Subliterary
see all genres ›Source material for super-heroic commercial cinema, graphic novels and comic strips have also inspired adaptations light, loopy and goofy from the film’s earliest days.
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SUB-GENRES · Comic Book · Comic Strip · Manga
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life,...Watch Movie
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Alois Nebel
Inspired by classic film noir and rendered in mesmerizing black-and-white rotoscope animation (à la Richard Linklater's WAKING LIFE), this dark-hearted Czech drama traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political...Watch Movie
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Tales of the Valley of the Wind
Filmmaker Damon Packard lifts the underlying themes and several of the characters from Hayao Miyazaki's NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (and the manga upon which it was based) and puts them to remarkable use. Sword fights, sorcery and the usual chaotic hybrid of influences...Watch Movie
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The Phantom
Professor Davidson and his lovely daughter Diana search Africa for the Lost City of Zoloz. Legend pegs it to be the source of a vast hidden treasure. Their search is hindered by a local crook, Singapore Smith, who wants the treasure for himself. It is further complicated by Dr. Bremmer, an...Watch Movie
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Mandrake the Magician
The Wasp, the crafty head of an underworld gang, is on the hunt for a radium-energy machine developed by Professor Houston. The Wasp will stop at nothing to steal the scientist's invention. His evil machinations to obtain the device include blowing up a radio station, a power...Watch Movie
