In the days preceding a total solar eclipse, the receipt of a peculiar and intriguing gift sets a reclusive man on a path to discover an ancient and unworldly power.
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In the days preceding a total solar eclipse, the receipt of a peculiar and intriguing gift sets a reclusive man on a path to discover an ancient and unworldly power.
Bogeyman is a dark and sinister short animated film, focusing on a modern re imagining of the Bogeyman creature and a perception of fear in the world today. The film pays homage to the often overlooked violent and macabre idiosyncrasies of classic fairy tales. People all around the world are familiar with the bogeyman and although he's often known by different names in many other cultures, the creature universally stands as a pure embodiment of fear and terror.
Judith, a struggling artist, gets her dream job of working for a renowned visual artist named Roberta Roslyn. While cataloging Roberta's work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, she learns that this girl is actually her boss's missing daughter Maddy. As she investigates the mystery of just what could have happened to this girl, she starts to develop a new persona and it comes to a point where she must decide if she is to leave her job or continue and risk losing who she is.
Ever wondered why you keep attracting the wrong type? A weekend in London leads to a revelation for a couple who have dated each other more times than one of them realises - but what will they do now the secret is out?
When an evil genius steals the Magical Beacon Stone and forces the children of Inverclyde to toil in his factories, Bella and Jenny only have five days to find the Stone stop his schemes and save Christmas.
The illegal drug supply in a small English town dries up, causing addict Whitfield to take desperate measures. On a cold turkey night, he comes across a tramp who offers him a box that will give him what he wants.
The wordless story of a young girl's journey to the sacred tree.
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a Phoenix bird that grants wishes and also transforms the rug into a magic carpet, which takes them on a series of adventures all over the world and at home.
When Maggie's sister is taken, she must endure an ancient yuletide tradition in the hopes of getting her back.
An experimental nonlinear narrative short film based on the ideas of nightmares and dreams.
Robert spends his nights hunting people for execution with his anarchic gang. But when he falls in love with one of his victims, he sees a new life open up. Can he escape from his life as a trained killer in time to save her?
The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
After a solar flare causes society's collapse, a new world emerges under the control of the N.E.S.T organisation, where the illusion of freedom masks a sinister reality.
Based on a Stephen King short story, That Feeling... presents the ultimate case of cause, effect and deja vu.
A former dancer's cheerful morning routine s interrupted by a pest from an unexpected source.
The film is described as a weird and wonderful merging of shades of folk horror, the supernatural with dadaist humour and a quaint British eccentricities that are long gone in the cinema of today.
With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Sinus searches for his missing twin; Möbius. Befriending Hiccup, a cool-headed vagabond, the pair set off on the quest, eventually stumbling into ‘The Garden’. Amongst the topiary, they meet a band of whimsical characters; Queenie, Rebel, and the Fool - who join the search for his twin. At the door of an ancient forest, Sinus loses his newfound friends, and descends into a frenzied trip towards the depths of his psyche. Blind wizards, clouds of bees, and giddy demons - all manner of evils await him in the shadows. In this darkness, will he ever find the elusive Möbius?
On the brink of signing with a major label, three rappers and their manager are transported back to 1969 where they reluctantly join one million mostly white hippies on a pilgrimage to Woodstock - rock's seminal concert and apex of the sixties counterculture.
Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.
An impatient kid at a Pedestrian Crossing causes chaos when he hits the 'WAIT' button one two many times. A cautionary tale about impatience? Or a high octane chase featuring thrills, spills and 'Tom and Jerry' inspired mayhem? It's a Highway Code Throw-Down in RVG!
When Jack, a cinephile, has his movie night constantly interrupted by strange guests, he is forced to reflect on his fractured relationship with his brother.
Celebrating Thunderbirds 60th anniversary, this cinematic double-bill brings two of Thunderbirds’ best-loved adventures into an electrifying big screen experience – Trapped in the Sky and Terror in New York City, presented for the first time fully restored in 4K with a brand-new Dolby 5.1 surround mix. Trapped in the Sky - A criminal known only as the Hood places a bomb in the landing gear of a new supersonic airliner, Fireflash, hoping to draw out a newly created, privately funded emergency response team called International Rescue. Terror in New York City - After Thunderbird 2 is heavily damaged in a mistaken attack, it leaves the team seemingly without a swift means to transport any rescue gear to New York City to save a news crew trapped underneath the collapsed Empire State Building.
Dark gothic puppet animation based on a section of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, Titus Groan.
Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Eternal life is getting harder for the undead Tina, who subsists on the transfer of energies accessed during the male orgasm. When her partner-in-crime gives in to suicidal ennui, Tina is left alone to protect her species from extinction.
King Edward I has launched a full invasion of Scotland. His next move is a siege of the Urquhart Castle, by Loch Ness. Scottish Governor Alexander De Forbes must defend the castle from the invaders. But the commotion of war will come to a halt when a slumbering ancient power is disturbed: the Loch Ness Monster.
A shy young singer has to go on a journey to retrieve her stolen voice from a witch.
The story is about Donald McGlone, the boy with chocolate fingers (his fingers are made of chocolate). Because he is different, Donald has no friends and other children shun him. He grows up isolated and alone. Later he keeps a low profile working as an elevator operator, wearing gloves to conceal his secret. One day Molly, the girl he secretly adores, is trapped by a huge bear in the office. Donald gets a chance to make his difference become his greatest asset, if he is brave enough to save her. The moral of the story: If you are different, don't worry about what others may think, say or do, just be yourself and your dreams may come true.
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows him down a rabbit hole events become curiouser and curiouser.
After years dealing with the dead, Jack and Maddy discover their relationship is one foot in the grave. A supernatural short set in an alternate reality, in which dead souls are transitioned to the next realm by trained professionals in the art of Inter-Realm Mediation. We join Inter-Realm Mediators Jack and Maddy on a job, late one night near woodlands, with a client’s corpse in the back of their van. Their business motto: “We do your dead, so you don’t have to.” They still have a job to do. Will they overcome their differences and work together?
Myths, Legends and Folklore of Britain re-told in 8 tales woven together by a storyteller.
Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore.
An enigmatic man journeys back in time to find his younger self, seemingly to revisit the nostalgia of trading cards. An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence, Trading Cards is a dark fantasy animated film about the weight of living with Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Danny La Rue plays Cinderella's wicked stepmother in this grand tradition of a Christmas pantomime.
Inspired by the Poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" follows the accounts of a dying man (Morgan Holgate) who encountered a mysterious woman (Maribel James-Corral) in the woods. When she goes missing, he must search for answers as to why, as he gradually grows weaker.
When the charismatic and eccentric art teacher Tatty falls in love with Amy, one of his students, he believes he has met the love of his life. Unfortunately Amy dies in an accident. Distraught and blaming himself, Tatty loses all focus on his own life and drinks heavily. In a state of delirium he creates a statue of Amy that he places in the dark interior of a haunted, burnt-out church. Tatty lives there, protecting his creation, and devoted to her for the next 13 years. On New Year s Eve, a magical night with the sky lit with fireworks, a clubhouse burns. Cal is on the run and takes refuge in the church and accidentally breaks the statue. The magic of the night and the mystery of the church combine to cast a spell and Amy comes alive. However, in order to remain alive, Amy must kiss the first man she sees.
British TV-Drama
Awakening Sleeping Beauty is an upcoming British independent slasher film produced by Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios. The film serves as the seventh installment of the Twisted Childhood Universe.
Look to the skies - and to the entwined concepts of neurodivergent identities and alien replacement conspiracies, as you embark on a journey through notions of folklore and sci-fi in our debut immersive show- but be aware, you never know how close a changeling could be.
With a name like Chlamydia Love, it comes as no surprise that the young lady in question is considered to be the office slut. Her colleagues also do not miss an occasion to ridicule her when she talks about her imaginary prince on a white horse. Chlamydia couldn’t care less. She just has to jump into a flushing toilet bowl to meet her beloved, the handsome surgeon Algernon Hertz. But her precious prince keeps her waiting and locals turn out to be a whole lot more savage that what is mentioned in the glossy tourist brochures. Chlamydia has to go on the run and ends up in the lair of the misanthropic scientist Helmut Mandragorass, a specimen of the male race not exactly blessed with dashing looks as his protruding forehead dwarves everything else. Paradise isn’t always what it seems to be.
A young woman is tasked by God to travel the world and tell him seven stories about her experiences in hopes that she will one day replace him.
David meets Alex at a nightclub/bar and takes him on an unforgettable journey into depravity and debauchery, only who is taking whom for a ride?
Film "The Adventures of Alice" based on the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
An elderly man grapples with the untimely loss of his son as he becomes fixated on the macabre ritual of cultivating the severed hand of his late son in a plant pot.
Rancid stalwart of the corporatist dream, Mr Topps, wakes to find himself in a Donald Rumsfeld inspired version of This Is Your Life, in which mysterious host, Deep Throat, lovingly reunites him with a collection of past associates, each one literally itching for a one to one. Featuring a host of the UK's finest underground 'performance 'art' misfits. Plus a very special guest appearance by Troma legend Lloyd Kaufman as Battery Bob the Chicken Man.
Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
A city is brought to its knees by an army of drug addicts. A masked vigilante desperately fights back. The line between good and evil blurs into one.
One Christmas, a knight garbed all in green appears in King Arthur's Court and challenges any knight to hew off his head on the proviso that he be allowed to return the axe stroke afterwards. All of King Arthur's other knights being frightened, Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and hacks off the green knight's head. The green knight then gives Gawain a year to find his home and live a little before the cut is returned.
Join your favourite CBeebies Stars in an enchanted land with magical beans and dizzy Daisy the cow for an amazing pantomime adventure Jack and the Beanstalk.
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
When he finds himself plagued with nightmares about a historic battle fought on the site of the village he lives in, delinquent Cornish teenager Jonah Grattan becomes obsessed with a potential link to a local homeless man.
A silhouette animation based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel".
Stacy Owens spends a nice weekend alone but soon she gets the strange feeling that she isn’t alone.
Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?
A father struggles to put his baby to sleep.
English National Ballet has been performing a version of Nutcracker every year since 1950. In 2020, the tradition lives on. Join Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker on a hot air balloon ride to the Land of Snow, and enjoy iconic scenes featuring the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snowflakes, Flowers and more. As London moved into Tier 4 COVID-19 restrictions with the subsequent cancellation of all scheduled performances of Nutcracker Delights, the Company decided to film and share a recording of this specially-adapted production with its audience as a thank you at the close of its 70th Anniversary year. Nutcracker Delights was filmed on 18 and 19 December at the London Coliseum by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt.
A host of CBeebies stars perform a unique adaptation of As You Like It on the world’s most famous stage. Expect love, dressing up, singing and even dancing sheep.