When a shy teenager’s new-found powers help him score at basketball – and with the popular girls – he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Category: Fantasy
Fantasy
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Tristan
An adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult saga.
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The Sheriff’s Strange Son
In a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother’s second personality.
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Fury of the Heaven
One of the better possession movies filled with hexes, spells and exorcisms. It also contains crucifixion (well, sorta), lesbian sex, and flying skulls. The overall tone is dark and gelid.
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Sitting on the Golden Porch
Two kings: Fedot and Amphibrachiy have been adjoining peacefully for many years. But once Amphibrachiy disappeared, and it became difficult for queen to cope with affairs. The state began to fall into decay. Also daughter Alyona absolutely got out of control. So mother decided to marry her. The king Fedot had three sons: Paul-tsarevitch, Peter-tsarevitch and Ivan-tsarevitch, whom everybody considered to be a fool. But he managed to gain Alyona’s heart and, having won Kashchei the Immortal, set free the king Amphibrachiy.
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After the Rain, on Thursday
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar’s son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward’s son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for “saving” the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard’s death is.
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The Secret of the Snow Queen
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him..
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Erastis horis gynaika
Tolis, an avid lottery ticket buyer, wins the first prize, but while celebrating his success in the streets, he is killed by a passing car. However, he returns to his wife as a ghost, having been granted permission by the Almighty, with the aim of restoring her…
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My Case
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part – a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical “Book of Job” – a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people’s misery, when you have your own.
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Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War
The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.