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fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
An archaeologist team finds what appears to be new undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Ruins, Israel. The scrolls are that of a much earlier Book of Genesis that claims that Noah had an ark before the famous Noah's Ark which was used to store the only surviving Nephilim. When they find this ark though, they have released it into the world, and the only way to stop it is to use Noah's Staff.
fantasy film
The plot of The Heart of the World concerns two brothers, Osip and Nikolai, who compete for the love of the same woman: Anna, a state scientist studying the Earth's core. Anna discovers that the heart of the world is in danger of a fatal heart attack (which would mean the end of the world), and the brothers compete amongst the public panic. Nikolai is a mortician and tries to impress Anna with assembly-line embalming, while Osip is an actor playing Christ in the Passion Play and tries to impress Anna through his suffering.
Action, fantasy film, serial film, silent film
Tarzan and Jane have left Africa, married and settled in London. Their pre-teen son, Jack, dreams of jungle adventures like his father's, but is discouraged by his parents. He sneaks away to see a trained ape called Ajax (in reality, Akut, an old friend from Tarzan's youth).
Comedy, Crime, fantasy film
Peter lands a job at a big New York City newspaper and while on assignment gets framed for a murder. Arriving in New York City with dreams of being a star reporter, Peter has to begin as a harried copy boy. Luckily, he is able to find a small apartment in the Little Italy section that has an attached stable for Francis.
Adventure, fantasy film
When Diana's behavior causes her to be suspended from her school in New York City, her mother takes her to join her father, an archaeologist working in a village in the Andes. He is looking for the missing half of the golden disc of Huáscar, which legend says can grant eternal life. Diana meets the local shaman and discovers her own mystical powers.
Action, Adventure, children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Following the events of the previous film, Junjie has settled in as a member of the Shane Gang and introduces to them concept of Slug-Fu. Where in by forging a deep connection to his Slugs Junjie can control them from a distance, as he demonstrates with his Infurnus Joo-Joo. Things soon take a turn for the bizarre when all of the group's Air and Toxic Slugs suddenly turn into incurable Ghouls.
Adventure, fantasy film
children's film, fantasy film
Comedy, fantasy film
fantasy film
The evil Lord Licorice starts to take over Candy Land, assisted by his Bites, changing it from a brightly colored happy kingdom to a somber, drab-hued place. Gingerbread boy Jib is traveling the Rainbow Road to the annual Sweet Celebration. He enlists his friends Mister Mint and Princess Frostine to save Candy Land from a drab fate.
children's film, Christmas film
Mary and Cindy from the Benji films are on a promotional tour in Switzerland and are asked to be grand marshalls of a Christmas parade in Zermatt. Due to a broken leg, Kris Kringle is sending his elves out to deliver presents, and, as this will force them to miss the parade, he wants them to meet Benji first. With help from Mary and Cindy, Kringle realizes the true meaning of Christmas and performs a musical number showing how Saint Nicholas appears all over the world.
fantasy film, Horror, Vampire
Jacob (Doug Bradley) is an antiques dealer who sets off with his new young and pregnant wife Lauren (Grace Vallorani) and his stepdaughter, Rachel (Rita Ramnani) to a forest homestead in a hopeful effort to heal bonds between feuding family members. He also carries a large, mysterious and ancient Babylonian mirror, smuggled out of the Middle East, which he plans to sell for profit. Lilith (Natalie Celino), a sultry ornithologist appears out of a bird hide by a noisy pair of friends hiking through the woods.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film
In the fictional medieval kingdom of Kimbia, all the power is handled by the women in a matriarchy, holding men in a subordinate position. A group of women comes forward, advocating for gender equality within the realm. After fleeing their land the group meets several men with which they bond and decide to fight together to change the rules of Kimbia's society.
Drama, fantasy film
Adrian is an ordinary boy who lacks skills and talents. He likes his friend Lara, but is often bullied by his classmates. Despite being a weakling, Adrian possesses a pure and brave heart when he tries to fight illegal loggers who try and cut down an enchanted rubber tree.
Comedy horror, sexploitation film
In the land of Condon, the deranged Queen Victoria seals the country in behind a huge wall and establishes a "Monarchy of Terror." The intellectuals and sexually liberated are persecuted and murdered. Some of them form an underground movement, the Cult of Perv, led by the Demon Nanny who dies giving birth to Pervirella, who grows at an amazing rate into a beautiful young woman. Whenever her magic necklace is removed, Pervirella becomes a raging nymphomaniac and - hunted by every interested group in Condon - teams up with special agent Amicus Reilly.
fantasy film
Tom, a married family man, is struggling at work when a client tries to seduce him with promises of a 'more exciting life'. On his way home one night, he gets attacked by a gang of hoodies and falls into a parallel world where he lives 5 other lives including that of a rock star, a homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked him. These lives help him to re-evaluate his priorities and values but in order to get home he must face some of his deepest desires and fears.
A couple have a gold watch that has the power to stop time. Kirby Winter and his fiancée Bonnie Lee Beaumont try to save her family farm from a land developer.
Animal horror, fantasy film, Horror
In the small Southern town of Crowley, Louisiana, a group of people who represent an oil company find a new place to drill. However, they stumble upon a type of Native American shrine. They call upon their boss Stark (Robert Picardo) of Holter ex oil inc.
children's film, fantasy film
12-year-old Paul would like nothing more than for the magical trolls and mermaids he reads about in his favorite story to be real. He goes searching for a real troll and finally meets one named Ofoeti, who has friends like Kalotte, a mermaid, and Socrates, a talking turtle. Soon the mermaid's home is threatened by an evil bridge builder.
fantasy film
In the faraway land of Mirabilis, the warlord Dragon-Eye has unleashed his terrifying forces to hunt down the source of all power, a legendary Crucible. With freedom hanging in the balance, a motley band of knights embarks on a dangerous mission to fight against the dreaded assassins, dragons and soldiers of Dragon-Eye and rescue their world from the clutches of evil once and for all. The knights include Adric, a con man; John Serragoth, a warrior for hire; Perfidia, an elven fighter who is the niece of a sorcerer who sits on the kingdom's governing council; and Ber-Lak, a goblin miner who has been infected by exposure to the mystical…
Action, fantasy film, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Zombie
Jacob is a young man who defends his town from evil forces, aided by a magic sword. He saves a girl called Sarah from a horde of the reanimated dead, and they escape through the floor of a church. An evil necromancer named Mathias confronts Sarah and demands an amulet given to her by her uncle before he died.
fantasy film, romance film
Drama, fantasy film
A common convention in the early decades of newspaper and magazine film reviews was to describe in the write-up the entire storyline including, in a substantial number of instances, the ending, thus unintentionally enabling subsequent generations of readers to reconstruct a lost film's contents. True to form, those who evaluated Seven Faces, such as Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times, did go into considerable detail regarding plot twists, as related herein below. Papa Chibou (Paul Muni), the elderly caretaker of Musée Pratouchy, a Parisian wax museum, feels a strong kinship with the figures, particularly with that of Napoleon.
Comedy, Drama
Elderly Jewish writer Max Kohn is an Austrian émigré whose overactive mind is causing a state of perpetual confusion. He's a successful author of short stories who lives in New York City and is so old-fashioned that he believes that the only proper way to write is by using a typewriter. Max has several women interested in seducing him, but he spends most of his time with fellow worrier Reisel.