A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Un an après le célèbre spectacle à la Robin des bois qui leur valut les foudres du FBI et l’adulation du public, Les Quatre Cavaliers reviennent sur scène afin de dévoiler les pratiques crapuleuses d’un magnat de l’informatique. Mais l’homme derrière leur fameux acte de disparition n’est autre que Walter Mabry, un prodige de l’informatique qui les poussera à tenter un braquage impossible afin de sauver leur réputation et révéler celui qui se cache derrière le rideau depuis le tout début.
Nicky rencontre Jess dans un bar un soir. Cette dernière le convainc de devenir sa stagiaire dans le crime. Ensemble, ils escroquent de nombreuses personnes et amassent une fortune colossale. Un jour, après avoir accompli un gros coup, Nicky abandonne Jess dans un taxi et lui demande de quitter la ville, ce qu'elle fait. Trois ans plus tard, à Buenos Aires, Nicky est engagé par un pilote automobile qui lui demande de vendre un faux logiciel à son compétiteur le plus féroce afin qu'il le batte sur la piste. Il est sur le point de réussir sa mission quand Jess apparaît.
Lorsque Oscar Diggs, un petit magicien de cirque sans envergure à la moralité douteuse, est emporté à bord de sa montgolfière depuis le Kansas poussiéreux jusqu’à l’extravagant Pays d’Oz, il y voit la chance de sa vie. Tout semble tellement possible dans cet endroit stupéfiant composé de paysages luxuriants, de peuples étonnants et de créatures singulières ! Même la fortune et la gloire ! Celles-ci semblent d’autant plus simples à acquérir qu’il peut facilement se faire passer pour le grand magicien dont tout le monde espère la venue. Seules trois sorcières, Theodora, Evanora et Glinda semblent réellement douter de ses compétences… Grâce à ses talents d’illusionniste, à son ingéniosité et à une touche de sorcellerie, Oscar va très vite se retrouver impliqué malgré lui dans les problèmes qu’affrontent Oz et ses habitants. Qui sait désormais si un destin hors du commun ne l’attend pas au bout de la route ?
Harry Goldfarb est un junkie. Il passe ses journées en compagnie de sa petite amie Marion et son copain Tyrone. Ensemble, ils s'inventent un paradis artificiel. En quête d'une vie meilleure, le trio est entraîné dans une spirale infernale qui les enfonce toujours un peu plus dans l'angoisse et le désespoir. La mère d'Harry, Sara, souffre d'une autre forme d'addiction, la télévision. Juive, fantasque et veuve depuis des années, elle vit seule à Coney Island et nourrit dans le secret l'espoir de participer un jour à son émission préférée. Afin de satisfaire aux canons esthétiques de la télévision, elle s'astreint à un régime draconien. Un jour, elle le sait, elle passera de l'autre côté de l'écran.
David Aames est un jeune et brillant éditeur new-yorkais qui a tout pour lui : l'argent, la réussite professionnelle et les femmes. Son ami Pelayo commet l'erreur de lui présenter Sofia, sa nouvelle compagne. Au premier regard, David succombe au charme de celle-ci. Tous les deux filent bientôt le parfait amour. Alors que David se dispute en voiture avec Julie, une ex folle de jalousie, la jeune femme accélère et c'est l'accident. Julie décède. Atrocement défiguré, David est transporté d'urgence à l'hôpital où les médecins ne peuvent réaliser de miracle. Sa vie bascule. Les gens ont dorénavant peur de lui et Sofia l'évite. Mais un matin, David se fait gentiment réveiller par celle-ci, qui lui déclare son amour. Les médecins lui annoncent même qu'il pourra retrouver son ancien visage. Réalité ou hallucination ?
Un vétéran de la guerre d'Afghanistan essaie de retrouver sa famille dans une Amérique post-apocalyptique.
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
The world renowned “Invincible Hand” Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz’s son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool’s step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken’s only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his “Magic Hand” once again to uncover the evil plan…
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.
As per the demands of the villagers, the government builds a dam in Vellimala. However, things take a turn when the government decides to destroy the dam as it is marked unsafe.
In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.
Jake's Closet takes you back through childhood in a suspenseful and deeply moving story that dives deep into the mind of a little boy under the stress of a fractured family.
Released in 1999, The Devil's Picturebook is a stunning collection of card material that was years ahead of its time. The card magic that Derren performs and teaches offers a rare glimpse into how he thinks about his magic, and how he constructs routines. Then, as now, the audience's emotions are always Derren's primary focus.
Over the course of three hours, The Devil's Picturebook gives the audience a detailed insight into this rare Derren Brown material. The first half explains in detail some classic card routines from his early career as a conjurer, all of which rely on sleight of hand, misdirection, and audience management. The second half features his incredible, pioneering psychological card routines and shows a distinct move towards the mentalism for which he is now known.