den lille ellers så normale by begynder.
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister’s dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder.
Does doctor Jan Terelak belong to an “elitist” group of the most unethical experimenters? The Polish scientist tested boundaries of human mental resilience in extreme conditions of solitude in Antarctica. The starting point for Piotr Jaworski's documentary is the psychologist's journal. The project from forty years ago was focused on studying the mental condition of polar explorers at the Polish station. Men were in the situation of confinement, comparable to a space mission. The film reconstructs these events, referring to the then contemporary context and changes in the perception of science.
Alain, the architect, lives secluded in his luxurious finca in the outback. He solely wears women's clothes und avoids any contact to people. When he's forced to break out, neither the outside world nor his inner world seem to be ready.