After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the conti...

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The...

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...

His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf cu...

A shy young woman receives a heart transplant and undergoes a personality change that may be connect...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found sh...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was t...

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written...

After inexplicably surviving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. ...

Caesar, an effete tough guy and his slovenly half brother, Otto, have signed up as summer camp couns...

Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O...

One night, contract killers Safo and Erina celebrate their latest work when they are surprised by an...

Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's fa...

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised b...

Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a w...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.