Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England... (imdb)

At the end of the 17th century a impetuous woman of noble birth but poor arrives in Boston when it was just a village rather than a city. As she is married to an old doctor she tries to change her life. (imdb)

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hester is already married to Roger Prynne, a physician who has been missing seven years... (imdb)

A horror anthology based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The House of Seven Gables".

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder. (imdb)

A bewitched scarecrow wishes to be human to help the orphan Polly he fell in love with. A dance filled fantasy.

A young student wonders about the beautiful gardens and even more beautiful daughter of Rappacini. And is horrified when he discovers the poisonous nature of their beauty.

In 17th century Massachusetts, a married woman (whose husband has been absent for years and his whereabouts unknown) has an affair resulting in a child out of wedlock. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up. (imdb)

Features a dreamlike narrative of a young man's ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.