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West Point, 1830. Augustus Landor, a detective scarred by life – he is a widower and his daughter is missing – is hired by the Military Academy to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of one of the cadets, whose heart is extracted from his chest with surgical precision that is perhaps the result of an obscure ritual. In his investigation of him he is not helped by any of the other recruits for whom the law of silence applies. Only one of them offers his cooperation. We are talking about Edgar Allan Poe, who in the following years will become a world-famous writer...

In the Comanche territories of 1719, the young Naru tries to prove herself as a hunter equal to the young males of the community, led by her brother Taabe. She gets her chance when she, following them stealthily, joins a lion hunting expedition. Along the way she comes across the tracks of another more dangerous predator, but she can’t convince anyone that she’s not just a simple bear. Coming from another world, this predator is all too real, determined to seek hunting challenges worthy of itself and protected by stealth technology that makes it almost invisible...

Meilin Lee is thirteen years old, loves math, is polite, enthusiastic, and obedient. Her family is of Chinese origins and every day after school, Meilin helps her mother Ming organize visits by tourists to the ancient family temple. She loves cleaning. She also has a group of friends that she loves very much, and like them she is a diehard fan of a boy band that doesn’t exactly fit the musical tastes of her parents, but luckily her headphones are there. Things get complicated, however, when Meilin wakes up one morning to find herself transformed into a huge, destructive, uncontrollable red panda...

A former US Army ranger suffering from post-traumatic stress, Jackson is tasked with bringing Lulu, a bitch used by the military in overseas missions, to the funeral of her master, a former comrade in arms of Jackson himself who was killed in Pakistan. At the end of the journey, which will lead from the state of Washington to Arizona, the animal will be subjected to euthanasia, because it has become violent and unpredictable...

Wednesday Addams is a high school student with a very particular character. She is proof of this in the fact that she is much better off than anyone approaching her brother Pugsley, because to defend him she is capable of adopting quite extreme solutions. Just one of these will lead her parents, Morticia and Gomez, to enroll her in the Nevermore Academy, a private school where they studied themselves during their adolescence...

Nate, a doctor and widower, takes his daughters Mere and Norah to South Africa to try to reconcile with them, destroyed by the loss of their mother, separated from Nate for some years. For their safari in the savannah they rely on the care of Martin, a longtime friend and expert tracker. During an excursion, however, Martin runs into a tsonga village exterminated by a beast, most likely a mad lion...

90’s. Callum and Sophie, Scottish father and daughter, are on holiday in a Turkish seaside resort, near: one of those villages where the “all inclusive” formula makes those who are not really wealthy feel affluent. Callum and Sophie look great too, and they really aren’t. The father is about to turn 31, the daughter is 11, which means that she was born when Callum was just twenty, and he no longer lives with the girl’s mother: therefore this holiday, which precedes the beginning of the year school, it’s an oasis to hold on to in the midst of an imminent separation. With the help of modern devices, Callum and Sophie document every moment of their short vacation, but something always remains on the edge of the frame: a suffering gaze, a hidden cry...

Eight years after a tragic terrorist attack in Vienna, during which a group of Islamic extremists took a scheduled flight hostage and killed all the passengers, Henry Pelham, a CIA agent stationed in the Austrian capital at the time, was assigned to interrogate his colleagues at the time, who managed the kidnapping with him and failed, with the aim of finding out who the mole was who messed up the rescue operation. Henry therefore goes to Celia Harrison, the former colleague with whom he was in love and with whom she was about to live, and interrogates her during a long and tense dinner...

A man is resting in the garden of a large villa in the Californian hills. Shortly after he returns to the house and erases the traces before leaving: in fact, he is not the owner, but a thief who broke in. The sudden return of the owners – an arrogant millionaire who made his fortune by exploiting the economic crisis and his young wife – transforms him into a real criminal: cornered, the man kidnaps the couple and asks for money to free them...

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the shy town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night...