Once upon a time, Zhuang Zi the philosopher dozed off in a garden full of flowers, and dreamt he was a beautiful butterfly. It fluttered by, hither and thither, until it grew tired and also fell asleep. It too had a dream, and dreamt it was Zhuang Zi. At that instant, Zhuang Zi awoke. He did not know whether he was now the real Zhuang Zi, or the one in the butterfly's dream; nor did he know whether he had dreamt of the butterfly, or it had dreamt of him.
Once upon a time, Zhuang Zi the philosopher dozed off in a garden full of flowers, and dreamt he was a beautiful butterfly. It fluttered by, hither and thither, until it grew tired and also fell asleep. It too had a dream, and dreamt it was Zhuang Zi. At that instant, Zhuang Zi awoke. He did not know whether he was now the real Zhuang Zi, or the one in the butterfly's dream; nor did he know whether he had dreamt of the butterfly, or it had dreamt of him.
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Elina, heroine of the Fairytopia films tells her friend Bibble the story of Flutterfield, a faraway kingdom populated by fairies with butterfly wings. Henna, the evil butterfly fairy has poisoned the queen of Flutterfield in an attempt to take over the kingdom.
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.