Mariposa™ en smuk sommerfuglefe, der elsker at læse og drømme om den verden, der ligger udenfor hendes fødeby, Flutterfield™. Flutterfield™ er beskyttet af dronningens skinnende, magiske lys, men da dronningen bliver forgiftet af den onde fe Henna, begynder de specielle lys at gå ud ét efter ét. Nu skal den modige Mariposa™ og hendes venner rejse udenfor byens beskyttende grænser for at lede efter en skjult kur, der kan redde dronningen.
Mariposa og hendes lodne ven Zee vender tilbage i Barbie Mariposa og Prinsessefeen. I dette magiske eventyr bliver Mariposa udnævnt til kongelig ambassadør for Flutterfield og bliver sendt ud for at skabe fred mellem fe-riget og dets rivaler, Shimmervales Krystalfeer. I første omgang imponerer Mariposa ikke kongen, men hun bliver gode venner med hans generte datter, prinsesse Catania. Efter en misforståelse bliver Mariposa dog forvist fra fe-riget. Da Mariposa og Zee vender tilbage til Flutterfield, møder de en mørk fe, som er ved at ødelægge Shimmervale. Mariposa skynder sig tilbage og hjælper prinsesse Catania med at redde fe-riget, og sammen beviser de to piger, at den bedste måde at få venner på, er at være en ven.
I en verden befolket af lutter kvinder møder vi insektforskerne Evelyn og Cynthia. Evelyn, den yngre af de to, optræder som Cynthias stuepige i et raffineret, sadomasochistisk rollespil, hvor Cynthia straffer Evelyn for den mindste forseelse. Men magtbalancen i deres intense forhold begynder at vakle, da Cynthia bliver træt af evig og altid at skulle være den dominerende part.
Biografisk film om miljøet omkring maleren Salvador Dali, filmskaberen Luis Bunuel og digteren Federico Garcia Lorca, der i 1920ernes Madrid kæmper for at finde deres identiteter både kunstnerisk og seksuelt.
Efter at være blevet hjulpet ud af kløerne på en gruppe liderlige sømænd af den opblæste eventyrer Wilard overtaler Gwendoline sin redningsmand til at hjælpe hende på den farefulde rejse til det sagnomspundne land Yek Yeik - et land der regeres af en ondsindet dronning og en hær af amazonekrigere. I Yek Yeik må Gwendoline tage kampen op mod amazonerne, inden Wilard tvinges til at befrugte de mange kvinder og derved skabe en ny race af kvindelige krigere.
Den medicinstuderende Paula er lykkelig, da hun bliver optaget på det berømte universitet i Heidelberg. Men lykken varer ikke ved, for Paula får mistanke om at et hemmligt selskab udfører ulovlige og dødbringende indgreb på uvillige patienter. Den målbevidste studine begynder at undersøge sagen nærmere og tiltrækker sig dermed opmærksomheden fra en gruppe nazi-læger af allerværste skuffe.
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.
Maggie must navigate an eventful first day in daycare. At the Ayn Rand School for Tots, Maggie is diagnosed with average intelligence. Barred from the gifted children, she longs to escape from her glue-guzzling classmates. But when a lonely caterpillar befriends her, she makes it her mission to save it from a ruthless butterfly smashing toddler.
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.
Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
A beautiful love story in danger. Our future depends on an amazing love story between the flowers and fauna consisting of bees, butterflies, birds and bats, which allow these species to reproduce. Delicate and graceful, the flowers are not content to be the ultimate symbol of beauty. On the contrary, their vibrant colors and their exotic flavors are so many wonders that attract pollinators and drunk with desire. All these animals are involved in a complex dance of seduction on which one third of our crops, a dance without which we could survive ... Pollen presents the unsung heroes of the global food chain. Their fantastic worlds are full of stories, drama and beauty. While a fragile and threatened, essential for the balance of the planet, it should now actively protect ...
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip to the jungle to search for the butterfly, leading to an adventure that will transform their lives
A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.
A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.