4.2

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2009, UK, Hungary

• Actors: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Richard E. Grant, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Shirley Henderson, Aaron Michael Drozin, Charlie Rowe, Peter Elliott, Daniel Peacock, Alan Cox, Hugh Sachs, Africa Nile, Jonathan Coyne, Stuart Hopps, Ferenc Elek, Attila Kalmár, György Honti, Gergo Brummel, Fernanda Dorogi, Kriszta Dorogi, Béla Gados, Verner Gresty, Jason Harris, Jácint Hergenröder, Zoltán Hetényi, Barna Ilyes, Lilla Karolyi, László Keszég
• Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrey Konchalovskiy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary's imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as "NC," he takes her on a wondrous journey through a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity. When NC is captured and placed under a paralytic spell, Mary, Max and a spirited band of toy sidekicks must rescue him from the Rat King's clutches and thwart his wicked plans to 'ratify' the world.

  4.1

Gladiatress

2004, UK

• Actors: David Hayman, Ronan Vibert, Philippe De Grossouvre, Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen, Sally Phillips, Rory MacGregor, Pam Ferris, Brendan O'Hea, William Chubb, Dorian MacDonald, Nicola Stephenson, Marcia Warren, Dermot Keaney, Bruno Lastra, Sandra Reinton, Kee Ramsorrun, Adam Fogerty, Joe Fraser, Frederick Allouard-Rubin, Lenny Peters, Anna Wilson-Jones, Julian Rivett, Cliff Parisi, Nicholas Le Prevost, George Yiasoumi, Lloyd Hutchinson, Pauline Lockhart, Mark Benton, Tristan Gemmill
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Brian Grant
• Available languages:
  • Bulgarian Bulgarian.

When a particularly sissy Caesar orders his general Rhinus to proceed with the conquest of Britain, which is just a mosaic of inter-warring Celtic tribes related to the Gauls he already subjugated, those send Marcosivellauniviromandiboule (aka Young Gaul) to the Dubonni, a measly tribe where three sisters play a leading role, and therefore see the messenger foremost as an ideal catch for the unmarried youngest; his bed-test goes great, while a Roman attack on the rivaling neighbor Kent tribe is welcomed without any strategic foresight. Nevertheless the Roman war machine rolls on, so war must be engaged, however again in their, female-shaped way.

  6.4

The Libertine

2003, UK, Australia

• Actors: Johnny Depp, Paul Ritter, John Malkovich, Stanley Townsend, Francesca Annis, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Johnny Vegas, Richard Coyle, Tom Burke, Hugh Sachs, Rupert Friend, Kelly Reilly, Jack Davenport, Trudi Jackson, Samantha Morton, Clare Higgins, Freddie Jones, Robert Wilfort, Jake Curran, Paul Chahidi, Kevin Doyle, Morgan Walters, Niall Buggy, Peter Howell, T.P. McKenna, Maimie McCoy, Richard Wills-Cotton, Penny Layden, Olivia Higginbottom
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Laurence Dunmore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.