Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) and his assistant, Dr. Charles Marshall (Paul Muller), are finally ready to create a living creature from body parts, when Frankenstein’s daughter, Tania (Rosalba Neri, using the name Sara Bey), returns from medical school. More strong willed than expected, She plans to follow in her father’s footsteps. When the Baron’s creation runs amuck,
Hoping to help her destitute family and dying brother, young, innocent, Filipino Rosa (Alessandra De Rossi) has taken a job as a maid in Singapore with the Teo family. They are kind, though Mr. Teo is distant and Mrs. Teo is domineering. Their twenty-year-old son, Ah Soon (Benny Soh) is mentally retarded and likes Rosa a bit
In ancient times, a war between the forces of light and darkness ended in a truce. The Night Watch was given authority to keep evil in its place (and the Day Watch polices “good”). Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) is an “other,” a person with supernatural powers. After meeting with a witch in order to harm the fetus of his
Lagardère, an upstart duelist (Daniel Auteuil) is befriended by the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), the finest swordsman in France, accompanying him to the faraway home of a lover who has produced a child, thus motivating the Duke to marry her. However, the Duke’s cousin (Fabrice Luchini) is not willing to have another heir between
Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) and her friends are having a more or less pleasant evening out (that’s as good as it gets for Yumi, who has never completely recovered from her childhood abuse) when one of Yumi’s friends checks her voice mail to find she’s gotten a call from the future—from herself—indicating the time of
Laura (Belén Rueda) returns to the now-abandoned orphanage where she was raised, planning to reopen it for special needs children. The area seems to have an odd effect on her son, Simón, who picks up a lot of imaginary friends, one of whom tells him he’s adopted and HIV positive. When Simón disappears, the police suspect
Gino (Massimo Girotti), a listless wanderer, falls for the wife (Clara Calamai) of an older bar owner (Juan De Landa). When she won’t run off with him, the two murder the husband. But neither deal well with the guilt and begin to mistrust each other. A homosexual peddler and a prostitute offer Gino alternative life-paths,
Young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) travels with her fragile and pregnant mother (Ariadna Gil) to the outpost of her new stepfather (Sergi López), a fascist captain entrusted with exterminating the remaining “rebels” hiding in the hills in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Confronted by the cruelty of the world, Ofelia finds temporary refuge in
The twin spaceships, Argos and Galliot (or Gallard or Galliod…) are investigating a strange, fog covered planet when a 40-G force pulls them down to the surface. Captain Mark Markary (Barry Sullivan) remains conscious, but his crew is knocked out. When they awaken, they attack each other, but Markary subdues them and they return to
Michi turns up at Taguchi’s apartment to pick up a computer disk and to make sure he’s OK. Since he hangs himself, it’s clear he wasn’t OK. Another friend gets the disk, and then he begins to act strangely too. Meanwhile, Kawashima, a university student, is setting up his first computer. He’s frightened when it
During the Vietnam war, a motley platoon of Korean soldiers, led by a sadistic sergeant and a lieutenant who has a reputation for losing men, are sent to find a unit that disappeared six months ago. They make their camp in an abandoned building in the middle of sacred ground and immediately are engulfed in
Timid actress Nagisa Sugiura gets a lead role in a horror film that reenacts a mass murder. Years ago, a professor obsessed with reincarnation, killed the staff and guests of a hotel, including his own children. Nagisa has visions related to the horrendous event, and soon can’t tell the difference between the movie-shoot and the real