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The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher · 2004
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
The Master and Margarita
Vladimir Bortko · 2005
The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.
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.
Van Helsing
Stephen Sommers · 2004
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
The Neon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn · 2016
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Blue Velvet
David Lynch · 1986
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Peter Harness · 2015
With magic long since lost to England, two men are destined to bring it back; the reclusive Mr. Norrell and daring novice Jonathan Strange. So begins a dangerous battle between two great minds.
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.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola · 1992
In 19th century England, Count Dracula travels to London and meets Mina Harker, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli · 1968
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Roman Holiday
William Wyler · 1953
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
A Little Princess
Alfonso Cuarón · 1995
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
Labyrinth
Jim Henson · 1986
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King and he whisks Toby away to his castle at the centre of a labyrinth. Sarah enters into a bargain with the Goblin King where she is given just thirteen hours to solve the labyrinth and rescue Toby, or else lose him forever.
Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro · 2006
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
The Love Witch
Anna Biller · 2016
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
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.
Interview with the Vampire
Rolin Jones · 2022
A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
The Craft
Andrew Fleming · 1996
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Practical Magic
Practical Magic
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.
Watched
Anna Karenina
Joe Wright · 2012
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Beauty and the Beast
Christophe Gans · 2014
Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.
Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright · 2005
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family''s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The Holiday
Nancy Meyers · 2006
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmas time after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone
Chris Columbus · 2001
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle''s house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he''s a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school''s kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents'' deaths—and about the villain who''s to blame.
Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride
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.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant · 1997
Will Hunting est un authentique génie mais également un rebelle aux élans imprévisibles. Il est né dans le quartier populaire de South Boston et a arrêté très tôt ses études, refusant le brillant avenir que pouvait lui procurer son intelligence. Il vit désormais entouré d'une bande de copains et passe son temps dans les bars a chercher la bagarre et à commettre quelques petits délits qui risquent bien de l'envoyer en prison. C'est alors que ses dons prodigieux en mathématiques attirent l'attention du professeur Lambeau, du Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton · 2016
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
