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A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealised image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Mia is a rebellious art student who struggles to create the ultimate project for a demanding professor. Desperate to find her artistic voice, she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, to access her creativity, but taps into something much darker.
Natalia is a 19-year-old novice who reluctantly returns home to say goodbye to her dying father. However, when she meets up with her sister and her friends, she decides instead to travel the jungle and explore the spiritual world through ayahuasca.
A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night.
Between mean girls, her first romance, and budding hormones, Lucy begins to realise that she's not like the other teenagers in her class.
A hardworking and exhausted nurse battles coworkers, clients and one impatient bus driver to learn her self worth as she chases the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood.
Two desperate criminals navigate a dangerous industrial complex in real time, seeking redemption while facing mounting threats in this intense thriller.
Amaia has just given birth to her first daughter. She would prefer not to give up her career as a translator, but it’s not easy to balance it with her family and looking after a young child. When her partner goes away on business for seven weeks, the young woman capitulates and goes to stay with her parents in the countryside.
Two burnt out high school Lunch Ladies do whatever it bloody takes on their quest to become Johnny Depp's personal chefs.
Widowed preacher and leader to a small mountain community, El Señor has preached to his followers that a new messiah will appear and shepherd them into a new era. His faith is absolute, regardless of how many false prophets he has to go through. But the faith of his three daughters is beginning to waver.
After being told that his heart is failing, a man living in a dystopian future world tries to resolve family issues and deal with an insurance policy that would see him replaced by a clone.
A dramatisation of a failed US assassination mission in Afghanistan.
Fourth part of the series, sees the toddler get in on the action after his father is hired to kill a female assassin.
The assassin and his child take on another assignment.
The ronin assassin and his infant son take on a corrupt lord and his vassals.
After the rest of his family is killed, a former Shogunate executioner takes his baby son on the road with him and they make a living as assassins while awaiting an opportunity for revenge.
A ronin wanders the Japanese countryside with his child, having adventures.
Lord Retsudo musters the last of his resources in an attempt to destroy the father and son team once and for all.
A volunteer firefighter who witnesses the aftermath of a car crash finds his life turned upside down by an obscure, destructive longing.
A documentary about the 30 year career of The Grateful Dead
A lonely postman, struggling to cope, turns to his hero Eric Cantona for advice, and the footballer magically appears to inspire him.
Two young men rob a bank and hide the money in the coffin of one's recently deceased mother, but the police are on their trail.
A group a schoolboys stranded on an island quickly turn to savagery and fiercely hierarchical behaviour in this adaptation of William Golding's classic tale.
Documentary and fiction blend in a tale of ancient palaces, devoted shepherds and a young calf contemplating his fate.
A documentary about people who were sentenced to life without parole by the US court system for crimes they committed as teenagers.
Spence Cutler is a vicious psychopath who stalks his victims relentlessly without emotion, empathy or guilt. But one fateful encounter in a nightclub with a new designer drug is about to give him a dose of way too much reality.
A documentary portrait of the backyard punk scene in Los Angeles.
A look back at the extraordinary life and legacy of sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Marooned on a beach with her rock star idol, a starstruck teenager neglects to tell him that they're actually still on the same island as their holiday resort.
After a Samurai goes blind his wife makes a terrible sacrifice to try and help him, but is she doing so at the cost of their love?
A girl who once lived in a cult commune falls in with gang of delinquents.
Punk rock, magical turtles and underground sewer communities.
A documentary about a man who says he has been in regular contact with aliens throughout his life.
An Indian guru travels to North America to try and save an ice hockey player's marriage.
Chaos ensues as a partner comes close to discovering a secret lover.
A man and the woman he split up with three years previously meet by chance on a plane.
Couples at different stages of their relationships experience the different forms and directions love can take.
Two schoolkids get amorous while listening to the new Buzzcocks single.
A documentary about the internet and its impact on human experience.
The story of an eccentric millionaire's buried treasure and those who are searching for it.
A young woman recovering from tragedy becomes convinced that somebody is out to harm the child she is carrying.
A group of vigilantes sets out to bring a child murderer to justice.
A woman loses her mind after her lover is decapitated in a car accident.
Shakespeare's classic tale relocated in modern urban Melbourne.
An observational documentary exploring a fabric factory in Gujarat.
Trouble ensues when a former horror movie star, long incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, returns to the fray.
A would-be actor finds his new home haunted by the ghosts of actors past, but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
A documentary about the trans community in Puerto Rico.
Spectators Marie Kreutzer, Léa Seydoux, Laurence Rupp and Catherine Deneuve on Gentle Monster
Conflicted characters Alexis Manenti on Too Many Beasts and Flesh And Fuel
Love, not reason Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Hanns Zischler discuss Fatherland
The monstrosity of the form Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass on relatable storytelling and Magic Hour
Going off-plan Ben Wheatley on early inspirations, developing his craft and making Normal
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