weird stuff (15 titles)
Labyrinth
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Labyrinth
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud
Director: Jim Henson
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Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, a young woman who wishes her baby brother would be taken away by goblins. She gets her wish and now she must rescue him by going through the forbidding passages of a magical labyrinth to reach the castle of the mighty Goblin-King. A delightful rescue movie penned by ..read more »
72%
from 14,676 members
Dark Crystal
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Dark Crystal
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Lisa Maxwell, Stephen Garlick
Director: Jim Henson, Frank Oz
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A fantastical, puppet-filled adventure, this tale co-directed by Muppet creator Jim Henson and Frank Oz reveals the story of Jen, a young Gelfling boy chosen by prophecy to mend the Dark Crystal, which broke 1,000 years ago and plunged the land under the dominion of the evil, quarrelsome Skeksis. ..read more »
69%
from 6,138 members
Pan's Labyrinth
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Pan's Labyrinth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
77%
from 79,993 members
Cube
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Cube
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson
Director: Vincenzo Natali
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Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned... But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that ..read more »
63%
from 17,292 members
Memento
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Memento
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
75%
from 60,513 members
Hogfather
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Hogfather
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ian Richardson, Shend, Neil Pearson
Director: Vadim Jean
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Based on Terry Pratchett's worldwide best selling fantasy book, Hogfather is set on the semi-medieval but strangely familiar Discworld. And the Hogfather (you know, the jolly fat man) who delivers presents to the kiddies at Christmas at the midwinter festival of Hogswatch has gone missing. But it's ..read more »
64%
from 13,406 members
The Colour Of Magic
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The Colour Of Magic
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: David Jason, Richard da Costa, Sean Astin
Director: Vadim Jean
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The Discworld - a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, ours - has got it's first tourist - Twoflower (Sean Astin). Rincewind (David Jason), an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower (Sean Astin) through the city state of Ankh Morpork. Rincewind has two ..read more »
67%
from 8,166 members
Withnail And I
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
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from 27,349 members
Pi
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Pi
(1999)
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Low-budget film that won Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his ..read more »
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66%
from 11,244 members
The Crow
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The Crow
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott
Director: Alex Proyas
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A young rock musician who was brutally murdered a year earlier is resurrected as a vengeful superhero in this stylish noir thriller. Out to avenge his and his fiancee's killings by destroying the city's evil crime lord, the Crow becomes a ray of hope for the city while battling his own inner demons...read more »
71%
from 13,958 members
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