The modest and shy Zhenya is plagued by a string of misfortunes: the man she had lived with for quite some time has left her, she has lost her job, and her father offers no help because he lives with his new wife and makes decisions only with her approval. To make matters worse, her landlady keeps demanding rent when Zhenya barely has enough to survive. Her friend Masha comes to the rescue, helping Zhenya regain confidence and encouraging her to take action. While discussing possible ways out of her situation, Zhenya remembers that her grandmother possessed ancient mystical knowledge and had once shared many secrets of magic with her. The friends decide that Zhenya should inherit her grandmother’s gift — and perhaps even make a living from it.

Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.

Originally set in the 15th century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day in this innovative production. The charismatic, emancipated Nastasya, who rejects the advances of the devious Mamïrov, duly faces the implacable forces of traditional values in a society riven by divisions between liberal freedoms and religious orthodoxies. The tragic outcome engulfs everyone...

Henry was in a fatal car crash a year ago which left him depressed and isolated. His best friends take him to a secluded cottage to help with his depression but they keep having unexpected visits from a spirit that won't leave them alone.

A magician extending his work offstage takes the wrong side in a local turf war and needs all his skills to resist violence, temptation, and unintended consequences - while his enemies fight to steal his secrets. Merlin enjoys his stage shows, and has a nice little sideline in "public magic" - helping people in their everyday lives. Is the magic real? Does it matter? It's not something you could complain about. Then he's caught in the middle of an affair involving politics, corruption, and the fate of thousands of people. But that's not the real danger. A beautiful young woman comes into his life - girlfriend of his dead stepson. She has reasons of her own for wanting his secrets, and Merlin is subjected to all her erotic charm as she tries to learn his powers.

A tripped-out noir murder mystery based in London’s clubland.

HBO First Look's episode on The Phantom

Many different birds and animals have long settled on the shores of Lake Chad. One day they decided to choose a king for themselves and chose Lion. They called him the bravest, the strongest, the wisest and the most beautiful. Then a son was born to the Lion and the Lioness - a little Lion Cub. When the Lion Cub could walk by himself, he met a hyena who told the Lion Cub that he was a Lion, which means he was the king of animals, which means he was the bravest, strongest, wisest, most beautiful.

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.

Brian DePalma and Art Linson discuss how the 1987 film "The Untouchables" came together.