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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
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Sally and Gillian are sisters with a bewitching gift. Unfortunately their gift also comes with a dark family curse: any man who falls in love with them meets a horrible end. When Sally meets the man of her dreams, she has one final chance to lift the curse and set their love lives free. With the help of their aunts the siblings take on the dark side.
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Follow the Russo family as they vacation at the Caribbean resort where Jerry and Theresa first met. Alex's mom makes her go on the family vacation - something Alex is not too pleased about. She conjures a spell that erases her parents' fateful first meeting and puts the Russo family's very existence in peril.
6) The crucible
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
8) La Celestina
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Presents Fernando de Rojas's fifteenth-century play about Calisto, a man who falls helplessly in love with the beautiful Melibea and finds himself taken advantage of by an untrustworthy prostitute.
9) The witch
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A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
10) The beastmaster
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The Beastmaster is the gripping tale of Dar, a mythical hero engaged in a life and death struggle with overwhelming forces of evil.
11) The craft
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A supernatural horror story filled with special effects about a group of unpopular high-school girls who dabble in witchcraft. Once unleashed, the power becomes too much for them to handle, leading to a battle for control between Sarah, the new girl in the group, and power-crazed Nancy.
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Last season, the Charmed Ones and their Whitelighter Harry battled the Faction, a cabal of humans trying to steal magic for themselves, led by billionaire Julian Shea. In this new season, Mel, Macy, and Maggie will be forced to try and save the magical world from extinction and navigate a mysterious magical allergy that's keeping them apart, all while attempting to re-establish themselves in the real world as a scientist, a student, and a teacher....
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Based on the wildly popular comic book character from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight or at least he did. With his soul already damned to Hell, hes decided to abandon his campaign against evil until a series of events thrusts him back into the fray, and hell do whatever it takes to protect...
16) Dachra
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Arabic
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A young journalism student and her friends become trapped in an isolated village while trying to solve a gruesome criminal case that is over 25 years old.
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This animated film recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou, born in an African village on which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. In this second short story we are told, Kirikou must cope with a menacing savage beast that penetrates the village at night and harshly devastates its vital crops.