Movies and TvShows featuring "miniatures" theme.
On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.
A grieving family is plagued by tragic and disturbing occurrences after the death of their 78-year-old grandmother. As Annie, the mother and an artist, delves into researching apparitions, strange events begin to unfold. Her teenage son, Peter, attends a party that ends in tragedy when his younger sister, Charlie, is decapitated. As Annie becomes obsessed with a grief counseling support group, she encounters Joan, who guides her towards conducting a séance. However, Annie unwittingly summons a malevolent spirit that possesses her and threatens her family. Annie discovers that her mother and Joan were part of a coven dedicated to conjuring the demon Paimon, and realizes that her family has been cursed. In a desperate attempt to save her son, Annie burns Charlie's sketchbook and unintentionally causes her husband, Steve, to spontaneously combust. Peter, now possessed, witnesses his mother's descent into madness before fleeing to the attic. In the attic, he discovers the truth about his family's dark secret and ultimately succumbs to possession. The story ends with Peter being crowned as Paimon in a tree house filled with members of the coven, including the decapitated head of Charlie.
The Miniaturist is a TV mini-series set in 17th-century Amsterdam. It follows the story of a female protagonist who has recently been married off to a wealthy merchant. She receives a dollhouse replica of their house as a wedding gift and starts receiving mysterious lifelike dolls from a secretive miniaturist. These dolls seem to foretell future events and reveal hidden secrets. As she unravels the mystery behind the miniaturist and the dolls, she realizes that her life is much more precarious than she initially thought.
Sandi Toksvig presents a brand-new competition series that puts the miniature making skills of 10 amateur crafters from across Britain to the test. Over eight episodes, the crafters must transform a derelict mini mansion into the ultimate fantasy house.
Best in Miniature welcomes 11 highly skilled artists from across the world to compete in the ultimate challenge: building their dream home in miniature form. The competitors will create their houses, in painstaking detail, room by room by shrinking life-size objects to 1:12 scale. While the objects may be small in stature, the stakes could not be higher.
When a woman disappears on a train, a group of passengers band together to uncover the truth. With twists and turns, they unravel a conspiracy involving spies and manipulative behavior.
In 'Alien Xmas', an alien tries to steal Christmas presents from Earth, but learns the true meaning of the holiday when he encounters a little girl and her father. Through a snowy adventure filled with surrealism and magic, the alien discovers the joy of giving and the importance of family.
As an astronaut mourns the death of her canine companions, a pet shop employee sees to help her fill the fluffy void. Unsuccessful, they both despair until a comet an an unexpected visitor descend destructively upon the city. They hatch a plan to save the day with a cosmically large game of fetch.
Gordon is in disgrace, and Thomas enjoys teasing him about it – until his foolishness sinks him into his own hole. An adaptation of the story by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry.
In Fugitive Alien, a renegade alien is banished from his home planet and goes on the run. He must evade capture while facing an alien invasion and trying to protect Earth from an attack. With the help of his spaceship, he embarks on a mission to save humanity.
A septuagenarian woman from St. Louis, Missouri has been a miniaturist, businesswoman, museum president, Girl Scout leader, teacher, student, mother, daughter, and most of all, an indomitable human spirit. Life is what you make it.
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.
Amanda's stoner slumber party is put to a halt when one of her guests is nowhere to be found.
A disillusioned man believes that true happiness lies among the stars. Fueled by his desire for a new more beautiful world, he embarks on a daring space voyage.
Über Goober focuses on the often-misunderstood, sometimes-controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers. Director Steve Metze examines several different groups including historical miniature gamers, role-players, and those known simply as "LARPers." The film also explores opposition from religious groups, negative media portrayals, and some of the meanest 'man-on-the-street' interviews ever committed to video. Meet the Gamers, learn their exotic language, see their bizarre rituals, gasp at their semi-authentic costumes, and thrill to the painting techniques on their miniatures!
A small Australian island town burned to a cinder one night. Why? In this short you will learn about the history of the autonomous municipality of Hinterborough. A broadcaster breaks down the reasons the preventable disaster that ravaged the island took hold.
A band of futuristic cutthroats terrorize the skies on board their powerful airship. After bombing a liner and stealing gold bullion from its hold, the ruffians try to escape, facing only Jack Manley, a valiant naval officer, and Marie Thompson, his sweetheart. (The surviving print lacks the story resolution, which apparently ends when the hero and the police rout the pirates and rescue the kidnapped heroine.)
The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and artifacts–in miniature.