Novelistas Jackas Torrance`as tampa Overlook viešbučio prižiūrėtoju aukštai vienišuose Kolorado kalnuose. Būdamas šeimos žmogumi, jis kartu su savimi pasiima ir žmoną bei sūnų. Pradeda dėtis keisti dalykai, kai sūnus Danny`s pamato baisius paveisklus varomus jėga, vadinama "švytėjimu". Tai labai paveikia Jack`o psichiką. Praradęs kūrybinį įkvėpimą ir medžiojamas viešbučio demonų, jis patiria psichologinį lūžį. Įvykiai pakrypsta į dar blogesnę pusę.
Pasiturinti moteris iš San Francisko persiokiodama potencialų vaikiną nukeliauja į maža Šiaurės Kalifornijos miestelį. Būtent čia jos kelionė pakrypsta netikėta linkme. Miestelio gyventojus pradeda pulti įvairūs paukščiai, kurių vis daugėja, o išpuoliai žiaurėja.
250 metų šiame pasaulyje pragyvenęs Augusto Pinochetas, kuris yra ne miręs, o senas vampyras, nusprendžia vieną kartą ir visiems laikams mirti.
Vaikinuko Džamalo didžiausia svajonė – tapti rašytoju, todėl jis kuo entuziastingiausiai priėmė prestižinės mokyklos kvietimą studijuoti literatūrą. Bet veikiai suprato buvęs priimtas ne dėl literatūros išmanymo, o dėl mokėjimo žaisti krepšinį, kad sustiprintų mokyklos rinktinę.
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 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.
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.
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.