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The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film. Aired on TCM.
A fairy tale in a classic setting, with usual fairy tale creatures.
The daughter of Santa Claus vows to transform a single father and his spoiled children to prove that the spirit of Christmas exists.
Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.
Team Poképals assist Grovyle, a Pokémon from the the future, in restoring the Time Gears and preventing a dark future.
More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to the mysterious water park, where they can leap through the portal at the end of the water slide to the fairy-tale world OZ and live as grown-ups happily ever after. However, the commitment is torn by a careless betrayal.
Santa Claus has 24 hours to transform an evil and egoistic rich businessman into a better and honest person.
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on the earth, a substitute - the Angel of Death - is found for the job. Right from the start he runs into bad luck and what is more a beautiful blonde - the Guardian Angel - is bothering him. Little Angelica moves out in search of Santa Claus. Christmas Day is coming soon, so she wants to fulfill her Christmas wish - to find money to save her orphanage from closing down. On the way the little girl meets an accountant named Claus who has stolen a huge amount of money. He is being chased by a bunch of bumbling hoodlums.
Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues.
Someone is dognapping the canine citizens of Chem City, Texas! Two pre-teen girls overcome danger and conspiracies as they set out to solve the crime and administer justice with the help of a magical bracelet. As the girls battle the Mob, a punk gang and a crooked cop they learn something about friendship, courage and hanging with the right crowd.
Witch Madness depicts a neglected chapter of human history: Europe’s three centuries of fanatical witchhunts, which resulted in the genocide of perhaps as many as two million women. But ultimately, the film communicates a message of love and hope.
Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses underwater ninja zombies to kidnap five women who had recently lost their virginity for human sacrifices. Jess, a Catholic surfer who has commited to remain chaste until he's 24, tries to rescue his girlfriend, one of the kidnapped girls, along with his friends.
Life of inhabitants of a small fishing village of the caribbean , changes drastically after the apparition of a Black Virgin, which disallowed the skies to get dark, stopped the vandals from invaden town. After months of intense changes in the chaotic life of this fishing town, the inhabitants had to face the most cruel of changes in their lives.La vida de los habitantes de un pueblo pesquero del caribe, cambia drásticamente tras la aparición de una Virgen Negra, ésta no permitió que el cielo volviera a oscurecer, impidió que los vándalos invadieran el pueblo. Luego de meses de intensos cambios en la caótica vida de este pueblo pesquero, sus habitantes tuvieron que enfrentarse al más cruel de los cambios en sus vidas
The Aleph is the point where diachronic and synchronic times meet, and each second represents a moment in life, from birth to death.
Several interested parties go in search of a sleep-generating machine which was made 150 years ago by a scientist. However, a little boy is named the scientist's heir and becomes his legacy.
Imagine that werewolves are not mythical monsters, but actually exist. What would the world look like? The answer can be found in Werewolves: The Dark Survivors.
A little house in the suburbs in the middle of nowhere. A car trapped in the snow. The great desperation of a couple who kill time in front of the television. And this strange impression of déjà-vu. But you better hold on because at any moment everything could change.
Youssef, a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, responds to the call of talent and love of drawing against his family's wishes.
When the real world turns sour, ten-year old Talia finds shelter in a fantasy world of ice and snow. But as life becomes more and more difficult, Talia's daydreams become less protective and more menacing.
This OVA includes 3 episodes featuring Hello Kitty's pet kitten, Charmmy Kitty: Fairy Kitty and the Magical Key Necklace, Charmmy & Friends, and Charmmy Kitty in Wonderland. Each OVA contains 4-5 short stories.
Hiro and Makio are happily living together, until Makio begins to suffer sudden memory lapses and displays eerie behaviors that resemble Mitsuru—Hiro's ex who mysteriously vanished. As Hiro searches for answers, he realizes Mitsuru's restless spirit may still linger. When Makio's body slowly becomes tainted by the vengeful presence, they turn to exorcist Kazuki for help. Caught between a jealous ghost and the lover he wants to protect, Hiro must confront a terrifying truth in this twisted love triangle between the living and the dead.
The forces of Good and Evil, God and the Devil himself, clash during a funeral wake around the coffin of a deceased young woman...
After a nuclear attack, a magician takes shelter in a forest with his assistant to complete his biggest magic trick to date, The Creation, a trick that requires that you do some of the most inhumane things known to man.
Set amid the rocky outcrops and dusty spinifex of the Australian outback, a supernatural monster tale documents the downfall of one man and his nemesis, the abominable apeman of aboriginal folklore, The Yowie.
Two handsome janitors always seem to have naughty after hour escapades in the offices of the sexy women who work in the building. After exchanging their erotic stories of lascivious nights, the guys decide to change their routine and swap, further pleasing the clients they service. It will be a night of passion and lust as these janitors show their bosses how to work the late shift.
Amaury Athanam is a stagman who lives a secluded life. He can no longer stand the way he looks and wants to put an end to his depressing existence. Unable to pluck up the courage to commit suicide, he hires a killer. But Amaury then meets Corazon, a charming young woman with the face of a doe with whom he falls in love. Having recovered his taste for life, Amaury no longer wants to die but you cannot summon death only to send it away again.
Teenagers Leo, Margaret, Jackie and Alex have been chosen to compete on a "Survivor"-style reality show called "Wild World." But on their journey to the Amazon jungle, their plane crashes on a remote island straight out of prehistory. What started as a competition soon becomes a lesson in teamwork as the foursome encounter rampaging dinosaurs and a tribe of early prehumans in this action-packed animated feature.
In the remote Ukrainian village of Dykanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oksana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself.
This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to vary my persona. A sea of richly colored figures floating and flying are accompanied by eerie sounds. The animated figures are constructed in the manner of puppetry and collage. The imagery continues until the artist's involvement with her "canvases" is revealed, with her performative self finally emerging.
A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.
Inspired by Dante Alighieri's "La Vita Nuova", albeit not an adaptation, "The New Life" shows us how a man's ideal world crumbles as he discovers his life is nothing but a fantasy dreamed by the darkest of beings.
A night-time journey into the dark heart of Hollywood. Short film "Lot In Sodom", the Leiser Brothers' most experimental work, is the only short film they have produced which was never released.
The fifth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi. Four divine beast swords have gathered under the legendary Muramasa, the Yellow Dragon. The unleashed Yellow Dragon is now resurrected before the eyes of the seal master, Kengo. Fuuga possesses Muramasa's "Utsusemi" within a human and attacks the Sword Masters. Meanwhile, Kengo obtains the Book of Sealing Commandments, which contains all the information about Muramasa, but it is stolen by Kiryu. Through the book of commandments, Fuuga learns of the existence of "Kutsuyomi," a being that possesses the power to regenerate life, and begins to pursue it...
Olivier de Sagazan disfigures his face into various creatures, human and nonhuman, to explore the strangeness of life and the body.
Oddball characters, weird mishaps, fates intertwining: the search for the meaning of life goes on. A college student falls for her philosophy lecturer; a disabled man seeks recovery; a popstar meets a spiritual guru; and the arrival of a mysterious luminescent man, perhaps real or perhaps not.
Honza doesn't have it easy. Being a servant to the stingy Mr. Bařtipán is almost unbearable. Honza figured that out too, even though it took him a while. But then he confirmed that fairy-tale Honzas are funny young men and dealt with Mr. Bařtipán brilliantly.
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.
A cowboy ghost, one young man, a mother and son separated at his birth by a disapproving father, dream / time travel, a big fiery accident, a small town in need of saving by the power of love.
A magician searches for his successor to fight evil.
Behind the scenes documentary about the stop-motion animation that began production 50 years ago, abandoned, and then picked up by two animators who worked with Harryhausen to complete the film.
Three soldiers desert and take refuge in an ancient, crumbling castle where three veiled maidens welcome them with a sumptuous feast, on the sole condition that they neither lift a veil nor lay a hand on their hosts during the night. Only one, Jakub, keeps his vow and is rewarded by a freed princess and a magical token that grants him three extra lives.
Massive earthquakes. Giant tidal waves. Super volcanoes exploding. Raging firestorms. These are just a few visions of a global apocalypse that some say will happen on December 21, 2012. That's when the eerily accurate Mayan calendar will come to a sudden end. That ancient calendar is causing a modern day panic. People around the world fear that our planet faces a catastrophe never seen before in human history.
A mysterious light falls from the Heavens. It's the Pearl Jade. It can grant any wish. Dr. Ni tells Gyokumen Koushu about it. Lirin overhears and tells Kougaiji. Then Kanzeon Bosatsu (The Merciful Goddess) requests "orders" Sanzo and company to go and find and seal it before it falls into the wrong hands.
A Jewish goldsmith Mordche arrives in besieged medieval Trnava with his wife and granddaughter Golda just as the king’s captain Zenas demands new volunteers to defend the city against Ottoman invasion. The burgomaster’s son, a young painter, falls profoundly in love with Golda and paints her portrait imbued with a magical power to weep and cry for help when Zenas’s persecution of Mordche’s family reaches Golda.
The sensitive Onnoval is the best student in his class and he loves Liselore, who was the girlfriend of the bully Gino. His teacher Meester de Vriend believes he is a promising writer and poet. Gino picks on Onnoval all the time, but Onnoval does not fight against Gino because he believes he is a werewolf. When the successful writer of horror tales Nol van Paulo comes for a lecture in his class, he advises Onnonval to never write a story for the evil Ferluci. However, Onnoval is humiliated by Gino and very upset and jealous he writes a story about a class excursion in a horror bus to a horror park, where Gino is killed by a vampire, and gives his story to Ferluci. Later he regrets, but Nol van Paulo tells him that the only way to fix the situation would be stealing his note book and rewriting the conclusion.
An imaginary insight into Pablo Picasso's creative mind and painted creatures and characters. We enter in his head and walk with him the intricate maze that was his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche and came out when he painted a canvas. His imagination is presented as the myth of the maze and the Minotaur, and some of the characters in the piece are in Picasso's real paintings - his famous dove, the Minotaur, and the ladies of Avignon, among many others.
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors.
An action fantasy movie starring two idols, Meibi Yamanouchi and Riho Iida.
A master of espionage is hot on the trail of a new kind of computer criminal. Lindsay is a scientist whose latest discovery in energy transformation has the potential to revolutionize the world; it also attracts the attention of Zachary, the leader of a cyber-savvy gang, and Zachary kidnaps Lindsay in order to learn her secrets. Lindsay's sister Ricki soons becomes concerned about her sister's disappearance, and contacts super sleuth Max Knight to find her. As Max searches for Lindsay, he discovers Zachary and his cohorts have strange plans for Lindsay's innovation, which could make it possible for them to leave their bodies and travel wherever they wish through the Internet.
A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story.
German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty“.
German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin“.
A short film about three women experimenting with the paranormal.
Who wouldn't want a donkey that drops gold coins, a hen that lays golden eggs, or even a goldfish that grants all wishes! Adults, let alone rulers, usually know that such phenomena do not belong in the life of an ordinary kingdom. However, this does not apply to the very kind but overly trusting king from our fairy tale! He is completely under the thumb of his cunning advisor Pitras and servant Johan, who make a decent living off their ruler's naivety. Everything changes, however, after Princess Beata returns from her studies. She cannot be fooled, and so hard times begin for the swindlers. Pitras, in order to get rid of the princess, suggests to the king that the girl must marry quickly, preferably somewhere far away. But Beáta is not giving up either. She intends to get rid of the parasites and finds an ally for her plan in the young gardener David, who would do anything for his childhood friend!
Chapter 1. A Strange Woman A young film director 'P', trying to make a film based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, meets a mysterious actress in an audition. Her overwhelming gift however, being obvious to everyone including 'P' himself, increasingly gets on his nerves in an ominous way. Chapter 2. VIY A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. Chapter 3. A Curtain Call A blind musician Henri PARK, who plays at a whorehouse, meets a group of marionette artists, preparing a play based on . His suspicious roommate follows him one night, just to find out that Henri is playing the piano for ghosts, in an abandoned church.
100 years ago, evil Captain Snorrebaard was cursed by putting an enchanted crown on his head. He turned into a painting and his ship sank, along with the crown, to the bottom of the sea. Piet Piraat and his crew find the floating painting and think that it could help them find a hidden treasure, but Captain Snorrebaard has something more sinister in mind...
A live recording of the premier of Korean composer Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera at National Theater Munich in June 2007. It is a modern opera based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel of the same name. The amazing characters Alice meets are portrayed with a colorful combination of puppets and singer-actors.