Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988
Pan Kleks w kosmosie (original title)
2h 28min | Adventure, Family, Musical | 5 December 1988 (Poland)

Storyline:

Kids from the orphanage in Malishev receive for Christmas a newest computer from a former pupil of this children’s home, and now the president of a large electronic corporation, as a gift. The computer tells them a story that can happen in 25 years. The Great Electronics after escaping from the Island of Inventors, settles on the planet Mango and invents Fantomization (teleportation). He kidnaps Agnieszka and gives it to the governor of the planet, Don Bazar. In the meantime, Pan Blot is in the last Nature Reserve. Peas, Agnieszka’s friend, together with his class friends, goes to the Blob to help find Agnieszka.

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Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017

Saturday Church 2017
1h 22min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical | 12 January 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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Hansel and Gretel 1987

Hansel and Gretel 1987

Hansel and Gretel 1987
Not Rated | 1h 24min | Family, Fantasy, Musical | 10 December 1988 (USA)

Storyline:

Based on the fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm. Hansel and Gretel are abandoned after the famine strike in the village and where Hansel and Gretel are later trapped in the deceptively decorated house of the witch Griselda who wishes to fatten Hansel so that he may be baked into a delicious gingerbread treat.

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Huckleberry Finn 1974

Huckleberry Finn 1974

Huckleberry Finn 1974
1h 58min | Adventure, Musical | 24 May 1974 (USA)

Storyline:

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.

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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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The Wayward Cloud 2005

The Wayward Cloud 2005

The Wayward Cloud 2005
Tian bian yi duo yun (original title)
1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 16 February 2005 (Germany)

Storyline:

Metaphor, allegory. There’s a drought in Taiwan. Watermelon are abundant and become juice, food, something to share with a guest, and an aphrodisiac. In a large building of flats, Hsiao-Kang and Shiang-chyi’s paths cross; she knew him when he sold watches, now he acts in pornographic films. She scavenges for plastic water bottles. He bathes in the building’s cistern. Fantasy song and dance numbers punctuate the characters’ nearly aimless pursuits: she has lost her keys and he helps her find them; he naps in a park, she watches; he smokes on the floor beneath her kitchen table while she sits. His film-making continues. Can they connect?

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