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11 movies and shows

The Truman Show

The Truman Show

Thu, 04 Jun 1998

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

Bubbles

Bubbles

Fri, 31 Jan 1930

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song "The Land of Let's Pretend" as part of the vaudeville act "The Gumm Sisters".

The Merry Mutineers

The Merry Mutineers

Fri, 02 Oct 1936

Two little boys "battle" their toy pirate ships in a pool. The crews of both sea vessels are made of caricatures of such 30's era stars as Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), the Three Stooges, Wallace Beery, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.

It's Just A Game

It's Just A Game

Sat, 28 Apr 2018

A group of children begin playing a game of Nerf at Ryan’s Birthday party. However, when their imaginations get away from them we start to see how each kid truly sees themselves​.

Dookudu

Dookudu

Fri, 23 Sep 2011

To protect his father recovering from a coma, a relentless cop must pose as the political leader his father always envisioned while hunting the men who tried to kill him.

One-Penny Youth

One-Penny Youth

Sun, 01 Jan 1967

A newly wed couple cannot pay the installments for their house. Thus, Irene finds a secretary position at the firm George is working at, pretending she is George's sister. The company director, a womanizer, is flirting with her and asks her to marry him, while his sister starts flirting with George . . .

The Great Madcap

The Great Madcap

Fri, 25 Nov 1949

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

Park City

Park City

Sun, 21 Aug 2011

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

The Little Gangster

The Little Gangster

Wed, 29 Apr 2015

Rik and his dad Paul are bullied by the kids in their neighbourhood. Rik wishes his dad would be tougher. Inspired by a mafia movie he saw on TV, Rik fantasizes about being the son of a mafia boss. Everybody would show him respect. So when his dad is promoted and they move to a new town, Rik decides to tell everybody his dad really is a Mafia boss - but what happens when his lies turn against him?

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers

Sun, 09 Mar 1924

This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.

Witch

Witch

Thu, 12 Apr 2018

The precocious and fiercely independent Aima tells her babysitter that the Witch they created in a game of make-believe will never stop chasing them. While the babysitter initially tries to deny Aima’s insistence that the Witch is evil, soon they follow Aima into a world where imagination rules and wildness, magic, and delight are hidden around every corner. Their adventures bring them together with fairies, ghosts, star-lovers, and UFOs, and as they march toward their showdown with the Witch, the unreal becomes reality and the lines between good and evil are blurred. As Aima and her babysitter draw closer and closer to facing down the Witch and the source of her powers, the babysitter must come to terms with what they lost and gained by growing up and learns that sometimes we have to let go to return.