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When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
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Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war...
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"Charlie needs a cloak" when Charlie's old cloak becomes torn and tattered, he spins a new one, showing how cloth is made from wool. "Strega Nona" Big Anthony finds himself knee deep in trouble - and pasta - when he uses Strega Nona's magic pasta pot without her permission. "Clown of God" Giovanni, a once famous juggler now old and penniless, gives one last, unforgettable performance on Christmas Eve.
7) Urban legend
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When New England college student Natalie finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a twenty-five-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor.
11) After midnight
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According to Professor Edward Derek, the only way to truly understand the psychology of fear is to be afraid...very afraid! So he invites his class home for a night of three spine-chilling stories: First, a married couple loses their heads in a haunted house; next, ravenous guard dogs prowl for cute coeds; and, finally, a psychopathic killer stalks a terrified telephone operator. But as the frightened freshman get a hands-on lesson in real fear, the...
12) Aladdin
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Climb aboard for a magical carpet ride with nonstop laughs, action-packed adventure and Academy Award(R)-winning music that will make your heart soar (1992: Best Music, Original Song, "A Whole New World," Original Score). Now for the first time ever, a whole new world of Disney's ALADDIN is revealed in a whole new way on Blu-ray and Digital HD -- with never-before-seen bonus! With the help of a hysterically funny, shape-shifting, 10,000-year-old Genie,...
15) The night ship
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A historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters, a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, over three hundred years later, arrives on the same island, discovering the story of an infamous shipwreck.
16) Candyman
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Oscar winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him...
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For three decades hundreds of cryptic tiled messages have been appearing on major city streets across the U.S. and South America. Finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been Justin Duerr's obsession. For years he has been collecting clues and piecing together key events, ultimately leading him to a revelation more surreal and enigmatic than he could ever have imagined.