A DJ encounters a beautiful woman at a club, goes back to her home, and finds himself thrust into a nightmare odyssey of ritual magic, patriarchal death customs, and family conflict most unusual.
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A DJ encounters a beautiful woman at a club, goes back to her home, and finds himself thrust into a nightmare odyssey of ritual magic, patriarchal death customs, and family conflict most unusual.
A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.
One night in an argument with his girlfriend, Natale, Robert commits a sin, a horrible dreadful sin. All alone, he meets a figure who’s nice, polite and welcoming. The figure offers him a chance for that night to go away; will Robert cheat and take the deal or own up to what he’s done. I ask you. Would you take that easy road? That chance to gain whatever you want from the grasp of someone else’s hand? Would you cheat at this game of life… or work for it?
When a young girl struggles with self-identity and reaches out for help, she is thrown into a surreal world with bizarre encounters with herself to find out who she really is.
With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.
Based on a true story, Angels and Ghosts tells the emotive journey of Amber, a young girl who is on a quest to find her brothers who have disappeared. It's a gripping animated adventure exploring the potent themes of mental health and family bonds. The story, told as a monologue from Amber's perspective, is narrated by Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton.
An astronomer and a cryptographer uncover a series of ancient tunnels, unwittingly unleashing a deadly Sphinx. In order to trap the Sphinx back in its tomb and stop impending destruction, our explorers must solve a series of complicated and possibly deadly riddles.
Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe she is his daughter. The mistake leads to intrigue and jealousy in love. Directed by Ross MacGibbon, with Leanne Benjamin and Carlos Acosta.
Washed ashore and taken in to a gothic manor by an unseen masculine force, a lost girl dances in gratitude before him until one day she says no and begins to suspect she might not be the first person to be brought here.
Death loses his job, and there is no one on the Discworld to collect the dead. "How life and death depend on each other absolutely." This is a short (7:32 minutes) introduction to the pilot "Reaper Man" which was never filmed. It appears on the DVD for the TV Series "Soul Music" which is an animated adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel of the same name.
Gunned down in the snowy wilderness and desperate for shelter, Billy Cavanagh is taken in by kooky old lady Agnes, unaware that her isolated log cabin is surrounded by bloodthirsty skinless creatures hellbent on getting inside.
A beautiful young escort suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them.
A young woman rents spare rooms of her parent's house as a BNB unsuspecting that you really need to be very careful as to whom you invite into your home.
A team of professional ghost finders are trapped in an old village hall. The haunting they set out to investigate turns out to be far worse than they anticipated. Who will survive and what will be left of their souls?
Loan shark Eddie Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
A man wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a puppet
A gothic tale of a girl scared to suck her thumb - lest the monstrous Suckablood should come.
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.
Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A rockumentary about very amazing Edinburgh band Hand Crank. Includes such well known bangers as 'Snake-Skinned Woman', 'Dog without a Bone' and 'Wizard Feet'.
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
After their spaceship's destruction and stranded without reinforcements, a few Krieg soldiers survive a demonic attack. But the forces of Chaos are relentless, and how long can they survive alone, if at all? Well, there's one thing they forget. So are the Krieg.
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 5. While searching for her somewhere lost handkerchiefs, little Lucie meets Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, a hedgehog who does laundry, anmd Mr. Jeremy Fisher, who had a bad encounter with a large fish.
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Marcos Mereles’ archly funny, endlessly inventive and reflexive puzzle piece explores a strange disappearance at a hip London fashion shoot.
British independent science fantasy.
A drunkard has a vision of everything turning into bottles.
A woman finds herself in a strange, magical carnival with no memory of anything but her own name. Time seems to be of the essence, can she find her way back to reality or will she succumb to her fantasy?
Olly wakes from a blurry night into a surreal world, but can he make the right choice and escape back into reality?
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
With his parents gone, Aleksandr finds not only a sense of family in the Soviet Army, but also love in 1983 when he falls for Tasneem, a local Afghan interpreter. But after a deathly betrayal, he stumbles into Closure Cafe, an eerie watering-hole for misfits from across the ages. The bullet wounds don't hurt, but the memories do, and unless he finds answers soon, he will stay trapped there for all eternity, much like his mysterious bartender, Izumi. Can he ever learn to trust again, or can a lost soul never move on from a broken heart?
An adventure involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever.
Three stories which are linked together by a bent penny.
Nine year old Molly and her father move to Ireland into a house they've inherited, nicknamed "Misfortune Manor". It brings bad luck to anyone who lives in it, and Molly and her father soon fall victim to the curse: they will lose their new found home unless they can pay the taxes they owe on it. Lucky the Leprechaun is on hand to help Molly break the curse and help with pots of gold.
Haunted by his past, Connell returns to his abandoned childhood home. Inside, he awakens Pluto, a towering anthropomorphic teddy bear tied to his buried memories and unresolved trauma. As Pluto pursues him through the house, Connell is forced to confront a series of nightmarish visions from his childhood - bringing him closer to the guilt that has consumed him his entire life. Equal parts haunting and redemptive, this story explores the weight of grief and the courage it takes to confront our deepest wounds.
"Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.
A desperate teenager snatches a rich woman's handbag but in a bizarre twist of fate discovers her life is not as rosy as it seems and that they have more in common than he realizes.
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
A failing teenage badminton player at a Catholic Girls School is visited by a Saint - who agrees to help her if she'll complete three tasks for him. Dead Birds is a twisted Super Natural Black Comedy about competitive mother daughter relationships, losing your religion and learning how far you'd go to get what you want.
Jonas, a troubled practitioner of magic, assembles a group of companions – including rogue Dagon, elf Nimue and assassin Solomon – to investigate a mysterious corruption spreading through a quiet village in the mystical Realm of Eldervin. As they journey through haunted woodlands and forgotten ruins, the group discovers the darkness may be connected to their own pasts.
TV pilot from Cartoon Network's Europe division. Kid lives on a farm with his grandparents, a robot pig, and a magic guy.
Caught between her alienated parents, teenage Ama starts a new relationship with a young lifeguard - but she can’t escape a quiet haunting that feels increasingly familiar.
Replacing body parts is dangerous. Frankenstein loved it. Olga hates it. Being gender-agnostic means they get to wear whatever they want, but human parts come infused with emotions. Painful memories stuck inside a boy’s left eye set Olga off on a hunt and puts a target on their back.
A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to nurture it.
In a vibrant nightclub in Brazil, a cheeky sticker beckons shy Suki to "LICK ME." In a moment of impulse, she takes the risk and licks it, unwittlingly unleashing her wild side. Will Suki be forever enslaved to this insatiable, demonic appetite?
After nearly getting hit by a car, Abigail Summers finds her reality is no longer as it seems
A young woman is forced to deal with her identity crises, when a mysterious old woman squats on her chest.
When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now, Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 7. Two stories about homes: the first tells about two mice creating havoc in a lovely dollhouse, while the second focuses on the friendship between a country mouse and a town mouse.
A beautiful princess seeking to escape an arranged marriage, flees to a distant kingdom and disguises herself as a loathsome hag. But then she falls in love with the new kingdom's prince.
Nora Seed finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
Hansel and Gretel have fled the gingerbread house, but what if the wicked witch survived after all?
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchantment that has long kept him from taking a wife. When he completes the three impossible trials the witch prescribes, the man earns the hand of the legendary Princess, only heir of the Old King of the Cursed Kingdom. But when he arrives at the altar with a perfect fairytale ending hanging in the balance, both the goatherd and mysterious witch who helped transform him into the perfect eligible bachelor find that there is one enchantment they can't figure out how to break... true love.
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Jack Black is a disturbed commercial actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.