Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Other worlds lull softly around us, and sometimes if we're in the right place at the right time, they reveal themselves to us. Sleep studies, unseen felines, and strange locals weave a web over the top of Mount Washington, a sleepy hilltop neighborhood in Los Angeles. A World Softly Lulls is a foray into time and memory, through the eyes of an unlikely cat sitter.
In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
The Soto Alto football team, formed by Pakete and his friends, is at risk of being kicked out of the league. Thanks to a scam by a property development company, they’ve lost their pitch and now Los Justos, the team from a local reform school, looks set to take their place.
The Ave Valley is, for more than a century, a territory seized by an imposing industry. Amongst ruins and operating factories, we descend the river on a journey alongside the banks of the present, unveiling the marks of the past.
Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
A mysterious letter addressed to Wu Lao Gou, Wu Xie's deceased grandfather, disrupted the retirement plan of the Golden Trio, i.e., Wu Xie, Zhang Qi Ling, and Wang Pang Zi. The letter referred to a mysterious underground palace called "Comet" in Mongolia. The Golden Trio decided to explore it, only to get involved in an unimaginable adventure and encounter treacherous Mongolian bandits, the countdown to escape from the "Comet", the weird rules of the burial chamber, and the invisible entity... The Golden Trio had no choice but to take a leap of faith...
Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before World War II.
A Detective searches for a Psychotic serial killer, a Scientist grieving a loss constructs a catastrophic machine, and obscure entities wander strange lands lost in time and space. These stories are woven together into a single saga of darkness, time travel, and subliminal existence.
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".
Thomas stumbles upon an old diary in an antique district. As he begins to read the haunting tale of love and loss, Thomas realizes the diary carries a terrifying curse. Written many years ago by Jeong Hoon, an aspiring author, anyone merely exposed to the diary becomes a cunning facilitator of the curse.
When a madman kidnaps a young boy and rigs him with explosives, Ray Fitzpatrick defies his captain and takes matter into his own hands. Now he must beat the clock and save the innocent child.
Before the Kalyug begins, Lord Krishna hands over an anklet that holds the answer to all of world’s miseries. Years later a doctor finds himself in the thick of things when the pursuit for the anklet carries on. A doctor with a curious mind, Karthikeya, aka Karthik, believes in pursuing the truth. The quest leads Karthik to discover the power of the ancient Indian belief system and the essence of Krishna.
Shuvo and Purnima fled to Dhaka standing against the society and starts their own family. Mousumi tries to sustain her family anyhow. Mousumi wants a baby badly but Maruf is not interested. Rojina was tolerating torture of her drunk husband regularly, decides not to continue it anymore and to start a new beginning with CNG driver Ilyas. But one night, everything goes haphazard, three couples meet with one another just like an act of fate.
When his daughter is born with an affliction warned of in fable, a widowed father struggles to defy the violent superstitions of their rural community.