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The German tourist Kiki and the Swiss tour guide Marlies are kidnapped by Contra rebels from Nicaragua while on vacation in Costa Rica. While Kiki's friend Markus fights for her release together with her mother, Kiki begins an affair with one of the kidnappers. When the two women were released after 72 days on payment of ransom, the police suspected that they had colluded with the kidnappers.
David and Philip are distinctive in the work's couriers World Express. Every day, roam the world completing tasks assigned to them by the mysterious head of Anson. Do not give up any adversity and provide dangerous consignment on time. Their current mission is to deliver to Mexico a ransom for the kidnapped girl. In the meantime, it appears that the girl's mother, Corrina, was once associated with David. Just before the start of the task Philip is murdered, and the ransom stolen. To save the girl, David needs to work with Corrina. It begins a dangerous journey through the dense jungle to the mysterious Mayan city.
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Eleven year old Tim plays fate and takes a flight to Scotland with his father Eric. They were happy there two years ago, shortly before his mother Anna died in a car accident. In Scotland, Tim combs through the Hartspring Castle and whose crypt. He finds a chart with Celtic characters, that refers to the true existence of the legendary Loch Ness monster.
In order to overturn the government of some exotic country, the rebels decide to hire an experienced American diver. His risky mission: recover from the bottom of the sea a treasure, which would provide financial support to their endeavor.
When Princess Meyra is kidnapped by the evil wizard Akaris, the slave Tyrol volunteers to lead a mission to his cursed dungeon lair to save her from his clutches. Along with a band of heroes of questionable loyalties, he must battle the ancient and diabolical creatures that protect Akaris' fortress, and overcome his devious tests. Ultimately, Tyrol must slay a dragon to save the princess, and the realm, from a reign of endless darkness.
Capturing the beauty and stillness of time alone.
Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
A movie by Dino B.Partesano
First film in a series of three with Over-Ice and Oversand and one of the first films on free climbing shot in the cliffs of the Gorges du Verdon in several parishes. We meet a certain Patrick Edlinger, Patrick Bérhault, but also Jean-Marc Troussier, Jacques Perrier, Stéphane Troussier, Hugues Jaillet, Gilbert Thomann, Odette Schoënleb, Bernard Gorgeon, Christian Guyomar. Thanks to the program Les Carnets de l'aventure, then broadcast on Antenne 2, and its producer Pierre-François Degeorges, this film was made. The chain gave its production agreement during the day, while the climbing was very confidential, no one knew Patrick Edlinger and the project itself contained only a few lines on a sheet
January 1899 saw the worst storm at sea in living memory and the most astonishing lifeboat rescue attempt of the century. The coxswain of the Louisa lifeboat and his daughter struggle with nature, personal loyalty, and their duty to save the lives of strangers. Told via animation, Louisa: An Amazing Adventure is an exciting and uplifting story certain to entertain and charm the entire family.
Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out various plots to win the hand of Evelyn away from her true love Harry Peel.
Animated short.
Soldiers on a mission from a fort on the Northwest Frontier of British-Raj India argue over tactics as they seek to deal with reports of a native uprising.
Two men have their friendship tested when they bring a stray dog on a road trip.
Following a bet, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout set off on an incredible journey around the globe. But the police suspect them of committing the heist of the century at the Bank of England. Inspector Fix sets off in pursuit... A colorful adaptation—blending filmed theater and musical comedy—of Jules Verne's famous novel.
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
During the Children of Skaro's Master Plan, the Daleks encounter heavy resistance. Inside the Dalek saucer, the Supreme Dalek orders that the Special Weapons Dalek be deployed to protect the Genesis Ark. The Special Weapons Dalek is then transmatted from the saucer to the battlefield.
A lovingly crafted homage to adventure B-movies of the 1930s from debut director Henry Rowlands, with a screenplay by author Patrick Davies Jones
The true story behind Arsène Lupin, a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc, first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout.
The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
Many hundreds of years ago, Siegfried snatched his invisibility cloak from the dwarf Alberich. Understandable that this is not good to speak Siegfried. But he always likes to tell how it happened. And also of all the other dangerous adventures of Siegfried. How he defeated the dragon and became almost invulnerable, there would not have been a small linden leaf. The kidnapping of Brunhild from Iceland and why Hagen von Tronje became Siegfried's mortal enemy. And of course Gunther's betrayal of Siegfried. And one question Alberich still has to this day: what really happened to the treasure of the Nibelung? Is he still lying on the bottom of the Rhine?
When a young Northerner kills his driving examiner, he and his best friend embark on a misguided trip to Wales to hide the body. Nothing goes to plan...
Allan Quatermain leads a team to stop a clandestine organization from reviving ancient evil. Through forgotten tombs and deadly jungles, they face deadly traps and Nazi zombies in an epic battle for humanity's fate.
A mock trailer for a spy film about a secret agent called Daniel Daniel.
The final chapter of the musical trilogy from the epic Smiths album
Dr. Dolittle has arrived in the land of monkeys, where gorillas, orangutans, baboons and spiders await medical attention. But how can one do it alone? Luckily, the animals of the desert want to help.
A director and his assistant are traveling around Europe to seek financing for a film with and about four international artists: Polish Krzysztof Bednarski, Danish Thorsten Kirchhoff, American Mark Kostabi and Malaysian H.H. Lim; all of them stars from the world of art and in love with Italy. Hilarious and quirky, we follow the carnival of madness around the Italian countryside.
Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian mountaineer Guido Monzino to the summits of Hoggar in the Algerian Sahara with the ascents of Garet el Djenoun, Tizouyag Nord, Saouinan and Iharen. The mountain ranges of the Hoggar desert turn out to be more complex and interesting than most mountaineers suspected at the time.
On the Tanua Island, the shaman announces the approach of the Nagol Ritual. Sowa, a young dreamy Melanesian, has to honor her father and the ancestral traditions. But she doesn’t feel ready to face the consequences of this challenge.
A shamed ex-freighter captain takes one last shot at redemption, only to find he is a puppet for a grander scheme.
2 bumbling gravediggers must survive the night from a vampire, mad scientist and a hoard of zombies without losing their heads - in either sense.
On his way inland, Dr. Dolittle and his animals encounter a nasty surprise. Natives capture them and hold them under lock and key.
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a greedy widow, decides to gain some money by using that gift of her daughter by adoption, Romarei, and she sends her to Boris Olinzoff's luxury estate, in East Africa. Boris is the CEO of a powerful economic group, and soon Romarei gets herself in danger. Romarei misses Lorenz, who tries her to uncover the identity of Boris' mortal enemy Masareff... But when Boris travels to Germany, Romarei is kidnapped.
Jimmy Duncan is a film director working on his fourth film but things are not exactly going as planned.
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
A lonely 9-year-old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest. Inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women; old enough to be his grandmother. Dotty invites the boy into her rainbow decorated caravan that is littered with exotic memorabilia from her past, and in particular an incredible collection of brightly colored shoes. The boy, who has a hidden sadness he wont discuss and a suspicious bruise on one arm is able to forget about his troubles momentarily as Dotty and the boy embark on a journey that spans her colorful life.
A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.
After freakish atmospheric conditions force commercial pilot Andrea Schubert to ground her flight, she and her crew decide to investigate. To determine the nature of this new lethal storm system, they fly directly into its core in this thriller.
A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
La Cordée de Rêve traces the great alpine journey made from August 2000 to February 2001 by Patrick Berhault. His great crossing of the Alps, here told to his daughter, will be done sometimes alone, sometimes surrounded by friends: Patrick Gabarrou, Patrick Edlinger, Ottavio Fassini, Gaël Bouquet des Chaux, Valérie Aumage, Philippe Magnin. During this alpine trip he will find his brother-in-arms Patrick Edlinger for the dolimitic part and will also see the genesis of the "Cordée Magique Berhault/Magnin". For 167 days, in sneakers in the fall, on touring skis in the winter, Patrick Berhault chained 2 to 3 stages of an average hiker daily, swallowing 1,500 to 2,000 meters of vertical drop and up to 45 kilometers per day. , and climbed 22 peaks. It's called that: "La Grande Cordée" but behind this title lies an exceptional human and sporting performance.
Having promised to find missing royalty, the King and Queen Teddies, and return them home to Blackpool in time for a very special Teddy Bear’s picnic, Sooty and the gang embark on a madcap journey across the country, coming face-to-face with none other than Sooty’s arch enemy, the Colossus of Crime along the way. Up to his usual tricks, Colossus has stolen a priceless diamond from a local museum… a diamond that inadvertently ends up in a tray of trifles that Sooty has collected for the famous picnic!
The young inventors Dick and Jenny Brewster, build their own 'Hoverbug' and hope to win the race which has been organised for home-made Hovercraft, but their arch rivals, Charlie and Sydney, bend the rules by enlisting professional help and by employing devious means to sabotage the Hoverbug.
In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
In the imposing spaces of a brutalist city, two graffiti vandals battle over contested territory. DOT chases PXL through an urban maze; the bad-ass veteran vandal against his new sassy challenger. A police drone spots their acrobatic chase and identifies them for immediate arrest. Their only hope for escape is to trust their sworn enemy.