fantasy film, live-action/animated film, science fiction film
The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu; with the tiny inhabitants created by animation and themed on Medieval West and South Asia. The film ends with a cliffhanger: Having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag themed on Medieval Europe, but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel.
Adventure, adventure film, fantasy film, treasure hunt film
In 1881, Irish dream chaser Patrick "Patsy" O'Brien and his daughter Kathy have failed to strike it rich in the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa (then the Cape Colony). They persuade a reluctant Allan Quartermain to drive them to the coast in his wagon. Along the way, they encounter another wagon carrying two men in bad shape.
At the struggling Witty Bitty Farm in North Dakota, Elliot, a miniature horse, dreams of flying on Santa Claus's sleigh team. His only supporter is a goat named Hazel. Inherited by former baseball player Walter Whittick, the farm operates as both a petting zoo and a training camp for reindeer, who are known for being arrogant and self-centered.
Animalhorror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
After a mechanical failure aboard the spaceship Odyssey, Captain Lee Norsythe is forced to crash land on a planet with atmosphere and conditions much like that of Earth, although it is many light-years away. As the ship sinks into the lake that it landed in, Cindy realizes that she forgot the radio in the ship and attempts to retrieve it, with the assistance of fellow crew-member navigator Chuck. En route, Cindy is attacked and killed by an unidentified aquatic creature, prompting Chuck to return to shore without the radio.
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist who leaves a job at a prestigious university to take up a position at the privately run mental institution, Millwood, belonging to Dr. Reed. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L.
Action, Adventure, Knights Tale, Sexploitation Film, Super Hero, Sword And Sorcery, action film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Deathstalker takes part in a contest of strength—a challenge to lure competitors into the main arena of Queen Kana's castle. Mysteriously, combatants disappear from the castle one by one. Deathstalker acts to defend his fellow warriors, his life and his newfound love against an army of Stone Warriors and the Queen.
Horror, fantasy film, horror film, sword-and-sandal film
In the Minoan Bronze Age, a shadow looms over the village of Thena. Every three years, under King Deucalion's order, eight youths are taken from the village to the capital of the Minoans. There, they are placed in an underground labyrinth to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, a Minoan god.
Adventure, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Around the turn of the century, American mining engineer Ben Harris is working on the Cornish coast in England when he finds a body washed up on the beach. Ben makes inquiries at the nearby hotel. While talking to the hotelier's daughter, fellow American Jill Tregellis, and an eccentric artist, Harold Tufnell-Jones, a mysterious intruder appears but disappears.
In a large town, residents are inexplicably transforming into rhinoceroses. Stanley (Gene Wilder), a mild-mannered office clerk, observes these bizarre transformations from a distance. However, the strange occurrences soon affect him personally, as his neighbor and best friend John (Zero Mostel) and his girlfriend Daisy (Karen Black) undergo the metamorphosis.
Two sorcerers, Finn and Chornomor, have an intense magical duel in favor of saving Finn's beloved wife, Princess Nina. Finn gains the upper hand at first but is defeated by Chornomor, who deceives him by stepping on a "force field", and loses all of his magic powers and youth, which then transfers to Chornomor. Nina is transformed into a stone statue in exchange for her power of love as a source of his magic.
Sex Film, Zombiefilm, gay pornographic film, horror film, new queer cinema, zombie film
An extraterrestrial zombie (who may just be a schizophrenic vagrant, and whose appearance constantly shifts between that of a corpse, a tusked beast with irregular genitals, and a normal man) emerges from the sea, and begins making its way to Los Angeles. A motorist notices the zombie walking along a deserted road, picks it up, and dies in an accident moments later. The zombie recovers from the crash, and reanimates the driver by penetrating a wound in the man's chest with its monstrous penis.
Doctor Strange brings Hulk to New York City to assist fighting rampaging monsters on Halloween night, which were young teens stuck dreaming and changed into the monsters that they fear. During battle, Hulk randomly reverts to an unconscious Bruce Banner. Doctor Strange planned a trip to the Dream Dimension with the Hulk to get to the bottom of the monsters while confronting Nightmare.
The film begins in an ancient location where a man is cornered by a sorcerer after a knife-throwing accident. The sorcerer transforms the man into a genie and traps him in a lamp as punishment, with the intention that it will be forever. Two thousand years later, Bernard Bottle, an art dealer for a prestigious firm in London, scores a huge sale and earns his company fifty million pounds.
As his wife Clare is uninterested in fishing, Dr. Paul Martin goes on a holiday on the Cornwall coast without her. There, Miranda Trewella, a mermaid, catches him by pulling on his fishing line and making him fall in the water.
Adventure, action film, adventure film, circus film
In ancient Persia, the young women of a royal harem read the story of Sherazade, unfolding the film's story. Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus, captures the attention of Kamar, the brother of the caliph, Haroun al-Rashid. Kamar's infatuation influences his attempts to seize the throne from Haroun and make Sherazade his queen.
LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, prison film, romance film
Expository narration Lilies is set in a Quebec prison in 1952. Jean Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin), the local bishop, is brought to the prison to hear the confession of Simon Doucet (Aubert Pallascio), a dying inmate. But Doucet in fact has a very different revelation for Bilodeau: he has enlisted his fellow inmates to stage a play set in 1912, when Bilodeau and Doucet were childhood friends.
Animalhorror, B movie, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A group of divers are installing a power cable at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, when a shark swims up and kills one of them. Six months later, lifeguard Ben Carpenter and his partner Esai drive out to sea to catch some lobster. While diving, Ben finds a broken power cable with a large shark tooth stuck in it.
Aging NFL quarterback Dan Anderson and his stay-at-home wife Sara are experiencing marital fallout. According to their preteen children, Clark and Annette, they both underestimate each other's role in the family. When Dan's new position with the Saints takes the family to New Orleans, they purchase a dilapidated mansion.
Ella is a lonely and misunderstood young woman living in a European duchy. She works as a lowly servant to her stepmother, the Widow Sonder, and stepsisters, Birdena and Serafina. Ella is shunned by the townspeople because of her anti-social behavior and nicknamed "Cinderella." In the face of ridicule, Ella boasts that she will live in the palace one day, as a fortune-teller once told her late mother.
Alex, a computer programmer from a cold place very far away, receives a visit from an intruder named Anja, but before she breaks in; he writes an important message to a colleague, at a greyhound racetrack, named Susie, transfers it to a floppy disk and gives it to his dog PC, warning him that he should give it only to Susie and trust no one. He hides PC just before Anja breaks in with her vicious dog, Sibelius and threatens him for money. He tells her that the money is in the retirement fund, after which she kills him.
In the village of Gryphon, the ground opens up. A gaseous vapor pours out of the fissure, and, in a flash of light, kills two men near it. Meanwhile, in another village, a man challenges people to fight the boxer Eryx.
Set in modern times, a young five-year-old boy named Johnny McGowan travels to Scotland to live at his grandfather's castle after he loses both his parents in a traffic collision. At the magical wish tree on his grandfather's estate, he conjures up a friend, which is a baby dragon whom he nicknames "Yowler". They grow up together as 15 years go by.
The mouse and his child are two parts of a single small wind-up toy, which must be wound by a key in the father's back. After being unpacked, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. The child mouse proposes staying at the shop to form a family, which the other toys ridicule.
Nick Smith and Natalie Russo are single, living in the same city. On opposite sides of a fountain, they are both encouraged to make a wish with a penny. Their coins touch underwater, and they both feel odd.
