The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
Un internat bântuit apelează la Florence Cathcart, care se ocupă cu demascarea șarlataniilor. Dar acest loc straniu o face pe Cathcart să-și pună la îndoială rațiunea.
Chile, a doua jumătate a secolului XX. Esteban, un bărbat sărac, se căsătorește cu Clara și cei doi fac un copil, Blanca. Esteban lucrează din greu și, până la urmă, strânge bani pentru a cumpăra o moșie, devenind ulterior patriarhul local.
După ce soția sa ajunge în comă, un proprietar bogat din Hawaii își reevaluează căsnicia și încearcă să-și refacă legăturile rupte cu fiicele sale.
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola.
Mia is a rebellious teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school. Her hard-partying mother, Joanne, neglects Mia's welfare in favor of her own, and her younger sister hangs out with a much older crowd. Sparks fly between Mia and Connor, Joanne's new boyfriend, and he encourages Mia to pursue her interest in dance. As the boundaries of the relationships become blurred, Mia and Joanne compete for Connor's affection.
Maxim de Winter, un englez bogat, care încă se resimte după moartea soției sale, Rebecca, ia în căsătorie o tânără de condiție modestă. Cei doi se instalează în palatul Manderley, din Cornwall, unde stăpânește cu puteri depline d-na Danvers, menajera devotată fostei doamne de Winter. Tânăra soție se simte din ce în ce mai apăsată de strania putere pe care o are Rebecca asupra tuturor, chiar și după dispariția sa.
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
În 1838, minunata guvernantă Elisabeth acceptă să nască un copil unui proprietar englez anonim, iar el va plăti în schimb datoria tatălui ei. La naștere ea, după cum s-a convenit, renunță la copil. Șapte ani mai târziu, este angajată ca guvernantă la o fată pe o proprietate îndepărtată din Sussex. Tatăl fetei, Charles Godwin, se dovedește a fi acel proprietar anonim. Așa că Elisabeth trebuie să fie guvernanta propriei fiice și nu poate dezvălui secretul legăturii ei cu micuța Louisa.
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.
Doris Duke a fost cea mai bogată femeie din lume și și-a câștigat reputația de a fi un om dificil și pretențios. Filmul spune ipotetica poveste din interior a celei mai bogate femei din business-ul cu tutun. Doris și majordomul ei irlandez, Bernard Lafferty, arată cum o relație obișnuită patron-angajat poate evolua către ceva profund. După sosirea la ușa casei lui Duke, în anul 1987, Bernard a câștigat pas cu pas încrederea lui Doris. El a devenit confidentul și companionul ei și avea responsabilități în tot ceea ce avea legătură cu reședința acesteia. Legătura dintre ei ajunge să fie una foarte puternică. Bernard, alcoolic fiind, e internat într-o clinică de reabilitare și, în 1993, înainte ca Duke să moară, va fi din nou lângă ea, rămânând cel mai drag prieten al ei.
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
It’s been one year since Elizabeth’s husband, Bill, died in a tragic horseback riding accident and she is starting to move on. When she runs into Travis Brown, the cowboy she met the same weekend Bill died, the two immediately hit it off. Travis is just what Elizabeth needed to come into her life and they soon get married. When new evidence surfaces implying that Bill’s death wasn’t an accident, Elizabeth must find a way to protect herself and her son from the man she married.
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.