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The Leader and Corpus

5 More Minutes (Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera; Writer: Javier Ruiz Caldera; Stars: Berto Romero, Belén Cuesta, Javier Cámara, Carlos Bernardino, Marc Soler, Cláudia Mello, Puchi Lagarde, Tian Tosas, Nia Tosas)

A husband and wife in an ailing marriage discover that actions really do have consequences in this twist on the time loop motif.

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Bloody Tennis (Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Nikias Chryssos; Writer: Nikias Chryssos; Stars: Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Elina Löwensohn, Tracy Gotoas, Lily Taïeb, Juliana Vieira-Guerra, Helena Zengel, Lucie Zhang, Vincent Romeo, Zlatko Burić)

Sophie joins a prestigious tennis academy, where the brutality of competitive sports is taken to its extreme.

Breeder (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Goyette; Writer: Alex Goyette; Stars: Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, Tanaya Beatty, Paige McGarvin, Carmen Moore, Lillian Doucet-Roche, Rochelle Greenwood, Charlotte Kavanagh, John Murphy, Isla Spencer, Guy Christie, jen araki-playfair, Tegan Bradlee Arychuk)

An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he soon learns, there’s a catch.

Corpus (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Corrin Evans; Writer: Lily Cowles, Corrin Evans; Stars: Jeff Wahlberg, Brodie Townsend, Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Nuha Jes Izman, Ching Valdes-Aran)

Three young men travel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.

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The Daughters (Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Romero; Writer: Asier Gerricoecehbarria, Daniel Romero; Stars: Yune Moguerias, Edurne Azkarate, Jone Laspiur, Karra Elejalde)

A psychological thriller with a gothic atmosphere about a girl whose fate is to be an obedient daughter to her captor.

5 More Minutes and Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

The Leader (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Michael J Gallagher; Writer: Michael J Gallagher; Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga, Jim Parsons, Grace Caroline Currey, Simon Rex, Kaitlyn Kemp, JB Yowell)

In 1997, 39 members of the American cult known as Heaven's Gate committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.

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Nervous (Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Ko Asung, Sungsoo Yune)

Sarah and her husband Sungsoo move to the Korean countryside in the hope of saving their crumbling marriage. But their new home hides a strange secret - an unmarked vinyl record that plays nothing but silence. After listening to it, Sarah slowly begins to lose the ability to hear men’s voices.

Red Snow (Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Ilja Rautsi)

A vampire posing as Santa Claus invades the home of a family whose rebellious teenage daughter wants only one thing: to become a vampire herself and escape her miserable life.

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.

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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