Movies with a special place in my heart
Items in this hypelist
Horror/Fantasy
Practical Magic
Griffin Dunne · 1998
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
The Love Witch
Anna Biller · 2016
Una joven bruja está empeñada en encontrar el amor a base de conjuros y pócimas que le permitan seducir a cualquiera. Cuando por fin encuentra al hombre de sus sueños, su deseo se convierte en desesperación, en locura y luego en... Con un estilo visual que homenajea los thrillers en Technicolor de los sesenta, The Love Witch explora las fantasías femeninas y las consecuencias del narcisismo exacerbado.
Chilling adventures of Sabrina
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa · 2018
La magia y las travesuras marcan el rumbo de Sabrina, una adolescente de doble naturaleza que se debate entre el mundo de los mortales y el que se oculta debajo.
The Craft
Andrew Fleming · 1996
Sara es una chica recién llegada a Los Ángeles que se siente sola entre sus nuevos compañeros de instituto. Pero conoce a tres amigas que sienten intereses afines a los suyos: las ciencias ocultas, y que además poseen poderes similares. Juntas formarán un círculo secreto que cambiará sus vidas para siempre.
Beetlejuice
Tim Burton · 1988
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Coraline
Henry Selick · 2009
Película de animación en la que se nos cuenta la historia de Coraline, una jovencita que descubre en su nueva casa una puerta secreta y decide abrirla. Al hacerlo, descubre una segunda versión de su vida, una vida paralela a la que ella tiene. A primera vista, la realidad paralela es curiosamente parecida a su vida de verdad, aunque mucho mejor. Pero cuando su increíble y maravillosa aventura empieza a tomar un cariz peligroso, su otra madre intenta mantenerla a su lado para siempre. Coraline deberá recurrir a su determinación y coraje, a la ayuda de los vecinos y a un gato negro con el don del habla para salvar a sus auténticos padres, a unos niños fantasmas y regresar a casa.
Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan · 1994
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Fantasy/Romance
The Hunger Games
Gary Ross · 2012
Lo que en el pasado fueron los Estados Unidos, ahora es una nación llamada Panem; un imponente Capitolio ejerce un control riguroso sobre los 12 distritos que lo rodean y que están aislados entre sí. Cada distrito se ve obligado a enviar anualmente un chico y una chica entre los doce y los dieciocho años para que participen en los Hunger Games, unos juegos que son transmitidos en directo por la televisión. Se trata de una lucha a muerte, en la que sólo puede haber un superviviente. Katniss Everdeen, una joven de dieciséis años, decide sustituir a su hermana en los juegos; pero para ella, que ya ha visto la muerte de cerca, la lucha por la supervivencia es su segunda naturaleza.
The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher · 2004
En 1870, la Ópera de París prepara el estreno de un fastuoso espectáculo, pero entre bastidores se oculta un Fantasma (Gerald Butler). Nadie sabe quién es, pero sus apariciones son cada vez más frecuentes y siembran el pánico entre el público. Sólo Christine (Emmy Rossum), una joven bailarina, puede acercarse a él: el Fantasma es su maestro de canto. Lo que Christine ignora es que el Fantasma está profundamente enamorado de ella y no permitirá que nadie se interponga en su camino.
Twilight
Catherine Hardwicke · 2008
La joven Bella Swan siempre fue una chica muy diferente ya en sus años de niña en Phoenix. Cuando su madre se volvió a casar, la mandó a vivir con su padre, a la pequeña y lluviosa ciudad de Forks, Washington, una población sin ningún aliciente para Bella. Pero entonces conoce en el instituo al misterioso y atractivo Edward Cullen, un joven distinto a los demás que esconde un secreto...
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton · 2016
Una horrible tragedia familiar lleva a Jacob, de 16 años, a viajar por la costa de Gales, donde descubre las ruinas del hogar para niños especiales de Miss Peregrine. Mientras explora los destartalados cuartos y pasillos, se da cuenta que los niños que vivieron allí (uno de los cuales fue su abuelo) eran excepcionales. Quizá eran peligrosos, quizá había una buena razón para ponerlos en cuarentena en una isla desierta; incluso podría ocurrir que todavía estuvieran vivos.
Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton · 1999
Durante la Guerra de Secesión Americana, un policía de Nueva York que utiliza avanzados métodos de investigación es enviado al pueblo de Sleepy Hollow para descubrir qué hay de verdad en la leyenda de un jinete sin cabeza que aterroriza a los habitantes del lugar. Una vez allí adopta la identidad de un profesor de escuela y se enamora de Katrina, que mantiene relaciones con uno de los hombres más conocidos del pueblo. Realidad y ficción se darán la mano en el momento menos pensado.
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton · 1990
Érase una vez... un castillo donde vivía un inventor que dedicó parte de su vida a crear una criatura perfecta a la que llamó Edward. Pero el inventor murió de repente y dejó incompleta su creación, ya que en vez de dedos tenía unas horribles manos con hojas de tijera. El pobre Edward vivía sólo en el castillo hasta que una encantadora joven, que trabajaba para la firma Avon, lo llevó a su casa junto con su familia. Pero una criatura tan especial como Edward no estaba preparada para vivir en una ciudad tan extravagante y falsa como Suburbia.
Corpse Bride
Mike Johnson · 2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Labyrinth
Jim Henson · 1986
Sarah debe atravesar un laberinto para rescatar a su hermano pequeño, que ha sido secuestrado por los duendes y está en manos del poderoso rey Jareth. La niña descubre que ha llegado a un lugar donde las cosas no son siempre lo que parecen.
Horror/Thriller
Hannibal
Ridley Scott · 2001
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme · 1991
El FBI busca a 'Buffalo Bill', un asesino en serie que mata a sus víctimas, todas adolescentes, después de prepararlas minuciosamente y arrancarles la piel. Para poder atraparlo recurren a Clarice Starling, una brillante licenciada universitaria, experta en conductas psicópatas, que aspira a formar parte del FBI. Siguiendo las instrucciones de su jefe, Jack Crawford, Clarice visita la cárcel de alta seguridad donde el gobierno mantiene encerrado a Hannibal Lecter, antiguo psicoanalista y asesino, dotado de una inteligencia superior a la normal. Su misión será intentar sacarle información sobre los patrones de conducta de 'Buffalo Bill'.
Scream
Wes Craven · 1996
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
The Conjuring
James Wan · 2013
Harrisville, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, 1968. Os investigadores paranormais Ed e Lorraine Warren trabalham para ajudar uma família aterrorizada por uma presença sombria em sua fazenda. Forçados a confrontar uma entidade poderosa, os Warrens se vêem presos no caso mais aterrorizante de suas vidas. Baseado numa história real.
Orphan
Jaume Collet-Serra · 2009
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Silent Hill
Christophe Gans · 2006
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Horror/Comedy
Heathers
Michael Lehmann · 1988
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino · 1994
L’odyssée sanglante et burlesque de petits malfrats dans la jungle d’Hollywood : Deux petits tueurs, un dangereux gangster marié à une camée, un boxeur roublard, des prêteurs sur gages sadiques, un caïd élégant et dévoué, un dealer bon mari et deux tourtereaux à la gâchette facile.
My Suicide
David Lee Miller · 2009
After declaring that he's going to film himself committing suicide for a school project, Archie videotapes his surprising interactions with worried family members, interested classmates, unreliable medical experts and the hottest girl in school.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
James Signorelli · 1988
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals -- amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to her, is an evil warlock.
The Addams Family
Barry Sonnenfeld · 1991
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
Jennifer's Body
Karyn Kusama · 2009
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.
Comedy
Death Becomes Her
Robert Zemeckis · 1992
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Mean Girls
Mark Waters · 2004
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
She's the Man
Andy Fickman · 2006
Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.
Legally Blonde
Robert Luketic · 2001
SLC Punk
James Merendino · 1998
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
We're the Millers
Rawson Marshall Thurber · 2013
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
White Chicks
Keenen Ivory Wayans · 2004
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.
Drama
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke · 2003
When average 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, Tracy''s world is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn''t long before Tracy''s new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
The Umbrella Academy
Steve Blackman · 2019
Un grupo disuelto de superhéroes se reúne después de que su padre adoptivo, quien los entrenó para salvar el mundo, muere.
Euphoria
Sam Levinson · 2019
Una reflexión sobre la adolescencia a través de un grupo de estudiantes de instituto que tienen que hacer frente a temas recurrentes de su edad, como la droga, el sexo y la violencia.
Watchlist
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Jaromil Jireš · 1970
Valerie acaba de deixar a infância e, mergulhada em seu sombrio mundo de fantasia, inicia as descobertas da vida sexual dos adultos. Na verdade é duro explicar esse belo filme tcheco. Um filme de arte surreal e carregado de simbolismos que podem ter interpretações diferentes dependendo de quem assiste. Valerie vive em um mundo de bruxas e vampiros, e carrega para ele as pessoas de sua vida real. O difícil é distinguir o que é real do imaginado no mundo de Valerie, onde ela pinta tudo a sua volta com suas próprias cores.
Dark Shadows
Tim Burton · 2012
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
The Witches of Eastwick
George Miller · 1987
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
Lisa Frankenstein
Zelda Williams · 2024
In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few missing body parts along the way.
The Witch
Robert Eggers · 2016
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Suspiria
Dario Argento · 1977
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton · 2007
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Penny Dreadful
John Logan · 2014
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola · 1992
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers · 2024
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
As Above, So Below
John Erick Dowdle · 2014
Bajo los kilómetros y kilómetros de tortuosas catacumbas que hay bajo las calles de París, un grupo de exploradores se aventura entre los cientos de miles de huesos sin catalogar que ocupan el laberinto y acaban descubriendo cuál era la verdadera función de esta ciudad de los muertos. El recorrido se convierte en un viaje al corazón del terror. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW llega a lo más profundo de la mente humana, sacando a la luz los demonios que regresan para perseguirnos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Psycho
Gus Van Sant · 1998
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Bill Kroyer · 1992
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · 2010
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
The Crow
Alex Proyas · 1994
Eric Draven y Shelly Websyter están a punto de casarse, pero la noche antes del enlace son asesinados brutalmente. Un año después, el alma de Eric vuelve a la Tierra en forma de cuervo para vengarse.
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro · 2015
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
The Woman in Black
James Watkins · 2012
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
