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Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Pregnancy films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Films set in the future,
Demons in film,
Superhero films,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Disaster filmsActors Ron Perlman,
Selma Blair,
Doug Jones,
Jeffrey Tambor,
John Hurt,
Seth MacFarlaneRating69%




During Christmas 1955, an 11-year-old Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father, Trevor Broom, involving an ancient war between man and magical creatures, started by man's greed. After defeat of the magical creatures' forces, the master of the goblin blacksmiths offers to build an indestructible mechanical army for the elven King Balor. Encouraged by his son Prince Nuada, Balor orders the building of this Golden Army. The humans are devastated by the army. Balor is ridden with guilt and forms a truce with the humans: Man will keep his cities and the magical creatures will keep their forests. Nuada does not agree with the truce and leaves in exile. The magical crown controlling the army is broken into three pieces, one going to the humans and the other two kept by the elves.
, 1h58
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
War,
Fantastic,
FantasyThemes Pregnancy films,
Films about magic and magicians,
Films about sexuality,
Les fées,
Political filmsActors Sergi López,
Maribel Verdú,
Ivana Baquero,
Doug Jones,
Ariadna Gil,
Álex AnguloRating81%




In a fairy tale, Princess Moanna, whose father is the king of the underworld, visits the human world, where the sunlight blinds her and erases her memory. She becomes mortal and succumbs to illness. The king believes that eventually, her spirit will return to the underworld.
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Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films set in the future,
Demons in film,
Superhero films,
Films about psychiatry,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Steampunk films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Films set in psychiatric hospitals,
Disaster filmsActors Ron Perlman,
Selma Blair,
Jeffrey Tambor,
Karel Roden,
Rupert Evans,
John HurtRating67%




In 1944, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland. With the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, they intend to free the Ogdru Jahad—monstrous entities imprisoned in deep space—to aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin knows this will be an apocalyptic event that he believes will create a paradise. He opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, member of the Thule Society and Adolf Hitler's top assassin. An Allied team is sent to destroy the portal, guided by young Trevor Bruttenholm, who is well-versed in the occult. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyed—in the process absorbing Rasputin—while Haupstein and Kroenen escape. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone came through the portal; they dub him "Hellboy" and Bruttenholm adopts him.
, 1h47
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Ghost films,
Political filmsActors Eduardo Noriega,
Marisa Paredes,
Federico Luppi,
Andreas Muñoz,
Junio Valverde,
Víctor ElíasRating73%




Casares (Federico Luppi) and Carmen (Marisa Paredes) operate a small home for orphans in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Helping the couple mind the orphanage are Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), the groundskeeper, and Conchita (Irene Visedo), a teacher who is also involved with Jacinto. Casares and Carmen are aligned with the Republican loyalists, and are hiding a large cache of gold that's used to back the Republican treasury; perhaps not coincidentally, the orphanage has also been subject to attacks from Franco's troops, and a defused bomb sits in the home's courtyard. One day, a boy named Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the home, looking for a place to stay after being left behind by his parents. Casares and Carmen take him in, and the boy soon strikes up an unlikely friendship with Jaime (Íñigo Garcés), a boy with a reputation for tormenting other kids. But Carlos soon begins having visions of a mysterious apparition he can't identify, and hears strange stories about a child named Santi who went missing the day the bomb appeared near the orphanage.
, 1h42
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Medical-themed films,
Natural horror films,
Films about insects,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismActors Mira Sorvino,
Jeremy Northam,
Josh Brolin,
Alexander Goodwin,
Charles Dutton,
Giancarlo GianniniRating60%




In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading the deadly "Strickler's disease" that is claiming hundreds of the city's children. Entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) uses genetic engineering to create what her colleague (and husband) Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and she call the Judas breed, a large insect (looking like a cross between a termite and a praying mantis) that releases an enzyme that kills off the disease-carrying roaches by speeding up their metabolism. The Judas breed works spectacularly and the crisis is abated. The released population was all-female and designed with a lifespan of only a few months, so that it would only last one generation.
, 1h57
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
ActionThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Medical-themed films,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Blade,
Superhero films,
Vampires in film,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Kung fu films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Disaster filmsActors Wesley Snipes,
Ludacris,
Kris Kristofferson,
Ron Perlman,
Leonor Varela,
Norman ReedusRating66%




Over the two years since the death of Deacon Frost, Blade (Wesley Snipes), the Daywalker, a vampire unaffected by sunlight and who chooses to defend humans and fight other vampires, has been trying to find his mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), who survived his suicide attempt in the first crisis. Blade has been sweeping across Russia and eastern Europe, enlisting the aid of a young man, Scud (Norman Reedus), to design him a new line of gadgetry and weaponry. Blade carves his way through a large gang of vampires, sparing one, Rush (Santiago Segura), when he promises to reveal Whistler's location. Blade tells Rush he will be back for him. Blade finds Whistler locked in a tank by a gang of vampires who were keeping him alive to torture. Blade rescues Whistler and brings him back to the lair, ridding the latter's vampirism with a cure developed by Dr. Karen Jenson.
, 1h59
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Horror,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Ghost filmsActors Mia Wasikowska,
Tom Hiddleston,
Jessica Chastain,
Charlie Hunnam,
Jim Beaver,
Burn GormanRating65%




In 1887, Edith Cushing, the young daughter of wealthy American businessman Carter Cushing, is visited by her mother's ghost who warns her, "beware of Crimson Peak."
, 2h
Directed by Jeff NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films set in the future,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Disaster films,
Personne sourde ou muetteActors Michael Shannon,
Jessica Chastain,
Katy Mixon,
Shea Whigham,
Kathy Baker,
Ray McKinnonRating72%




In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams, and visual and auditory hallucinations, of rain "like motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him; but, he hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He instead channels his anxieties into a compulsive obsession to build a storm shelter in his backyard; however, his increasingly strange behavior -- including a tendency to cut ties with anyone in his life that has harmed him only in his dreams -- strains his relationship with his family, friends, employer, and the close-knit town. Curtis grudgingly sees a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history (his mother (Kathy Baker) suffers from paranoid schizophrenia that surfaced in her at about the same age that Curtis is now).
, 1h34
Directed by Guillermo del ToroOrigin MexiqueGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
HorrorThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Vampires in filmActors Federico Luppi,
Ron Perlman,
Claudio Brook,
Margarita Isabel,
Daniel Giménez Cacho,
Jorge Martínez de HoyosRating66%




In the year 1536, an alchemist in Veracruz developed a mechanism that could give eternal life. In 1937, an old building collapsed and the alchemist with marble white skin is killed when his heart is pierced by the debris. Investigators never revealed what else was discovered in the building: basins filled with blood from a corpse.