Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)

AKA:
Arabian Nights >> English
Flowers of the Arabian Nights >> English
A Thousand and One Nights >> English
Synopsis:
In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon.

 Starring:
Ninetto Davoli
Franco Citti
Franco Merli

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Qissa (2013)

AKA:
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost

Synopsis:
Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.

Starring:
Irrfan Khan
Tisca Chopra
Tillotama Shome

Director: Anup Singh

Liang Zhu (1995)

AKA:
Butterfly Lovers
The Lovers

Synopsis:
In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man, but their short love affair ends in disaster.

Starring:
Charlie Yeung
Nicky Wu
Carrie Ng

Director: Hark Tsui

L'inferno Inferno (1911)

About:
The poet Dante is lost in a dark and gloomy wood. At the summit of a mountain he sees the light of salvation. He endeavors to ascend to it, but his way is barred by three wild beasts, symbolizing Avarice, Pride and Lust. Beatrice sees his predicament and descends from Paradise into Limbo, where she asks the poet Virgil to rescue and guide Dante. Virgil knows another way to go, but this leads straight through the entire Inferno, before it continues towards Paradise. Virgil leads Dante to the portals of Inferno. Charon ferries them over the river Acheron, and then they start their journey downwards through the different circles of Inferno. Dante meets all kind of sinners and sees the never-ending punishments they have to undergo. The various punishments are adjusted to the different transgressions. Among the sinners Dante recognizes many persons he has met in Florence, when they were still alive. They tell him their sad stories and why they have ended here. At last Dante and Virgil meets the arch traitor Lucifer, who holds the bodies of Brutus and Cassius in his mouth. The two poets climb down the shaggy sides of Lucifer, to reach the subterranean way which leads out of Inferno.

Starring:
Salvatore Papa
Arturo Pirovano
Giuseppe de Liguoro

Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe de Liguoro

Medea (1969)

Synopsis:
To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where human sacrifice helps crops to grow. Medea sees Jason and swoons, then enlists her brother's aid to take the fleece. She then murders her brother and becomes Jason's lover. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by Jason. When she learns he's to marry the king's daughter, Medea tames her emotions and sends gifts via her sons; then, loss overwhelms her and she unleashes a fire storm on the king, the bride, and Jason.

Starring:
Maria Callas
Massimo Girotti
Laurent Terzieff

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

20 Years After (2008)

Synopsis:
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong: War, Terrorism, Natural Disasters. Evacuees were ushered from the cities to refugee camps in the surrounding counties. In-fighting, famine and disease took their toll on the survivors. Now, twenty years after the bombs fell and the plagues ran their course the few that remain live in fear and without hope. Azura Skye stars as Sarah in this Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tale about a young woman's journey to deliver the first child born in 15 Years. Sarah's refusal to give up is inspired by a lone voice on her radio. Michael broadcasts dim and distant messages of hope mixed with the music he scavenges from the dead. Forced from her basement home by drought and relentlessly pursued by those who want her baby, Sarah crosses paths with Michael in a cavernous, underground refuge of disparate survivors. It is from Three Caves that Michael and Sarah will embark on a journey beyond the boundaries of the Southern Corridor and into the unknown future.

Starring:
Joshua Leonard
Azura Skye
Diane Salinger

Director: Jim Torres

Insidious (2010)

Starring:
Patrick Wilson
Rose Byrne
Ty Simpkins
Andrew Astor
Lin Shaye

Director: James Wan

Burial Of The Rats (1995)

Director: Dan Golden

Thale (2012)

AKA:
Хвост > Russian
Thale >> Germany
Thale: Ein dunkles Geheimnis > Germany

Synopsis:
Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is.

Starring:
Silje Reinåmo
Erlend Nervold
Jon Sigve Skard

Director: Aleksander Nordaas

Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)

AKA:
Faust

Synopsis:
An artist, John Jaspers sells his soul to the mysterious "M" in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant Lizard-like monster onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin.

Starring:
Mark Frost
Isabel Brook
Jennifer Rope
Jeffrey Combs

Director: Brian Yuzna

Lekin... (1990)

Synopsis:
Samir Niyogi lives in India and is assigned by the Government to travel to Rajasthan, evaluate a princely castle that once belonged to Raja Param Singh, take stock of all items, the condition of the building, and report back to the Government. Enroute to his destination by train, he permits a woman to enter his compartment, goes to sleep, and when he awakens finds her gone. A few days later, when he goes to the castle, he finds the very same woman cooking within the premises. When both enter the castle, he finds himself back in time and witnesses a scene that happened eons ago. When he recovers, he finds himself alone, and locked in. He breaks out and narrates this incident to his friend and local Collector, Shafi and his wife, Sharda. He does meet the woman again in the dead of night, and after showing him the way, she disappears. Then Sharda asks Samir to wear a amulet at all times as it will protect from evil spirits. He does meet the woman again, this time in the middle of the desert, and is not heard of for two days. When Shafi orders the castle to be searched, a dungeon in particular, is where they find Samir in a state of near-death.
[~1991]

Starring:
Vinod Khanna
Dimple Kapadia
Amjad Khan
Hema Malini
Mun Mun / Moon Moon Sen

Director: Gulzar / Guljaar / Guljar

Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)

Synopsis:
The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.

Starring:
Felicia Day
Kavan Smith
Stephen McHattie

Director: Sheldon Wilson

He Man and The Masters Of The Universe: The Beginning (2002)

AKA:
He Man and The Masters Of The Universe: The Beginning 01,02,03

War of the Servers ()

Intruders (1992)

AKA:
Intruders - Die Aliens sind unter uns >> German

Synopsis:
All over the world, people report they've been visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. The authorities appear to know all about these visits but won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two 'victims' who struggle to live normal lives, but the aliens keep coming back. All is explained (perhaps) at the end.

Starring:
Richard Crenna
Mare Winningham
Susan Blakely

 Director: Dan Curtis

Hansel and Gretel (2007)

AKA:
Hansel & Gretel
헨젤과 그레텔 >> Korean
韩塞尔与葛雷特 >> Chinese

Hänsel e Gretel (1957)

AKA:
Hansel und Gretel >> German

Starring:
Maria Amadini
Enrico Campi
Fiorenza Cossotto

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi

Hänsel und Gretel (1954)

Synopsis:
Hänsel und Gretel ist ein deutscher Märchenfilm aus dem Jahr 1954 unter der Regie von Walter Janssen. Im selben Jahr entstanden zwei weitere Adaptionen des Märchens: Hänsel und Gretel (Deutschland: Regie: Fritz Genschow) und Hänsel und Gretel (Deutschland: Regie: Michael Myerberg, John Paul).

Director: Walter Janssen

Hollow Man II (2006)

AKA:
Hollow Man 2

Synopsis:
A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue.

Starring:
Christian Slater
Peter Facinelli
Laura Regan

Director: Claudio Fäh

Hollow Man I (2000)

AKA:
Hollow Man >> Original Title
Hollow Man 1

Synopsis:
Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car, and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbor while eating Twinkies. Sadly, this is the most character development anyone gets in this undernourished action/sci-fi thriller, which boasts some amazing special effects and some amazingly ridiculous plot twists. After experimenting rather ruthlessly on a menagerie of lab animals, Bacon finally cracks the code that will turn the invisible gorillas, dogs, and so on, back into their visible forms. Does it work on humans? Faster than you can say "six degrees," Mr. Bacon appoints himself human guinea pig, strapping down for an injection of fluorescent-colored serum. Thanks to some phenomenal, seamless and Oscar-worthy computer effects, Bacon is indeed rendered invisible, organ by organ, vein by vein. And what's the first thing you'd do if you were invisible? Why, spy on your female coworkers in the bathroom and molest your comely next-door neighbor, of course! Soon, Bacon is thoroughly psychotic.

Starring:
Kevin Bacon
Josh Brolin
William Devane
Elisabeth Shue
Kim Dickens

Directors: Paul Verhoeven