The film documents Amos Gitai's play "Golem" at the ancient theater in Pompeii, combined with fictional scenes. Within the historical narrative, themes resonating with the contemporary world emerge.
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The film documents Amos Gitai's play "Golem" at the ancient theater in Pompeii, combined with fictional scenes. Within the historical narrative, themes resonating with the contemporary world emerge.
Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side, the girls take on the appearance of cats and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.
A surreal, erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland.
'Cowboy' Troy is a mute child who lives with his alcoholic father in an isolated cabin. His Spaghetti Western fantasies come to life when he encounters Angel, an outlaw on the run from her psycho partner, Kane. Can Troy and Angel's unlikely partnership help them escape their tormentors?
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
Young Humphrey is a ghost with a big problem. He and his family, the Craggyfords, have been ousted from their home and left without a place to haunt. As they search for new haunting grounds they soon discover that they are not alone. Ghosts from all over the world have been exorcised from their dwellings, with dark castles and ancient buildings being destroyed by the living, and turned into shopping centers. With time running out, Humphrey digs deep inside, and decides to help save his family and the rest of the haunting community by scaring his way to victory.
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
After his father death, Ana travels to Arenillas. There she finds herself alone, but everything changes when she meets a child. With him she embarks on an adventure, which will make her begin to accept that her father is no longer there.
An emotional and generational conflict between mother and son in the twenty-first century, except for one detail: Mother is none other than death.
It is winter in a suburban town on the outskirts of Paris. After his father’s suicide attempt, Abdou, a young boy, is taken in by Sam, a neighbor in his thirties who isn’t quite sure what to do with his life. Over the course of an evening, these two lost souls meet and reconnect with their roots. A strange, sand-colored dog pays them a visit.
At his grandmother’s funeral, a four-year-old boy is told the dead become angels in heaven. Hoping to retrieve her, he becomes a pilot and searches in a small plane. Finding her on a cloud, he ties her to bring her home, but she refuses and a guardian angel rescues her.
“Hétérocères” is a short experimental animation about masked, corpse-like figures moving through a surreal world where identity and appearance constantly shift. The film explores themes of conformity, transformation, and hidden emotions through symbolic visuals rather than a clear narrative story.
The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.) (Star Film Catalog)
The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.
Little Bear is a sleepwalker and she tends to run away at night. Her mother is trying to cure her. But Little Bear doesn’t want to, she wants to understand where does her sleep takes her. Doesn’t she want to runaway from herself ?
A goblin helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold, asking in return for her first child, in this amusing 'teaching play' about greed, envy and helpfulness.
In a world that someone else has shaped for us, are we really in charge of our destiny?
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.
After suffering a stroke that left her unable to speak, Cassandra takes refuge in poetry, where she discovers a dire prophecy. But when she tries to warn her brothers, she finds herself confronted with their overprotectiveness.
A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts a curse on him.
A magician produces a living portrait of himself.
A screenwriter lacking inspiration is given a very special typewriter by a strange friend that will make his dreams come true... And turn them into a nightmare.
To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate himself, a woman appears to him, Margherita, who, in the guise of Santa Maria d'Otranto, treats him with compassionate love. In the hallucinating succession of memories intertwined with historical events, the protagonist finds himself in contact with his environment, his land, his country.
In a world where all form marine life has disappeared, Balthazar is trying to make ends meet. He puts on shows for children in which he stages prints of ancient fishes. But he also has a secret: he is the owner of the last living fish on earth.
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.
13-year-old Jeanne is still a child. Her only friend is a turkey, telling her that growing up is betrayal. In high school, a classmate triggers a desire for change. But will the turkey allow that to happen? Bizarre and convincing coming-of-age horror story.
Amorous sailors bite off more than they can chew when they stop into a seaside pub.
In the middle of a world of darkness, the stars foretell the arrival of a brave warrior who will win back the Kuorum, symbol of Eternal Love. It is to be a princess who can manage her feelings as well as her sword. Her name is Fantaghirò.
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
The devil performs his magical powers.
A mysterious Green Knight rides into a court celebration and challenges the young knights present to strike him with his own axe - on the condition that he, the Green Knight, may return exactly the same blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and cuts off his head. But the Green Knight stands up, retrieves his head, and rides away, reminding Gawain of his promise.
Lisa, a little ten-year-old girl, lives in a remote house with her parents and two brothers. Her father, a violent man, domineers over his family, imposing perfect order.
Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love
Max and Julie are very much in love. Julie is rather jealous, but Max knows that nobody's perfect - least of all, himself.
Nora Seed finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
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.
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the crowd someone drawing her: the first representation of herself as an individual.
Javi is a teenage student so shy and clumsy that he does not know how to attract the attention of his classmate Sara, a geeky girl who is only interested in a literary saga about vampires.
Bereft of earthly memories, a new arrival in the afterlife struggles to recover the past, in this poetic fantasy that offers a dark reflection on personal atonement in the shadow of Kenya’s violent past. Imagine waking up one day in a barren wasteland. Amnesia leaves you clueless as to your whereabouts, your identity, and how you arrived. A small group of strangers welcomes you to a nearby oasis resort, and they reveal to you the nature of this new reality. You are dead. And this is the afterlife. This is what happens to Kaleche (Nyokabi Gethaiga) in the enigmatic opening sequence of Kati Kati, writer-director Mbithi Masya's poetic first feature film.
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women.
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Rachel is a lawyer. She is the adopted daughter of a large family of magistrates dominated by Maxime (Michel Bouquet), a ruthless and strange prosecutor. She has not left the world of carelessness, between dreams and nightmares. She often indulges in strange daydreams, but the reality of this case is going to clash with her life. Her first client has just committed suicide in prison. In front of this woman's coffin. Everything comes back to her, the visiting room, the scene of the crime, the story of an abused life. As children, they lived in the same village. Like in a fairy tale, the gate of a castle separated them. The truth about their relationship is revealed. Rachel must face her obsessions.
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
Hannah and Matt, a young couple on their first holiday together, quickly discover that they may not see eye-to-eye. Feeling as though she let her boyfriend down, Hannah enlists the help of a mysterious gypsy woman, in the hope that the couple's troubles can be overcome. However, when Matt wakes to find his girlfriend has disappeared, the gypsy woman's sinister intentions become all too clear.
Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor.
Anastasia, an 18-year-old ballet dancer at the Opéra Garnier, becomes the obsession of a disfigured man living in the opera's underground labyrinth.
Characters from a large magic book come to life.
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Various scenes from New Testament and Old: Christian martyrdom under Roman rule, Daniel in the lion's den, and Belshazzar's vision of a floating hand spelling the end of his rule.
Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.