A young man lives with his attractive female cousin who is a student of the occult. She is at odds with her cousin’s sometime girlfriend who, if anything is an avid student of the same material. He hasn’t the money nor the connections to keep up with his girlfriend’s high style. The man finds a letter from a mysterious ‘Butterfly’ and decides to write back– with dramatic and sometimes terrifying results.
Category: Fantasy
A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time machine. Among appearances in the movie are Henry Ford, Mercedes Benz, and modern race car driver Niki Lauda, as one of the boys becomes trapped within the newly created game.
Probably the most delightful Cantinflas movie ever made, Cantinflas goes from the streets of Mexico to the fabulous palaces of the Far East. Overnight, he becomes a Caliph, then a magician, then several other fascinating characters, each one providing another facet of Cantinflas’ unique human comedy.
A woman who has spent years in concentration camps goes back to her native town (in her imagination) and tries to find members of her dead mother’s family.
A film about the imagination. The present of man is extremely limited. He has been excluded from the future and even the past is nothing more than a source of gentle memories. Without bitterness he tries to make a last move. A move that may not actually exist, but gives some hope for a wildcard.Â
This re-working of Dickens’ 1843 classic centers on miserable banker Ebenita Scrooge. Her outlook on life changes when she is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus’ North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her children to convince her husband (who works for the company) that the first site is where the oil they want is. Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets in delivering presents all around the world.