The Pied Piper 1972

The Pied Piper 1972

The Pied Piper 1972
1h 26min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical | 17 December 1972 (UK)

Storyline:

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who’s a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor’s daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then reneges. In the morning, the plague, the Jew’s trial, and the Piper’s revenge come at once.

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Rock N Roll Dreams 1995

Rock N Roll Dreams 1995

Rock N Roll Dreams 1995
1h 14min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Video 7 June 1995

Storyline:

This 1995 film has been re-edited from the original footage and re-mastered. As the story goes: A lonely pretty boy (Patrick Pinney played by Tommy Strasser) is all alone on Christmas eve on his first day away from home as he gets ready for his Freshman year in College. Hr gets tipsy on a few drinks and summons up the ghost of Rock legend Gene Vincent, together they spend a romantic sensual evening together as the rock legend makes the lonely boy feel like a million bucks, an evening we can all only dream of. School year finally starts and the teacher on modern social studies tells the class about his days in Berkeley when free love was king and Patrick starts imaging the summer of love and that dorm room his teacher describes with the debaucheries that would be unthinkable today. Times change, and this is what this movie is a bout. There in class he meets a guitar player on his way to an audition with a producer who our boy has no problem imaging it was the infamous Phil Specter as we travel back to this eccentric’s office in his hey day circa 1966. Finally Patrick and Adam make love in a beautifully lit scene to celebrate their feelings for each other. We get erotic music videos, hysterical spoofs of famous people, romance hot young guys and Full hard frontal nude scene in this poignant tale that will make you swoon. Surprisingly romantic in a hot way. This Disk includes an extra chapter with the auditions and another one with trailers.

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Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987

Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987

Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987
Mio min Mio (original title)
1h 39min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 October 1987 (Sweden)

Storyline:

A fantasy about the lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king. In that country he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.

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Hans Roeckle und der Teufel 1974

Hans Roeckle und der Teufel 1974

Hans Roeckle und der Teufel 1974
Hans Röckle und der Teufel (original title)
1h 15min | Family, Fantasy | 5 July 1974 (East Germany)

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This movie is based on a contemporary children’s book, not the usual Grimm Brothers stock. Hans Röckle is a puppeteer, inventor, blacksmith and more. He is challenged by the Devil (in almost a dozen fancy costumes) who offers him even more inventiveness, against his soul should he ever make money with an invention, build something twice, or cease inventing for 7*7 hours.

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The Forest 2016

The Forest 2016

The Forest 2016

The Forest 2016
1h 49min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 9 March 2016 (USA)

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A new teacher arrives at a small village in rural Thailand. He has just left the monkhood and has taken a job at the local school in a quest to discover life outside the monastery. He finds that one of his pupils is a mute girl who is being bullied by the other children in the class. Both the teacher and the girl must face the challenges and cruelties of the real world. The girl retreats into a fantasy world, finding solace in the forest with a strange wild boy. The teacher struggles to bring her back, whilst at the same time himself questioning the world of reality. The worlds of fantasy and reality clash with tragic consequences.

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Metamorphoses 2014

Metamorphoses 2014

Metamorphoses 2014

Metamorphoses 2014
Métamorphoses (original title)
1h 42min | Fantasy | 3 September 2014 (France)

Storyline:

A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.

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Powder 1995

Powder 1995

Powder 1995
PG-13 | 1h 51min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 1 October 1995 (Russia)

Storyline:

When sheriff Barnum investigates the death of an elderly rural resident, he discovers a teenage grandson living in the basement. Raised by his grandparents, he has experienced the world only through books, never leaving the family farm. He is sent to a state home for boys where he has trouble fitting in socially. His odd appearance and unusual abilities cause the small town residents to fear and ridicule him. However, not all are afraid. Some begin to view his potential and gifts with wonderment.

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