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An headed-to-ruin couple buys a house for a fresh new start. Since they moved in, the wife doesn't want to have sex with her demanding husband. One day, changing the light bulb of the stairs leading to the basement, he finds out a hole in the wall, which will upsets their intimacy. After many restless nights, the man decides to fill to hole... to find it out wide open, a few days later. Then, he decides to uncover what lies beyond the wall. Is that a good idea ?
Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault. Long ago, the kingdom of Azurie was ruled by a kind and just King. More than anyone in the world, he loved his wife and daughter, Princess Ariana. Their kingdom prospered and everyone was happy. But one day, the Queen was struck by a cruel illness, and the inconsolable King swore that he would marry again only if the new chosen one was even more beautiful than his beloved late wife.
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.
Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.
On a cold winter's night, Nancy, a young student, walks alone towards her vacation apartment, as more and more young women disappear in town. Arriving at the residence, she finds a suitcase in the name of a certain Mr. Noonan, a regular there. She decides to keep the suitcase at home and bring it back to him the next morning. However, the contents of the mysterious suitcase will decide otherwise ...
A dreamy film in which two women are transported from a beach in France to New York City. Separated and lost, they frantically search for one another.
This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of magic fluid, out of which much to our astonishment and delight spring a group of beautiful girls followed by a lot of funny, grotesque-looking people. Next the old fellow opens an album that is lying on the table and the outlines of faces are drawn as if by a spirit hand. When each drawing is finished it comes to life and presents some beautiful portraits of pretty girls, who amuse us with their fascinating manners.
A poor woodcutter abandons his 7 children in the woods.
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.
A sci-fi animated feature set in a world inspired by Greek mythology.
Jules and Octave have been hiding in a cellar for the last eight years. Outside, women have taken control and reduced men to slavery.
Animals are walking on the deserted streets of the city. Karim has found a shelter on a rooftop overpeering Paris. He is waiting for Audrey to come for an interview. During this one-on-one everything is questioned. Man, woman, animal. There are no borders anymore, the souls are unveiled.
An unseen presence traverses a snowy landscape and enters a series of winter homes, in which slumbering occupants go eerily undisturbed.
The Garden of Eden expands into vast fields in the communities of artists, writers, thinkers and cultural ac- tivist of diverse background. They share the common grounds of ancient myths, antique and historic sources digging up fallow land for revitalization understanding the contemporary world while gazing back at the past.
Jacotte, thirteen, decides to celebrate the seven years of her brother Bastien in their usual corner of the forest, with Mathieu, Alex and little Chacha, their lifelong friends. Everything goes as planned until they discover an abandoned car carcass.
Summer 1955. The sun shines brightly on a bucolic landscape sprinkled with poppies. A young beautiful and mysterious woman lays in this sparkling field of blood-red. The sunbeams caress her smiling face. A moment of happiness that nothing seems to be disturbing.
The film is about a very stern looking man who has come to a very unusual flat to repossess the belongings of an old man in a wheelchair. However, again and again, the home seems to play tricks on the guy--driving him half-mad in the process.
A stylized work by a choreographer and dancer, evoking a past world of nostalgic music, passing loves, and drinking and dancing establishments on the edge of Paris.
The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief over the game and immediately the picture is made. Under the handkerchief, we see how, piece by piece, it is put into one finished picture. His success makes him an object of envy, however, and the gentleman meets with considerable trouble before the party is over. (Moving Picture World)
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...
Walking alone in the desert, a prisoner will discover a strange door...
Jealous, racist, greedy, vengeful and desperate, the villagers of Reunion Island place their fate in the hands of a sorcerer, Monsieur Caron, whose son suffers from a mysterious curse and whose only remedy is a very special offering.
After a witch has finished her breakfast and has flown away, two bandits break into her house. They scatter various magic canisters, and as a result, first from four ghosts and then from four devils, they are severely beaten. One thief flees, the other keeps trying and is shooed by the four devils and the four ghosts.
Moo mourns her deceased friend, so Yuu decides to create a new companion for her. Their adventure fails, but they discover they have built a new friendship during the journey.
Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a timeless space. Twins and adversaries, these two girls make one: Lunettes uses her glasses to help her understand the world, or at least accept it; Myope can't see, except within herself, and lost in her blurred, but sharp, experience of the world, rebels continuously. Incited by Lunettes, Myope creates (in the same city and climate, but in another dimension) two characters: Pierrot and Agathe. To a certain degree, these two are a disjointed response to Myope, Lunettes, neighbors, and distant representatives. It's very hot. The inhabitants are interested in fountains and shadows. They build cool cabins, hanging curtains over the balcony balustrades. Asphalt sticks to the soles of sandals and when the wind blows, the canopies flap above the café terraces.
A fairy is invited for lunch by Gertrude Stein, and suddenly the world changes.
A young man wakes up in a black and white dimension and discover a strange entity.
A boy who, during the day, enjoys the beach, the sun and a beautiful vacation with friends. But, in the distance, the fleshly body of a stranger rests on a rock... A boy who, at night, switches to the side of fantasies, of the erotic prohibition which repels as much as it fascinates... When Abdellatif Kechiche’s cinema meets those of Yann Gonzalez and Bertrand Mandico, it gives a whole new world. A portal behind which, be careful, the monsters are unleashed.
The film narrates about a girl who, by mistake, becomes the owner of the collection of sunsets preserved in tin cans.
A sailor, Alonso Samoza, is passionately in love with two sisters. But to be able to marry one of them, Maria, he must first murder the other, Rebecca. During an accident at sea, the sailor is beheaded. Beyond death, he will try to fulfill his desires.
Fictional rehearsals for the invisible show: Conann the Barbarian. While a virus ravages the earth, Octavia Foss directs the macabre musical Conann the Barbarian. During rehearsals, the actresses are infected by their characters.
On a barren planet, a shaft of light suddenly splits the sky. The ground moves, the earth trembles, rocks shatter and rumble. Then the air mellows. After the stones hustle, a strange vegetation settles in. The rhythm speeds up and one discovers a fascinating universe.
Pierre, a pigment geneticist, likes to be invisible to others. When he finds himself forced to work with Lucie, the girl he secretly loves, he panics. He develops a chemical that, instead of helping him cope with his shyness, actually makes him invisible. However, it is thanks to his invisibility that Pierre gradually becomes visible again to Lucie.
Two animated fables by La Fontaine "The Old Lion" ("Le lion devenu vieux") and "The Lion and the Gnat" ("Le Lion et le Moucheron").
In 1930, Suzanne, a 7-year-old girl, had the gift of projecting her memories through her eyes. Helped by her grandfather Lucien, she tries to master it.
A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.
They are here, among us, grafted to humans. Everything goes wrong. They have seven days to leave Earth or they will be trapped here forever. Why does one of them keep delaying the moment of departure?
Aged eleven, Verte is still showing no talent for witchcraft. She just wants to be normal and get married. Her mother, Ursula, is dismayed. It's so important for a witch to pass on the craft to her daughter! So one day a week, Ursula leaves Verte with her grandmother, Anastabotte, and the results stretch well beyond Ursula’s expectations! Thanks to Soufi, her best friend, Verte even manages to find her father, Gérard. Everything could be simple now, but Verte feels lonely. Fortunately, a girl has just moved into the next building. It's Pome...
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Nacer, a 45 year old journalist, is observing the appearance of strange yellow sandstorms looming over Algiers and its surroundings. While covering the phenomenon for his newspaper, he starts witnessing more and more supernatural events, until his late wife Fajar returns to life. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir has to face a dark past that haunts him.
A house filled with spirits.
The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a little vacation by themselves. They are placed in adjoining hotel suites. Both Max and the pretty lady place their shoes outside their hotel room doors to be cleaned by staff, and the shoes fall in love.
Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
Noémie, sept ans bientôt huit, passe beaucoup de temps avec sa voisine, Madame Lumbago, puisque ses parents sont très occupés à cause de leur travail. Monsieur Émile, le défunt mari de Madame Lumbago, lui avait un jour parlé d'un trésor caché dans son appartement, et depuis, la petite fille épluche chaque racoin pour résoudre ce fameux mystère. Se trouvant face à l'éventualité d'un échec, la petite Noémie, persévérante et téméraire, décide de dessiner un plan du logement de sa gardienne et demande l'aide de son ami Francis pour l'aider à fouiller toutes les pièces et percer le secret.
Eight-year-old Imani is a spirited girl living with her grandmother in the village of Alkeboulane. Her greatest dream? To play the djembe, just like her late father— and her brother, who carries on his legacy. But in Alkeboulane, women are forbidden to touch the instrument— doing so would risk invoking a powerful curse. When a relentless drought strikes, Imani embarks on a perilous journey deep into the wild : she must seek Denga, the god of abundance, and uncover the truth hidden within the forest. Can Imani save her village— and break the ancient curse of the djembe? A heart-pounding tale of music, magic, and courage, where one girl’s rhythm could change the fate of her world.
In the late 19th century, in a Sicilian village countryside, young Pina holds the power to regenerate the land as her village is plundered by the mafia. Pina’s encounter with the mafia boss will mark the fate of the entire country.
After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century.
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were given an idyllic community in which to live. Call it a colony. Call it a village. Call it one-world. Mainly call it a futile exercise in changing human nature, mores, culture and attitudes at any altitude. For t'ain't no time before clashing personalities, petty jealousy, violence and---that old demon---love create havoc. And isn't much longer before they become re-united in the face of an avalanche that threatens to destroy them. They all return to whence they came, sadder and wiser.
A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.
Victor and Clara are on holidays on an island. They are trying to save their couple. On night, Victor comes home and says to Clara that he has discovered the inert body of a young woman on the beach. Back on the scene, the young woman has disappeared.