Unfolding

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows unfolding

poster The Mysterious Box
The Mysterious Box
2mn - Fantasy
As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of glass on which h…
poster Fate's Turning
Fate's Turning
17mn -
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the…
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster The Brahmin and the Butterfly
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
poster Unwritten
Unwritten
84mn - Thriller
An agoraphobic failed writer living in a remote bookstore becomes convinced that a mysterious customer is actually the villain from an unfinished story he wrote as a child, forcing him to confront his dee…
poster The Magician
The Magician
1mn - Fantasy
The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappear mysteriously in the air. He then takes a white hand…
poster The Wonderful Living Fan
The Wonderful Living Fan
(2.8/5)
3mn - Fantasy
As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing …
poster Elastic Transformation
Elastic Transformation
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.
poster A Calamitous Elopement
A Calamitous Elopement
12mn - Comedy
A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans…
poster Eskimotive
Eskimotive
(3.2/5)
8mn - Animation
Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...
poster A Fantastical Meal
A Fantastical Meal
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.
poster The Seven Ages
The Seven Ages
(2.8/5)
5mn - Drama
A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together affectionately. Soon afterwards, they are at school together, a…
poster Twisted Minds
Twisted Minds
81mn - Drama, Horror
Local banker Bruno Adani's life is turned upside down when his stepbrother, Greg Tillney's darkened past catches up with him.
poster Fate of Graduates
Fate of Graduates
(3.7/5)
100mn -
The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…
poster Daddy's Double
Daddy's Double
16mn - Comedy, Romance
This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
poster An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy
16mn - Drama
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…
poster Going to Bed Under Difficulties
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
(3.4/5)
2mn - Comedy
A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.
poster Suspense.
Suspense.
10mn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …
poster Violation of Trust
Violation of Trust
(3/5)
89mn - Crime, Drama, Short
Single mother Susan Essex admirably picks up the pieces after the split from her husband Matthew, and she can depend upon her daughter Justine for support. When Justine learns that her friend Vicky has be…
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