Fantasia International Film Festival 2017

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The Little Hours The Little Hours
The Little Hours and Japanese Girls Never Die
68 Kill (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Trent Haaga; Writer: Trent Haaga, Bryan Smith; Stars: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Alisha Boe, Sheila Vand, Sam Eidson)
A sewage worker is sweet talked by his glamorous girlfriend into robbing her sugar daddy, but nothing goes to plan.
78/52 (Hitchcock's Shower Scene 78/52) (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Guillermo del Toro, Danny Elfman, Leigh Whannell, Peter Bogdanovich, Oz Perkins, Neil Marshall, Karyn Kusama, Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Stanley, Walter Murch, Mali Elfman, Fred Raskin, Josh C Waller)
A documentary about the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Atomic Blonde (Country: USA; Year: 2017; Director: David Leitch; Writer: Kurt Johnstad, based on the graphic novel by Antony Johnston; Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones, John Goodman, James Faulkner, Roland Møller, Sofia Boutella, Bill Skarsgård, Daniel Hargrave, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson)
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent.
Attraction (Prityazhenie) (Country: Russia; Year: 2017; Director: Fedor Bondarchuk; Writer: Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev; Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Garmash, Nikita Kukushkin, Lyudmila Maksakova, Aleksey Maslodudov, Evgeniy Mikheev, Darya Rudenok, Evgeniy Sangadzhiev, Igor Serebryanyy, Tatyana Shitova, Nikita Tarasov)
The teenage daughter of a military chief bonds with an alien after his spacecraft is shot down.
Abu (Father) (Country: Japan, Canada, Thailand, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2017; Director: Arshad Khan; Writer: Arshad Khan, Arshad Khan)
The filmmaker, who is gay, examines his troubled relationship with his devout Muslim father.
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl and DRIB
Almost Coming, Almost Dying (Kumo man) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Toshimasa Kobayashi; Writer: Manabu Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Abe; Stars: Mitsuru Hirata, Shunya Itabashi, Hanaka Kiki, Ayumi Kinoshita, Gentle Kubota, Kyô Nagai, Misoo Nô, Ayano Ohkubo, Hiroo Ohtaka, Chizuru Oki, Tadashi Sakata, Ryôko Tateishi, Teru)
Animals (Tiere) (Country: Switzerland, Austria, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Greg Zglinski; Writer: Jörg Kalt, Greg Zglinski; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski)
Reality starts to shift after a couple take a break to try to rebuild their marriage.
Another WolfCop (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Lowell Dean; Writer: Lowell Dean; Stars: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Jonathan Cherry, Laura Abramsen, Kevin Allardyce, Yannick Bisson, Michael Cleland, Jessica Hinkson, Devery Jacobs, Jerry Kuch, Joel Mamchur, Serena Miller, Chris Schaefer, Andrea Solski, Jennifer Thorp)
The town is threatened by shapeshifters.
Assholes (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Vack; Writer: Peter Vack; Stars: Peter Vack, Eileen Dietz, Betsey Brown, James Augustus Lee, Ron Brown, Richard Mark Jordan, Jack Dunphy, Catherine Bo-Eun Song, Patrick Labella, Jane Brown)
Adah and Aaron are literally Assholes.
Aztec Revenge (Year: 2015; Director: Aaron Crozier; Writer: Jeffrey Uhlmann; Stars: Mil Máscaras, Kurt Mirtsching, Kirsten Olson, Jeffrey Uhlmann, Robert Nolan Clark, Christopher Gould, Mollie Baxley, Rory Carroll, Jason Wayne Christian, Andy Cohen, Michael Derr, Michael Derr, Daniel Flynn, T.J. Graven, Jay D. Henderson)
A legendary luchador faces trouble when the head of a vengenful Aztec chief is resurrected on a college campus.
Lu Over The Wall Lu Over The Wall
Lu Over The Wall and Tragedy Girls
Bad Black (Country: Uganda; Year: 2016; Director: Nabwana IGG; Writer: Alan Hofmanis, Nabwana IGG; Stars: Nalwanga Gloria, Alan Hofmanis, Bisaso Dauda, Bukenya Charles, Kizito Robert)
Multiple tales of vengeance.
Bad Genius (Country: Thailand; Year: 2017; Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya; Writer: Tanida Hantaweewatana, Vasudhorn Piyaromna, Nattawut Poonpiriya; Stars: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Sarinrat Thomas, Ego Mikitas, Pasin Kuansataporn, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Kanjana Vinaipanid, Yuthapong Varanukrohchoke, Nopawat Likitwong, Vittawin Veeravidhayanant, Suwijak Mahatthanachotwanich, Narwin Rathlertkarn)
A genius student who makes cash from helping classmates cheat on tests embarks on her biggest plan yet.
Bastard Swordsman (Tian can bian) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1983; Director: Chin-Ku Lu; Writer: Kuo-yuen Chang, Chin-Ku Lu, Ying Wong; Stars: Norman Chu, Tony Liu, Yung Wang, Leanne Lau, Alex Man, Ching-Ching Yeung, Szu-Chia Chen, Kuan-Chung Ku, Meng Lo, Feng Kuan, Qiu Yuen, Tak Yuen, Li Wang, Wilson Tong, Siu-Kwan Lau)
Can silkworm style defeat the Invinicble Clan?
Bitch (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Marianna Palka; Writer: Marianna Palka; Stars: Jaime King, Jason Ritter, Brighton Sharbino, Eric Edelstein, Caroline Aaron, Marianna Palka, Roger Guenveur Smith, Bill Smitrovich, Sol Rodriguez, Rio Mangini, Jason Maybaum, Ren Hanami, Kingston Foster)
A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog. Her philandering, absentee husband is forced to become reacquainted with his four children and sister-in-law as they attempt to keep the family together during this bizarre crisis.
Blood Heist (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jenna Cavelle; Writer: Jenna Cavelle, Amber Coney, Jay Davis; Stars: James Franco, James McMenamin, Edy Ganem, Michelle Macedo, Carlito Olivero, Melissa Macedo, Chelsea Lopez, Shakira Barrera, Carly Tamborski, John D. Hickman, Jack Norman, Nick Pirrmann, Terrance Huff, Dakota Love, Natasha Phillips)
A group of Hollywood hopefuls botch a robbery.
Mohawk Mohawk
Mohawk and Town In A Lake
Blood On Wheels (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Melanie Aitkenhead)
Biker rape-revenge.
The Blue Man (Eternal Evil) (Country: Canada, US; Year: 1985; Director: George Mihalka; Writer: Robert Geoffrion; Stars: Winston Rekert, Karen Black, John Novak, Patty Talbot, Vlasta Vrana, Andrew Bednarski, Bronwen Booth, Tom Rack, Joanne Côté, Philip Spensley, Ron Lea, Len Watt, Michael Sinelnikoff, Lois Maxwell, Anthony Sherwood)
Trouble brews for a commercials director when he learns to astrally project.
Boyka: Undisputed IV (Country: Bulgaria; Year: 2016; Director: Todor Chapkanov; Writer: Boaz Davidson, David N White; Stars: Scott Adkins, Teodora Duhovnikova, Alon Aboutboul, Julian Vergov, Brahim Achabbakhe, Paul Chahidi, Petio Petkov, Valentin Ganev, Vlado Mihailov, Martyn Ford, Vladimir Kolev, Hristo Petkov, Boris Pankin, Bashar Rahal, Emilien De Falco)
The fighter questions his life after an accidental death in the ring.
Brigsby Bear (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dave McCary; Writer: Kevin Costello, Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney, Kyle Mooney; Stars: Kyle Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins)
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Broken Sword Hero (Country: Thailand; Year: 2017; Director: Bin Bunluerit; Stars: Buakaw Banchamek, Phutharit Prombandal)
A man who was bullied as a child is taught Muay Thai by a master.
78/52 78/52
78/52 and Let There Be Light
Bushwick (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion; Writer: Nick Damici, Graham Reznick; Stars: Brittany Snow, Dave Bautista, Arturo Castro, Christian Navarro, Angelic Zambrana, Jeff Lima, Patrick M. Walsh, Quincy Chad, Jay Hieron, Jeremie Harris, Alex Breaux, Ludovic Coutaud, Adrian Matilla, Justin L. Wilson, Myra Lucretia Taylor)
A young woman teams up with a military veteran to try and survive when insurgents bring war to the streets of New York City.
Cold Hell (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky; Stars: Violetta Schurawlow, Tobias Moretti, Robert Palfrader)
A kickboxing taxi driver becomes a serial killer's target after witnessing him at work.
Colossal (Country: Canada, Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Nacho Vigalondo; Writer: Nacho Vigalondo; Stars: Anne Hathaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson, Agam Darshi, Hannah Cheramy, Rukiya Bernard, Sarah Surh, Miho Suzuki, Christine Lee)
A going-nowhere party girl discovers a mysterious connection between herself and a giant monster wreaking havoc on the other side of the globe.
Confidential Assignment (Gongjo) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Sung-hoon Kim; Stars: Hyun Bin, Hae-jin Yoo, Yoona, Young-nam Jang, Ju-hyuk Kim, Dong-hwi Lee, Hae-yeong Lee)
A South Korean detective has to team up with a North Korean counterpart to track down a crime gang.
Dan Dream (Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Jesper Rofelt; Writer: Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam; Stars: Frank Hvam, Peter Gantzler, Casper Christensen, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Niclas Vessel Kølpin, Mia Lyhne, Magnus Millang, Kristian Fjord, Lars Hjortshøj, Jakob B. Engmann, Margrethe Koytu, Stine Schrøder Jensen, Dawn Wall, Louisa Yaa Aisin, Jelina Moumou Meyer)
In 80s Denmark, a man bets he can make an electric car.
Bitch Bitch
Bitch and Ron Goossens, Low-Budget Stuntman
Darkland (Underverden) (Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Fenar Ahmad; Writer: Fenar Ahmad, Adam August; Stars: Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ali Sivandi, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Roland Møller, B. Branco, Anis Alobaidi, Brian Siva, Hamza Al-Jabouri, Amany Turk, Marianne Mortensen, Joen Højerslev, Christopher Læssø, Dya Josefine Hauch)
A successful doctor becomes a masked warrior bent on vengeance at night.
A Day (Ha-roo, Haru) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Sun-ho Cho; Writer: Sun-ho Cho; Stars: Myung-min Kim, Yo-han Byeon, Hye-Sun Shin, Eun-hyung Jo, Hee-Jung Han, Ji Kyu Im, Yuha Lee, Jae-Myeong Yoo)
A man finds himself suffering repeated deja vu about the fate of his daughter.
Dead Man Tells His Own Tale (El Muerto Cuenta su Historia) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Fabián Forte; Writer: Nicolás Britos, Fabián Forte; Stars: Diego Gentile, Mariana Anghileri, Emilia Attías, Damián Dreizik, Mikko Aromaa, Marina Cohen, Lautaro Delgado, Fiorela Duranda, Chucho Fernandez, Tamara Garzón, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Carolina Molinari, Berta Muñiz, Pipi Onetto, Pipi Onetto)
A man who is addicted to women becomes enslaved to a sisterhood of Celtic goddesses.
Dead Shack (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Ricq; Writer: Phil Ivanusic, Davila LeBlanc, Peter Ricq; Stars: Lauren Holly, Valerie Tian, Donavon Stinson, Lizzie Boys, June B Wilde)
A group of teens on a weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the woods soon find themselves fighting off a serious threat to their lives. Not only that they must save their hard-partying parents from a predatory neighbour.
Death Line (Raw Meat) (Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Gary Sherman; Writer: Ceri Jones; Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Hugh Armstrong, June Turner, Clive Swift, James Cossins, Christopher Lee)
Cult horror re-emerges after 30 years down the tube.
A Ghost Story A Ghost Story
A Ghost Story and November
Death Note: Light Up The New World (Desu Nôto: Light Up The New World) (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Shinsuke Sato; Writer: Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba; Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Noémie Nakai, Masaki Suda, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Erika Toda, Masahiro Higashide, Mina Fujii, Sergey Kuvaev, Rina Kawaei)
The book - and the murders - are back.
Death Warrior (Ölüm savasçisi) (Country: Turkey; Year: 1984; Director: Cüneyt Arkin, Çetin Inanç; Writer: Cüneyt Arkin, Çetin Inanç; Stars: Cüneyt Arkin, Osman Betin, Funda Firat, Kemal Özkan, Kadir Kök, Nejat Gürçen, Hüseyin Peyda, Orhan Günsiray, Necla Fide, Füsun Uçar)
Ninjas, monster frogs and zombies.
Deliver Us (Libera Nos) (Country: Italy, France; Year: 2016; Director: Federica Di Giacomo; Writer: Andrea Osvaldo Sanguigni, Federica Di Giacomo)
Documentary about the practice of exorcism and how it fits in the modern world.
Don't Ever Change (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Don Swaynos; Writer: Don Swaynos; Stars: Cyndi Williams, Heather Kafka, Frank Mosley)
A woman's fan has an unusual request.
Short
Double Barrel (Iratta Kuzhal) (Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Lijo Jose Pellissery; Writer: Lijo Jose Pellissery; Stars: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Arya, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sunny Wayne, Vijay Babu, Isha Sharvani, Anil Murali, Swathi Reddy, Tharikida Sabu, Sherrin Varghese, Manu, Rachana Narayanankutty, Parvathy Menon, Asif Ali)
A gang war is sparked after a man tries to sell two precious stones that are only worth a fortune when they are together.
Tilt Tilt
Tilt and Spoor
DRIB (Country: Norway; Year: 2017; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Amir Asgharnejad, Brett Gelman, Adam Pearson, Annie Hamilton, Verona Blue, Hugo Armstrong, Dean Chekvala, Roy Abramsohn, Y.J. Gold, Joe Hartzler, Scarlett Redmond, Alexandra Marzella, John Zacchino, Kashuna Perfected, Maurice Williams)
The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.
The Endless (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead; Writer: Justin Benson; Stars: Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple, Emily Montague, Justin Benson, James Jordan, Ric Sarabia, Kira Powell, Aaron Moorhead, Shane Brady, Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, David Lawson Jr., Glen Roberts)
Years after escaping a cult as teenagers, brothers Aaron and Justin return to their former home after receiving a mysterious message. While Aaron is quickly drawn back into the fold, Justin remains uneasy.
Expo 67 Mission Impossible (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Michel Barbeau, Guylaine Maroist, Eric Ruel; Writer: Michel Barbeau, Guylaine Maroist, Eric Ruel)
Documentary about the Montreal world fair.
Extraordinary Mission (Country: China; Year: 2017; Director: Alan Mak, Anthony Pun; Writer: Felix Chong; Stars: Yihong Duan, Xuan Huang, Yueting Lang, Jiadong Xing, Feng Zu)
A cop goes undercover to break open a drug trafficking syndicate.
Fabricated City (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Park Kwang-Hyun ; Stars: Ji Chang-wook, Shim Eun-kyung, Ahn Jae-hong, Kim Sang-ho, Oh Jeong-se, Kahlid Elijah Tapia)
A gamer is framed for murder and enlists the help of his gaming pals to try to prove his innocence.
Death Line Death Line
Death Line and Replace
Fashionista (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Simon Rumley; Writer: Simon Rumley; Stars: Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Eric Balfour, Alex Assoe, Alexandria DeBerry)
A woman who uses clothes as an emotional crutch discovers her life isn't as ideal as she thought.
The Final Master (Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Haofeng Xu; Writer: Haofeng Xu, Haofeng Xu; Stars: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang, Shih-Chieh King, Yang Song, Madina Memet, Jue Huang, Aoyue Zhang, Ma Jun, Kuan Tai Chen, Xin Xin Xiong, Leon Dai, Jirong Qiu, Bo Li, Jiahao Zou)
A Wing Chun master becomes embroiled in local power dynamics when he tries to open up his own school.
Free And Easy (Country: China; Year: 2016; Director: Jun Geng; Writer: Jun Geng, Yuhua Feng, Bing Liu ; Stars: Gang Xu, Zhiyong Zhang, Baohe Xue, Benshan Gu, Xun Zhang)
When a travelling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.
Friendly Beast (O Animal Cordial) (Country: Brazil; Director: Gabriela Amaral; Writer: Gabriela Amaral; Stars: Murilo Benício, Luciana Paes, Irandhir Santos, Camila Morgado, Jiddu Pinheiro, Ernani Moraes, Humberto Carrão, Ariclenes Barroso, Eduardo Gomes, Thais Aguiar, Diego Avelino)
When a cafe is raided, the law of the jungle starts to apply as the workers struggle to survive.
Fritz Lang (Fritz Lang - Der andere in uns) (Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Gordian Maugg; Writer: Gordian Maugg, Alexander Häusser; Stars: Heino Ferch, Thomas Thieme, Samuel Finzi, Johanna Gastdorf, Lisa Friederich, Michael Mendl, Jens Kipper, Philipp Baltus, Maximilian von Pufendorf, Lena Münchow, Rainer Galke, Winfried Küppers, Alexander Häusser, Alice Gruia, Sabine Karpa)
Unconventional biopic sees the director become obsessed with a serial killer.
The Endless The Endless
The Endless and Made In Hong Kong
Geek Girls (Country: US, Japan, Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Gina Haraszti; Writer: Gina Haraszti; Stars: Anita Sengupta)
Documentary about the women in the shadows of geek culture.
Genocidal Organ (Gyakusatsu kikan) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Shûkô Murase; Writer: Project Itoh, Shûkô Murase; Stars: Yuki Kaji, Akio Ôtsuka, Yûichi Nakamura, Takahiro Sakurai, Kaito Ishikawa, Sanae Kobayashi, Satoshi Mikami)
After a nuclear holocaust, the world becomes genocidal.
Game Of Death (Country: Canada, US, France; Year: 2017; Director: Sebastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace; Writer: Edouard H Bond, Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Sebastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace; Stars: Sam Earle, Victoria Diamond, Emelia Hellman, Catherine Saindon, Nick Serino)
Seven millenials discover an obscure electronic board game and decide to test their wits against it. When it tells them they need to kill 24 people in the next 24 hours, mayhem ensues.
A Ghost Story (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery; Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Rob Zabrecky, Will Oldham, Liz Franke, Sonia Acevedo)
This is the story of a ghost and the house he haunts.
Gintama (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yûichi Fukuda; Writer: Hideaki Sorachi, Yûichi Fukuda; Stars: Shun Oguri, Masami Nagasawa, Yûya Yagira, Kôichi Yamadera, Masaki Suda, Masaki Okada, Hirofumi Arai, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Akari Hayami, Tsuyoshi Muro, Kankurô Nakamura, Ken Yasuda, Nanao, Tsuyoshi Dômoto)
A young samurai struggles to survive in a feudal Tokyo taken over by aliens.
The Laplace's Demon The Laplace's Demon
The Laplace's Demon and Colossal
God Of War (Dang kou feng yun) (Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2017; Director: Gordon Chan; Writer: Frankie Tam, Maria Wong, MengZhang Wu; Stars: Wenzhuo Zhao, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Yasuaki Kurata, Regina Wan, Keisuke Koide, Timmy Hung, Ryu Kohata, Junxiao Liu, Michael Tong, Ban Wang, Yue Wu)
Ming dynasty China is the setting for a clash between pirates and imperial forces.
Going To Brazil (Galère Au Brésil) (Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Patrick Mille; Writer: Sabrina Amara, Julien Lambroschini, Patrick Mille; Stars: Vanessa Guide, Alison Wheeler, Margot Bancilhon, Philippine Stindel, Patrick Mille, Chico Díaz, Joseph Malerba, )
Four childhood friends reunite for a wedding in Rio, only to find themselves on the run.
Good Time (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie; Writer: Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Taliah Webster, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Cliff Moylan, Rose Gregorio, Shaun Rey, Souleymane Sy Savane, Buddy Duress, Phil Cappadora, Mahadeo Shivraj, Ratnesh Dubey, Jibril Goodman, Laurence Blum)
Crime caper sees a bank robber try to evade capture.
Gurgaon (Country: India; Year: 2017; Director: Shanker Raman; Writer: Vipin Bhati, Shanker Raman, Sourabh Ratnu, Yogi Singha; Stars: Akshay Oberoi, Pankaj Tripathy, Aamir Bashir, Ragini Khanna, Shalini Vatsa, Srinivas Sunderrajan, Anna Ador, Ashish Verma, Arjun Fauzdar)
Crime thriller, based on toxic sibling rivalry.
Happy End (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jan Saska; Writer: Jan Saska)
A black comedy animation about death with a happy ending.
Short
Sequence Break Sequence Break
Sequence Break and Napping Princess
The H-Man (Bijo to ekitai ningen) (Country: Japan; Year: 1958; Director: Ishirô Honda; Writer: Takeshi Kimura, Hideo Unagami; Stars: Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Eitarô Ozawa, Koreya Senda, Makoto Satô, Hisaya Itô, Machiko Kitagawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Naomi Shiraishi, Kô Mishima, Yoshifumi Tajima, Tetsu Nakamura, Haruya Katô, Ayumi Sonoda)
The atomic bomb creates a radioactive man who can turn people into slime
The Honor Farm (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Karen Skloss; Writer: Jay Tonne Jr, Jasmine Skloss Harrison, Karen Skloss; Stars: Olivia Grace Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison, Liam Aiken, Katie Folger, Mackenzie Astin, Will Brittain, Samuel Davis, Jonny Mars, Josephine McAdam, Christina Parrish, Michael Eric Reid)
Trouble brews on prom night.
House Of The Disappeared (Si-Gan-Wi-Ui Jib) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Dae-wung Lim; Writer: Jae-hyun Jang; Stars: Do-bin Baek, Jae-yoon Jo, Yunjin Kim, Han-wi Lee, Jun-Myeon Park, Taecyeon, In-yeong Yu)
A woman returns to the house where her family died to try to solve the enigma of their deaths.
Indiana (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Toni Comas; Writer: Toni Comas, Charlie Williams; Stars: Gabe Fazio, Bradford West, Stuart Rudin, Noah McCarty-Slaughter, Sophie Auster, Suzanne DiDonna, Kadah Binkley, John D Carver, Vanessa Gally, Moli Hall, Dave O'Brien, Joann White, Lec Zorn)
Two paranormal investigators find themselves questioning their careers on a fateful summers day.
Innocent Curse (Kodomo tsukai) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Takashi Shimizu; Writer: Brazily Anne Yamada, Takashi Shimizu; Stars: Daiki Arioka, Hyunri, Mugi Kadowaki, Aoba Kawai, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Haruto Nakano, Maharu Nemoto, Naomi Nishida, Hiroyuki Onoe, Atsuko Sudô, James Sutherland, Hideaki Takizawa, Momoko Tanabe, Takashi Yamanaka, Asahi Yoshida)
After abused children go missing and reappear, only for their abusers to die, a reporter goes in search of the truth.
Good Time Good Time
Good Time and Killing Ground
It's Alive (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Josef Rusnak; Writer: Larry Cohen, Paul Sopocy, James Portolese, Larry Cohen; Stars: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphaël Coleman, Owen Teale, Ty Glaser, Oliver Coopersmith, Ioan Lov, Jack Ellis, Skye Bennett, Arkie Reece, Todd Jensen, Marianne Stanicheva, Alexis Bergemann, Michal Yannai, Gergana Bouzukova)
A mutant baby has an appetite to kill.
Jailbreak (Country: Cambodia; Year: 2017; Director: Jimmy Henderson; Writer: Jimmy Henderson, Michael Hodgson; Stars: Celine Tran, Jean-Paul Ly, Laurent Plancel, Sok Visal, Tharoth Sam, Chiva Pech, Dara Our, Kong Ka Chan, Lida Duch, Sisowath Siriwudd, Rous Mony, Dy Sonita, Savin Phillip, Sovann Rapha, Tara Vy)
A police officer escorting a prisoner finds himself caught up in a prison riot.
Japanese Girls Never Die (Haruko Azumi Is Missing, Azumi Haruko Wa Yukue Fumei) (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Daigo Matsui; Writer: Mariko Yamauchi, Misaki Setoyama; Stars: Yû Aoi, Mitsuki Takahata, Shôno Hayama, Taiga, Kanon Hanakage, Huey Ishizaki, Ryo Kase, Akiko Kikuchi, Tomiyuki Kunihiro, Motoki Ochiai, Serina, Maho Yamada, Yûrei Yanagi)
Graffiti artists daub a town with a woman's missing poster after she disappears and a gang of vicious teen girls roams the streets.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (JoJo no kimyô na bôken: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai - dai-isshô) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Hirohiko Araki, Itaru Era; Stars: Nana Komatsu, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Jun Kunimura, Yûsuke Iseya, Mackenyu, Takayuki Yamada, Masaki Okada, Kento Yamazaki, Arisa Mizuki)
A teenager with super-powers takes on a serial killer.
Junk Head (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Takahide Hori; Writer: Takahide Hori; Stars: Takahide Hori)
Stop-motion science fiction.
Tokyo Idols Tokyo Idols
Tokyo Idols and Happy End
Karmina (O Mistério de Karmina) (Country: Canada; Year: 1996; Director: Gabriel Pelletier; Writer: Ann Burke, Yves Pelletier, Andrée Pelletier, Gabriel Pelletier, Ann Burke, Yves Pelletier; Stars: Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier, France Castel, Gildor Roy, Raymond Cloutier, Sylvie Potvin, Diane Lavallée, Mario Saint-Amand, Pierre Chagnon, Alexis Martin, Mireille Thibault, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Guy-Daniel Tremblay, André Gauthier)
A vampire flees her castle after running out on her arranged marriage.
KEDi (Country: Turkey, US; Year: 2016; Director: Ceyda Torun; Stars: Bülent Üstün, Mine Sogut, Elif Nursad Atalay, Sari, Bengü, Aslan Parçasi, Psikopat, Deniz, Gamsiz, Duman)
A documentary following seven different cats through the streets of Istanbul.
Killing Ground (Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Damien Power; Writer: Damien Power; Stars: Harriet Dyer, Aaron Pedersen, Stephen Hunter, Tiarnie Coupland, Ian Meadows, Maya Stange, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Aaron Glenane, Julian Garner, Tara Jade Borg, Michael Knott, Mark Gadaleta, Jackie Dettmer, Matthew Dettmer, Liam Parkes)
A young couple camping in the woods find an abandoned tent and then a lost toddler.
Kills On Wheels (Tiszta Szívvel) (Country: Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: Attila Till; Writer: Attila Till; Stars: Szabolcs Thuróczy, Zoltán Fenyvesi, Ádám Fekete, Mónika Balsai, Lídia Danis, Dusán Vitanovics, Björn Freiberg, Dr. Gödeny György)
Two disabled lads get together with an ex-fireman and form a gang of hired assassins.
King Cohen (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Steve Mitchell; Stars: Martin Scorsese, JJ Abrams, John Landis, Joe Dante, Rick Baker)
The true story of writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen.
Poor Agnes Poor Agnes
Poor Agnes and Don't Ever Change
L'Ange Et La Femme (Country: Canada; Year: 1977; Director: Gilles Carle; Writer: Gilles Carle; Stars: Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Jean Comptois, Joe Elsnor, Conrad Peterson, Stephen J. Roth, Stephen Lack, Pierre Giard, Stefan Wohl, David Caissey, Réal Belzé-Belval, J. Léo Gagnon, Jeanne Gagnon, David Shimo, Georges Lévesque)
Love story between a woman who is brutally murdered and the angel who resurrects her.
The Laplace's Demon (Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Giordano Giulivi; Writer: Silvano Bertolin, Ferdinando D'Urbano, Duccio Giulivi, Duccio Giulivi, Giordano Giulivi, Giordano Giulivi; Stars: Ferdinando D'Urbano, Walter Smorti, Alessandro Zonfrilli, Carlotta Mazzoncini, Silvano Bertolin, Simone Moscato, Duccio Giulivi, Simone Valeri)
A team of scientists find themselves caught up in a deadly game of chance - in which they may have no chance.
Let There Be Light (Country: US, France, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2017; Director: Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko; Writer: Mila Aung-Thwin)
Documentary about scientists working to create a star on Earth.
Liberation Day (Country: Latvia, Norway, North Korea, Slovenia; Year: 2016; Director: Ugis Olte, Morten Traavik; Writer: Morten Traavik; Stars: Boris Benko, Tomaz Cubej, Milan Fras)
The story of Laibach's visit to North Korea.
The Little Hours (Country: US, Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Jeff Baena; Writer: Jeff Baena; Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Nick Offerman, Jon Gabrus, Adam Pally, Lauren Weedman, Paul Weitz, Paul Reiser)
When a runaway slave takes shelter at a convent, sexual shenanigans ensue.
Attraction Attraction
Attraction and Punk Fu Zombie
Love And Other Cults (Kemonomichi) (Country: UK, Japan, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Eiji Uchida; Writer: Eiji Uchida; Stars: Sairi Itô, Kenta Suga, Kaito Yoshimura, Hidenobu Abera, Antony, Matthew Chozick, Denden, Tomoko Hayakawa, Leona Hirota, Ryô Ikeda, Hanae Kan, Nanami Kawakami, Yoshimasa Kondô, Katsuya Maiguma, Kana Matsumoto)
A girl who once lived in a cult commune falls in with gang of delinquents.
Lowlife (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ryan Prows; Stars: Nicki Micheaux, Ricardo Adam Zarate, Jon Oswald, Shaye Ogbonna, Santana Dempsey)
When a simple organ-harvesting caper goes awry, a twist of fate unites three of society’s forgotten and ignored to unite in an attempt to save a pregnant woman from a gruesome fate.
Lu Over The Wall (Yoake tsugeru Rû no uta) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Masaaki Yuasa; Writer: Reiko Yoshida, Masaaki Yuasa; Stars: Kanon Tani, Shôta Shimoda, Shin'ichi Shinohara, Akira Emoto, Minako Kotobuki, Soma Saito)
A teenage musician attracts the attentions of a mermaid.
Made In Hong Kong (Xiang Gang Zhi Zao) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1997; Director: Fruit Chan; Writer: Fruit Chan; Stars: Kitfong Lam, Sam Lee, Wenders Li, Amy Tam, Ka-Chuen Tam, Neiky Yim Hui-Chi)
Post-colonial Hong Kong, as seen through the eyes of street punk.
Le Manoir (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Tony T Datis)
Friends celebrating New Year in a remote mansion begin to panic after finding one of their number brutally murdered.
S.U.M.1 S.U.M.1
S.U.M.1 and Kills On Wheels
The Man Who Laughs (Country: US; Year: 1928; Director: Paul Leni)
A disfigured young man who makes his living as a circus freak seeks revenge on those behind his father's murder.
The Man Who Saved The World (Country: Turkey; Year: 1982; Director: Çetin Inanç)
Two space fighters crash land on a planet inhabited only by women, are forced to become gladiators, and must battle a thousand year old wizard to save their homeworld.
Meatball Machine Kodoku (Kodoku: Mîtobôru Mashin, Kodoku: Meatball Machine) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura)
A 50-yea-old debt collector learns that he has cancer and only three months to live. But then there are those pesky aliens, who might shorten the time even more by turning him into a cyborg, and he’s not the only one.
M.F.A. (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Natalia Leite; Writer: Leah McKendrick; Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Leah McKendrick, Clifton Collins Jr, Peter Vack)
A woman who is raped goes on a rampage of vengeance.
Mayhem (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joe Lynch; Writer: Matias Caruso; Stars: Steven Yuen, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Kerry Fox, Dallas Roberts)
A lawyer betrayed by a colleague fights his way up the building to try and see the boss while it's under quarantine due to a virus that makes everybody lose their inhibitions.
The Villainess The Villainess
The Villainess and The Senior Class
Mohawk (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ted Geoghegan; Writer: Ted Geoghegan, Grady Hendrix; Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren, Justin Rain, Jon Huber, Robert Longstreet, Noah Segan, Ian Colletti, Sheri Foster, Jack Gwaltney, Guy Gane, David La Haye, Wayne W. Johnson, Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington)
Two members of the Mohawk people and their British lover are forced to flee into the woods when a group of vicious American renegades turns on them during the war of 1812.
My Friend Dahmer (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Marc Meyers; Writer: Marc Meyers, based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf; Stars: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Vincent Kartheiser, Dallas Roberts, Jack DeVillers, Cameron McKendry, Christopher Mele, Harrison Holzer, Miles Robbins, Tommy Nelson, Liam Koeth,)
Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner.
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (Mogura no uta: Hong Kong kyôsô-kyoku ) (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Noboru Takahashi, Kankurô Kudô; Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Eita, Tsubasa Honda, Nanao, Arata Furuta, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Ken'ichi Endô, Riisa Naka, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Yûsuke Kamiji, Allan Cook, Kôichi Iwaki, Sarutoki Minagawa)
An undercover cop heads on a crazy adventure involving a Yakuza boss and his daughter.
Money's Money (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Géla Babluani; Writer: Géla Babluani; Stars: Georges Babluani, Benoît Magimel)
Petty criminals pursuing a rumoured briefcase full of cash find themselves in hot water when they accidentally witness the suicide of a government minister.
Mon Mon Mon Monsters! (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2017; Director: Giddens Ko)
An initially sweet boy finds himself losing his moral compass as he gets involved with a vicious teenage gang.
Brigsby Bear Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear and Money's Money
Most Beautiful Island (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ana Asensio)
A Spanish immigrant in Aerica is tempted by the prospect of easy money.
Mumon: The Land Of Stealth (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Jun Kunimura)
A ninja master faces off against a powerful warlord.
Museum (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Keishi Otomo)
A rogue detective recently abandoned by his family tries to hunt down a frog-headed serial killer in the streets of Tokyo.
My Life As A Courgette (Ma Vie De Courgette) (Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2016; Director: Claude Barras; Writer: Gilles Paris, Morgan Navarro, Céline Sciamma, Germano Zullo; Stars: Voices of: Michel Vuillermoz, Natacha Koutchoumov, Paulin Jaccoud, Brigitte Rosset, Adrien Barazzone, Véronique Montel, Monica Budde, Anne-Laure Brasey, Estelle Hennard, Jean-Claude Issenmann, Sixtine Murat, Raul Ribera, Elliot Sanchez, Gaspard Schlatter, Lou Wick)
Stop-motion story of a boy, who is sent to a group home for orphans after the death of his mum.
Napping Princess (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Kenji Kamiyama; Writer: Kenji Kamiyama; Stars: Mitsuki Takahata, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Yôsuke Eguchi, Doug Erholtz, Arata Furuta, Rie Kugimiya, Tomoya Maeno, Chris Niosi, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Brina Palencia, Risa Shimizu, Wataru Takagi, Hideki Takahashi, Lex Wutas)
A sleepy girl's dreams of life as a princess with the power to bring the inanimate to life begin to intrude on the real world.
The Night Of The Virgin The Night Of The Virgin
The Night Of The Virgin and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Masaaki Yuasa; Writer: Makoto Ueda, based on the novel by Tomohiko Morimi; Stars: Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ryûji Akiyama, Kazuya Nakai, Yûko Kaida, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Seiko Niizuma, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Aoi Yûki, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mugihito, Ryûichi Abe, Kentarô Kokado)
A college student tries to work out how to approach the girl of his dreams on a wild night full of strange events.
The Night Watchmen (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Mitchell Altieri)
Things go horribly wrong when a group of security guards is charged with looking after the corpse of a famous clown - a corpse with ideas of its own.
The Night Of The Virgin (La Noche Del Virgen) (Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Roberto San Sebastián; Writer: Guillermo Guerrero; Stars: Javier Bódalo, Miriam Martín, Víctor Amilibia, Ignatius Farray, Rocío Suárez, Javi Alaiza)
One New Year's Eve party, Nico, a naive 20-year-old, sets out ready to lose his virginity at all costs. In the middle of the party, his gaze crosses Medea, a cunning and attractive mature woman.
November (Country: Estonia, Netherlands, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Rainer Sarnet; Writer: Rainer Sarnet, based on the novel by Andrus Kivirahk; Stars: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi, Katariina Unt, Taavi Eelmaa, Heino Kalm, Meelis Rämmeld, Dieter Laser, Jette Loona Hermanis, Jaan Tooming, Klara Eighorn, Ene Pappel, Ernst Lillemets, Sepa Tom, Tiina Keeman)
A peasant girl's unrequited love plays out against a backdrop of pagan ritual and myth.
Origami (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Patrick Demers)
A specialist in Japanese art is introduced to his latent talent for time travel.
Suspiria Suspiria
Suspiria and Tokyo Ghoul
Overdrive (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Antonio Negret)
Two car thieves who specialise in luxury vehicles get on the wrong side of a mobster and promise that if he lets them live they'll steal his rival's treasured Ferrari.
Patti Cake$ (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Geremy Jasper; Writer: Geremy Jasper; Stars: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty, McCaul Lombardi, Wass Stevens)
A New Jersey kid dreams of making it as a rapper.
La Petite Aurore, L'Enfant Martyre (Country: Canada; Year: 1952; Director: Jan-Yves Bigras)
A 12 year old girl is abused by her cruel stepmother.
Plan B (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Ufuk Genç · Michael Popescu)
Three martial arts experts are drawn into a dangerous assassination plot in Berlin's gangland, where their exploits also start attracting police attention.
Poor Agnes (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Navin Ramaswaran; Writer: James Gordon Ross; Stars: Lora Burke, Amy Marie Wallace, Robert Notman, Will Conlon, Rodney Dwira, Kate Alice Phillips, Stan Alto, Dennis Austin, Philip Contardo), Trailer
A sadistic serial killer and the private detective she holds prisoner form an unlikely bond.
Fritz Lang Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang and Bushwick
Pork Pie (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2017; Director: Matt Murphy)
A novelist who left his bride at the alter, a young car thief and an animal rights activist journey through the wilds of New Zealand together in search of redemption.
Prey (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Dick Maas)
A lion stalks the streets of Amsterdam looking for delicious humans.
Le Problème D'Infiltration (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Robert Morin)
The orderly life of a plastic surgeon begins to deteriorate when one of his patients threatens to sue him.
Punk Fu Zombie (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Gabriel Claveau; Writer: Philippe Beaulieu-Poulin, Gabriel Claveau, Jerome Cloutier, Dany Foster; Stars: Stéphane Messier, Xavier Dumontier, Tommy Gaudet, Caroline Dansereau-Loiselle, Jonathan Simon, Luke Doucet, Raoul Castonguay, Charles André-Jacques, Christian Charbonneau, Mariève Cazabon, Stéphane Genest, Maëlle Auclair, Caroline Labelle, Yanic Dansereau-Loiselle, Alexandre Fortier)
An independent Quebec is infested by zombies and only the son of its dubious hero leader can unite the ninjas, punks and rat people whose skills might save it.
Q: The Winged Serpent (Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: Larry Cohen; Writer: Larry Cohen; Stars: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, James Dixon, Malachy McCourt, Fred J. Scollay, Peter Hock, Ron Cey, Mary Louise Weller, Bruce Carradine, John Capodice, Tony Page, Larkin Ford, Larry Pine)
Quetzalcoatl moves to New York City and takes up residence atop the Chrysler Building.
Tom Of Finland Tom Of Finland
Tom Of Finland and 68 Kill
Radius (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard; Writer: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard; Stars: Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue, Nazariy Demkowicz,Terry Ray)
After a car crash a man is left with no memory... and discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Rafales (Country: Canada; Year: 1990; Director: André Melançon)
A radio host offers himself as a hostage to a robber desperate to secure the release of his brother, hoping to get the story of a lifetime.
Rage (Ikari) (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Lee Sang-il ; Writer: Shûichi Yoshida, Lee Sang-il , Shûichi Yoshida; Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hikari Mitsushima, Mirai Moriyama, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Gô Ayano, Suzu Hirose, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kirin Kiki, Masaki Okada, Eri Fukatsu, Takahiro Miura, Pierre Taki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Akira Emoto)
A murder case erodes trust in a small fishing village.
Replace (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Norbert Keil; Writer: Norbert Keil, Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Sean Knopp, Adnan Maral)
Afflicted with a dermatological disease that causes her skin to crumble away, Kira discovers that she can replace that skin with the skin of other women.
Ron Goossens, Low-Budget Stuntman (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Steffen Haars, Flip Van Der Kuil; Writer: Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil; Stars: Tim Haars, Bo Maerten, Michiel Romeyn, Henry van Loon, Thomas Acda, Don Alphonso, Jos Bakker, Pieter Bouwman, Dennie Christian, Steef Cuijpers, Karsten de Vreugd, Tygo Gernandt, Nick Golterman, Steffen Haars, Bert Hana)
A failed stunt makes Ron an internet celebrity overnight, but his girlfriend still doesn't fancy him. The only thing that could change that, she says, is if he sleeps with a famous actress.
Deliver Us Deliver Us
Deliver Us and Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
Santo Contre Les Momies De Guanajuato (Country: Mexico; Year: 1970; Director: Federico Curiel)
Two wrestlers must defend a city from deonic mummies that have risen to life due to anancient pact made with the Devil.
Savage Dog (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jesse V Johnson)
A former IRA man forced to compete in fights while a prisoner in Indonesia finds he can't escape even after his release.
The Senior Class (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Hong Deok-Pyo; Stars: Kang Jin-ah, Lee Joo-seung)
Too shy to approach the girl of his dreams, an art student creates a comic about his feelings for her instead.
Sequence Break (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Graham Skipper; Writer: Graham Skipper; Stars: Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Audrey Wasilewski, Lisa Long, Lyle Kanouse)
A reclusive video arcade technician encounters strange metaphysical forces that result in bizarre bio-mechanical mutations when a new console appears in his shop.
Le Serpent Au Mille Coupures (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Eric Valette)
A wounded gunman hides out in a farmhouse, taking a family hostage, as the police and a dangerous assassin hunt him down.
Mayhem Mayhem
Mayhem and Love And Other Cults
The Sheriff In Town (Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Kim Hyung-Joo)
A former cop turned restaurant owner is suspicious when a former adversary comes to town claiming to have changed his ways.
Shinjuku Swan II (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Sion Sono)
When adult entertainment agency Burst tries to expand, a new turf war develops.
Simon Les Nuages (Country: Canada; Year: 1990; Director: Roger Cantin)
A boy leads his friends on an adventure through a dreamland with pirates and dinosaurs.
Split (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Choi Kook-Hee)
A former bowling champion takes on a young, autistic protege.
Shin Godzilla (Shin Gojira) (Country: Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi; Writer: Hideaki Anno; Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara)
Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
A Taxi Driver A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver and Shin Godzilla
Shock Wave (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2017; Director: Herman Yau; Writer: Erica Lee, Herman Yau; Stars: Andy Lau, Wu Jiang, Jia Song)
An explosives expert has to overcome a series of challenges in order to save the lives of hundreds of people trapped in a tunnel by a crazed bomber with a personal grudge.
Spoor (Pokot) (Country: Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia; Year: 2017; Director: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik; Writer: Agnieszka Holland, Stepán Hulík, Olga Tokarczuk; Stars: Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patrycja Volny, Miroslav Krobot, Borys Szyc, Tomasz Kot, Andrzej Grabowski, Katarzyna Herman, Marcin Bosak, Andrzej Konopka, Sebastian Pawlak, Katarzyna Skarzanka, Monika Anna Wojtyllo, David Ali Hamade)
An elderly woman is convinced she knows what lies behind a spate of mysterious crimes... but nobody will believe her.
Suspiria (Dario Argento's Suspiria) (Country: Italy; Year: 1977; Director: Dario Argento; Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi; Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Alida Valli, Udo Kier)
A young ballet dancer uncovers a sinister conspiracy in this masterpiece of surrealist horror.
S.U.M.1 (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Christian Pasquariello; Writer: Christian Pasquariello, Gabrielle Pfeiffer; Stars: Iwan Rheon, André Hennicke)
A young soldier who has never left the safety of the militarised underground warrens before is assigned to a solitary lookout post in the forest where the silence begins to scare him and prompts rumination about the real nature of the enemy.
Super Dark Times (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kevin Phillips; Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski; Stars: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Amy Hargreaves, Adea Lennox, Ethan Botwick, Philip H. Ashley, Justin Rose, Kortnee Simmons, Samantha Jones, Anni Krueger, Jeffrey Alan Solomon, Bettina Skye)
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia.
M.F.A. M.F.A.
M.F.A. and Dead Shack
A Taxi Driver (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Jang Hoon; Writer: Jang Hoon; Stars: Kang-ho Song, Thomas Kretschmann, Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu, Hyuk-kwon Park, Gwi-hwa Choi, Daniel Joey Albright)
A taxi driver burdened by debt agrees to take a journalist to a city under quarantine, without really understanding what he's getting into.
Teiichi: Battle Of The Supreme High (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Akira Nagai)
A student at an elite high school is willing to do anything to get to the top.
Terreur 404 (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Sébastien Diaz)
An anthology of films about how technology can create nightmares.
A Thousand Junkies (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Tommy Swerdlow; Writer: TJ Bowen, Tommy Swerdlow; Stars: TJ Bowen, Blake Heron, Bill Pullman, Steven Weber, Dinarte de Freitas)
Three heroin addicts crisscross Los Angeles in search of relief in this comedy balanced on the fine line between reliance and dependence.
Tiger Girl (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Jakob Lass; Writer: Jakob Lass, Eva-Maria Reimer, Ines Schiller, Nicholas Woche; Stars: Ella Rumpf, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Enno Trebs, Orce Feldschau, Benjamin Lutzke, Franz Rogowski, Ulrik Bruchholz, Lana Cooper, Robert Gwisdek, Robert Maaser, Joshua Grothe, Eskindir Tesfay, Lucas Englander, Kristin Suckow, Franziska Arnold)
Margarete’s life is turned upside down when tough girl Tiger appears and starts saving her from pushy men... but things soon turn criminal.
Fashionista Fashionista
Fashionista and Game Of Death
Tilt (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kasra Farahani; Writer: Kasra Farahani, Jason O'Leary; Stars: Joseph Cross, C.S. Lee, Kelvin Yu, Alexia Rasmussen, Jessy Hodges, Junes Zahdi, Billy Khoury, Michael Zakhar, Micheal Zakhar, Kyle Koromaldi)
A documentary filmmaker whose wife is pregnant starts to lose his grip.
Tokyo Ghoul (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Kentaro Hagiwara; Stars: Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Hiyori Sakurada, Yû Aoi)
Following an organ transplant, a shy young man becomes a half-ghoul and beins to crave human flesh.
Tokyo Idols (Country: UK, Japan, Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Kyoko Miyake; Writer: Kyoko Miyake)
Exploration of the J-pop teenage girl band phenomenon.
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always The Densest Shade Of Blue (Yozora wa itsudemo saikô mitsudo no aoiro da) (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yûya Ishii; Writer: Tahi Saihate, Yûya Ishii; Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Mikako Ichikawa, Takahiro Miura, Paul Magsign, Ryô Satô, Shizuka Ishibashi, Tetsuji Tanaka)
Is the moon really only this blue in Tokyo and why doesn’t anyone else see it? Shinji and Mika would both say they’re strange and chance brings them together again and again.
Tom Of Finland (Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, US; Year: 2017; Director: Dome Karukoski; Writer: Noam Andrews, Aleksi Bardy, Aleksi Bardy, Aleksi Bardy, Mark Alton Brown, Dome Karukoski, Susanna Luoto, Kauko Röyhkä, Mia Ylönen; Stars: Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Jessica Grabowsky, Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Jimmy Shaw, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Seumas F. Sargent, Jan Böhme, Kari Hietalahti, Taisto Oksanen, Georg Kroneis, Niklas Hogner, Siim Maaten, Roy Saaristo)
Portrait of the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic work.
Animals Animals
Animals and Q: The Winged Serpent
Town In A Lake (Matangtubig) (Country: Philippines; Year: 2015; Director: Jet Leyco; Writer: Brian Gonzales; Stars: Amante Pulido, Lance Raymundo, Shielbert Manuel, Therese Malvar, Maria Veronica Santiago)
When a teenage girl is found murdered, a search begins. A local father who saw her and a friend approached there by strangers wonders whether or not he should speak up.
Tragedy Girls (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Tyler MacIntyre; Writer: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, Justin Olson; Stars: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand)
High school seniors McKayla and Sadie are obsessed with their social media presence as authorities on crime - the only trouble is, they're the hands-on type.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2: Judgment Day Special Edition, Terminator 2, T2, Terminator 2 Judgment Day) (Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: James Cameron; Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, S Epatha Merkerson, Castulo Guerra, Danny Cooksey, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley)
A Terminator robot comes back in time to protect a boy from another, more advanced killer robot.
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Luc Besson; Writer: Luc Besson, basic on the comic book by Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières; Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Sam Spruell, Alain Chabat, Rutger Hauer, Peter Hudson, Xavier Giannoli, Louis Leterrier, Eric Rochant, Benoît Jacquot)
Two special operatives go on a mission to Alpha, where species from across the galaxy meet to share knowledge, and where an evil force is gathering its strength.
Vampire Cleanup Department (Gao geung jing dou fu) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2017; Director: Sin-Hang Chiu, Pak-Wing Yan; Stars: Siu-Ho Chin, Hok-chi Chiu, Babyjohn Choi, Min Chen Lin, Meng Lo, Richard Ng, Susan Yam-Yam Shaw, Cheung-Yan Yuen)
A secret vampire-busting team tackles the living dead in Hong Kong.
My Friend Dahmer My Friend Dahmer
My Friend Dahmer and Liberation Day
The Villainess (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Jung Byung-gil; Writer: Jung Byung-gil; Stars: Ok-bin Kim, Jun Sung, Seo-hyung Kim, Seo-hyung Kim , Ha-kyun Shin)
Sook-hee is a trained assassin who was born to kill. Now she works as a theatre actress and secret agent of the South Korean intelligence services.
Le Viol Du Vampire (Country: France; Year: 1968; Director: Jean Rollin)
A psychoanalyst encounters two sisters who insist they are 200 year old vampires.
What A Wonderful Family! 2 (Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yôji Yamada)
A family tries to convicne grandpa to stop driving, but he's ready to reclaim his youth.
Wild Blood (Country: Turkey; Year: 1983; Director: Çetin Inanç)
As violence breaks out everywhere, a war veteran hides out in the bush and plots to defeat the old enemy who is after his blood.
Wu Kong (Country: China; Year: 2017; Director: Derek Kwok)
An origin story for the legendary Monkey King.
Patti Cake$ Patti Cake$
Patti Cake$ and Shock Wave
You Only Live Once (Country: Argentina; Year: 2017; Director: Federico Cueva)
A con man who makes his living by filming people and then blackmailing them accidentally films a murder which incriminates a diplomat, and has to go into hiding.
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