Eye for Film: Beyond Fest 2026 - Features programme

About A Place In The Kinki Region (Kinki Chihô No Aru Basho Ni Tsuite) (Country: Japan; Year: 2025; Director: Kôji Shiraishi; Writer: Tetsuya Oishi, Sesuji, Kôji Shiraishi; Stars: Eiji Akaso, Miho Kanno, Atom Shukugawa)

A magazine editor disappears after reading occult articles. A freelance writer friend investigates, assembles rumours, urban legends, ghost stories. The horrifying truth about a certain place emerges through pieced information.

Anchors Aweigh (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Matt Barats; Writer: Matt Barats; Stars: Matt Barats, Serena Profaci, Mike Holt, Felipe Di Poi, Elizabeth Cappucino, Ana Fabrega)

After a thwarted marriage proposal, an alt-comedian spirals into an existential crisis.

Begotten (Country: US; Year: 1989; Director: E Elias Merhige; Writer: E Elias Merhige, Tom Gunning; Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia, Garfield White, Arthur Streeter)

Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.

Beware Boiúna (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Mike P Nelson)

Deep in the Amazon, a medical mission spirals into a fight for survival when Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator, awakens to reclaim her domain. In the jungle where nature holds absolute power, she decides who lives and who dies.

Born Invincible (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: RZA)

A widowed mother trains her two sons in a mysterious martial art form to protect their village.

The 'Burbs (Country: US; Year: 1989; Director: Joe Dante; Writer: Dana Olsen; Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman,. Wendy Schaal)

An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbours are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Beverly Hills Cop (Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Martin Brest; Writer: Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie Jr.; Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, James Russo, Jonathan Banks, Stephen Elliott, Gilbert R. Hill, Art Kimbro, Joel Bailey, Bronson Pinchot, Paul Reiser, Michael Champion)

When his friend is murdered, rough-around-the-edges Detroit cop heads to Beverley Hills. Culture clashes abound!

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Campéon Gabacho (Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: Jonás Cuarón; Writer: Jonás Cuarón, Aura Xilonen; Stars: Juan Daniel García Treviño, Leslie Grace, Rubén Blades, Eddie Marsan, Rosario Dawson, Cheech Marin, Marvin Jones III, Carlos Carrasco, Dolores Heredia)

The story of Liborio, an endearing and mischievous young migrant whose only talent is taking punches. He crosses the Rio Grande to escape a harsh reality in Mexico, looking for a better life in the United States, and settles in a Latino barrio in New York City.

Crash Land (Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Dempsey Bryk; Writer: Dempsey Bryk; Stars: Gabriel LaBelle, Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk, Noah Parker, Abby Quinn)

Three friends have spent their childhoods drinking, wreaking havoc, and filming crude stunts in their small town. Everyone hates them. Wanting to finally prove their lives have meaning, they decide to make a 'real movie'.

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Crowley (Country: Uruguay; Year: 1987; Director: Ricardo Islas; Stars: Ricardo Islas)

A virtual reality experiment gone wrong sends the soul of Aleister Crowley into the body of a shy university professor.

The Cycle (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Downey)

When the body of a man missing for 36 years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

The Dark Gets In (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Sean Hogan)

When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.

Dernsie: The Amazing Life Of Bruce Dern (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Mike Mendez; Writer: Ben Epstein; Stars: Bruce Dern, Joe Dante, Laura Dern, Will Forte, Walton Goggins, Walter Hill, Patty Jenkins, Alexander Payne)

A documentary examining the life and cinematic achievements of the celebrated actor.

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Dolph: Unbreakable (Year: 2025; Director: Andrew Hol;mes; Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme)

An intimate look at Dolph Lundgren’s untold story: his rise, struggles, and resurgence - from Rocky IV to battling cancer.

Donnie Darko (Country: US; Year: 2001; Director: Richard Kelly; Writer: Richard Kelly; Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Duval, Beth Grant)

Californian teenager is told by imaginary friend in rabbit mask that the world will end in 28 days.

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Don't Breathe (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Fede Alvarez; Writer: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues; Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Emma Bercovici)

Three delinquents break into the house of a war veteran who is blind to steal his money. However, they discover that the man is not as defenseless as he seems.

Drag (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer; Writer: Greg Yagolnitzer, Raviv Ullman; Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, Christine Ko)

Two sisters with a contentious relationship decide to rob a rural home in upstate New York. The simple robbery turns into a nightmare when one of them throws out her back and becomes immobilised on the second floor. The night spirals out of control as they embark on a painful journey to make it out before the homeowner returns.

Drifter (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Sung Kang; Writer: Sung Kang, Aaron Strongoni, Ted Chung; Stars: Sung Kang, Tamara Braun, Michael Nehring, Grant Sullivan, McCaleb Burnett, Gregory Cruz, James Pumphrey, Adam LZ, Shane Johnson, Rutledge Wood, Jully Lee, Jo Sung, Taeon Chung, Ilia Smolov, Nikita Rushmanov)

A solitary custodian at Rosamond, California’s Willow Springs Raceway, is haunted by a tragic past and saddled with generational debt, but gets the chance to enter a professional drifting contest in his battered but beloved vintage Toyota AE86 Corolla.

The Driver (Country: US; Year: 1978; Director: Walter Hill; Writer: Walter Hill; Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani)

A detective hunts a getaway driver through the streets of San Fransisco.

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The Devils (Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Ken Russell; Writer: Aldous Huxley, Ken Russell, John Whiting; Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Michael Gothard, Georgina Hale, Brian Murphy, Christopher Logue)

Ken Russell’s camp-horror psychodrama was a breakthrough film for Jarman, who was production designer.

Erie (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alison-Eve Hammersley; Writer: Alison-Eve Hammersley, Jess Kohs; Stars: Carly Stewart, Jonathan Cahill, Grant Crater, Ryan W Garcia, Matt Gossen)

Siblings Stella and Oscar return to their Pennsylvania hometown to investigate their sister Iris' unexplained death following a mysterious rise in suicides within the county.

Friday the 13th (Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Sean S. Cunningham; Stars: Ari Lehman, Jeannine Taylor, Kevin Bacon, Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Peter Brouwer, Ronn Carroll, Ron Millkie, Walt Gorney)

A series of vicious murders occurs at a summer camp.

Glass (Country: US, China; Year: 2019; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark)

A security guard uses his superhuman abilities to track down a disturbed man with 24 personalities.

The Goodbye Kiss (Arrividerci Amore, Ciao) (Country: Italy, France; Year: 2002; Director: Michele Soavi; Writer: Massimo Carlotto, Lorenzo Favella, Michele Soavi; Stars: Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Alina Nedelea, Carlo Cecchi)

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio - hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s - turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls, but his dreams of doing his time and then going straight are compromised by his association with a dirty cop.

Green Room (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Mark Webber, Joe Cole)

A young punk band is trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling on a murder committed by neo-Nazis.

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Half (Country: India; Year: 2026; Director: Samjad)

Two half-human, half-vampire siblings are run off the road and left for dead by a gang of scavengers—and they're coming back for bloody revenge.

Hallowarrior (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ben Sottak; Writer: Ben Sottak; Stars: Milly Shapiro, Shannyn Sossamon, Ajani Russell, AJ Bowen, Vic Playas, Taylor Valentine Lupini)

Desperate for companionship on a post apocalyptic Halloween night, the last girl on Earth gets more than she bargained for, when something far more sinister arrives on her doorstep.

Hinter (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Britt Falardeau; Writer: Britt Falardeau, Michael Wallden; Stars: Russell Hodgkinson, Rod Glenn, Dedra Whitt, Harold Foxx, Jenn Ruzumna)

A Deaf backpacker is hunted by something sinister in the depths of the Black Forest. After finding his friends dead, his escape leads him to a house in the woods with a farmer who speaks no English. Now, the men must decide if the other is a threat or an ally while contending with the thing beyond the door, which will stop at nothing to destroy them.

Hoffa (Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Danny DeVito; Writer: David Mamet; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, JT Walsh, John C Reilly, Frank Whaley)

The story of the notorious American labour union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organises a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organised crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Holiday (Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: George Cukor; Writer: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Buchman, Philip Barry; Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayers, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon)

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

The Host (Gwoemul) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2006; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Baek Chul-hyun, Bong Joon Ho, Ha Won-jun; Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko Ah-sung)

A toxic monster terrorises Seoul.

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Hot Dogs For Gauguin (Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: Martin Brest; Writer: Martin Brest; Stars: Danny DeVito, William Duff-Griffin, Rhea Perlman, Marton Brest)

A photographer plans to blow up the Statue of Liberty in order to take a picture and thus get famous.

House (Hausu) (Country: Japan; Year: 1977; Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi; Writer: Chiho Katsura, Chigumi Ôbayashi; Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Mieko Satô, Eriko Tanaka, Misayo Miyaka, Yoko Minamida)

A group of teenage girls go to stay at a country house only to realise it's haunted as they begin to disappear one by one.

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Imposters (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Caleb Phillips; Writer: Caleb Phillips; Stars: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett, Declan Bennett)

After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she has returned with isn't their son.

Invention 13 (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Shawn Foree, Conor Oberst; Writer: Shawn Foree, Conor Oberst; Stars: Emory Cohen, Phoebe Bridgers, Olivia Howard., Nelly Morville)

On a cold, windy night, a frustrated pianist encounters strange obstacles while trying to learn Bach’s notoriously intricate Invention 13.

In This Darkness I See You (Country: France, Lebanon, Qatar; Director: Nadim Tabet; Writer: Nadim Tabet, Antoine Waked, Jamal Belmahi; Stars: Tima Ahmad, Samer Alsammam, Tarek Bachacha, Bedro Barsoumian, Ahmad Baydoun)

Strange and life-threatening events in a construction site create tension between the Syrian workers and the Lebanese villagers. One of the workers becomes convinced that the site is haunted.

Ithaqua (Year: 2026; Director: Casey Walker; Writer: Pascal Trottier, Peter Scott Vicaire, Casey Walker; Stars: Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, Michael Pitt, Leenah Robinson, Pamela Matthews, Aaron Poole, Mara Pasley)

American mercenary Cole Franklin is recruited as a hired gun at the remote outpost of Fort William, struggling to survive the decline of the fur trade. With dwindling supplies, the keepers of the Fort blackmail Cole into leading a trading party to a nearby Indigenous village, where they discover a massacre.

Full Review See: Interview with Casey Walker about Ithaqua

Knock At The Cabin (Country: US, China; Year: 2023; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman; Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Aldridge, Abby Quinn)

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

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Kokurojo: The Samurai And The Prisoner (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, Tasuku Emoto, Joe Odagiri, Yusuke Santamaria, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Ryota Bando, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Ikkei Watanabe, Yoshimasa Kondo, Toshihiro Yashiba)

A Japanese provincial lord finds himself making an ally of one of his prisoners when his castle comes under siege.

Little Odessa (Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Guilfoyle, Natalya Andreychenko, Maximilian Schell, David Vadim, Mina Bern, Boris McGiver, Mohammed Ghaffari, Michael Khmurov, Dmitry Preyers, David Ross, Ron Brice) , Official Site

A contract killer finds a reunion with his family hard to handle.

The Lighthouse (Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Max Eggers, Robert Eggers; Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe)

A tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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Look Back (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Fuuri Nanase, Rokka Okada, Masaki Suda, Kankuro Kudo, Kayo Noro, Ryo Ikeda, Miyu Sasaki, Maho Yamada)

Fujino, a gifted and determined teenager, is confident in her talent as an aspiring manga artist while the reclusive Kyomoto rarely leaves her room, devoting herself entirely to drawing. Brought together by their shared passion, the two small-town girls pursue their dream of becoming manga artists.

Miami Vice (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Michael Mann; Writer: Michael Mann, based on the TV series by Anthony Yerkovich; Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Luis Tosar, Naomie Harris, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Justin Theroux, Ciarán Hinds, Barry Shabaka Henley, Domenick Lombardozzi, Isaach De Bankolé, Eddie Marsan)

Cop duo Crockett and Tubbs ditch their 80s pastel suits to crack - pardon the pun - down on a gang of ruthless drug dealers in style.

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Master Of The Flying Guillotine (Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan; Year: 1976; Director: Jimmy Wang Yu; Writer: Jimmy Wang Yu; Stars: Jimmy Wang Yu, Tien Wu Chu, Kang Chin, Lung CShun-erh)

After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind kung-fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.

Minotaur (Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)

A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.

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Mission (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Paul Wright; Stars: George MacKay, Rosy McEwen)

A man at the end of his tether decides to blow up his life.

Moonglow (Country: Japan, Philippines, Singapore; Year: 2026; Director: Isabel Sandoval; Writer: Isabel Sandoval; Stars: Isabel Sandoval, Arjo Atayde, Agot Isidro, Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Jhoanna San Juan)

Manila-set neo-noir about a police officer-turned-criminal under investigation by her former lover.

Musk (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Gibney; Stars: Elon Musk)

A detailed look at the tech billionnaire.

Mulholland Drive (Mulholland Dr) (Country: USA; Year: 2001; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch; Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Katharine Towne, Lee Grant, Scott Coffey, Billy Ray Cyrus)

Special two-disc edition of David Lynch's psychedelic dream.

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The Northman (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Robert Eggers, Sjón; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar, Olwen Fouéré, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassmann, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Oscar Novak)

The son of a Viking king is out for vegeance.

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Nosferatu (Country: US, UK, Hungary; Year: 2024; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, Bram Stoker; Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney)

A Gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the vampire who is infatuated with her, which brings untold horrors in its wake.

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Paper Tiger (Country: US, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Marsh Garland, Raphael Corkhill, Meredith Holzman, Cindy Katz, Patrick Murney, Jeff Adler, Rosslyn Luke, Dimiter D Marinov, Yelena Solovey, Yavor Vesselinov)

Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.

Full Review See: James Gray, Miles Teller and Adam Driver in conversation on Paper Tiger

Pathetic Fallacy (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer)

After suffering the devastating loss of his wife, a man embarks on a surreal journey to bring her back.

The Peril At Pincer Point (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Writer: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Stars: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse, Mike Mackenzie, Dashiell Upton, Jason Hogan, Mat Wright, Noah Stratton-Twine, Isobel Laidler, Oliver Woolf)

A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.

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Primetime (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lance Oppenheim; Writer: Ajon Singh; Stars: Robert Pattinson, Bokeem Woodbine, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Eric Rahill, Matthew Maher, Phoebe Bridgers, Sean Bridgers, Jessica Blackmore, Sue-Lynn Ansari, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bob Ari, Mike Harkins, Dan Matteucci, Ja'Quan Monroe-Henderson)

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

River (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Joshua Giuliano; Stars: Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern, Dane DiLiegro)

When three estranged siblings reunite in their hometown after the death of their father, they set out to scatter his ashes at his favourite spot on a remote river. But when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare.

Rogue Trooper (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Duncan Jones; Writer: Duncan Jones; Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, Daryl McCormack, Reece Shearsmith, Matt Berry, Jemaine Clement, Diane Morgan, Hayley Atwell, Sean Bean)

An adaptation of the influential British comic book following a clone soldier bred for an interstellar forever-war and his fallen comrades whose personalities live on within his gun, helmet, and backpack.

Rumble In The Bronx (Hung Fan Kui) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1995; Director: Stanley Tong; Writer: Edward Tang, Fibe Ma; Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung)

A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.

Scent Of A Woman (Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Martin Brest; Writer: Giovanni Arpino, Bo Goldman, Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi; Stars: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Venture, Bradley Whitford, Rochelle Oliver, Margaret Eginton, Tom Riis Farrell, Nicholas Sadler, Todd Louiso, Matt Smith, Gene Canfield, Frances Conroy)

A student agrees to look after a blind man... and gets more than he bargained for.

Split (Country: Japan, US; Year: 2016; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula)

Three young women kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

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Sender (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Russell Goldman; Writer: Russell Goldman; Stars: Britt Lower, Rhea Seehorn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Baryshnikov, David Dastmalchian, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Mike Mitchell, Edward Torres, Alyssa Limperis, Inger Stratton)

When packages she didn’t order start showing up at a woman's door — a blender, a corkscrew, her signature shade of lipstick — they feel so unnervingly tied to her past that it starts to feel like someone is watching her.

She Keeps Me Young (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Doron Max Hagay; Writer: Blair Beeken, Katy Fullan, Doron Max Hagay; Stars: Patti Harrison, Kate Berlant, John Early, Blair Beeken, Katy Fullan, Shay Rudolph)

Michelle is floating through life until a surprising connection with a high schooler challenges her friendship with her overbearing best friend.

Signs (Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, M Night Shyamalan)

Alien invasion as experience by Mel Gibson and his family on a Pennsylvanian farm.

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Silent Running (Country: US; Year: 1972; Director: Douglas Trumbull; Writer: Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino; Stars: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint)

An ecologist balks at the idea that Earth's last surviving plant life, preserved in space greenhouses, should be destroyed.

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The Sixth Sense (Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Jeffrey Zubernis, Bruce Norris, Glenn Fitzgerald, Greg Wood, Mischa Barton)

Psychologist tries to help a boy with a spooky secret.

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The Spiral (L'estrania) (Country: Belgium, France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Paolo Strippoli; Writer: Paolo Strippoli, Salvatore de Chirico; Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Matilda De Angelis, Adriano Giannini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)

A woman unexpectedly shows up at her daughter’s home to reveal the truth about their family.

Sundown (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2026; Director: Rebekah McKendry; Writer: Joshua Hull, David Ian McKendry; Stars: Olwen Fouéré, Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Daniel Bernhardt, David Alpay, Kyle Mac, Elisa Paszt, David Ian McKendry, Junko Bailey, Megan Best)

Three generations of women reunite in a remote cabin to avenge a loved one’s death, only to discover their captive isn’t who he seems to be, and his family is closing in, waiting for sundown.

The Swallow (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer)

A sentient, quicksand-like sludge terrorises a group of young people in this brutally efficient, effects-forward creature feature.

A Talent For Murder (Country: UK, Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Anton Corbijn; Writer: Joanna Murray-Smith; Stars: Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich, Olivia Cooke)

A strange confrontation between a youthful literary agent and author Patricia Highsmith.

Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma (Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, Jack Haven, Jess McLeod, Louise Weard)

When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.

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Ten Will (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Max DeFalco; Writer: Max DeFalco; Stars: Mikul Robins, Deborah Ann Harris, JamesFrederick101, Neil Wachs)

Tennessee Williams, a recently released convict, must race against time to register as a sex offender.

Too Late (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Dennis Hauck; Writer: Dennis Hauck; Stars: John Hawkes, Dichen Lachman, Natalie Zea, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Forster)

Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.

Trap (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Langdon, Mark Bacolcol)

A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realise they've entered the heart of a dark and sinister event.

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Under The Shadow (Country: UK, Jordan, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Babak Anvari; Writer: Babak Anvari; Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi, Bijan Daneshmand, Hamid Djavadan, Nabil Koni, Sajjad Delafrooz, Behi Djanati Atai, Aram Ghasemy, Soussan Farrokhnia, Amir Hossein Ranjbar, Houshang Ranjbar)

A mum and daughter in fear of war find they are being stalked in their home by a malevolent djinn.

Full Review See: Babak Anvari interview about Under The Shadow

Unbreakable (Country: US; Year: 2000; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard)

A man who survives a train wreck begins to suspect he may be super-human.

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Universal Soldier (Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Roland Emmerich; Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker)

Killed on the battlefields of Vietnam, private Luc Deveraux and his sadistic sergeant Andrew Scott live to fight again as part of a murky government project turning fallen heroes into obedient cyborg killing machines - but they still have an old score to settle.

Upiro (Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Óscar Martín)

In the Age of Enlightenment, Ana is sent to a remote monastery to atone for her sins. There, she finds a place plagued by a mysterious blood disease linked to a supernatural being: the upyr.

V/H/S/Mixtape (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Matt Landsman; Writer: Ernest Dickerson, Flying Lotus, Tobias Forge, David Moreau, RZA, Renee Zhan; Stars: Jihad Brent, Mike Ferguson, Erin Griff, Gwar, Alex Hsu, Neela Jolene)

This anthology where music and sound become the source of terror.

Victorian Psycho (Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Zachary Wigon; Writer: Virginia Feito; Stars: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Evie Templeton, Jacobi Jupe, Amy De Bhrún, Katherine Moran, Dagmar Döring, Kate Brady, Elishka Lane)

Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.

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The Visit (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: M Night Shyamalan; Writer: M Night Shyamalan; Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie)

Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behaviour while visiting them on vacation.

The Witch (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Eggers; Writer: Robert Eggers; Stars: Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger)

A family of New England settlers find their faith tested when their son disappears... possibly snatched by something evil in the woods.

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Welcome To G-Town (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Writer: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Stars: Danny McAllen, Stan Ross, Ruben Ross, Matthew Crawford Russell)

Shape-shifting aliens land in Glasgow.

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Wicker (Country: United Kingdom, US; Year: 2026; Director: Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer; Writer: Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer; Stars: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan)

A fisherwoman asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband.

Wild At Heart (Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch, based on the novel by Barry Gifford; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, J E Freeman, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Zabriskie, Crispin Glover, Calvin Lockhart)

Sailor and Lula go on the run, after Lula's mum bids to kill her daughter's beau.

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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Bassam Tariq; Writer: Bassam Tariq; Stars: Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone, Laith Nakli, Adia, Jahleel Kamara, Shakirah DeMesier, James Dormuth, Shawn Jain, Derrick Goodman Jr., Irene Santiago, Ali Alsaleh)

An assassin and father of three, Latif’s life is turned upside down when his wife dies. He struggles to balance his two very different worlds, but when a hit goes south and as forces close in around him, he sets off on a desperate journey to protect his children.

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