An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.

A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...

A Scottish World War I soldier is sent to dismantle explosives in a French village, which he finds abandoned except for the inmates of an insane asylum. In the midst of the war's madness, this village ironically becomes the most rational and delightful place to be

My bloody valentine: A tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine's day took the lives of 5 miners. The only survivor, Harry Warden, was confined to a mental institution after the ordeal. Twenty years later, young lovers T.J. and Sarah and friend Axel are among the townspeople attending a Valentine's party. A box of Valentine candy arrives, containing an ominous message and a blood-soaked heart. April fool's day: A practical joker invites her college...

This tells the story of mathematician John Nash. Called "the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century", Nash suffered a devastating breakdown at the age of thirty. He suddenly claimed that aliens were sending him messages, became obsessed with secret numbers and saw conspiracies all around him. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Nash spent a decade in and out of mental hospitals, surviving with the support of his wife and...

The daughter of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany and an American mother prone to suicidal depression, Annie Dawid, traces the history of her life beneath the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado.

"Jasper Tempest is a Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order, but his genius for solving crimes means he is constantly having to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases. Every aspect of Professor Jasper Tempest's life is precisely calibrated and rigidly structured. Impeccably dressed and meticulously punctual, he lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute...

Quigley down under (1990, 120 min.): Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder-to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land-Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, Quigley...

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958): Baron Frankenstein is saved from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, and when they move to Carlsbruck he becomes known as the celebrated Dr. Stein and begins his gruesome experiments, this time transplanting Fritz's brain into his latest creation, a normal healthy body. The Snorkel (1958): Paul Decker arranges the perfect murder of his wife. Lightly drugging her into unconsciousness, he then seals the room...