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Matthew Bourne choreographs this version of Tchaikovsky's ballet performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre. Bourne sets the first part of the story in 1890, the year in which Tchaikovsky completed his version of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale, with Beauty pricking herself on the poisoned rose in 1911 and awakening 100 years later in the contemporary world.

A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as Ralph's first serious romance with his new neighbor, Randy playing a turkey in the school Thanksgiving Day play, The Old Man setting his sights on a yellow buick and the High School basketball rival game of the season.

Elsa is a high school senior sent to live with her strange out of state step-relatives, Marcia Garth, and her twentysomething sons, Tab and Emery. Tab is a gifted pianist and Emery restores antiques to bring in money for the family. They suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and are forbidden to leave the house. Both Emery and Tab fall madly in love with Elsa. This shatters Marcia’s twisted control. Who will leave and run away with their step-cousin?

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

Aurelius is a beautiful youth who loves to hang out and have fun, like any other girl. The only probably is she feels she is always being watched. Vondrick is a stunning vampire from the 16th century, who has lost everyone he ever held so dear. Gustavus is Vondrick's blood brother in a sense, who is always trying to look out for Vondrick until he fell in love with a mortal. It goes like this, "Vampires are not allowed to fall in love with mortals... if they do it would mean ruin for the mortal and a broken heart for the vampire." On one dark night, Aurelius's feeling of "stalked" becomes reality and on top of that, due to her sudden sleep disorder her nightmares are getting worst. Aurelius is no longer her ol' self. Now Aurelius finds herself undergoing a strange and mysterious journey into a realm darker than any mortal has ever seen... but she is not alone, as Vondrick leads her on this romantic trip into the shadows. What will become of Vondrick's heart?

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

The Wizard's Endearment "Dark Ages' is a fantasy feature film about a wizard on a perilous journey to find a medical cure that will stop a horrible disease that has stricken an ancient race of wizards known as the Nevolons. Alaric, a very powerful wizard of the Sacornic bloodline sets out on a magical journey to find a cure for his beloved wife Anastasia, and somehow bring his only son back from the land of the dead.

Washed ashore and taken in to a gothic manor by an unseen masculine force, a lost girl dances in gratitude before him until one day she says no and begins to suspect she might not be the first person to be brought here.

"Out of Time" is a short film inspired by the novel "An Old Garden" by author Emmeline Morrison. It starts like any other story, of a woman who loves a man. Only difference is, there is something wrong with him; something only she knows.

A presentable man tries to break off an affair with a girl who has been damaged not only mentally, but physically.

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate tale of the intense and demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, allegedly a Gypsy foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is degraded and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man to find he is too late and that Cathy has married Edgar Linton. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his miseries.Unable to bear being parted from his love he curses her on her deathbed to never rest and always be with him and so begins 20 years of her haunting his every waking and sleeping hour. A tale of love, hate, horror, haunting, but most of all a story about human nature. Emily Bronte wrote the greatest , most terrifying love story of all time.

A gothic romance about two immortal lovers testing the limits between fear and desire.

In the winter of 1960, small-town piano teacher Lucy Lay enters the Rich family, believing she has come for a simple tutoring job. She soon discovers the position is only a façade, and with no way out, she is pressed into the family’s arrangement to disguise herself as a princess from a mysterious nation and marry the family heir. Inside the hush of that vast winter manor, desire gathers like heat beneath ice. The secret she uncovers binds them in ways neither can escape. What begins as confinement becomes a dangerous pull that reshapes the course of her life.

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A troubled and lost young man finds love after a major loss, one night his girlfriend is attacked by an unknown creature. Setting course drastic changes to their relationship as they try and make sense of the hopeless world around them while staying together.