99 Homes
A man struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real-estate broker who's the source of his frustration.
The Beta Test
A man's life starts to fracture after he receives an unusual invitation.
Bug
A lonely woman finds romance with a stranger only for things to turn nasty when her ex-husband gets out of jail.
The Card Counter
William Tell, a for­mer ser­vice­man who became a pok­er play­er, leads a soli­tary exis­tence on the casi­no trail. His path cross­es with Cirk, a vul­ner­a­ble and angry young man obsessed with his plan for revenge and he tries to steer him away from violence.
Catch The Fair One
A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Compartment No 6
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk, but is forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner.

D

The Divide
Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
Dune
A young man must survive on the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.
Flag Day
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and conman in order to provide for his daughter.
A Hero
When an ex-con's decides to try and rehabilitate himself by returning a lost bag of coins and exploiting the media attention, nothing goes to plan.
Her Way
Marie worked as a sex work­er for 20 years. To ensure her son’s future, Marie wants to pay for his stud­ies. She needs mon­ey, quickly.

I

Inexorable
Trouble lies ahead for a family who have just moved into a chateau, after they hire a young woman as a nanny on impulse.
Jane By Charlotte
The director's portrait of her mother.
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.
John And The Hole
When a teenager finds a hole in the ground, he hatches a chilling plot.
Knives Out
A detective is called into investigate the mysterious death of a renowned crime writer.

M

The Night House
A widow struggles with grief as strange things happen in her lake house at night.
The Novice
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Nocturnal Animals
A woman is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, which she interprets as a veiled threat.
Pig
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness is forced to return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped
Pleasure
A 20-year-old woman moves from her small town in Sweden to LA for a shot at a career in the adult film industry.
Potato Dreams Of America
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.

R

Red Rocket
A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
The Shape Of Water
A woman who works in a secret government lab discovers a classified experiment.
Stillwater
An American oil rig worker attempts to clear his daughter's name in France, where she is imprisoned.
Take Shelter
After experiencing visions of impending catastrophe, an ordinary man takes extraordinary measures - but can he trust the evidence of his own senses?

V

We Are Living Things
Two immigrants to the US go in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
The Worst Person In The World
Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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