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Head (1968)
, 1h26Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films, Political films
Actors Victor Mature, Peter Tork, Teri Garr, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith
Head begins at the dedication of a bridge. A politician is supposed to give a speech but there is a barrage of feedback from the microphone. Suddenly the Monkees (further) interrupt the ceremony by running through the assembled officials to sound of horns and sirens. The rest of the film has no overriding plot but consists of a series of vignettes highlighting the unpleasant aspects of being public figures. There is a conflict and a resolution, but the film is essentially plotless; as the opening song related: "We hope you like our story/Although there isn't one/That is to say, there's many/That way, there is more fun!" Rather, it is a seemingly stream of consciousness stringing-together of musical numbers, satires of various film genres, elements of psychedelia, and references to topical issues such as the Vietnam War. The distorted consciousness and psychedelia elements resemble an LSD trip.. Recurring images include a black box in which the group are trapped, a desert location, and a gigantic Victor Mature.
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
, 1h24Directed by Edward F. Cline, H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films
Actors Ole Olsen, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Mischa Auer, Elisha Cook, Jr.
La comédie et le film traitent, sur un mode burlesque, des us et coutumes des milieux du spectacle, du théâtre et du cinéma. Ole (Ole Olsen) et Chic (Chic Johnson) ont entrepris de tourner un film mais le producteur impose un coscénariste, Jeff. Ce dernier est amoureux de Kitty, future très riche héritière convoitée par Woody, un jeune homme fortuné. Parallèlement, Betty, la sœur de Chic, s'est éprise d'un prétendu aristocrate russe, un soi-disant comte qui est en fait un vrai prince russe mais se fait passer pour un aventurier. Quimby, un détective, vient se mêler aux divers quiproquos et en provoquer.
Bedtime Stories (2008)
, 1h39Directed by Adam Shankman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Laura Ann Kesling, Russell Brand
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman who was promised by his father, Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce), to be the manager of the family hotel. A mysophobe named Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) agreed to keep that promise when the Bronson family sold their hotel to him—then built a new hotel instead. Thirty years later, when the story begins, Skeeter is the hotel's handyman while management is held by Kendall (Guy Pearce). Barry's new hotel, the Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel, is a hit, but he's got plans to build an even more elaborate hotel, one designed around a theme that he's keeping secret.
Hook (1991)
, 2h24Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Les fées, Films about disabilities, Children's films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Lisa Wilhoit
Peter Banning is a successful corporate lawyer who spends more time at work than with his wife Moira and children Jack and Maggie. The Bannings fly to London to visit Moira's grandmother, an older Wendy Darling, to celebrate her charity work for orphans, which once included Peter. During the visit, Peter is distracted by phone calls from his office and on one occasion, shouts at his children when they interrupt him, leading Moira to throw his cellphone out of an open window. Later, while Peter, Moira, and Wendy attend a banquet ceremony hosted by Great Ormond Street Hospital, a strange presence abducts Jack and Maggie. Tootles, another of Wendy's orphans who lives at her house, informs Peter that Captain Hook took the children to Neverland. Peter dismisses Tootles' warning and calls the police instead. With no sign of the children anywhere, Wendy informs Peter that he is actually Peter Pan and that he lost his memories of Neverland when he decided to stay in London with Wendy many years ago. Once again, Peter dismisses these claims and waits for the police to find his children.
Talk Dirty to Me 3 (1984)
, 1h30Genres Pornographic
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors John Leslie, Jamie Gillis, Ginger Lynn, Susan Hart, Tom Byron, Bunny Bleu
Une parodie X du film Splash, avec Traci Lords en pleine jeunesse.
L'Enfant invisible (1984)
, 1h3Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Un enfant qui s’ennuie en vacances fait la connaissance d’une sirène transparente.
Human (1962)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Genres Drama
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satō, Kei Yamamoto, Misako Watanabe
A ship loses all means of navigation in a storm. The crew become increasingly desperate as food and water run out. The captain, Kamegoro (Taiji Tonoyama), prays to the sailor's god Kompira to rescue them and rations their food and water. His grandson, Sankichi (Kei Yamamoto), follows his grandfather, but the other two crew members, Hachizo (Kei Sato) and Gorosuke (Nobuko Otowa) rebel and insist on eating their rations of food all at once.
Magic Island (1995)
, 1h28Directed by Sam Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Zachery Ty Bryan, Andrew Divoff, Edward Kerr, Lee Armstrong, French Stewart, Abraham Benrubi
Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year-old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as he feels his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave, his nanny convinces him to read a 'magic book' that belongs to her. The book is about a pirate adventure on Magic Island. As Jack reads the book, he is sucked into the world and goes on numerous adventures with Prince Morgan, while fleeing the evil Blackbeard the Pirate. He is even saved by Lily, a beautiful mermaid, whom he falls in love with. Lily is given the power to turn into a human and accompanies Jack on his adventure. Along the way, Jack encounters sand sharks, a tree that grows the favorite food of the person who climbs it, and a cursed temple full of treasure. Jack also uses items he brought along with him in his "magic" bag to stop the pirates. Eventually Jack is able to return home. He wakes up to his loving mother, and finds that his jeans are now torn and frayed and the flag on Prince Morgan's ship has transformed into his bag—signs that his adventure may have actually happened.
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
, 3hDirected by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Annette Kellerman, Stuart Holmes, Jane Lee, Ricca Allen, Barbara Castleton, Katherine Lee
A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.
The Little Mermaid (1989)
, 1h23Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Witches in film, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Samuel E. Wright, Pat Carroll, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars
Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life and is curious about the human world. With her best friend Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts and goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle the seagull, who offers very inaccurate knowledge of human culture. She ignores the warnings of her father King Triton, the ruler of Atlantica, and his adviser and court composer Sebastian that contact between merpeople and humans is forbidden.
The Little Mermaid (1976)
, 1h24Directed by Karel Kachyňa
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Petr Svojtka, Libuše Šafránková, Milena Dvorská, Jaroslava Schallerová, Bert Schneider, Zdeněk Srstka
La petite sirène sauve un prince de la noyade et tombe amoureuse de lui. Pour vivre avec lui, elle fait un pacte avec une sorcière maléfique : sa belle voix contre une vie sur la terre... Cela semble fonctionner mais la mémoire d'une princesse étrangère le hante encore : celle qui l'a trouvé sur la plage où la sirène l'avait quitté...
, 1h8Directed by Tim Reid, Karel Kachyňa
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Fumie Kashiyama, Kōsei Tomita, Hidekatsu Shibata, Ichirō Nagai, Libuše Šafránková, Flora Balzano
The movie opens in live action Denmark. From there, a narrator explains to the audience how Denmark is a popular tourist destination. He also states that many storytellers were born in Denmark, and the most famous one is Hans Christian Andersen. After explaining how this man wrote beautiful stories, the narrator finishes the explanations by mentioning that Andersen's most famous story, "The Little Mermaid," originated in Denmark. After a brief shot of a live action ocean and the opening title card (with a mermaid song in the background), the scene dissolves to 2D hand-drawn anime.
La Petite Sirène (2013)
, 1hOrigin German
Genres Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Zoe Moore, Meret Becker, Maria Ehrich, Christian Steyer
La sirène Ondine vit avec ses sœurs Aquarella et Mélusine et son père, le roi de la mer, sur le fond marin. Mais Ondine ne veut plus peigner ses cheveux d'or, car elle est fascinée par la vie sur terre. Un jour, elle sauve la vie du Prince Nicolas et tombe amoureuse de lui. Le prince, cependant, est inconscient et est rapidement trouvé par une jeune fille, qui s'avérerait être la princesse Anne-Line. Ondine s'enfuit et se cache derrière un rocher à son arrivée. Nicolas et Anne-Line tombent immédiatement amoureux sous l'œil jaloux d'Ondine, mais Anne-Line disparaît quand elle voit approcher des gens, tout comme Ondine.
The Little Mermaid (1976)
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Mermaids in film, Children's films
Actors Valentin Nikouline, Galina Volchek, Andrei Veit
Adaptation de conte de Hans Christian Andersen.
The Little Mermaid (2018)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors William Moseley, Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, Gina Gershon, Shanna Collins, William Forsythe
L'histoire commence avec une vieille grand-mère racontant à ses deux petites-filles l'histoire de la petite sirène. Malgré leur jeune âge, les filles ne croient pas à l'histoire, jusqu'à ce que leur grand-mère leur raconte une histoire. Il y a de nombreuses années, un jeune journaliste du nom de Cam Harrison qui n'avait pas réussi à gagner sa vie part à la recherche d'une bonne histoire en compagnie de sa plus jeune sœur, Elle. Là, ils vont au cirque et rencontrent une belle sirène piégée dans un réservoir de verre. Ils sont encore plus surpris quand la sirène apparaît devant eux comme une jeune femme avec des jambes. Le duo apprend vite d'une prophétie à propos d'une petite fille née sur terre, bénie du coeur d'une sirène. Avec cette prophétie venue à la vie dans Elle, ils sont de plus enchevêtrés dans un complot sinistre d'un sorcier qui souhaite garder l'âme de la sirène et la convertir au pouvoir.