A young actress looking for her big break in New York City rents a garden-level apartment at a surprisingly low price. One of its former residents, an acting coach, appears outside her French doors.

A woman is pressured to betray her abusive husband — an escape artist hoping to revive his career by performing a dangerous underwater stunt.

A young man confides in his doctor that he suspects his young wife, adept at self-healing, might be a witch.

A senator sends his deputy to Italy to retrieve his defiant daughter, who is unknowingly in danger.

A prisoner who claims to be hundreds of years old gives a gangster, also serving time, a bottle containing a substance that can put one into suspended animation.

A cleaning lady witnesses a malevolent spirit enter a man with a severe concussion, who is suddenly cured.

A man isolated in a lightless room struggles to maintain his will to live.

A poor but ambitious Judaic scholar seeks to use his mystical knowledge to win the favor of the father of the woman he loves.

A man in financial peril seeks to collect on his own life insurance after he assumes the identity of a fellow passenger in a fatal train accident.

A man is convinced that he is the reincarnation of a serial killer and a mortal threat to his own wife.