Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
So-howa leaves an internship interview at a baking company and goes back to Busan. Famous patisserie Kim Ma-ri puts So-howa on a project to ruin Suyeong Bakery and open Mari Hotel and Kim Mari Bakery there under cover. So-howa creates a project to ruin Suyeong Bakery on the orders of the respected patisserie Kim Ma-ri, but as it progresses, she realizes the preciousness of the local bakery.
Mels, a middle-aged introvert, works as a surgeon in a provincial town hospital and is one of the best in his field. The gray and boring life of a doctor changes when he meets a mysterious person. She, in his opinion, spiritualized and sublime, in life turns out to be an ordinary girl with her own problems and "skeletons in the closet."
Eighteen-year-old Soon-jeong dreams of escaping to Australia, but her strict homeroom teacher blocks her plans by denying her permission to miss night study for work. When mysterious classroom window break-ins trigger a school investigation, the pressure mounts. Can Soon-jeong endure it all and graduate as planned?
Lights shining, drums rolling, here starts the show. Curtains falling, winds howling, sheds swaying, up there sits the moon. LIANG-JUN gazes silently at her mother, not daring to say a word.
A series of short stories all about dogs.
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Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.
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A policeman leads a well-ordered life with his wife and 18-year-old daughter. The apparent idyll is abruptly shattered when the daughter is linked to the murder of two police officers, both colleagues of the father. While the daughter remains resolutely silent about the accusations while in custody, the father sees the illusion of his intact family fade more and more.
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
A slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother and daughter and her boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray.
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.