In 2035, a virus has wiped out most of the Earth’s population and the remainder live underground because the air is poisonous. Prisoner James Cole can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and gather information about the man-made virus and thwart the devastating plague.
A drug addled gonzo journalist Raoul Duke and his lawyer Dr Gonzo drive from LA to Las Vegas on a drugs binge as they search desperately for the ‘American dream’. They nominally cover news stories, including a convention on drug abuse, but also sink deeper into a frightening psychedelic otherworld. As Vietnam, Altamont and the Tate killings […]
Set in a highly-stylized and ultra grim Manhattan, The Fisher King is Terry Gilliam’;;s magical reworking of an Arthurian legend. After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. A burned-out, embittered radio deejay finds personal salvation after he is saved from death by […]
The film is a surrealist nightmare of a low-level bureaucrat in a dismal world of the near future when he tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
whoever seduces five souls in the Imaginarium will have Valentina as a prize. Tony, a man saved from hanging by Parnassus’; troupe, agrees to help collect them, with his eye on marrying Valentina.
The Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob, are dysfunctional schemers who go from town to town putting on shows that convince inhabitants they are getting rid of demons. After one such scam, they encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.