视频简介
American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。艺术品收藏家艾德琳(帕特里克·波查 Patrick Bauchau 饰)来到朋友丹尼尔(Daniel Pommereulle 饰)的海边别墅度假,在这里,他遇见了漂亮的女孩海蒂(哈蒂·波丽托弗 Haydée Politoff 饰)。丹尼尔告诉艾德琳,海蒂是个生活作风颇为开放的女孩,有许多个风格迥异的男友,艾德琳和朋友在背后戏称她为“收集男人的女人”。艾德琳崇尚健康、自然、克制的生活方式,这样的他自然瞧不起海蒂的放浪形骸,但同时,他发现自己又总是不经意的注意着海蒂,这个女孩的一举一动能够轻易的牵动他的情绪,并且,海蒂似乎对自己也心怀好感。没想到,海蒂选择的居然是自己的好友丹尼尔,这让艾德琳心里很不是滋味,他离开别墅回归到自己的生活,却仍然和海蒂保持着藕断丝连的关系。在法国这个热情浪漫的城市里,一对男女对待感情兜兜转转遮遮掩掩,艾德琳是否会成为海蒂的下一个“收藏品”呢?。古今女子差别待遇甚大,不差的是女子永远为情所困。一百年前如此,今日亦如此,身为女人,是原罪、是宿命、还是爱恨情仇的始作俑者。 清代末年,青河镇季、佟两大家族因旌表贞节牌坊一事引发新仇旧恨,一个年轻、美丽的姑娘方瑾受“父母之命”被强迫嫁入佟家陪伴比她小九岁的新郎。不久,小新郎在一次意外中死去,方瑾又被佟家族长佟善群强迫守寡守节,以期获颁贞节牌坊,为其光宗耀祖。 该剧以她得特的视角写出了佟家内部大房、二房、妯娌、姑嫂、主仆之间的明争暗斗,讲述了几对男女的感情纠葛及其不同命运。但压抑的人性总要爆发,在高立天、单福安等人的帮助下,方瑾冲破封建道德的种种束缚,与自己相爱的人走到一起,佟家寡妇二奶奶何其贞也在经历种种波折之后,找到了属于自己的生活道路。 该剧着力刻画了三个性格迥异的寡妇形象:善良、纯洁而又爱封建道德束缚的方瑾,大胆泼辣、狂放不羁的佟庆,娴静、柔弱...。