美国青年艾许（布鲁斯•坎贝尔 Bruce Campbell 饰）在和女友琳达（布丽切特•方达 Bridget Fonda 饰）度假时，偶然发现一本《死亡之书》。书中记载各种神秘的丧葬风俗以及招魂仪式，更为诡异恐怖的是，这本不应该存在于人间的书具有十分强大和邪恶的魔力。为与之斗争，艾许失去了女友和自己的右手，但最后还是体力不支，被《死亡之书》带到600年前的中世纪。他奇怪的穿着一度被骑士们当作间谍抓起来，经过一番波折，艾许决定帮国王打败《死亡之书》幻化出来的怪兽，这也是他回到现代社会的唯一办法……
本片荣获1993年布鲁塞尔奇幻电影节金鸦奖、1993年葡萄牙奇幻电影节影评人奖、1994年美国科幻恐怖电影学院土星奖最佳恐怖片。

斯坦福爵士（克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰）嗜赌如命，在全部家产挥霍殆尽之后，丧心病狂的斯坦福竟然将自己的小女儿萨瑞娜（海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）当做了最后的筹码。毫无意外地，斯坦福再一次地输了，走投无路的他在绝望中结束了自己的生命。
就这样，年轻美丽的萨瑞娜成为了荒淫无度的沃瑟姆勋爵（爱德华·福克斯 Edward Fox 饰）的所有物，可正当沃瑟姆得意之时，一位名叫沃肯（马库斯·吉尔伯特 Marcus Gilbert 饰）的英俊男子夺走了萨瑞娜并将她带回了自己城堡之中。城堡中居住的是沃肯的母亲哈雷德（黛安娜·里格 Diana Rigg 饰），贪婪的她利用城堡作为掩护经营着罪恶的勾当。一次偶然中，萨瑞娜撞破了哈雷德夫人的秘密，本就不喜欢萨瑞娜的哈雷德夫人开始设计企图除掉萨瑞娜。

A television movie based on a fantasy/adventure novel by Barbara Cartland set in the south of France. Mistral, a beautiful girl on the edge of adulthood, leaves the convent in which she was raised to live with her Aunt Emilie, unaware that her aunt is a ruthless manipulator who will use anyone to get what she wants. Mistral is quickly enmeshed in a vicious plot of revenge
A chance meeting between a British nobleman and the lovely young Mistral (Lysette Anthony) foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the fray, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with danger. The Principality of Monte Carlo in 1883 provides the colourful backdrop to a tale of murder, madness and intrigue that threatens the course of true love.

96年的时候，上海电视台曾经播放过，讲在美国西部，突然出现了一个不明身份的失去记忆的男人，他与林肯总统被刺有关系。。。此人一路走来，苦苦追寻着自己的生事。途中发生了一系列神秘的故事。
男主角演过电视剧《侦探斯本瑟》（又名《孤胆侦探》）

Shortly after the Civil War, a man pulls himself out of a grave in the South wearing Southern clothing but carrying Northern gold and carrying a US Army revolver. He has no memory save for some gorgeous brunette and being beaten over the head by a man in a derby. He calls himself "Lazarus" after the man Jesus resurrected until he can figure out who he is and why he was buried alive and left for dead.

A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.