In 18th century Europe, a pair of twins overhear their gravedigger father, who lost his wife to the plague, talking to men they know to be dead — consorting with lost souls not yet in heaven. They find out their father is much more than a gravedigger.
Adaptation
The story of Madam Marie Currie and the discovery of radiation in Radium.
A young woman is spurnned by her lover who elects to marry another, more intellectual woman. She uses witchcraft passed down through generations from Salem to get her revenge.
In 1888, Clark and Jimmy, two East Coast college students, set out to discover the Wild West with an old Apache tour guide named Joe. After taking a route specifically discouraged by the Apache, they encounter members of an old exploring party who are supposed to be dead.
A college football coach is selected to travel behind the Iron Curtain to recruit a kicker to play pro football for an old college teammate. He is motivated less by the desire to get a good football player than the desire to impress a young woman.
An Army pilot is shot down over occupied Italy during World War II. He and his comarades must hide and eventually flee the German officers searching for them.
A wealthy, middle-aged woman falls for the man who attempts to burgle her home. Later, when he is arrested for murder, he refuses to use her as an alibi for fear of dishonoring her. Meanwhile, she struggles with doing the right thing and ruining her marriage.
Abraham Lincoln, working as a circuit lawyer, defends a young man in a murder trial. This story is based on some facts in Lincoln's early years as a lawyer.
A dying man crosses over into the after-life briefly where he encounters souls who show him what it is that is slowly killing him. Meanwhile, his doctor begins to develop his own suspicions back on Earth.
In this psychological drama, a senseless shooting in a convenience store is examined by looking at what the killer and his three victims were doing in the hours that led up to the crime and how they all wound up at the the crime scene — Tony's Market.