A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
Based on the classic tale of the Pied Piper, this Rock-Opera themed cartoon tells the tale of the 1960s small suburban town of Hamlin, which has been infested with rats. Sly, a Jimi-Hendrix styled guitarist, is hired to take care of the rats with his musical abilities, and is promised a Harley Davidson from the mayor as payment. When he gets cheated out of his payment, he then uses his music to lead the kids to a mountain.
Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four of the girls and the organist David.Sie were on a hike in a cave of the Ith - the fabled mountain, in which 700 years ago the Pied Piper is said to have led the children. Seeking help, Johanna turns to her ex-boyfriend Jan Faber, head of the police station in Hameln.
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Kinderfänger
The award winning film Eye Was Blind explores religious, interracial, family, and infidelity issues that exist in our society today.
A young girl momentarily escapes from the mundanities of her life and ultimately realizes what truly matters to her.
Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve years before, but she was never seen again. Now a woman has come forward who claims the young girl she raised is the millionaire's missing daughter. Later, Ross is contacted by a retired burlesque dancer who's about to publish her memoirs and possibly reveal the secrets of some important people, but someone is determined to stop her.
Babette is a woman in dire straits. An unemployed illegal immigrant from France, she must make a desperate choice when threatened with an eviction from her landlord. This choice leads to an encounter with Amir, a detached and lonely young Muslim American, that ends with devastating results for them both.
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
After finishing his long career as a government official in Hanyang, His Excellency returns home with his gisaeng lover. His mistress, who washed her identity as his foster daughter, can't adjust to the boring country life and becomes lonely. On the other hand, His Excellency keeps paying attention to his female servant, a familiar face in his hometown full of memories, and becomes increasingly neglectful of his mistress. The mistress, who is saddened by His Excellency's actions, receives comfort for her body and mind from his male servant. One day, an imperial scholar comes to visit and takes control of his mistress, but when His Excellency does not take any action, she becomes greatly disappointed. However, the male servant, who watched the scene, seeks revenge for her from the imperial scholar but is caught by His Excellency and beats him. At the end, his mistress decides to run away with the male servant in the middle of the night.
Two young scientists go through a metaphysical journey, when they get stuck between a minute which keeps repeating itself.
After Mel's long-term partner disappears abruptly, she discovers he had created an entire false identity. Her search for truth then exposes a scandal at the heart of the UK's Metropolitan Police.
In the 17th century, long before modern science and in a time of great fear of the unknown, the villagers of a small coastal community find themselves drawn to, and suspicious of, Morag, a remarkable but mysterious woman who is uniquely connected to the nature that surrounds her. Survival is a daily and all-consuming struggle that is thinly forged from an inclement sea and pushed to the edge of the land by merciless feudal landowners. But it is Morag's passionate relationship with John Tullock, who is unwittingly pledged to marry Sinéad, that threatens to tear the community apart.
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
Der Tunnel