Movies and TvShows featuring "ferryman" theme.

Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.

April Fool's Day is a horror mystery movie from 1986. A group of college friends go to a remote island for a weekend trip. However, they soon become the target of a killer who begins picking them off one by one. As the body count rises, the friends scramble to uncover the identity of the killer and survive the night.

In the movie 'The Fare', a taxi driver named Harris takes a passenger named Penny on a journey that becomes increasingly strange and surreal. As they travel, they experience time loops, disappearances, and deja vu. Harris tries to uncover the truth behind Penny's request while grappling with his own memory loss and a black-and-white world that seems to parallel the real one. Their conversations and interactions reveal deep secrets and hidden connections, leading to a surprising and thought-provoking finale.

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.

Siddhartha is a young man who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse, the movie explores themes of love, materialism, and the pursuit of happiness. Along his path, Siddhartha encounters a courtesan, a river ferryman, and various other characters who shape his understanding of life's meaning. Through meditation and introspection, Siddhartha strives to find enlightenment and transcendence.

Frozen is a suspenseful movie that follows the story of a British woman whose sister goes missing. As she starts to investigate, she discovers a disturbing videotape and becomes trapped in a web of surveillance and secrets. With the help of a security guard, she unravels the mystery and uncovers a shocking truth. Will she find her sister in time or will she too be lost forever?

Madalena is the daughter of a boat captain in the Greek Cyclades. She finds herself caught in a fierce feud between rival boat captains, as well as a business rivalry on the island. Set in the 1960s, Madalena must navigate the complexities of love and family in the picturesque Greek islands.

In the 1890s, 10-year-old Yohan is sent away from home to survive on his own as a child laborer. He experiences hardships and overcomes his fears by relying on bravery and hope to make the best of his circumstances.

In the poverty-stricken Louisiana swamp, a male descendant of a man wrongly executed for witchcraft seeks revenge on the descendants of those who framed his grandfather. As he sets out on his mission, he discovers the sacred ground and uncovers the truth behind the death of an innocent person.

A charismatically verbose writer who befriends the resident bartender on a train ferrying dark secrets. The writer’s sanity begins to unravel as he faces a haunting truth he can’t escape.

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.

After a failed suicide attempt a woman is haunted by a malevolent figure.

An emotional fantasy in which a grieving gay man must open disbelieving eyes to the possibility of supernatural and mythological worlds in order to gain opportunity for reconciliation with a lover lost to apparent suicide.

End of the Night is a drama/horror movie that follows the lives of two brothers who get caught up in a haunting mythological world. After a tragic car accident, the brothers find themselves on a ferry to the afterlife, led by a mysterious ferryman. As they navigate through this otherworldly journey, they uncover dark secrets and question their own existence. With stunning visuals and a gripping storyline, End of the Night is a captivating movie that explores themes of brotherhood, loss, and the supernatural.

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.

In a small town, a proud mother showed off her newborn son. Upon noticing his lucky birthmark, townsfolk predicted he would marry a princess. But soon, these rumors reached the wicked king. Enraged, the king stole the child away, and sent him hurtling down the river. But the infant’s luck proved greater than the king’s plan. Iseult Gillespie tells the tale of the boy’s journey to meet the Devil.

Der Fährmann places us as passengers on an eerie railroad trip around Europe, from the darkness of night until dawn. A feeling of ethereality pervades the film, accentuated by the dense granularity and high contrast of celluloid.