Movies: Octavia Peissel

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet....

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance paintin...

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events....

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him....

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef....

In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey....

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling....

Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story....

In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises....

Inside a grand Parisian apartment lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady, lives a monster....