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Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
A writer is fascinated by the local legend of the pig people of Pig Hill, revolting creatures who breed and cause havoc in the area of Radio Tower Hill, where women keep going missing.
Aparna Rajawat, India's 16-time women's national champion in martial arts, attempts to break the Guinness World Record for most women trained in a self-defence lesson, drawing attention to violence against women in India.
A student finds herself trapped in a remote house where a ruthless couple are conducting medical experiments.
Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.
After her mother takes up the position of history teacher at the Hamelin International School in Germany, a teenager finds herself haunted by increasingly disturbing visions of the legendary piper, and a dark secret is revealed.
When a composer is tasked with finishing her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing the music could have deadly consequences.
In his quest to become Pirate of the Year, the Pirate Captain leads his crew into peril and risks losing a treasured shipmate.
Epic romp with supernatural pirates and Johnny Depp mincing about with an Essex accent
A documentary about the artist Camille Pissarro,, centred on an exhibition at the Asehmolean Museum in Oxford.
A troubled boy finds himself ostracised by local people but forms an unlikely friendship.
Two men team up to rob an office safe but they must work around a light-triggered alarm system.
Men and women perfect the art of the pitch to make their livelihood selling various products with visual demonstrations.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Chalk and cheese brothers seem fated to remain forever single in this romantic comedy. One tries much too hard, the other doesn’t try nearly enough.
A man investigating his sister's early death grows increasingly suspicious in her widower's castle full of bizarre torture devices.
It’s a Friday night and two college students plan to do drugs and order pizza. But when the home-made drug they ingest turns out to be wilder than expected, the simple journey down two flights of stairs becomes a mind-bogglingly transformative quest.
A psychoanalyst is trapped in a lift with a man who was sent to kill her.
A young novelist and her cinematographer boyfriendare waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip, who puts them up for the night. But a discovery months later recasts events.
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious 12-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
A doctor investigates a series of mysterious deaths - and apparent reappearances - in a remote Cornish village.
Tim Burton's monkeys are revolting.
The story of the environmental movement, why it matters and why it might not always be what it appears to be.
The crews of twin spaceships find themselves in trouble on an alien world where their dead colleagues mysteriously return to life.
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.
Alien grave robbers arrive on Earth in what is widely believed to be the very worst film of all time.
Just after the end of the Second World War, a tormented Holocaust survivor infiltrates a group of others who are planning to avenge themselves on Germany with a devastating terrorist attack.
A hidden grassroots organisation doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v Wade.
The plastic crisis is met head-on with tackling the solutions to deal with the over production of single-use plastics.
A teenager finds herself caught up in a web of tangled power dynamics when she joins a theatre group.
In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.
Fragile clay sculptures come to life in a bare workshop, craving more than just existence. When their sculptor abandons them, they must discover the power of belonging.
Coaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student's play, Jonathan is faced to either challenge prejudice or play it safe.
Architect Alicia, a Mexican in Panama, can’t quite seem to fit in anywhere. The only constant in her life is the 14-year-old boy Alexis, who looks after the cars parked on her street... but tragedy is about to strike.
Newlyweds Suse and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Rejected by the main campus fraternities, three young men accept a beautiful woman's invitation to undergo a hazing experience at a remote woodland mansion, only to find that their lives are on the line.
A young man with a natural talent for impersonation inveigles himself into the life of a wealthy couple.
In a not-so-distant future, amid a society madly in love with technology, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.
A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop.
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables.
Multi-textual examination of a mass-murder
A documentary about the punk legend.
A giant carp is said to inhabit a pond outside Doncaster, inspiring its own Loch Ness Monster-style legend. One night, Trevor (Tom Varey) assembles friends, families and neighbours to embark on a fishing expedition that they will never forget.
A young intersex person searches for love and a better life.
A young couple are trapped in a dry, six metre deep swimming pool with a crocodile.
A young woman with Down syndrome refuses to be defined by disability and takes control of her own life. Her ambition is to become a qualified motor mechanic.
The struggle of a closeted young genderme.
In April 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities never found the murderer - he found them, and confessed to the crime. Despite this, he was allowed to go free because of a loophole in the American Constitution.
When five teenage employees at the local cinema in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education written in blood.
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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