Fantasy

  • Valdimar Jóhannsson – Dýrið AKA Lamb (2021)

    2021-2030FantasyHorrorIcelandValdimar Jóhannsson

    Haunted by the indelible mark of loss and silent grief, sad-eyed María and her taciturn husband, Ingvar, seek solace in back-breaking work and the demanding schedule at their sheep farm in the remote, harsh, wind-swept landscapes of mountainous Iceland. Then, with their relationship hanging on by a thread, something unexplainable happens, and just like that, happiness blesses the couple’s grim household once more. Now, as a painful ending gives birth to a new beginning, Ingvar’s troubled brother, Pétur, arrives at the farmhouse, threatening María and Ingvar’s delicate, newfound bliss. But, nature’s gifts demand sacrifice. How far are ecstatic María and Ingvar willing to go in the name of love?Read More »

  • Paul McGuigan – The Acid House (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyFantasyPaul McGuiganUnited Kingdom

    Irvine Welsh adapts three stories from his ‘Acid House’ collection for the screen. In ‘The Granton Star
    Cause’, Boab Coyle (Stephen McCole) is happy playing for his local football team and dating girlfriend
    Evelyn. When he loses both, however, along with his job and home, he turns to drink – only to meet God
    (Maurice Roëves) in a pub. ‘A Soft Touch’ tells the story of Johnny (Kevin McKidd), an easily
    manipulated man who loses his girlfriend to violent and psychotic neighbour Larry (Gary McCormack).
    In ‘The Acid House’, raver Coco (Ewen Bremner) finds that he has swapped places with Tom, newborn
    baby of middle class couple Rory (Martin Clunes) and Jenny, after an acid trip.Read More »

  • Jirí Trnka – Sen noci svatojánské AKA Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959)

    1951-1960AnimationCzech RepublicFantasyJirí TrnkaWilliam Shakespeare

    The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.Read More »

  • Frans Buyens – Het dwaallicht AKA Will O’ the Wisp (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseFantasyFrans BuyensNetherlands

    Laarmans (Romain De Coninck) is an old man, and finds his family life claustrophobic. Most evenings, he escapes the confines of the house and wanders around Antwerp’s red-light district. Three Afghani men who have become sailors approach him one evening, asking him to help them find a certain girl. But it seems they were given a false address. In the middle of the night all of them are searching and hoping. As he wanders around the city with the three sailors, he fantasizes about what this girl must be like…Read More »

  • Surapong Pinijkhar – Tawipop AKA The Siam Renaissance (2004)

    2001-2010DramaFantasySurapong PinijkharThailand

    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.Read More »

  • Radley Metzger – Barbara Broadcast (1977) (HD)

    1971-1980EroticaFantasyRadley MetzgerUSA

    In an elegant restaurant where gourmet food and gourmet sex are both on the menu, former high-class prostitute and acclaimed author Barbara Broadcast (played by stunning Annette Haven) transforms lunch with journalist C.J. Laing into an afternoon of sexual excess. Barbara seduces her way through a corporate office and a busy Manhattan night club, while Laing ventures into the kitchen for a smoldering encounter with Wade Nichols that may just be the greatest sex scene ever filmed. Climaxing with the return of Misty Beethoven, Constance Money, and her tormentor, Jamie Gillis, the Distribpix release of Barbara Broadcast is presented here digitally re-mastered and uncut for the first time.Read More »

  • José Bolaños – Pedro Páramo (1976)

    José Bolaños1971-1980DramaFantasyMexico

    Pedro Páramo, owner of the hacienda La Media Luna in the town of Comala and of the largest area of land, has the habit of taking any woman from the region ; nevertheless, he has not been able to get the love of Susana San Juan, a woman whom he has always loved and with whom he ends up marrying when she is widowed. Susana lives obsessed by the memory of her dead husband and begins to lose her mind. With this madness, Comala begins to die too. Thus, the characters search for their whole lives and only meet after death.

    The script was created by Juan Rulfo himself and director Jose BolañosRead More »

  • Albert Birney – Eyeballs in the Darkness (2022)

    2021-2030Albert BirneyAnimationFantasyUSA

    Quote:
    Tux and Fanny are back and they’re looking for a new home. Come along as they discover VHS tapes hidden under beds, forgotten statues in the desert, and brain biting ladybugs. Will they find a place to call their own or are these two friends destined to roam the land forever?

    Eyeballs in the Darkness reminds us that in the dark of the night, we’re all together, eyes wide open, staring at the horizon, waiting for the sun. Written, Directed and Animated by Albert Birney.Read More »

  • S.S. Rajamouli & J.V.V. Sathyanarayana – Eega AKA Fly (2012)

    2011-2020ActionFantasyIndiaJ.V.V. SathyanarayanaS.S. Rajamouli

    A murdered man is reincarnated as a housefly and seeks to avenge his death.Read More »

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