Jane (Sarah Bowman) leaves work late one night expecting to drive home when she is pulled into an unusual world. While traveling across various locations and interacting with Terrance (Dorian Hurst) and Amanda (McKenzie McLeod), Jane realizes she is out of time and can no longer return home.
Set in a solitary island school where only students who have caused problems are gathered, and communication from the world is cut off. Homura Itsuki comes to the school as a transfer student. At the school, there is a study group for the 19th-century French cruel drama "Grand Guignol", and Itsuki ends up joining that study group. In addition to the members of the study group, the teachers who manage them, the head chef, the mysterious new teacher, and other people who gather at the school are somewhat suspicious. And finally, a serial murder case like "Grand Guignol" occurs. On an isolated island with no way to escape, Itsuki and his friends are caught up in the vortex of fear of death and love and hate between men.
When an after party goes wrong, new friends Sadie and Jessica must hide a dead body. Jessica has a dirty secret to hold over Sadie. The police piece together clues that lead to Sadie, putting people in Sadie's life in danger.
A has-been newscaster Liu Li-min is taken hostage by an escaped inmate Zhang Zheng-yi, who pleads his innocence. To Liu's astonishment, Zhang claims that he was smeared by Liu's departed wife. Thus, Liu teams up with Zhang and reinvestigates Zhang's murder case to help his beloved be cleared of blame. However, the more they get to the bottom of the case, the further the truth is beyond their reach.
Ayaka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched a cursed video and her younger sister also did the same out of curiosity.
Kumari is married off to Dhruvan of Kanjirangattu Tharavadu, a cursed land beyond Illmayi, in the west. As Kumari finds her comfort zone in her new family which is heavy with mystery, myths and superstitions, she also realizes that the people over there are blinded by faith and sorcery, ready to sacrifice their lives to preserve tradition, prosperity and peace.
As people in Valleby are looking forward to Valleby Day, a thief suddenly strikes and carries out a series of thefts, leaving behind symbols linked to the Zodiac and space.
Muezzin Siddiq of a local mosque in Manpura Island discovered the body of a prostitute on the floor of his house in the early morning. Siddiq does not think about how this body came to his house. In this village, Siddique has no one to call his own except the Imam of the mosque. Siddiq goes to tell him, but can't say anything out of fear and shame. What will Siddique do with this body?
Forty-year-old Uiguuna, along with her young lover and her youngest daughter Kyunnei, came to her native village. However, the lovers did not have time to properly enjoy the solitude: like a bolt from the blue, the baby disappeared. They search for the girl, but all in vain. The woman takes all the blame for what happened: didn’t she, in the heat of passion, tell herself that for the sake of happiness with her beloved man, she would sacrifice everything? Uiguuna believes that her secret thoughts materialized in a monstrous way. The girl's father sends former investigator Luka to the village to conduct his own investigation. The answer, as always, comes from where they did not expect...
As a forestry student doing an internship, Anja Grimm ends up in that remote area in the Upper Palatinate Forest, where she went on vacation with her parents as an eight-year-old girl and her father disappeared without a trace. Her job is to take soil samples to create a soil map. At one point in the forest floor she comes across abnormal irregularities. Not long after their arrival, a brutal murder occurs. Anja soon arouses suspicion and hostility not only among the villagers with her suspicion that the perpetrator knows something about her father's fate and with her questions about the atypical soil composition in the forest clearing. Even the police react extremely reservedly to their investigations. And when it turns out that the young woman can read the signs of the forest like an open book, forces mobilize in the village who are apparently ready for anything because there is a dark secret that needs to be kept.
In his journey of study, young Song Ci, a forensic medical scientist in the Song Dynasty, becomes entangled in a murder case. Still inexperienced, he faces the peril of making a critical mistake. A mysterious traveler comes to his aid, unraveling vital clues hidden on a red oil paper umbrella that prove instrumental in cracking the case. Inspired by his own shortcomings, Song Ci doggedly pursues the truth, forging a legendary path as he unravels the mystery.
The twins Cosmo (André Lewski) and Carmen (Sandra Tirre) return to their former childhood home for the first time in 15 years. While Carmen attempts to come to grips with her childhood traumas, her efforts are met with resistance by her brother, who brings along his new girlfriend Marie (Hannah Prasse). After Carmen secretly watches the pair's unsuccessful sex attempt, she offers Marie couples therapy. However, due to their inability to speak openly with each other and the arrival of the mysterious new house resident Heins (Heiko Pinkowski), fateful events are set in motion that allow boundaries to be crossed and old wounds to reopen ...
In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.
The youngest daughter of an isolated family, crippled by the whimsical desires of a demanding religion, will be forced to get pregnant by her brother under the presure of their parents.
Film festival director Evelyn Bichlinger has only a few hours left until the awards ceremony. Unfortunately, the short film jury has disappeared, without telling anyone which short film will receive an award. An adventurous search begins!
A genre breaking psychological fantasy film, following one of 12 archetypes, The Hero, attempting to complete his quest of self discovery. In this world devoid of life apart from these 12 archetypes, Hero finds he is left with only one final person to interview. The proud, excentric and boastful Jester, or as he prefers to be called, "Alakazam". With the clash Hero's need for control and order clashing with Alakzam's careless free nature, the two character's are forced to questions their own personas and nature.