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List of films. Film. Year (s) Description. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. 1960. The US fantasy film is an adaptation of the 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels, and features a voyage during which Dr. Gulliver is perceived as a giant by the small Lilliputian people, and is later perceived as small by the giant Brobdingnagian people.
Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke 's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, [ 1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882) [ 2] and Freaky Friday (1972) [ 3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as ...
The Lonely Villa (1909), a silent short film featuring a home invasion. In Suddenly (1954), Frank Sinatra plays an assassin who takes over a family's home as a venue to target the President of the United States. There is a body of films that feature home invasions. Paula Marantz Cohen says, "Such films reflect an increased fear of the erosion ...
Crazy/Beautiful — August 24, 2001 Bubble Boy; September 7, 2001 New Port South: co-production with Hughes Entertainment: October 12, 2001 Corky Romano — October 26, 2001 High Heels and Low Lifes: co-production with Fragile Films: November 21, 2001 Out Cold: co-production with Spyglass Entertainment, The Donners' Company and Birnbaum/Barber ...
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, based on P.D. James ' 1992 novel of the same name. In 2027, a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. [ 12][ 32][ 33][ 51] City of Ember. 2008.
The hand-in-waistcoat (also referred to as hand-inside-vest, hand-in-jacket, hand-held-in, or hidden hand) is a gesture commonly found in portraiture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The pose appeared by the 1750s to indicate leadership in a calm and firm manner, or allegiance to Freemasonry. The pose is most often associated with Napoleon ...
Huldufólk. Engraving of a man jumping after a female elf into a precipice. Huldufólk[ a] or hidden people are elves in Icelandic and Faroese folklore. [ 1][ 2] They are supernatural beings that live in nature. They look and behave similarly to humans, but live in a parallel world. [ 3] They can make themselves visible at will. [ 4]
Cat People, 1942 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur; I Walked with a Zombie, 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur; Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948 film directed by Max Ophüls, based on the novella written by Stefan Zweig; Scarlet Street, 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang; Detour, 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer