Screenplay: E.T.A. Hoffman

Direction Viktor Kossakovsky

Plot The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Hermann Thimig · Victor Janson · Gerhard Ritterband

Plot Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Moira Shearer · Leonid Massine · Robert Helpmann · Robert Rounseville

Plot This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest...

Direction Paul Berry

Plot On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light. The child is wary, then frightened. The...

Direction Paul Schibli

Plot An adaption of the classic tale of a girl's dreams turned reality when her new toy turns out to be a young man placed under a curse.

Direction Boris Stepantsev

Plot A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.

Direction Carroll Ballard

Cast Hugh Bigney · Patricia Barker · Vanessa Sharp · Wade Walthall

Direction Spike Brandt · Tony Cervone

Direction Stanislav Sokolov

Plot The film will be based around three of E. T. A. Hoffmann's tales ("Klein Zaches", "The Golden Pot" and "The Sandman"), with the main character being Hoffmann himself. In particular,...

Direction Lasse Hallström · Joe Johnston

Cast Mackenzie Foy · Keira Knightley · Helen Mirren · Morgan Freeman

Plot All Clara wants is a key - a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her...

Direction Emile Ardolino

Cast Macaulay Culkin · Darci Kistler · Damian Woetzel · Kyra Nichols

Plot On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie (Cohen) falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become...

Direction Eduardo Schuldt

Plot It is Christmas Eve and the Silberhaus children are excited for the festivities to begin. Marie and Fritz are playing in the children's room when their godfather Drosselmayer arrives and...

Direction Owen Hurley

Plot America's favorite pint-sized (literally) and plastic sweetheart, Barbie, stars in her very first movie. A take on the classic Christmas tale THE NUTCRACKER, this beautiful and inspirational film tells a...

Direction Denis Caïozzi

Cast Valery Gergiev · Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra · Vladimir Ponomarev · Elena Bashenova

Plot This version of "The Nutcracker" gives the classic ballet a tragic spin, with Masha (instead of Clara) now the unloved, unappreciated daughter of the Town Council President. At a Christmas...

Direction Andreas Dahn

Cast Nikolai Arnold · Bela B. Felsenheimer · Tim Bülow · Mathias Eysen

Plot Nathanael feels haunted by the alleged murderer of his father. But all efforts of his fiancée; Klara to convince him, this is all happening in his head, he turns down....

Direction Celino Bleiweiß

Cast Walter Hermann · Felicitas Ritsch · Arno Wyzniewski · Carl-Martin Spengler

Cast Vicki Attard · Siobhan Elsmann · Steven Heathcote · David McAllister

Direction Alexandre Tarta

Cast Torsten Händler · Kira Kirillova · Beatrice Knop · Vladimir Malakhov

Direction Yvon Gérault

Cast Larisa Lezhnina · Viktor Baranov · Piotr Russanov · Gennadi Babanin

Plot This is a revival of a production first staged in Russia in 1934, before the complete "Nutcracker" was ever performed in the United States. It was choreographed by Vassili Vainonen,...

Direction Ross MacGibbon

Cast Leanne Benjamin · Carlos Acosta · Luke Heydon · Leana Palmer