Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer and her father Daniel, are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants - they are doomed to always marry the wrong person. In the 20th Century lightning hits the tree freeing the two witches, who now seek to avenge themselves on one of Wooley's descendants who is running for governor.
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ORPHEE (1949)
Certification15 Our Rating
Cocteau re-works the Greek myth in contempory terms as Death, a beautiful woman, helps the poet Orpheus rescue his lover from hell. Imaginative, memorable, baffling and beautiful. One of the most poetic movies in the history of cinema.
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PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (1951)
Certification12 Our Rating
Hendrik van der Zee has been cursed to sail the seas for the murder of his wife. The only way to break the curse is to find a woman willing to die for him. After 300 years in purgatory, Fredrik sails into a Spanish port and encounters the beautiful Pandora, a woman whose elegant wasted life consists of enthralling men and treating them with a diffidence that is easily mistaken for cruelty.
As both protagonists fall for each other we are left wondering if Pandora could be the one to secure the
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TALES FROM EUROPE : THE SINGING RINGING TREE (1957)
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A classic European fairytale comes to vivid Technicolor life in this story of a prince a spoilt princess, a singing ringing tree, an evil dwarf and a bear; oh, and true love. A gloriously gaudy tale... and the bear... did I mention the bear?
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THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (1951)
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Powell and Pressburger's follow-up to The Red Shoes is a trio of stories concerning the perils and heartbreak of unrequited love. Although at times uneven and perilously close to kitsch, Hoffman remains a lavish and sumptuous spectacle of dance, music and film.
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