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An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
| Subgenre: | steampunk comedysteampunkindependent film |
| Themes: | theftmagickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | wonder carcavecastleenglandboatcarbeach |
| Characters: | single fatherprofessorsoldiersingerchildrenfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | gadget carflying carbutterfly netamphibious vehicletoy makerflying machinerow boatbirthday partychild kidnappingreference to marconithrown overboardbreakfast machineleaky roofstory in storyenglish lord …fast motionrube goldberg machinechuteclowning70mm filmejector seatjalopytrap doorpropellerpie in the facemonarchramptransmitterchildren's bookjack in the boxevil laughgerman accentzeppelinblondbamboohidden doorsuit of armorbaronfloatingshackleshornhutgadgetrynetlifting person in airtop hathooknoisespringcavalryadmiralfamous scorewindmillvehicleheiresskidnappervacuum cleanertween girlcattlejunkyardcandyrocketgadgetdynamiteinventortelescopehaircutcannonpicnicrebelliontoyrepetition in titlecageballoonflyingeuropechickenautomobileumbrellafactorypuppetspybirthdayshotgunsongsingingdancingbased on noveldog (See All) |
The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as … his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring? (Read More)
| Themes: | magicsurrealism |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | famous scorecandyinventorflyingfactoryspybirthdaybased on novel |
The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable advent …ures. (Read More)
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | baronhooktween girltelescopehaircutcannoncageflyingeuropesongsingingdancingbased on noveldog |
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a … floating castle of a lost civilization. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | magickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | castle |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Story: | floatingflying |
Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afou …l of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk comedy |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | flying carbreakfast machinerube goldberg machinetop hatcavalryfamous scorewindmillinventorautomobiledancingdog |
Tony Stark creates the Ultron Program to protect the world, but when the peacekeeping program becomes hostile, The Avengers go into action to try and defeat a virtually impossible enemy together. Earth's mightiest heroes must come together once again to protect the world from global extinction.
| Themes: | magic |
| Locations: | castlebeach |
| Characters: | professorsoldier |
| Story: | gadget carflying carhidden doorgadgetryrocketgadgetinventorcageflyingspy |
The teenager Sarah is forced by her father and her stepmother to babysit her baby brother Toby while they are outside home. Toby does not stop crying and Sarah wishes that her brother be taken by the Goblin King. Out of the blue, Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in the cradle, she lear …ns that he wish was granted and the Goblin King Jarethhas taken him to his castle in the Goblin City in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah repents an asks Jareth to give Toby back; but the Goblin King tells that she has to rescue her brother before midnight, otherwise Toby will be turned into a goblin. Soon Sarah teams up with the coward goblin Hoggle, the beast Ludo and the knight Didymus and his dog Ambrosius in her journey. Will they rescue Toby in time? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | magickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | cavecastle |
| Story: | junkyardcannontoychickenpuppetsongsingingdancingdog |
An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.
| Themes: | magickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | caveenglandboat |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | hookflyingumbrellabased on noveldog |
Maggie Peyton is the new owner of Number 53--the free wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own; she puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. As a third generation member of a NASCAR family, racing is in Maggie Peyton's blood, but she is forbidden from pursuin …g her dream by her overprotective father, Ray Peyton, Sr. When Ray Sr. offers Maggie a car as a college graduation present, he takes her to a junkyard to choose one from an assortment of very used cars. Maggie has her eye on an old Nissan, but a certain rusty, banged up '63 VW Bug seems to be clamoring for her attention. To her surprise, Maggie leaves the lot with Herbie. As she prepares to leave town for a position with ESPN News, Maggie discovers that Herbie has a mind of his own--and an alternate route for her future. (Read More)
| Locations: | wonder carcar |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | gadget carejector seatjunkyardautomobile |
A remake of the television series, Matthew Broderick stars as Gadget, who suffers an accident at the beginning of the film, and befriends Brenda, a robotic surgeon who repairs Gadget so that he can defeat the villain Claw. In the meantime, Gadget and Brenda fall in love.
| Themes: | kidnapping |
| Locations: | wonder car |
| Story: | gadget carjunkyardrocketgadgetinventordancingdog |
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does n …ot know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear, who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes Andy's new favorite toy. Woody, who is now consumed with jealousy, tries to get rid of Buzz. Then, both Woody and Buzz are now lost. They must find a way to get back to Andy before he moves without them, but they will have to pass through a ruthless toy killer, Sid Phillips. (Read More)
| Characters: | soldierfamily relationships |
| Story: | birthday partyrockettoyflyingbirthdaydog |
During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magi …c traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort. (Read More)
| Themes: | magic |
| Locations: | castleenglandbeach |
| Characters: | soldiersingerchildren |
| Story: | nethooktween girltoyflyingsongsingingdancing |
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, the sib …lings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. (Read More)
| Themes: | magic |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | admiralfamous scoretween girlcannonumbrellabased on noveldog |
Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
| Locations: | castle |
| Story: | gadget carejector seatmonarchgadgetrygadgetspydancingdog |
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the count …ry's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftmagickidnapping |
| Locations: | englandboat |
| Characters: | singerchildrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | windmillheiresscattletelescopeumbrellasongsingingdancingdog |
Gregorio and Ingrid are the two greatest secret agents the world has ever known: masters of disguise, mavens of invention, able to stop wars before they even start. Working for separate countries, they are sent to eliminate their most dangerous enemy...each other. But in an exotic corner of the worl …d when they finally come face to face, they fall in love instead and embark on the most dangerous mission they have ever faced: raising a family. Now nine years later, after their retirement, having exchanged the adventure of espionage for parenthood, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are called back in to action. When their former colleagues, the world's most formidable spies, start disappearing one by one, the Cortez's are forced to take on techno-wizard Fegan Floop and his evil, egg-headed sidekick, Minion. But when the unthinkable happens and they too disappear, unfortunately there are only two people in the world who can rescue them...their kids. (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnapping |
| Story: | gadget caramphibious vehiclegadgetrygadgetautomobilespy |
The arch-villains of the United Underworld - the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler and the Catwoman - combine forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their fantastic plot to control the entire world. From his submarine, Penguin and his cohorts hijack a yacht containing a dehydrator, which … can extract all moisture from humans and reduce them to particles of dust. The evildoers turn the nine Security Council members in the United World Building into nine vials of multicolored crystals! Batman and Robin track the villains in their Batboat and use Batcharge missiles to force the submarine to surface. (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | boat |
| Story: | gadget carthrown overboardgadgetryadmiralgadgetinventorpicnicautomobileumbrelladog |
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and f …all in love - so he can get back to the future. (Read More)
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | flying carbreakfast machinerube goldberg machinefamous scoreinventortelescopeautomobileshotgundog |
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 …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: | theftmagic |
| Locations: | castle |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | top hathooktween girltelescopecannonflyingbased on noveldog |
The famous race car Lightning McQueen and his team are invited to compete in the World Grand Prix race. There, McQueen's best friend Mater, finds himself involved in international espionage, and alongside two professional British spies, attempts to uncover a secret plan led by a mysterious mastermin …d and his criminal gang, which threatens the lives of all competitors in the tournament. (Read More)
| Locations: | boatcar |
| Story: | gadget carflying cargadgetryvehiclespydog |
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Pet …er Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again. (Read More)
| Themes: | magickidnapping |
| Locations: | englandboat |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | child kidnappinghookbased on noveldog |
In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his …pod set to "The Pines of Rome." Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930's New York City, scored with "Rhapsody in Blue." Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of "Carnival of the Animals." This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" starring Mickey Mouse and followed by "Pomp and Circumstance" starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, "The Firebird." (Read More)
| Themes: | theftmagicsurrealism |
| Locations: | caveboatcar |
| Story: | rampjack in the boxfloatinghornnetnoisespringtoyumbrelladancingdog |
James Bond is back again and his new mission is to find out how a Royal Navy Polaris submarine holding sixteen nuclear warheads simply disappears whilst on patrol. Bond joins Major Anya Amasova and takes on a a web-handed mastermind, known as Karl Stromberg, as well as his henchman Jaws, who has a m …outhful of metal teeth. Bond must track down the location of the missing submarine before the warheads are fired. (Read More)
| Locations: | england |
| Story: | gadget caramphibious vehiclegadgetrygadgetautomobilespybased on novel |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enc …hanted. (Read More)
| Themes: | magickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | castle |
| Characters: | single fathersingerfamily relationships |
| Story: | hornfamous scorewindmillinventorsingingdancingdog |
Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war t …o end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | cavecastleboatbeach |
| Characters: | soldiersingerfamily relationships |
| Period: | 1910s |
| Story: | suit of armordynamitecannonfactoryspyshotgunsingingdancing |
A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sophie, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Howl. Under the curse, Sophie sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Howl's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Howl's fire demon, named Karishifa. Seeing …that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie--if she breaks the contract he is under with Howl, then Karushifa will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | magicsurrealism |
| Locations: | castle |
| Story: | floatingflyingbased on noveldog |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomo …rrowland." (Read More)
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | beach |
| Characters: | single father |
| Story: | hidden doorgadgetrylifting person in airrocketgadgetinventorflyingfactorydog |
Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. Th …e mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?. (Read More)
| Locations: | caveboat |
| Characters: | professorsoldier |
| Story: | admiralfamous scoredynamitecannonsingingbased on novel |
James Bond continues on his fourth mission, with his aim to recover two stolen warheads. They have been taken by the evil SPECTRE organization. The world is held hostage and Bond heads to Nassau. Here, he meets the beautiful Domino and is forced into a thrilling confrontation with SPECTRE agent Emil …io Largo, on board his boat, the Disco Volante. Will 007 prevent the killing of millions of innocent victims? (Read More)
| Themes: | theft |
| Locations: | boatbeach |
| Story: | gadget carblondfamous scoregadgetspyshotgundancingbased on novel |
The year is 40,000. After peaceful floating in zero-gravity, astronaut Barbarella lands on the frozen planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night, Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Excessive Machine, …a genuine sex organ on which an expert artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who can make her fantasies take form in her Chamber of Dreams, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which dispenses Essence of Man through a poor victim struggling in its glass globe. You can not help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what minimal clothes our heroine seemed to possess. (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnappingsurrealism |
| Characters: | professorsingerchildren |
| Story: | chuteblondfloatingnetinventorflyingspysongsinging |
Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the … toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex's street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit... (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnapping |
| Locations: | car |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | hookgadgettelescopehaircuttoyfactoryspydog |
Bond is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats and avoid Goldfinger's personal pilot, …the sexy Pussy Galore. She might not have feelings for Bond, but will 007 help her change her mind? (Read More)
| Story: | gadget carejector seatgadgetryfamous scorejunkyardgadgetautomobilespybased on novel |
SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their "00" agents and send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld.
| Themes: | theft |
| Locations: | cavecastleboatbeach |
| Story: | gadgettelescoperepetition in titleautomobilespydog |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had … no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
| Characters: | singerfamily relationships |
| Story: | toy makerchildren's bookjack in the boxtween girlcandytoysongsingingdancing |
In Early 1930's era Italy air pirates, bounty hunters and high fliers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso. A former Ace, he now makes a living flying contract jobs, such as rescuing those kidnapped by air pirates. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival in t …he air and in catching the affections of women, provides a constant challenge to the hero, culminating in a hilarious, action packed finale. (Read More)
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | boatbeach |
| Characters: | singer |
| Story: | child kidnappingflyingeuropefactorysinging |
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent-minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third weddin …g, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. It looks like rubber, so he calls it flubber. This film is based on the 1961 Disney classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor. (Read More)
| Themes: | theft |
| Locations: | car |
| Characters: | professor |
| Story: | flying carbreakfast machineinventordog |
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.
| Themes: | kidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | castle |
| Story: | toy makerballoonflyingsongsingingbased on noveldog |
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
| Themes: | magickidnapping |
| Locations: | englandbeach |
| Characters: | childrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | candycageeuropebirthdaysingingbased on novel |
George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Draco, he must become very close friends with his daughter, Tracy, and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to f …ind out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld's guards as well as his hench-woman, Irma Bunt. What has Blofeld got in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are ANY Bond girls safe? (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnapping |
| Locations: | englandcarbeach |
| Characters: | family relationships |
| Story: | birthday partymonarchfamous scoregadgetspybirthdaybased on noveldog |
James Bond is back. An oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard, who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent, is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from a research scientist, Dr. Christmas Jones who witnesses the ac …tion which happens when Bond meets up with Renard, but Bond becomes suspicious about Elektra King, especially when Bond's boss, M goes missing. Bond must work quickly to prevent Renard from destroying Europe. (Read More)
| Locations: | castleenglandboat |
| Story: | gadget carheiressgadgetautomobilespy |
After the Kingsman headquarters are blown up by a psychotic criminal named Poppy Adams. The surviving agents find their way to an allied secret organisation based in Kentucky, named Statesman. The two agencies must now work together in order to save the world and take down the so called 'Golden Circ …le'. (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnapping |
| Locations: | englandcar |
| Characters: | soldiersinger |
| Story: | gadget caramphibious vehiclegadgetrygadgetumbrellaspyshotgunsingingdancingdog |
Oscar Diggs ('James Franco'), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora ('Mila Kunis' …(qv)), Evanora ('Rachel Weisz' (qv)), and Glinda ('Michelle Williams (I)' (qv)), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | magickidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | castle |
| Characters: | soldierfamily relationships |
| Story: | top hatrocketcannonflyingsingingdancing |
Lemuel Gulliver has been working in the mail room of a New York daily newspaper for the past ten years. Afraid to put himself out there, he considers himself a loser, as do all his peers. One day, after having finally had enough, he decides to declare his flame to the beautiful Darcy Silverman, the …newspaper's travel editor and one of Gulliver's only friends...only to chicken out at the last minute and instead tell her that he'd like to try his hand at writing a column. Darcy accepts and sends him on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle. There, Gulliver becomes shipwrecked and ends up on the island of Liliput, where he is twelve taller than the tallest man. For the first time, Gulliver has people looking up to him... (Read More)
| Themes: | kidnappingsurrealism |
| Locations: | caveboatbeach |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Story: | cannontoychickendancingbased on novel |
Once again we're plunged into the world of sword fights and "savvy" pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, who captains the flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship, with a crew from hell. Facing the "locker" Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones but to save himself he must …get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. If that's not complicated enough, Will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang, unless will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack's compass, Will is forced to join another crazy adventure with Jack. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | theft |
| Locations: | beach |
| Story: | lifting person in airtelescopecannoncageflyingdog |
Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington … to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell! (Read More)
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Characters: | soldier |
| Story: | gadget cargadgetrygadgettelescopefactoryspy |
Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi …pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
| Characters: | single fatherchildrenfamily relationships |
| Story: | birthday partyvacuum cleanertween girlbirthdaybased on novel |
When mankind is about to come to an end, a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The city of Ember is to last for 200 years after which its inhabitants are to retrieve from a strong box instructions to return to the surface. Over time however, the message is lost … and life in Ember is rapidly deteriorating. Their power supply is failing and food is being rationed. It's left to two young adults to unearth the secret of Ember and to lead the way out. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | steampunk |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | caveboat |
| Characters: | singerfamily relationships |
| Story: | rube goldberg machineinventorsongsingingbased on novel |
Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Mo …rocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milanese Nightingale to secure the third. With aid from bumbling Interpol agents the Thompson Twins our boy hero, his dog and the captain must prevent Sakharine from obtaining all three scrolls to fulfil the prophesy that only the last of the Haddocks can discover the treasure's whereabouts. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftkidnapping |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | professorsinger |
| Story: | cattledynamiteinventorcannoncageeuropesingingdog |
When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond di …scovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war. (Read More)
| Themes: | theftsurrealism |
| Locations: | cavecastle |
| Story: | gadget carfamous scorerocketspybased on novel |
Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they … eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. (Read More)
| Story: | gadget carbirthday partygadgetryvacuum cleanergadgetumbrellaspydancingdog |
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