Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.
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Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.
Brendan gets involved in a 'Fathers Only' treasure hunt for the sake of his 7 year old niece Sophie. But what Brendan begins to realise is that the parents imagination may have got the better of them and it might not be so easy bringing home Sophie's Fortune.
Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse heroes.
The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony. He hates the curse, doing his heinous misdeeds as early as possible and good works for the rest of the day to compensate!
A magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk captures the enchantment of three classic stories from Hans Christian Andersen. Conceived, written and directed by Oscar nominated Christine Edzard and featuring the dancers of the Royal Ballet, choreographed by Frederick Ashton. The Kitchen contains household objects which come to life and hold an animated conversation. The Little Match Girl updates Andersen's heart-rending tale to London's East End in the late seventies. Little Ida is an inspired celebration of dance featuring members of the Royal Ballet.
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
Model and Page 3 favourite Keeley Hazell thinks she's solved all her problems by taking up an unexpectedly high-brow hobby: translating Latin. The language has given her magical powers, enabling her to ward-off the frenzied attention of her adoring fans, and the British Library offers an ideal refuge from the hordes. But when she meets Adam, the one Sun-reader in the country she hadn't bargained for, Keeley is given a lesson in not judging books by their covers. Her journey of discovery will reveal just how far she's come to rely on the advantages of fame. A warped retelling of Ovid's most famous myth, Venus and Adonis, and a comic study of society's obsession with the image.
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and her Nutcracker. Recorded on stage 3 December 2018—15 January 2019 as part of the Autumn 2018/19 season.
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
CREMASTER 4 adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this chapter is the Manx triskelion - three identical armored legs revolving around a central axis. Set on the Isle of Man, the film absorbs the island's folklore...
Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.
A tactile exploration of the inherent duality of violence and sensuality in nature.
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.
In the confines of a public toilet a desperate boy begins a graffiti conversation with an elusive writer.
The classic 1911 film adaptation of Dante's epic from director Giuseppe Liguoro. Music by Tangerine Dream
Lifetime Guarantee follows a nameless protagonist as he enters a mysterious shop wherein it's enigmatic proprietor offers the solutions to life's disappointments. 'Lifetime Guarantee' takes you on a journey through time and alternate lives and hopefully leaves you with the question: Is the grass always greener on the other side?
Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.
A day in the life of Samuel, a man cursed by a witch to turn into a fish everyday.
The miserly Scrooge changes his ways after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Magnus has a side hustle. He drives for The Night Mail, which isn't a bad gig, if you don't mind being possessed. What is the Night Mail? A delivery service with a dark secret - working for the dead.
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors.
Lured to a beautiful but remote farmhouse by a deceitful relative, a family decides to move in. Little do they know it’s in the middle of a dying kingdom of fairies and the only way for them to rejuvenate their life force is by sacrificing their young daughter. As she is baited to the fairies’ lair, her mother must fight to return her to safety and bring an end to the evil fairy queen’s reign.
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.
Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the desert, with its encroaching sands and abandoned film sets, a director abandons his own film set and descends into a hallucinatory, perilous adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence. A Paul Bowles story combined with observational footage forms a multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself.
The Daisy Crown is a tantalising romance between an imprisoned princess and her homespun servant that threatens both the kingdom and their lives.
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
When a gang of thugs harasses a young girl performing an ancient ritual, they unleash a wrath that makes them pay the price.
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Clara is given a nutcracker in the form of a toy soldier for Christmas. That night she sees the nutcracker in battle with the terrible Seven-headed Mouse King. The nutcracker turns into a young Prince and takes Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets.
Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break. The masterful 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa is combined with sections created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon. Recorded live as part of the Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2019/20 with encore screenings broadcast online during the #OurHousetoYourHouse programme.
Based on the Gothic fairytale of Red Riding Hood and Norse mythology, 'Trials of the Red Hood' is an Icelandic language, (English subbed), Science Fiction short that follows a young woman on her journey and through her trials to find a way to save her home planet from the Second Ragnarok.
When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don't meet the same fate.
Craig gets more than he bargained for when he searches for a strange noise in his new apartment.
Near future. Giovanni is one of the creators of a special elixir that regenerates cells. The human being has overcome the greatest limit: mortality. It's his 217th birthday, and his wife Annie has organized a surprise party with their loved ones. Unfortunately, their son Alan is not in the mood to celebrate.
An 18th century couple separated by war gets a second chance at love when a present day singer becomes mixed up in their story.
A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
The Writ is a dramatic fantasy about a dreamy writer who meets a magical shopkeeper granting him fame and success at a tremendous cost.
Have you ever stumbled across something you've long since forgotten about - what if somebody put it there for you to find?
These were truly the Darker Ages, The Chaos Wars ensued. Judgement upon humanity. Judgement upon a broken, wounded world. A World on the edge, bereft of the Old Gods who have descended into insanity, senility, or sentient sleep as they have tired of their mortal playthings. Magic, Kings, the Gods & order are all but lost and a new disorder reigns. The Darkest of times. So a strange alliance gather to stand & back the elemental forces of nature.
During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the traumatic events that connected her to the selkie realm - a world of mythical creatures who transform from seals into humans by shedding their skins. This poignant journey delves into the profound ties between folklore and the human experience.
A stranger arrives at King Arthur's Court of Camelot hoping to become a knight, only to be disillusioned. But a mysterious fairy maiden takes him as her lover, giving magical gifts which attract the attention of a jealous Queen Guinevere.
Ethan Dent is a bereaved English teenager. Dent's brother was murdered under suspicious circumstances and Dent has never fully come to terms with his loss. However, everything in Dent's life changes when he meets a man who has a striking resemblance to his brother. Slowly the man begins to convince Dent to get a tattoo to remember his brother and things begin to unravel from there.
On a school trip at the local museum, class troublemaker Scott Collins experiences a bizarre psychic connection with one of its artifacts – a skull. The creepy skull allows him to for-see his grandmother’s death. Of course, nobody believes him, passing it off as one of his usual tales. But after gran dies suddenly, his younger sister, Trish, for whom he shares a mutual contempt, is stunned to learn that her brother’s premonition was true. With both parents out of work and their house on the verge of foreclosure, Scott, still affected by the powers of the skull, convinces his family to accept employment as caretakers for a large Victorian house in the countryside. When they arrive they meet the owner, Trelawney, a seemingly normal man with one exception – he has the ability to speak to Scott telepathically. Scott soon discovers that the cursed skull holds the key to both of their futures.
The story of Borley Rectory, said to be the most haunted building in the world before it was mysteriously destroyed by fire just before WWII.
A man attempts to regain the life he used to lead after being mysteriously forgotten by everyone he’d ever met.
World War I - After an intense air battle British pilot James Mannock crash lands into the Ocean only to be saved by the mysterious nymph Lorelei, or so he thinks. Pulled between two realities and the question is, which one is real? Is Lorelei a desperate escape into the world of his imagination or is she a memory that no one but James will believe ever happened?
A young inexperienced postman receives letters from a mysterious woman.
A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.
A Nazi Luger Pistol from W.W.2 with dark and mystical powers re-emerges in modern day Bucharest and is taken to London. En-route it falls into the hands of a Media Mogul intent on using its power to bring the return of the Forth Reich through Technology and Music .
The legendary Primal, first and mightiest of the Coronet Super Villains, has risen again. To stop him destroying the Multiverse, Matt, Roxie and Gomez must call on the help of both the First Hatter Hero and the Amber Dragon, and even team up with Primal's arch enemy - Lord Tenoroc himself!
The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last victim disappears, and a book of black magic spells is stolen from a local museum, Liz Shaw begins to wonder if the ghosts of the past have really been laid to rest. Forced into an unholy alliance with the school’s disgraced headmaster, Liz must fight not only her own warring emotions, but a festering evil that threatens to corrupt the Earth again after 100 years. But how do you fight a shadow from Hell?
Two boys fall through a grotesque, nightmare London, endeavouring to survive and escape, and perhaps find hope together in this dark comedy.
When the world's only Yeti in captivity is kidnapped from London Zoo, a group of children succeed in rescuing it.
A lone humanoid creature explores the darkness of a mysterious gun-metal labyrinth.