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Tragi-comic depiction of events surrounding the election of a new Pope in Nanni Moretti's searching, satirical sideswipe at the Catholic Church in Italy.
A documentary about the sultry, shadowy world of direct-to-video erotic thrillers — films of mysterious strangers, sexual obsessions and crimes of passion that once dominated video store shelves and late night cable.
Trapped inside their bathroom for days after a tornado ravages their home, a family of four struggles to keep their composure. That’s nothing, however, compared to what’s coming for them beyond the bathroom’s walls.
The much-anticipated film based on Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel about a mother at odds with her dangerous son.
A nightclub manager is caught between his relatives in the police force and his contacts in the Russian mafia.
A commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles into a new job cleaning the homes of several rich suburban families. While working, she tells one small lie that spins out of control.
Three friends attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island In 1950s New Zealand. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their bond. This is challenged when the school’s matron divides them.
A documentary charting the experiences of people caught up in the first major outbreak of AIDS in San Francisco.
A film about the impact of documentary The Cove on the small whaling town of Taiji.
Granddaughter of Maori chief in modern New Zealand suffers rejection for her gender.
A struggling Deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, decides to take matters into his own hands.
Three bored survivors of a zombie apocalypse adopt one of the undead as a pet, with dangerous consequences.
Two sisters, a former child star and a now disabled Hollywood actress, are bound together by co-dependency and mutual resentment.
Why are the men of Charleston, South Carolina's Porter Gaud School killing themselves? The filmmaker investigates.
A family with buried secrets reunites at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for past sins.
A couple's wedding anniversary celebrations take an unexpected turn when one tries to kill the other. Far from help, can the fleeing woman figure out what's going on in time to ensure her survival?
During the 1990s, at a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a man known as Mads Lake confessed to multiple murders and was convicted. However, the uneasy triumvirate of Mads, therapist Anna Rudebeck and policeman Soren Rank all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, while a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all.
A young woman tries to survive in a post-Apocalyptic world.
Bridget returns home to Chicago at her brother’s urging to deal with her mother’s Alzheimer’s and her father’s reluctance to let go of their life together.
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
A trio of friends are starting high school when their friend vanishes. With the police unable, or unwilling to find her, they take it upon themselves to find out what happened her, undertaking a harrowing journey that will change them all.
After a lifetime of bus rides to the US to visit his children, Julián quietly starts building a house in rural Mexico. In filming his work, his granddaughter crafts a personal and poetic love letter to him and his homeland.
A chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa where he assumes another man's identity.
A couple go to stay in a mountain cabin to have one last go at saving their marriage.
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
A woman and her brother seek revenge against a mysterious stalker.
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.
Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, which is spearheaded by no less than the president of the country, Rodrigo Duterte.
The challenges faced by filmmaker DaSilva, who was diagnosed with a rapidly progressing form of multiple sclerosis and who finds himself 'trapped' by the US medicaid system.
A chance meeting leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of, and complicity in, a bullying incident which took place 50 years ago.
A documentary about Mexploitation movies, luchadores, true love, unhealthy obsession and a mysterious disappearance.
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.
A family of murderous sideshow performers travels around the world on the dying carnival circuit.
After moving into an old isolated house with her newly-single mother and her little sister, 12-year-old Cassie begins to suspect that her family is being tormented by the spirit of a sadistic river witch.
A documentary about the artist John McLean and his experience of Parkinson's disease.
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorised, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother.
Two former soldiers turned performers accidentally find themselves shacked up for Christmas in a lodge owned by their former commander.
A filmmaker sets out to walk 1,500 miles across the US wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.
A doctor refers a woman with an acute and painful sensitivity to sound to an experiment in therapy involving the world's quietest room.
A man hired to photograph a wedding at an estate seized from indigenous people becomes obsessed with the bride to be after discovering she is underage.
A newly wed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her lovelife, but instead gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
An off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
A deep dive into the decades-long quest by America's conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of white victimisation.
An unstable loner lives a violent life until he captures the attention of a sweet young woman - but is she to be his salvation or his next victim?
A young trombone player spends an adventurous night trying to open an impossible bottle of wine after carrying an unconscious woman back to her flat, in which everything seems to be on the verge of falling over.
Adam and Margo's housewarming party is a success. One couple, who claim to be wealthy neighbours, linger afterwards. As one nightcap leads to another, Adam and Margo suspect their new friends are duplicitous strangers.
A documentary portrait of the Jeopardy winner and activist.
The story behind the song Who Let The Dogs Out, which became a hit for the Bahamian group Baha Men in 1998.
The story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, which preserved the stories of Jews who lived and died in the Warsaw ghetto.
A dark action comedy about a group of people brought together in the apartment of police detective Andrei: his resentful daughter, an angry thug and a cheated cop. Each one of them have a reason to want revenge.
Like being a magician Corin Hardy on the art of illusion, emotional world building and Whistle
Embracing vulnerability Sophie Hyde on language, identity, the freedom to explore, and Jimpa
Twinless in real life Nurse Annabel Southern remembers her twin sister Jo and how it felt to lose her
Questioning intimacy Blake Winston Rice on the challenges of short films, and Disc
Making it Michael Townsend on Tape Art, art education and Secret Mall Apartment
This land of ours Max Keegan on the ancient conflicts underlying The Shepherd And The Bear
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