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1) Nightbreed
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English
Description
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
3) Ricky
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Français
Description
When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something magical and miraculous happens: they fall in love. Out of their love comes an extraordinary baby: Ricky.
4) Wonderwell
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English
Description
A coming-of-age fairy-tale set between modern-day Italy and the fantastical realm just beyond, Wonderwell follows Violet, a naive and inquisitive 12-year-old girl, on a thrilling adventure that transforms her life forever.
5) Once Bitten
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English
Description
Jim Carrey plays a hot-blooded teen who becomes the reluctant donor to a sultry – and extremely thirsty – vampire (Lauren Hutton) in this sexy send-up of the horror genre where the bloodsuckers don’t sparkle, but the comedy most certainly does!
11) Country Gold
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English
Description
In this fantasy comedy, two country-music legends meet for one wild night in Nashville, 1994: Troyal, an up-and-comer from Oklahoma who likes his steaks well done, and the washed-up, viper-tongued George Jones, who will be cryogenically frozen tomorrow.
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日本語
Description
Acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa tells a vivid story of life, loss and renewal through a series of eight dreams—from a young boy's dream of a wedding procession of fox spirits, through dreams of himself as an artist to dreams of a nuclear-poisoned future to a final dream of an old man at peace in a beautiful village.
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English
Description
In this 2022 re-release, GroundUP Music and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema present a 1924 German silent anthology film with a new score by PRD Mais. A writer accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to pen a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in order to boost business.
14) Piaffe
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Deutsch
Description
Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures an unassuming botanist into an intriguing game of submission. Shot on lush 16mm, PIAFFE is a visceral journey into control,...
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Russian
Description
Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko’s most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Like his earlier masterpieces Sampo and Ilya Muromets (also released by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the...
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Français
Description
A collection of newly restored short films from the imagination of Paul Grimault, an icon of French animation. Le Marchand de notes (The Note Seller), 1942, 10 min L’Épouvantail (The Scarecrow), 1946, 10 min Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse, (The Passengers of the Great Bear), 1943, 9 min Le Voleur de paratonnerres (The LIghtning Rod Thief), 1946, 10 min La Flûte magique (The Magic Flute), 1946, 9 min Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier), 1948,...
17) Baskin
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Türkçe
Description
A five-man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere. Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up. They soon realize they've stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever-more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind-wrenching horrors...
18) Blithe Spirit
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English
Description
Charles suffers from terrible writer's block so he invites the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti (Judi Dench) to perform a seance in his home. He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons the spirit of his first wife who is shocked to find Charles now married to a new picture-perfect wife. Charles finds himself stuck between his two wives and their increasingly over-the-top attempts to outdo one another in this lethally...
19) Gulliver Returns
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English
Description
World traveler and adventurer Gulliver is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fleet of Blefuscu. But when he arrives, he finds indignation, panic and a hopeless crowd, as the King of Lilliput told his people that the legendary Giant Gulliver was returning. Instead, they discover an ordinary man, when the whole town had prepared to welcome a giant. Meanwhile, the invincible Blefuscu armada is at the gates of the...
20) The Water Horse
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English
Description
A sweeping epic rooted in one of the most enduring and intriguing legends of our time. Set in the desolate landscape of the Scottish Highlands during World War II, The Water Horse tells the story of Angus, a 12-year old boy who anxiously awaits the return of his father who is serving in the military overseas. Spending his days exploring the shores of a nearby loch, he stumbles across a mysterious egg. Taking it home he watches as the egg hatches into...
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