Deep underneath the surface of the sea, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story about Little, the daughter of the Sea King. Forced to abandon the devastated, plundered waters of their home, the Sea King and his family ventured to live among humans. In a darkened fish shop in the heart of a harbor district, they now lead a tedious life. One day, the fish shop door flies open and in walks J. J. – a charming streetwise dandy. And this is where the plot thickens…Read More »
Fantasy
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Jan Balej – Mala z rybarny AKA Little From The Fish Shop (2015)
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Bertrand Mandico – She Is Conann (2023) (HD)
Bertrand Mandico2021-2030ArthouseFantasyFranceTraveling the abyss, the hellhound Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by his own future, through eras, myths and ages. From his childhood, a slave of Sanja and his barbarian horde, until his accession to the heights of cruelty at the gates of our world.Read More »
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Walerian Borowczyk – La bête AKA The Beast (1975)
1971-1980DramaFantasyFranceWalerian BorowczykThe head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious ‘beast’ is stalking the vicinity.Read More »
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Umit Unal – Gölgesizler AKA The Shadowless (2009)
Umit Unal2001-2010DramaFantasyTurkeyA barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a far-flung village, and as chance would have it the one-time local barber, Jingle Nuri, vanished from the place years ago. The village is in the hands of the mukhtar, the elected local chief. So the new barber rents his shop and opens the doors for business. The village is not, however, the innocent village. The mukhtar finds himself dealing with one mysterious disappearance after another. Güvercin, the prettiest girl in the village, is now missing without trace. The mukhtar and his only armed man, the village guard, set about questioning everyone in the village. Read More »
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud pralad AKA Tropical Malady (2004) (HD)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul2001-2010DramaFantasyThailandA romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.Read More »
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Karel Zeman – Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci AKA A Thousand and One Nights (1974)
1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicFantasyKarel ZemanAMG: In this animated feature-length movie, five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor (originally five separate “shorts” created between 1971-1974) get him mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life. As Sinbad triumphs over adversity, parents should be warned that some scenes of unexpected cruelty and questionable ethics (the Old Man of the Sea has his head crushed while he is too drunk to know what he is doing), may not be the best fare for smaller totsRead More »
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Hitoshi Matsumoto – Shinboru AKA Symbol (2009)
2001-2010ArthouseFantasyHitoshi MatsumotoJapanPLOT: A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.Read More »
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Véra Caïs – Une trop bruyante solitude AKA Too Loud a Solitude (1996)
1991-2000Czech RepublicFantasyVéra CaïsQuote:This is a live action film adaptation of “Too Loud a Solitude” released in the Czech Republic in 1996, one year before Bohumil Hrabal’s death. And there is a big eastern egg in the film that Hrabal played a cameo role in this film.Read More »
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Albert Lamorisse – Le Ballon rouge AKA The Red Balloon (1956)
1951-1960Albert LamorisseClassicsFantasyFrancePLOT: A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.Read More »