Jaka Sembung enlists the help of a sea goddess, Nyi Roro Kidul to help fight against the Dutch colonialist from conquering his country.
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Jaka Sembung enlists the help of a sea goddess, Nyi Roro Kidul to help fight against the Dutch colonialist from conquering his country.
Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.
The 'Here Comes Christmas Candy Cane' is an important part of Ponyville: it’s the beacon that shows jolly old Santa Claus the way to the town as he makes his holiday rounds each year. But when Minty accidentally breaks it, it looks like Ponyville is destined to have a bleak holiday season. Minty is determined to do anything to save Christmas for her Pony friends while they, in turn, band together to try and cheer up their despondent four-legged friend.
During an ordinary day at Yuuko's house, the Mokonas beg to be put into the world of the manga Yuuko is reading. She sends them in, and together they explore the worlds of CLAMP and get to know the characters who populate them.
Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered that behind the mask is none other than Danta, an otherwise weakling student who has heretofore been picked on relentlessly by these same bullies. Donned with his mask, however, Danta exhibits a totally other personality, lacking fear and intimidation. The other students, looking on, soon experiment with the power of masks and find to their glee that behind a facade of anonymity, they experience an overwhelming power to act without the confines of self-consciousness.
A modern take on the classic Cinderella tale.
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
In "Jack," a troubled police officer who accidentally shoots his girlfriend, Melanie, finds himself in a spiral of guilt and remorse. Trapped in an endless acid trip, Jack confronts a blurred line between reality and surrealism.
A sequel to The Sea Beast (2022). Plot details unknown.
Pottan is going to a riding camp, but ends up at a recycling center where she is taken care of by the strange staff. One day Pottan finds out that the staff are building a space rocket.
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.
An unusual fantasy love story of Wan, a girl who's born with the supernatural ability to stay underwater. While visiting Butterfly Island, Wan discovers her special ability to dive and stay under deep sea. She also meets Tan, a photographer who always helps her when she has problems, and with whom she eventually falls in love. Wan soon realizes that her new-found powers come with a price; she's not a normal girl. Her body will be transferred into a kind of creature when she gets into the water. Once again, it's Tan who must help Wan figure out what's going on with her body without knowing that a mysterious secret awaits him under the sea.
Martin (deceased) is stuck in a dead-end job, welcoming the newly departed into the afterlife. All he dreams of is going 'Up There'. But his plans are thrown into disarray when he has to team up with the relentlessly chirpy Rash and together they lose a new arrival. The mismatched pair give chase and end up in a remote seaside town populated by cocky teenagers, sinister old women and the enigmatic Liz, who has 'suicide written all over her'. Can they stop bickering long enough to find the lost soul? Will Rash be reunited with his brother Chunky? And can Martin get back in time to finally get 'Up There'? UP THERE is a killer comedy about life, death and irritating friends.
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Tommy, a YouTuber known for scamming people with his fake exorcism skills, faces a real challenge when he must save his partner, Alumi, from a zombie demon. Teaming up with Sanjay, an Indian exorcist and computer geek determined to avenge his exorcist guru grandfather, Babaji, Tommy must step up. Will they succeed in their mission, and can Sanjay put aside his quest for revenge to work with Tommy?
When an ancient rogue monster threatens existence, only the scrappy multi-national team P.H.A.S.E. can stop him. But their newest recruit holds a stunning secret. Against impossible odds, this lonely, conflicted, difficult, and altogether human team must band together to save the world.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any other. The dark and magical images of this haunting film unfold in a dreamlike stream of consciousness revealing an unlikely cast of characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival.
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
After a murder in a brothel, Chu Liu Xiang and Hu Tiehua become acquainted with each other.
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?
In the middle of the night, Sarah wakes up because she needs to go to the bathroom, an apparently simple task that will become in a great adventure.
Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper.
Irma, a woman originally from an indigenous region in Mexico, migrates to the city. As she navigates the streets of this new environment, she engages in a dialogue with herself. With each word, memories of a past life in which Irma was a jaguar roaming the vast Chinantec region start to emerge.
A young girl struggles to fix her family while stranded in Vegas over Christmas.
A man sacrifices himself for a friend. When he awakes, the god of death appears to him and says that his death was a mistake.
Tae-Woo (Jung Kyoung-Ho) works as zookeeper. He is going through difficult days, because his girlfriend, Hee-Yeon (Jung Yoon-Sun), is hospitalized and doesn't have much time left to live. Grieving for the day when Hee-Yeon is no longer there, Tae-Woo finds a woman (Mina Fujii) in the restroom at the zoo. Her clothes are all torn. Tae-Woo asks her for her name, but she doesn't answer. Tae-Woo takes her to his home. The next day, after work, he comes home and finds her waiting for him in front of his home. They begin to live together.
Lü Bu, general to warlord Dong Zhuo, has blazed a trail of victories on the battlefield. But when a beautiful apprentice arrives claiming to be his long-lost love, he soon realizes that his closest allies may yet be his most dangerous foes.
After experiencing a traumatic loss of a colleague, Saanjh starts seeing a mysterious girl in his dreams who takes him through the seven stages of grief.
In a not-so-distant dystopian future, a scientist supports his drug habit by poaching genetically engineered unicorns.
Julia experiences a confused world seemingly against her after receiving a pessimistic tarot reading, as her feelings inevitably differ from her thoughts. Which way to go?
An adventure involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever.
JH is a person like the others but one evening he meets his other self.
A half-human/half-fox girl falls in love with an honest young man while trying to become a human-being.
The sinful demon spirit with white hair and green threads is causing trouble in the world, leading the head of the Demon Refining Department Zhong Kui to search for the demon. Zhong Kui rushes to Qing Shui Town to look for her whereabouts. Bounty hunter Mo Li intervenes in Qing Shui Town just at that moment, making Zhong Kui believe that she is hiding in Qing Shui Town. With the help of He Jinshui, the deacon of the demon refining division of the town, Zhong Kui searched for the trail and repeatedly confronted the bounty hunter, Mo Li, who saw catching Silk White Hair as a bet with Zhong Kui, and competed with him in many fights. What kind of demon is the white hair and blue silk? Why make waves? Who is the ultimate winner of the bet between Zhong Kui and Mo Li?
Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed. This fable is a ghost story with a tinge of magical-realism that explores corruption from a child's perspective.
"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters", a feature film which was made using a new technique called superlive-mation. It combined fact and fiction to tell daring stories of professional grifters, leaving viewers with a feeling of nostalgia for the Showa era. Following that, another movie has been completed. This new live-action film, "Eat and Run - 6 Beautiful Grifters" was made with the objective of filming its main actresses as beautifully as possible. The film is made up of six episodes directed by five different directors who rose to the challenge, two of which star Oshii himself.
The secret that has been hidden for eighteen years in an old tower deep in the woods is known only to the fairy Daphne. Only she knows that, thanks to her help, a small child who was supposed to die at the will of an evil queen grew up to become a prince and heir to the throne. What will the current Queen Groselis do about the threat posed by her unexpected rival? How will the prince deal with his love for the girl Johana, and will he even be able to live in the human world without the magical protection of the miraculous shell? These questions are answered in a fairy tale called The Sorceress.
'The Wishing Tree' is a magical, inspirational and an extremely entertaining story of five children in a hill-station somewhere in India, who come together to save their 'wishing tree' from being cut by vested interests. The film is extremely lively, endearing and engrossing so that the underlying message to protect trees and environment is seamlessly driven home.
Set in a world of fantasy and adventure, Amon is a young warrior embarking on a quest to avenge the death of his mother. When the hunt leads him ultimately to the kingdom of Valhiss, Amon enlists in the ranks of the Emperor's army in order to gain an opportunity to exact his revenge. However, a chance encounter with the Princess Lichia, being held captive by the Emperor in an effort to ransom a map away from his main rival, King Darai-Sem, Amon must decide whether to follow his path of revenge or to help rescue the Princess in an effort to save a lost kingdom.
The Mermaid Princess of Dongting Lake had the misfortune of marrying ill, her husband being the depraved and tyrannical Prince of Jingchuan, who subjected her to relentless torment. By chance, she encountered the scholar Liu Yi, entrusting him with a blood-stained letter to seek aid from her father, the Dragon King. Ultimately rescued and returned to her maternal home, the Mermaid Princess and Liu Yi transcended the divide between mortal and immortal realms, uniting in a bond of true love.
Three stories which are linked together by a bent penny.
The Lake is a supernatural horror film inspired by the urban legend of Stone Lake - a place always shrouded in mysterious stories that young people often tell each other.
How far would you do to get enter a contest? Joe is more than willing to do anything, without considering the consequences ...
A young couple check into a hotel, only to find it a seething, writhing hotbed of horrific surrealism. They're dealt with shabbily, put through a series of bizarre polymorphic straits, as the host regales them with the story of his nightmarish encounter with the Ghost of Stephen Foster.
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.
One day, apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG effects by the talents behind the “Death Note” series. Based on the best-selling novel by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.
When a spaceship crashes to Earth and reveals a group of quirky little space aliens on the run for their lives, the "GadgetGang" kids-Gus, Phoebe, Francesco, Mitsue, Mary Ann, Banana and Tank-soon discover this won't be the boring weekend they had expected. They soon learn that in a point far from the galaxy, an evil warlord named Gana Golber has seized control of the Confederation of Planets and now all of the planets are in danger-including Earth!
One day, Kai-yi confesses to her boyfriend Ji-wen that she can only eat nail clippers. Convinced that there are others like her, Kai-yi asks Ji-wen to help her open a nail clipper shop for other nail clipper eaters out there. Based on a short story by director Pang Ho-cheung, Jimmy Wan and Derek Tsang's dark comedy may be part of Pang's effort to bring his brand of sly, cynical storytelling to Mainland Chinese audiences, but the story serves up a surprising twist that shows these Hong Kong filmmakers haven't lost their edge at all.
A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.
Born in a tribe of fierce warrior women, Hundra has been raised to despise the influence of men. An archer, fighter and sword fighter, Hundra is superior to any male. Hundra finds her family slain and takes a vow of revenge until one day she meets her match.
Two lesbian lovers escape the city to commit a lovers-suicide deep in the forest. There they are captured by the queen of a lesbian colony who uses the two lovers for her own sex games. The couple organize a revolt against the queen.
Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse.
A single modern-day city girl name Zhang Xiaowen accidentally travels back in time to the Qing Dynasty and becomes Ruoxi, but gets caught up in a web of love and politics in the royal court of Emperor Kangxi.
Demi is excited to be getting new head shots. When she arrives at the photographer's studio, things are not as expected. As a naive and optimistic person, she decides to go on with the session anyway. Ultimately her trust is betrayed and she is forced to realize that the world is not such a safe place after all. It's this loss of innocence that triggers an awakening of her deepest internal power which gives her the strength to survive and triumph over pure evil.
Chang Er, a fairy maiden, embarks on a journey to the dark side of the moon to search for her lover Ho Yi, a sun-shooting archer who vanished on his quest to save the dying sun.