Shown as part of Channel 4's Video Fantasies series, a selection of four innovative dramas deploying state-of-the-art visual and electronic effects. This was the only one of the four that had a futuristic basis. It was set perhaps a couple of decades ahead in a world being slowly drowned by technology, a world in which traffic jams are the norm instead of the exception, and where the people avoid getting caught in the rain for better reasons than simply not wanting to get wet. The Rachel of the title is the younger sister of an up-and-coming marketing executive who has just secured a contract with a wealthy but repulsive millionaire who is into toxic waste, which he stores in secret for large sums of money. Rachel finds that, through a large bank of video screens in her sister's apartment, her wishes can come true when she brings to life the image on an anti-pollution poster. This new friend helps her to make up her mind about her own future. The style of the production was fresh and colourful, the pace slow and mo
On a sunny day five young people travel in a striking red car. After hours of travel, they are in front of a large gate that opens up offering them the way through a leafy and strange forest. A luxurious and somewhat neglected environment in which your most desired fantasies are about to occur.
Deep in the countryside, Minato Kusunoki is left in charge of a terrifying house overflowing with evil spirits or at least it was, until his extraordinary ability cleared them all out! Instead, a procession of unique and peculiar gods is drawn to the comfort of the purified Kusunoki residence, and Minato spends his days relaxing in the company of his spiritual neighbors. What else lies in store for Minato as he lives peacefully surrounded by gods?
In 1985, student of mechanics, Mohsen and his close friend Homayoun are living in poor economic conditions. They find an Inscription that can travel in time, and Mohsen travels with Antique for 24 years. Mohsen, who encounters new and far-fetched phenomena and there he falls in love with a girl named Homa. Other things happen to Mohsen that he is forced to go back to 1985 and...
The series centers around a mysterious toy that can transport its user to another world seemingly just like their own. But when the only scientist who understands it is violently killed, his wife and daughter must finally form a connection and build upon his findings or else the supernatural force unleashed by the device will destroy the rest of their family.
One day, Doctor Kroch (Henk van Ulsen) receives a chest full of gold, accompanied by a half-illegible letter pleading for help. The doctor pays no further attention to it; the patient, after all, is asking for a cure for... gold fever. When the chest is later stolen by bandits Oenk (Tabe Bas) and Boenk (John Lanting), Doctor Kroch starts to think there might be more to it after all. He decides, together with his servant Valet (Henk Molenberg), to try to find the sender of the letter, the Duke of Woestewolf (Ton van Duinhoven). During his journey, the doctor is warned by Esmeralda, a gypsy fortune-teller (Elsa Lioni). Nevertheless, he continues his journey. “Ghosts do not exist. Everything can be explained by science,” the doctor claims. But the closer he gets to Woestewolf, the stranger his adventures become.
In a dream, love starts with a stranger.
Gazing at the scenic view of the sky, a man is joined by a stranger who informs him that he is in a dream. Unable to recall the memories of his life, he relies on the visitor to take him on a journey of discovery. Revealing everything—from their seven-year relationship to the emotional hardships they faced together—the two rekindle their bond severed by time. Behind this beautiful love story, however, lies a much darker truth.
Twelve girls wake up in a secluded mansion, without knowing how or why they got there. As they realize they are locked in, the situation in the house threatens to escalate. But the mansion also harbours a dark secret. The girls are part of a medical experiment and if they don’t manage to escape they will die, one by one.
Three good friends, Bamse, Kylling, and Ælling, embark on an adventurous Christmas journey to Santa Claus's land. Along the way, they meet Santa's son, who wants to ruin Christmas at all costs. The series consists of 24 episodes about three friends who will do anything to deliver Santa's wrapping paper, gift ribbons, and his sack of To and From cards.
"I can hear people's thoughts?!"
A village girl moves to the city and unexpectedly discovers she can hear people's thoughts! This mysterious power seems to be connected to the necklace her grandmother gave her. But strangely, there is one man whose thoughts she cannot hear at all… Her grandmother once warned her: "Never trust anyone too easily.
The NBC sci-fi series Strange Days at Blake Holsey High returns 16 years after "the Science Club" graduated from Blake Holsey High and the school closed forever,.
The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation
The boring abbreviation of FSUE LUCH hides the department for combating vampires, demons and the paranormal. The loser and henpecked Kolya accidentally runs into the operatives of the "Ray", and they recognize him as the "chosen one". It is up to him to save the world from terrible evil, but no one knows what his superpower is and how to manifest it. Being chosen becomes his curse and destroys his philistine world.