The Devil's Carnival

Kismet

1955

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

The Field Guide to Evil

2018

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

The Inferno

1979

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Top Hat

1935

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

A Star Is Born

1954

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

RO Theater: De Gelaarsde Poes

2016

Television adaptation/registration of the theatre program by the Dutch children's theatregroup RoTheater. The play is a comical adaptation of the fairytale of Puss in Boots.

Witchery

1988

A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.

Sator

2019

Secluded in a desolate forest, a broken family is observed by Sator, a supernatural entity who is attempting to claim them.

Madam Satan

1970

A strange Satanic cult gets together for group sex orgies.

Fontána pre Zuzanu 2

1993

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs

1991

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

The Robber Bridegroom

1980

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the plantation owner invites him to his home to meet his daughter.

Moonlight Serenade

1967

A sweet inn-keeper's daughter falls in love with a woodcutter, but witnesses the woodcutter's brother raping her sister. Tragically, the sister commits suicide in shame, and the rapists turn his attentions to the witness, leading to more danger than most romantic dramas can handle.

You, the Living

2007

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.