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A widower who suffers from the problems of his four children and their expenses decides to use a demon to implement his requests and is able to use the methods of charlatanism and sorcery in preparing that demon, but before he achieves his wishes and requests, he suffers a heart attack, falls into a coma, and must live that demon with his children.

A man wakes up inside his coffin. No one can hear his cries for help. Then something unexpected takes place.

A woman in a loveless marriage seeks to escape her mundane life through a bizarre ritual.

Confrontation between creation and intolerance

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2004 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Koroshiya desu no yo (It's a Hitman, You Know) - starring Mizuki Alisa. 2. Jibun-counsellor (Self-counsellor) - starring Inohara Yoshihiko. 3. Be Silent - starring Watabe Atsuro. 4. Sasoimizu (Pump-priming) - starring Harada Taizo. 5. Saigo no Hitotoki (The Last Moment) - starring Nagasaku Hiromi.

A sinister fairytale depicting the lives of two brothers and their daily suicide attempts.

Sayaka Komaki is a girl living an ordinary school life. She secretly has a crush on Shindo, a student in the same grade. But her peaceful life changes when one of the school’s basketball club members suddenly disappears. And she meets a new girl in school, mysterious Setsuna, who moved in around the time the student went missing. Something inside Sayaka begins to change after meeting this new girl in school. Who is this Setsuna? Lovesick Sayaka and obsessed Shindo complicate the story, trying to get what they want. Egotistical people can be manipulative. The truth can only be seen through purity, Setsuna’s blade.

Disillusioned with his life and career, a supermarket customer service employee sets out on a journey to locate his estranged father.

On a dark night, De Scheve Schuit sails into a strange ship. When Piet and his friends take a look on board of this spooky ship, the crew appears to be cursed. They have all been transformed into stone statues! Piet wants to break the curse because he feels very attracted to the captain of the ship, Captain Marylin. It soon turns out that the solution is the ship itself; it's a flying ship! To make the ship fly, a blue pearl is needed. This can only be found on Oyster Island, an island inhabited by mysterious caves and carnivorous plants...

In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.

A couple wants to buy the building of an old hotel, the Hotel Amore, one of the best known temples of pleasure of the time, now inhabited by ghosts of former lovers who used to meet there.

After basking in the Moon Pool under the full moon, Emma, Cleo and Rikki make the shocking discovery that their powers have dramatically increased. It's a mystery why this has happened, but problems with their boyfriends take priority.

Short motion-comic prologue to Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In 1955, Hellboy's caretaker, professor Broom, tells young Hellboy the tale of an indestructible mechanical army created to end the war between humans and magical races.

A lonely man's life is suddenly transformed when he discovers an old TV floating in the sea.

A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the young boy's nefarious landlord Mr. Pannecke decides a mounted moose head would make a fine new addition to his trophy wall. But Santa has other plans for Mr. Moose, and when he turns up looking for his lost pal, Beril is faced with the prospect of losing his one and only friend.

The beginning of how the strongest man in the universe gained the power to defend his homeworld.

Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.

Sima Vaknin is a widow who wants to build a small residantial unit in her backyard but meets a strong resistance from her neighbor Wasserman. Sima angry curses him and curse becomes true. The rumor spread quickly and suddenly mass pilgrims are at Sima's door to receive a blessing or order a curse.

Maradonna, an irresponsible young man, joins a group of drug dealers and suffers a financial loss. When he is about to commit suicide, a divine force intervenes.

Maradonna, an irresponsible young man, joins a group of drug dealers and suffers a financial loss. When he is about to commit suicide, a divine force intervenes.

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki

Christmas Special following the series.

Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.

Hassani is a little boy who is known in his town for being lazy and sleepy. The townspeople each try in their own way to steer him away from laziness, but they do not succeed. Later...

Enter the lost city of Atlantis. A place where four living crystals have the power to control the four elements of nature: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Our story follows the life of Princess Elan, the daughter of King Altar and Queen Merin. One day the King's royal advisor, Belial discovers that whomever captures all four crystals can gain total control over the Kingdom of Atlantis. So, overcome by greed, Belial sets upon findings the crystal himself and in turn destroying everything beautiful and natural around him. The city's fate lies in the hands of Princess Elan, can she find all four powerful crystals in time to prevent a catastrophe?

In a farm in the North, lives a saddened family : the grandfather, the mother locked in his memories, and two twin children. Their daughter Malika drowned in the village river, seven years ago, according to their belief, but in reality she left with a man. Only Mohamed, her husband, knows the truth. Death will come, in the guise of a beautiful woman wearing white, bringing anxiety to this peaceful home; she comes to pick up Mohamed, this one will be spared by the children... That night, Mohamed reports from the river a young stranger, Hiba, who will replace little by little Malika... ... During the festival of Achoura, Death returns. Is it for Hiba?

Ken is a mild-mannered man in his mid-twenties who like many his age has interests that stopped developing during adolescence. On a visit to a local toy collectors shop he acquires a rare alien action figure. Unexpectedly, Ken's world is turned inside out as the somewhat silly looking toy alters his life by benevolently giving him everything he has ever dreamed of, and then callously taking it all back...

Two ghosts that are children are forced to stay on a haunted beach and 100 years later find two children on the same beach trying to turn them into ghosts too.

Andy Chan, a workaholic, is given seven days by an angel to make a terminally ill woman happy for a second chance at life. He succeeds by loving her, but still dies, leaving her even more heartbroken. Now, the angel must help a suicidal prostitute save her business and find happiness, all while learning the true meaning of love and life.

"Running Away With Blackie" takes a complex and thought-provoking look into the lonely and desperate life of Jetty. Jetty, having a history of drug abuse and denial, now must confront his own personal demons in order to move forward in his life. Along with his best and only friend; his dog Blackie, he encounters some strange characters during his travels who serve as a constant reminder of what he has been trying to run away from. Jetty finally wakes up and has an epiphany when he encounters a Goblin-Like Figure (Camden Toy) who reminds him that he is the only one who can help himself, and cannot hide from himself any longer.

29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with Satoru Nobunaga (Shiho Takano), who was a nurse at his previous hospitalization. He half stalks her and ends up working at the "Time Machine" restaurant in Tokyo Patio, an apartment complex for the elderly in Asakusa. On his first day of work, Takashi is approached at the entrance by a strange old man (Kunie Tanaka). However, he is told that the old man, Fujiwara Fujiro, is already dead. Fujiro, unable to give up his feelings for Chidori Kanzaki (Yoko Tsukasa), whom he loved before her death, possesses Takashi and uses his body to fulfill his feelings for her. Possessed by Fujirou, Takashi tries somehow to get rid of the spirit, but without success. However, when Fujirou discovers his feelings for Saiya, Takashi is helped by Fujirou, who has a wealth of knowledge and experience due to his age, and finally decides to allow Saiya to live with him in his body...

The writers are on strike and Scrooge is not giving up a penny, until he is visited by three Hollywood spirits!

Klonoa and his two newly found buddies, Lolo and Popka, have to foil a sinister force which is causing a mire of gloom to plague the land of Lunatea.

A mirror joins two worlds, modern-day Bangkok and Bangkok under Rama IV, together. Maneechan, a diplomat investigating recently uncovered documents in France concerning ancient Thailand, learns the story behind them first-hand as she travels back in time through the mirror.

Vikram (Mohammad Iqbal Khan) and Ajay (Anuj Sawhney), and an accomplice, John D'Souza (Paresh Rawal), become prime suspects, and are on the run. They must apprehend Chindi and recover the crown to absolve themselves of this crime. While being chased by security guards, the trio crash into a wall, and are transported back to the 10th century, straight into the palace of Emperor Babushah himself.They realize that only a miracle can get them back to the 21st century.

The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death.

A beautiful TV reporter investigates rumors that one of the girls who went missing whilst making a documentary about the erotic witch has been found and is being treated at the Khan Health Institute.

Tony is a gambler who loses everything he owns to an evil gangster. He makes one last bet and tries to win it all back. But he makes a bad call and loses his soul. Now he has 24 hours to give the gangster some money. Or he will become his slave forever.

CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect...

Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Three stewardesses unite in the lush industrial wasteland they call home.

A boy finds a glass ball inside a lake. Inside the ball there is a dancing bride. This unfolds the myth's thread. The guests of a wedding feast are waiting for the groom and the bride. The groom is a rich aristocrat, a great admirer of poetry and surrealism. He demands complete obedience in the law of absurd by all the guests. The guests are trying to win his favor by executing all his unreasonable wishes.

Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality sprung from the pop culture fantasies and hyper-consumerism of contemporary urban China, while also trying to transcend its real-life limitations. It can be seen as an answer to the challenge posed by River Elegy: how to envision a new Chinese destiny founded on principles of individuality, creativity, discovery, and freedom. The film also reflects the contemporary condition of the virtual supplanting our experience of the real.

Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the meaning of an ancient parchment. The friends must free Princess Aura and bring peace back to the land in this high quality animated feature.

A Russian stop-motion adaptation of The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish.

A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Wave Runner”…

Here they come again. They're back by popular demand. The second installment of this sexy yet scary series from the demented minds at Fear Film Motion Picture Studios. Again, featuring the hottest ladies of horror! Sexy, naked bodies with blood and gore. What more can anyone ask for? Volume Two features three vignettes and sexy stripteases that include an ancient vampire that lives in an old mirror, a pool game that turns deadly, and a woman who witnesses a murder... or does she? Horror and Erotica collide in three tales of blood-soaked suspense! Fear Girls features the hottest women in horror, baring all before they brutally kill or drain their victims of blood.

Catherine Leoni is a connoisseur of the illusionary arts. She learned her craft from her grandfather, Henry Santorini, a master magician with a disgraced past. Now in search of the fine line between reality and magic, she travels to Death Valley with her gangster husband Robert to meet Taylor Black, a mysterious magician who is about to replicate Santorini’s ruinous past. Adding to the mystery is Wally, who claims he can smell ectoplasm, and Robert’s hit man Bongo. Under Black’s power, Catherine is forced to make a choice…find her own power or succumb to the TRANCE and the seduction of magic. This was the Best Fantasy Feature winner at the New York International Independent Film Festival yet remains obscure.

"Dayo" follows the adventure of 11-year-old Bubuy as he tries to save his grandparents who have been abducted and brought to Elementalia, a mysterious and magical land that is home to popular creatures of Philippine mythology.

Serafín is a small, kind guardian angel who protects a group of children called “the gang.” Together, they will embark on an adventure with strange characters and face the evil Lucio, who is now accompanied by his girlfriend, Flama.

A fairycatcher is on the hunt for fairies in the forest and is met by a number of friends and foe.

The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)

Billy is a teenage outcast in search of his life's true meaning. Day by day, he slaves away at the local burger joint, only to return home to a paraplegic father, whose own dreams of happiness have faded away in an alcoholic haze. Nonetheless, Billy tries to bond with his delusional father, but cannot break through the many layers of pain and regret that surround him. Frustrated, Billy longs to escape the dead-end existence that has engulfed his father, and now appears to be closing in on him as well.

Tired of infestation of cockroaches in her house but unwilling to kill them, Amy drunkenly wishes for the Pied Piper to come and whisk them away.

The third installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi. Muramasa, a dangerous cursed sword imbued with the grudges of those persecuted by the Tokugawa shogunate, is the subject of repeated deadly battles. Kengo Yagyu, a seal master, faces off against a new figure known as the "Puppet" who is attempting to bring Muramasa back from the dead.

German TV adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff‘s fairy tale “Dwarf Nose“.

A look behind the story and production of the HBO dramatic series Carnivàle.

Ayu is a high school student who wakes up one day and finds herself leading a life which feels familiar but somehow strange to her. After running into a series of bewildering incidents, she comes to the conclusion that just like ALICE IN WONDERLAND she lands in a fantasy world where only an old and lonely businessman would talk to her. The man takes Ayu home to keep her warm and looks after her with love and care. Yet Ayu begins to behave bizarrely –she can’t recall anything she has done and falsely accuses the maid of stealing. The old man tolerates all these erratic behaviors, but as he has no one to share his burden, he is getting ever more desperate. Ayu feels the distant memories are hidden in her and she tries hard to retrieve them. However, she doesn’t realize her search for the lost memories has inflicted pain on people close to her. As the old man’s care and company gradually bring Ayu to her past, she finally understands that it is she herself that she has lost…