Una familia se dirige a un hotel aislado durante el invierno donde una presencia siniestra influye en la violencia del padre, mientras que su hijo psíquico ve horribles presentimientos tanto del pasado como del futuro.
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren, 'Marnie, la ladrona'), una joven proveniente de una familia rica que pertenece a la élite de San Francisco, va a comprar un pájaro para su tía a una tienda de mascotas y allí conoce a Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor, '101 dálmatas'), un abogado de éxito por el que se siente atraída al instante. Acostumbrada a tener siempre lo que quiere, Melanie va a buscarle a Bodega Bay para regalarle unos periquitos y conseguir que él sienta lo mismo por ella. Al llegar al pueblo costero, es inexplicablemente atacada por una gaviota que le abre una brecha en la frente. De repente, miles de pájaros invaden la ciudad atacando a los colegiales y residentes. La situación se agrava cada vez más, provocando el pánico en toda la población ante la incertidumbre del extraño comportamiento de las aves.
Augusto Pinochet es un vampiro que desea la muerte, pero los buitres que lo rodean no lo dejarán ir sin un último bocado.
Conocido en su barrio por su condición de solitario, Forrester es un hombre cuyo misterio y excentricidad son casi míticos. Cuando Jamal, un destacado estudiante y atleta negro logra colarse en su apartamento con una cartera repleta de trabajos literarios, de manera inesperada e insólita, se establece entre ellos una relación altamente provechosa.
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?
La celebrada pianista Sandra Kovak (Mary Astor) descubre que no está realmente casada con el aviador Peter van Allen, así que cuando este se casa con Maggie Patterson, ella decide utilizar un poderoso recurso para recuperarlo, cosa que también pretende conseguir Maggie.
A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister’s dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder.
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.
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.