Una bella jove anomenada Bella accepta allotjar-se en un castell amb una bèstia a canvi de la llibertat del seu pare. La bèstia és, en realitat, un príncep encantat. Per trencar l'encanteri, caldrà guanyar l'amor d'una dama preciosa abans que caigui l'últim pètal d'una rosa encantada.
En Willy Wonka és un excèntric fabricant de xocolata que amaga cinc butlletes en cinc llaminadures a fi que els que les trobin participin en un concurs. Els participants acaben sent un noi gras que no para de menjar, una noia que sempre mastega xiclet, una noia rica i consentida, un barroer que es passa el dia mirant el televisor i un estafador que ha de cedir la seva participació a en Charlie, un noi de família humil. Les proves que han de passar tenen lloc als escenaris espectaculars de la fàbrica d'en Wonka, que ha creat un món fet de llaminadures.
Eleanor Arroway va perdre la fe en Déu després de la mort dels seus pares en la seva infància. No obstant això, Ellie ha desenvolupat una classe diferent de fe en el que desconeix: treballa amb un grup de científics escrutant ones de ràdio procedents de l'espai exterior a la recerca de senyals d'intel·ligències extraterrestres. El seu treball es veurà recompensat quan detecti un senyal desconegut que suposadament porta les instruccions de fabricació d'una màquina per reunir-se amb els creadors del missatge.
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.
A Nova York, Felix, un neuròtic redactor de notícies que acaba de trencar amb la seva dona, és instat pel seu caòtic amic Oscar, un periodista esportiu, a mudar-se amb ell; però els seus estils de vida són tan diferents com ho són la nit i el dia, de manera que molt aviat les estrictes idees de Felix sobre com mantenir net una llar comencen a irritar Oscar.
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
For the past 40 years, Bruce Beach has been preparing for a nuclear disaster. A bunker of 42 school buses is buried on his property, designed to save humanity. Curious onlookers and interested preppers regularly visit the site named Ark Two, but it's clear that the creator of this decaying shelter is the only one truly convinced of its practicality in the event of an apocalypse. Now that Bruce is in his 80s, he and his wife Jean need to spend more time taking care of their immediate needs than worrying about the future. What could easily be dismissed as evangelical paranoia becomes a tragic yet uplifting story about a risk-taking inventor who has lived without regrets. Sometimes outside-the-box thinkers become millionaires and are recognized for their genius ability to guide us into the future, while others are pushed to the margins. There’s a lot to be learned from both
Two Mormon missionaries attempt to convert a man who turns out to be far more dangerous than they could have anticipated.
Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar method: in his opinion, it is not really necessary to watch the films since it is possible to judge them simply by looking at their promotional poster.
This unique recreation of an 18th-century home, in London's Spitalfields, has to be seen to be believed. Dan Cruickshank smells the rotting food and warms his hands by the roaring fires and asks whether this living museum is really more accurate than a National Trust treasure, or just an eccentric one-off from its outlandish Californian creator, the late Dennis Severs. A follow-up of sorts to the 1985 BBC series Ours to Keep episode "Incomers" focused on this residence.