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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness β¦and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. (Read More)
Subgenre: | 3d animationghost storycgi animation |
Themes: | christmas pastregretredemptiontime travelpovertyghostchristmasdeath |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wallnight |
Locations: | london englandenglandsnow |
Characters: | ghost from the pastseeing a ghostuncle nephew relationshipemployer employee relationshipreference to god |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | ghostly visitationfull bodied apparitionmoon shotnight timetalking to a ghostchristmas morningchristmas daychristmas evecharacter says god bless us everyonestorybook in opening shotbah humbugalternate futuredoor knockerbreaking the fourth wall by talking to the audienceopen grave β¦visitationsee you in hellminiaturemotion capturescroogemiserbackwards time travelcharles dickenschange of hearthooded figurerich manlifting person in airholiday seasonchainsfrightholiday in titlecrippleundertakerapparitionvictorian erahappy endinghorse and carriageshadow3d3 dimensionalflyingmoonskeletonactor playing multiple rolescoffindead bodytearsfalling from heightremakecryingthree word titlechasebased on novel (See All) |
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Subgenre: | ghost story |
Themes: | regretredemptiontime travelghostchristmas |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | london englandenglandsnow |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | ghostly visitationfull bodied apparitionnight timetalking to a ghostchristmas morningchristmas evebah humbugdoor knockerbreaking the fourth wall by talking to the audiencescroogemiserbackwards time travelcharles dickenschange of heartholiday season β¦holiday in titlevictorian erahappy endingbased on novel (See All) |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg β¦eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | christmasdeath |
Locations: | snow |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | christmas evevictorian erahorse and carriagecoffindead bodytearsfalling from heightcryingbased on novel |
In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.
Mood: | night |
Locations: | london england |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian erashadowflyingtearscryingbased on novel |
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague. β¦.. An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | horse and carriageshadowcoffindead bodyfalling from heightremakebased on novel |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri β¦ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
Themes: | regretchristmasdeath |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wallnight |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | christmas evecoffintearsremakecrying |
Musical adaptation of 'Charles Dickens (I)' (qv)'s classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Themes: | redemptionpoverty |
Locations: | london england |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | undertakervictorian eracoffinbased on novel |
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice β¦, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondeath |
Locations: | england |
Characters: | reference to god |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian erahorse and carriagedead bodyremakechasebased on novel |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel β¦ Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
Themes: | ghostdeath |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Characters: | reference to god |
Story: | apparitionhorse and carriageskeletoncoffindead bodytearscryingbased on novel |
It hasn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, β¦and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own, turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian erahorse and carriageshadowcoffindead bodycryingbased on novel |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho β¦w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
Themes: | christmasdeath |
Locations: | snow |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | christmas evevictorian erahorse and carriagetearsbased on novel |
Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventu β¦res out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cgi animation |
Mood: | night |
Story: | change of heart3d3 dimensionalflyingmoonfalling from heightbased on novel |
After super-villain Megamind (Ferrell) kills his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Pitt), he becomes bored since there is no one left to fight. He creates a new foe, Tighten (Hill), who, instead of using his powers for good, sets out to destroy the world, positioning Megamind to save the day for the firs β¦t time in his life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cgi animation |
Themes: | redemption |
Mood: | night |
Story: | 3 dimensionalflyingskeletonfalling from heightcrying |
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must β¦change. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionghostchristmas |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Story: | christmas evebreaking the fourth wall by talking to the audiencescroogebased on novel |
A remake of the classic 1963 movie "The Haunting" about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight for their lives as the house fights back.
Themes: | ghostdeath |
Mood: | night |
Story: | talking to a ghostapparitionskeletonremakebased on novel |
Alice is a daydreaming young girl. She finds learning poems and listening to literature boring. She prefers stories with pictures and to live inside her imagination. One day, while enduring just such a poetry reading, she spots a large white rabbit...dressed in a jacket and carrying a large watch. H β¦e scurries off, saying he's late, for a very important date. She follows him through the forest. He then disappears down a rabbit hole. Alice follows, leading her to all manner of discoveries, characters and adventures. (Read More)
Locations: | england |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian eramoontearsfalling from heightcryingthree word titlechasebased on novel |
Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late β¦father, a legendary Samurai warrior. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Story: | 3d3 dimensionalflyingmoonskeletonchase |
"The Croods" are an eccentric family of cavemen, who survive the harsh terrain by living accordingly to a strict set of rules. But when their home is destroyed in the wake of an impending disaster known as "The End", they are forced to leave their home of shelter and security, and into the wildernes β¦s of the unknown to find a new home. (Read More)
Subgenre: | 3d animationcgi animation |
Mood: | night |
Story: | skeletonfalling from heightchase |
For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The β¦ only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money... (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Story: | lifting person in airfrightskeletoncoffinfalling from heightchase |
A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has β¦ two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything. (Read More)
Themes: | time travelchristmas |
Story: | christmas morningchristmas evescroogehappy endingthree word title |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | london england |
Story: | 3d3 dimensionalflyingskeletonfalling from heightchasebased on novel |
After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is kille β¦d. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince young K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something old K had never told him. (Read More)
Themes: | time traveldeath |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Story: | breaking the fourth wall by talking to the audiencebackwards time travel3d3 dimensionalmoonfalling from height |
At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change w β¦hat happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he's never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again-and again-but finally, after a lot of cunning time-traveling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to get his pregnant wife to the hospital in time for the birth of their daughter, despite a nasty traffic jam outside Abbey Road. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his unique gift can't save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. There are great limits to what time travel can achieve, and it can be dangerous too. (Read More)
Themes: | time travelchristmas |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationship |
Story: | alternate futurecoffin |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly y β¦oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Themes: | redemption |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian erahorse and carriagecryingbased on novel |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | christmasdeath |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipreference to god |
Story: | undertakercoffindead bodytearscrying |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | christmasdeath |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipemployer employee relationshipreference to god |
Story: | coffintearscrying |
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity β¦works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina. (Read More)
Themes: | povertydeath |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Story: | horse and carriageflyingcoffintearscrying |
A group of men travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They are captured by moon-men, escape, and return to the earth.
Locations: | snow |
Story: | moon shotmoonfalling from heightbased on novel |
Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family β¦ in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cgi animation |
Themes: | christmas |
Mood: | night |
Story: | christmas eveholiday in title |
In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is soo β¦n welcomed in a gang of pickpockets lead by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionpoverty |
Locations: | london england |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | undertakervictorian erabased on novel |
Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups, and wants to get hold of them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat... Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion. Will Pongo and Perdita find them in β¦time ? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | london englandenglandsnow |
Story: | christmas evecryingchasebased on novel |
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit ro β¦oftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | london englandsnow |
Story: | shadowflyingskeletoncryingbased on novel |
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as "The Fantom." This "League" comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo, vampiress Mina Harker, an invisible man named Rodney Skinner, American secret β¦ service agent Tom Sawyer, the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray, and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian eraskeletonfalling from heightchasebased on novel |
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageabil β¦ity of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. (Read More)
Themes: | poverty |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | horse and carriagethree word titlebased on novel |
Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey - teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven - to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious β¦ snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. From the outside Anna's sister, Elsa looks poised, regal and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret-she was born with the power to create ice and snow. It's a beautiful ability, but also extremely dangerous. Haunted by the moment her magic nearly killed her younger sister Anna, Elsa has isolated herself, spending every waking minute trying to suppress her growing powers. Her mounting emotions trigger the magic, accidentally setting off an eternal winter that she can't stop. She fears she's becoming a monster and that no one, not even her sister, can help her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | 3d animationcgi animation |
Locations: | snow |
Story: | happy endingshadow3 dimensional |
Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort a β¦re two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | snow |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | moonskeletondead bodytearsfalling from heightcryingchase |
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king...
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Story: | skeletoncoffinbased on novel |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | redemptiondeath |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationship |
Story: | horse and carriageskeletoncoffindead bodytearscryingthree word titlechase |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser β¦ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
Themes: | ghostdeath |
Locations: | london englandenglandsnow |
Characters: | reference to god |
Story: | horse and carriagedead bodycryingchase |
The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a ma β¦iden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a cross-dressing pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love? (Read More)
Themes: | ghostdeath |
Locations: | snow |
Story: | happy endingmooncoffinfalling from heightchasebased on novel |
The once hideous ogre Shrek is now living a good life with wife Fiona and his three children. But he soon has a meltdown in front of them and his friends during his kids' birthday party. He suddenly wants to be a real ogre like he was before he ever met Fiona. So he turns to devious deal maker Rumpl β¦estiltskin for help. At first, Shrek lives the life he once lost and everything is good. But he soon finds out that he has been set up by Rumplestiltskin, who now rules the land with an ironed fist. Teaming with friends Donkey, Fiona and Puss in Boots, Shrek is in for the fight of his life as he tries to get his life back before time runs out. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cgi animation |
Themes: | redemption |
Story: | lifting person in airhappy ending3d3 dimensional |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales β¦ clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
Themes: | regretredemptiontime travelchristmasdeath |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | employer employee relationship |
Story: | lifting person in airtearscrying |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationship |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | apparitionhorse and carriagedead bodytearscryingbased on novel |
The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, β¦ Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an enchanted apple, only the magic of true love's kiss can save her. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | snow |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | storybook in opening shotcoffinfalling from heightchase |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma β¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | london englandsnow |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | victorian erahorse and carriagecoffindead bodyfalling from heightbased on novel |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Themes: | death |
Characters: | uncle nephew relationshipreference to god |
Period: | 19th century |
Story: | moondead bodytearscryingchase |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of te β¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | redemptiondeath |
Locations: | snow |
Story: | lifting person in airflyingcoffindead bodychase |
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected his country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to β¦survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't? Should he trust the girl with pointy shoes? How can Thomas stand a chance against Mother Malkin, the most dangerous witch in the county? (Read More)
Themes: | redemptionghostdeath |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | snow |
Story: | 3 dimensionalskeletonfalling from heightchasebased on novel |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In β¦ the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Themes: | regretpovertychristmasdeath |
Locations: | snow |
Story: | christmas evemooncoffintearscrying |
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forc β¦ed to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | reference to god |
Story: | moonskeletondead bodytearsfalling from heightcryingchase |