Loving couple Sam and Molly are returning home after a pleasant evening out when they are attacked by a burglar. While defending himself, Sam is killed and becomes a ghost. He learns that his death was no accident and that his beloved is in mortal danger. To warn Molly, Sam starts making the rounds of practicing mediums and, oh, my! - he finds a woman who can actually hear him. But she herself is not eager to help the annoying ghost.

This story unfolds in Great Britain. The hero returns to his homeland from America in order to find his missing brother. He receives rumors that in the suburbs of the city there is a terrible creature that tears apart the inhabitants of the surrounding villages. The case is investigated by the Scotland Yard police, and soon they become interested in a gentleman who has come to search for his brother.

Canadian nurse Betsy Connell arrives on a Caribbean island to care for Jessica Holland, the wife of a wealthy farmer. Her patient lives in an incomprehensible twilight state: she is speechless, moves like the living dead, and wanders like a ghost at night. Betsy believes Jessica is suffering from a nervous disorder when she learns that the locals practice a voodoo cult.

Mary Gibson travels to New York City to search for her missing older sister Jacqueline. After meeting the mysterious Dr. Judd, Mary learns that her sister has been involved in a devil-worshipping cult.

Xenia, Ohio - a small provincial town of "one-story America", in the mid-seventies, covered by a powerful tornado, and never recovered from it either economically or in any other sense. People live in it, they have children... who have nothing to do but fight the daily boredom of a monotonous life. And, it must be said, their ways of struggle do not shine with variety, as well as the whole life of this town and the people who inhabit it....

John considered his life to be quite prosperous. He had a well-regarded law firm, a beautiful wife, Ann, and a mistress, Cynthia, who was Ann's younger sister. This idyll was completely shattered by the arrival of his university friend Graham, who seemed a little strange to Ann and John.

Finding himself in a bar with Ann, Graham confessed to her that he was currently impotent. Upon visiting Graham, Ann found him in possession of a series of videotapes, each with a woman's name. Through persistence, Ann learned that each tape contained a sexual confession by a woman. She also learned that this was Graham's way of getting sexual gratification.

Paris, late 19th century. Talented engineer Gustave Eiffel dreams of building the subway, the subway railroad of the future. However, meeting a mysterious woman from his past literally turns Eiffel's world upside down. Their dizzying romance inspires him to create an unimaginable architectural masterpiece - a giant openwork tower, which eventually becomes a symbol of Paris, romance and love.

Jeff and Amy Taylor decided to move to their new residence in San Diego in an expensive Jeep. On the way, Jeff almost crashes into a pickup truck with two local thugs. And when the jeep suddenly stalled on the side of a deserted highway, the driver of a hitchhiking trailer Red Barr offered to give Amy a ride to the nearest phone, and Jeff stayed to guard the car.

From that moment on, his life becomes a nightmare. At the roadside café where he had arranged to meet his wife, Jeff doesn't find Amy. It turns out that homegrown bandits decided to take for the kidnapped woman ransom. And then peace-loving common man Jeff, having escaped from under the barrels of extortionists, himself turns into a ruthless hunter...

Paul Edgecombe is the warden of the death row block at Cold Mountain Prison, each of whose prisoners once walks the "green mile" on their way to their place of execution. Paul has seen many inmates and wardens during his tenure. However, the giant John Coffey, charged with a terrible crime, became one of the block's most unusual residents.

A childless farming couple lives in the misty Icelandic wilderness. One day, one of their sheep brings a mysterious creature, which the couple take into the house and decide to raise as their own child.