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Owen and his team of master thieves are handed an ultimatum when they are discovered to have stolen a priceless piece of art, the Pamela, from none other than his own art collecting, eccentric, older brother. With a book full of tricks and a desire to win, the team must pull out all the stops in this fast paced, nostalgic sci-fi adventure.
It's the year 2020. Every day billions of people are victims of the digital, medial, narcissistic, hedonistic, careeristic and consumerist overstimulation and suggestion by the establishment. In a manner that remains unexplained to this day, hundreds of millions of citizens of the first world abruptly and epidemically fall ill with Anhedonia, an inability to feel pleasure and satisfaction. Two exemplary victims of these unspeakable circumstances are the dissimilar, but nevertheless inseparable, aristocrats' sons Franz and Fritz Freudenthal. Wholly bereft of meaning and tormented by their miserable, dull and joyless existence, they slowly waste away; until they become aware of the new and unique lust-stimulus therapy by the world-renowned and very trendy Prof. Dr. Immanuel Young, seeing in it the solution to all their problems.
"Three minutes" is a film in the fantasy genre. It is the love story between Alex, a journalist who, forced to speak very quickly in his newscast, must take this substance that accelerates his nervous system and Ana, a young piano student who in order to become a concert pianist, needs to gain speed in her piano playing. They both end up over accelerating and finding each other in a parallel world where everything around them seems to have stopped moving. In this motionless world, they will live their great romance.
M. James Work is at the origin of the creation of the Time Watch, watch allowing to skip time according to the needs of its users. But one day, this one bugs during 10min, and condemns its users to disappear for an unknown amount of time. One evening of December, Elise, a young woman, finds herself free from bug after one year of disappearance, without knowing how she got out of it.
Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, 'The Edge of Destruction'. It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.
On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.
As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.
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.
A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?
A few years from now, the sun is on the verge of exploding and spatial shock waves flow the Earth. Most humans suffer auditory pain and Cyril's mother becomes a prominent drug dealer for those who decided not to take shelter underground. When she suddenly disappears, Cyril is adopted but he soon feels the need to embark on a journey to find her back.
The adventures of a tiny Digger and her friend the Bulldozer. Forced to work on an island ruled by a tyrannical crane, the two friends will do anything to escape.
A nervous job candidate is forced to show much more than a positive attitude to save the life of her competitor.
An all-guns-blazing sci-fi action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters.
The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this lost classic.
An anthology film comprising a ghost story, a creature feature, and a sci-fi slasher story.
The Eleventh Doctor has his hand on a button that, when released, will blow up a ship that's about to destroy the Earth. He calls Amy Pond on the TARDIS phone to ask her to rescue him, but realises she can't fly the TARDIS, he doesn't have the co-ordinates to give her and she left the TARDIS long ago. The Doctor admits he just wanted to chat, says "Merry Christmas, Amelia", and releases the button. The ship explodes.
The vulnerable people living in a polluted, exploited and wasteland have to pay for clean oxygen.
Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white girlfriend, ran away from an abusive white boyfriend who, after seeing her with Spike, sets up a trap for her. Spike's 11-year old nephew Hector dies as a result of this trap, and Anjela, finding the body of her son, goes on a police-killing rampage. Her apprehension sets off tension between Spike and his brother-in-law, as a race war broods inside the Terrordome.
July 22nd 2017, at first light. Anna Persico awakes and find a red box near her bed. Inside, just a note with incomprehensible symbols. From that moment, her life totally changes. Few moments later Anna's phone rings: it's a friend asking help. Just few and upset words asking Anna reaching her in a forsaken mansion in the nearby before the phone line breaks. At the same time, on October 15th 1817, police commissioner Fosco Oleari investigates on suicide of Vittoria Clementi, a girl who looks just alike Anna. On the crime scene there are also a cane and a gown soiled of blood. Local doctor's wife is missing from the day before. What will the past set aside?
Humanity is long gone. After an apocalyptic war, a member of the team of robots tasked with finding a new hope for life discovers a mysterious map.
A girl needs a friend. A special box could materialize it for her.
Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster technologies. Keeping Joan company on her endless missions is her ship, PAT 1. He's laconic, lazy and desperate to retire but remains deeply loyal. Together they've explored the outer edges of the galaxy, all the while preserving their 100% delivery record. But on this job, something's different. Three innocuous packages and a trip into uncharted space: it's nothing she hasn't handled before.
In this war torn megalopolis a group of people struggles for survival. An artist tries to save her lover, a politician his integrity, a sportsman his dignity, a merchant his money and a cab driver his organs. But as all these people fight, love, trick and run for their lives in an epic conflict, they discover one sole truth: You are your own maker.
The nation's water turns deadly but Dave is oblivious. Will he survive?
An alien child, Mirko, is exiled to Earth for his parents' crimes.
A pop satire. A teleshopping show that uses the fear of climate apocalypse as a reason to convince the audience to consume more and more. A film about consumerism and climate crisis, about global warming and individualism, about hedonism and guilty conscience, about the contradictions inside of us. A reflexion about the way we look away and an exposure of the cynicism of a capitalistic system. “A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial. We look for a split second and then we look away. Or we look but then turn it into a joke (“more signs of the Apocalypse!”). Which is another way of looking away.”
An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes.
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
Thanks to a new technology, a state center makes it possible to interact with a deceased person. Diego oversees the encounters betwen the dead and the living.
A woman pulls a time machine across a vast landscape. Her arrival on a remote shore sets off irregular occurrences within time and space.
The middle of the 21st century. A dystopian drama in an overaged and run-down Germany. When the so-called "Endjährigkeit" - compulsory euthanasia at the age of 80 - is introduced, a father and a son are forced to put their broken relationship to a final test.
Richard Parker is the lone remaining member of a Royal Observer Corps team, stationed deep underground, during an unidentified cataclysm. He spends his days battling with isolation, loneliness, fear of what waits above and his own memories.
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
A mysterious woman, claiming to be a nurse who had disappeared during the bombing of Nagasaki, communicates with an atomic plant engineer by means of his TV set
Summoned into life by a god-like deity, two Easter Island statues engage in a fierce battle in outer space.
Souther and Nordland forces have been locked in war for decades on Nu-Earth. The war has turned the planet toxic. Genetic Infantrymen designed to survive the poisonous atmosphere are deployed in a surprise offensive. The plan is leaked and the Genetic Infantrymen (GI's) don't stand a chance. They are ambushed in the Quartz Zone and are massacred.
Unfolding in real time via one take, four women travel to a mysterious island where a meteorite has recently fallen. Slowly, everything begins to change for the island's denizens, as the women uncover new truths.
Craig worries about the responsibilities of fatherhood while his wife attempts to assure him that everything will be alright.
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...
The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Akomfrah has disguised this exploration as a science fiction story – in the manner of the groundbreaking writers profiled in The Last Angel of History – while providing a bravura display of the aesthetics of video art in the 1990s. The tale of visitors from the future who gather dreams from unwitting subjects in order to construct a history of the Black diaspora both defamiliarizes Akomfrah’s ongoing project and points to the danger that extracting history from memory can be a kind of expropriation.
Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.
Fascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
A ravaged London is in the midst of a century-long civil war in which the battle-line isn't race or religion: it's gender. And the resource at stake isn't land or wealth: it's reproduction. The film follows the journey of the youngest member of an underground female resistance group, and her relationship with her biological mother.
Tomás, an elderly man trapped in the memory of an afternoon with Marta, his platonic love, uses an experimental device to relive that moment and confront his regrets.
In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole, investigate.
Susanne is called to her boss's office. There she drinks from a cup containing a paralyzing liquid. When Susanne regains consciousness, she has already become a will-less, controllable puppet of the system.
In a world collapsed by a serious climate crisis, Elba, a brilliant scientist, will try to solve a mistake from her past at any cost.
In 1985, a fuzzy feature was perceived in the skies of Viña del Mar, Chile. The radio amateurs went crazy because the absent and ghostly figures promised to share the secret of the face hidden behind the fog. In some place, someone bleeds forever.
Overwhelmed by an unhappy marriage, Marisa will see how her life changes radically after meeting a Martian creature with such peculiar intentions.
50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be populated by intelligent life. Once at his destination the pilot has to perform an emergency landing and becomes marooned on the alien planet, and soon discovers the planets only inhabitants are predatory machines.