Marcelo, a 40-year-old dandy, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and gay hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library, Greenaway comments on the historical, mythological, biblical & fictional characters occupying the library.
Unwilling to accept the death of his friend Shi Yan, the protagonist materializes him in his memory in the form of Bug Man, who he plays with to escape from the depressing reality. Bug Man in monitored by the Memory Management Bureau, and memory collectors Fang Tang and Bai Zhong are assigned to retrieve him.
Heidi celebrates her birthday with her friends and her mother. The hunter also comes to the birthday party with a gift from her grandmother, a red cap. At the same time, he has to break the sad news to Heidi that her grandmother is ill. Heidi puts on the cap right away and is henceforth called "Little Red Riding Hood." Since her grandmother couldn't come to her birthday party, Heidi decides to go to her to bring her cake and wine and cheer her up so that she can get well again quickly.
Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces.
In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by feuding warlords, a group of desperate soldiers hatch a plan to steal a Warlord's treasure and start a new life. Faced with the threat of a horrific death at the hands of the Warlord's executioners, the men escape into a desolate and forbidden land known only as the Shadowlands. Now the men must flee from the Warlord's vicious assassins while defending themselves from the terrifying creatures that inhabit the land.
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
A story of two people in search of a new life, who leave their birthplaces - traveling to a whole different world trying to find a place where they truly belong. Set in the fictional world of Euthania, a land rich in nature with various magical races based on South East Asian Mythology, which is connected to Japan via a warp gate.
Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.
In the wake of his wife’s death, Simon tries to make a fresh start by moving with his son Camille to Dubai. In that extraordinary city, Camille manages to forget, let go, and begin a new life. But for Simon, it’s not so easy. He begins to feel an alarming presence in their home - someone quietly, patiently lurking in the shadows. Could it really be his double? Simon slowly succumbs to anxiety and thinks he is going mad. But he’s not the only one to feel threatened this way. It seems to be happening to all people in Dubai who refuse to cut off all ties to their past.
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
After a failed marriage, Anna retreats to the haunting, eerie climes of the Isle of Jersey, where she finds fulfillment in an affair with lighthouse keeper Hugh. However, when tragedy strikes, the inconsolable Anna longs for the arms of her lover... who unexpectedly returns from the dead, with a few macabre changes awaiting them both.
One night in an argument with his girlfriend, Natale, Robert commits a sin, a horrible dreadful sin. All alone, he meets a figure who’s nice, polite and welcoming. The figure offers him a chance for that night to go away; will Robert cheat and take the deal or own up to what he’s done. I ask you. Would you take that easy road? That chance to gain whatever you want from the grasp of someone else’s hand? Would you cheat at this game of life… or work for it?
Biologist Hu Shuo, in a desperate attempt to save his son suffering from a genetic defect, conducts research on using ant DNA to enhance human genes. However, his controversial work is met with widespread rejection, and even his wife, Liu Xingzhi, leaves him. When Huang Jinxiong, a wealthy benefactor battling illness, funds Hu Shuo's research, a catastrophic accident occurs during his lab visit—the escaped queen ant mutates and leads a swarm of ants in a vicious attack. As the chaos unfolds, both Hu Shuo and Huang Jinxiong begin undergoing horrifying ant-like mutations...
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.
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