Anna And The Apocalypse
When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them.
Aurore
A teenager discovers that she can put her fingers in places where they shouldn't go.
Black Tide
An alcoholic cop investigates the disappearance of a teenager who is the same age as his son.
Blue My Mind
When a teenager who has trouble with her parents moves to Zurich with them, she starts to walk on the wild side.
Body Melt
Mad scientists perform crazed experiments on unwitting Aussie suburbanites.
Boiled Angels: The Trial Of Mike Diana
A look at the politics and courtroom shenanigans behind the first ever US conviction of an artist for obscenity.
Buffalo Boys
A man and his sons spend years in exile, working as cowboys in the American West, before returning to Indonesia bent on revenge.
Blood And Black Lace
Six models are stalked by a psychopath.
Bridegroom
A documentary about a young man whose life is turned upside down when his partner dies
Cam
A sex cam worker finds that her identity has been appropriated by a mysterious doppelgänger.
Catcalls
A man picks the wrong stranger to expose himself to.
Chained For Life
A starlet finds herself in unfamiliar territory when she appears in a film about disfigurement that features real disabled people.
Cinderella The Cat
The daughter of a brilliant builder betrayed by those close to him finds herself in deadly danger as she reaches the brink of adolescence under the watching eyes of her cruel stepmother and the local mafia.
Cold Skin
A young man who takes up the role of weather observer on a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle with sinister people from the sea.

D

The Dark
Undead and hating it, young flesh-eater Mina haunts the woods surrounding her childhood home. When she befriends a physically abused boy, she must figure out why, for once, she isn’t feeling homicidal.
The Day My Mother Became A Monster
A girl celebrating her ninth birthday notices that her mother is beginning to change in a disturbing way.
The Dead Man Speaks
A man explains what it's like to be dead.
Destiny: The Tale Of Kamakura
A woman tries to cope when her fantasy writer husband moves them to a small town regularly visited by fantastic creatures.
The Gaze
A young scientist finds her instincts taking control after she's sexually assaulted by her supervisor.
Gremlins
The cute creature Billy gets for Christmas creates chaos by producing a legion of mischievous monsters.
Heavy Trip
Struggling black metal band Impaled Rektum have the chance to perform at a big rock festival, but getting there is half the battle.
The Howling
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

I

The Invaders
A young Muslim woman is followed on her way home.
King Boxer
To win the hand of his beloved, Chi-Hao must enter and triumph in a regional martial arts tournament.
Knuckleball
A boy is sent to stay with his grandfather out on a farm, but runs into trouble with a creepy neighbour.
Lucy's Tale
Between mean girls, her first romance, and budding hormones, Lucy begins to realise that she's not like the other teenagers in her class.

M

Madeline's Madeline
A young woman with mental health issues finds herself pushed to the limit by the demands of a theatre group.
Mandy
Pacific Northwest. 1983. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is savagely destroyed by a cult, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance.
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.
Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms
An immortal girl and mortal boy meet and become friends, sharing a bond that lasts throughout the years.
Mega Time Squad
A petty drug dealer with a once in a lifetime opportunity to pull off a big score unexpectedly gains the ability to bend time.
Microhabitat
When a woman living on the breadline becomes homeless, she gains a new perspective on her life through her observations of the lives of the old friends she stays with.
Neomanila
Two assassins decide to train a boy who has been marked for death after betraying his gang.
The Nightshifter
A morgue worker is used to hearing the voices of the dead but when one day he decides to use the secrets they tell him for his own ends, he brings down a terrible curse upon his family.
The Night Eats The World
Following one hell of a party, Sam wakes up to the worst-ever morning after — blood-stained walls, an empty apartment building, and Parisian streets filled with the living dead. Even worse, he’s all alone.
Nose Nose Nose Eyes!
A 10-year-old girl witnesses a horrific incident between her parents.
Number 37
A man who has recently become partially paralysed owes money to the gangster who financed the job on which he was injured, and hatches a still more desperate plan to get it.
The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under The Stairs
An old woman finds a way to remove her fear, but can the good times last?
Our House
A young physicist experimenting with the principle of wireless electricity accidentally makes way for something from elsewhere to interact with our world - but is it a force for good or for evil?
The Outlaws
A hard-boiled cop takes on a gang of violent gangsters.
Parallel
A group of young tech developers discover a portal to a multiverse and use it for work, but they're meddling with powers they don't understand.
Penguin Highway
A schoolboy becomes fascinated by the colony of penguins that has mysteriously appeared in the middle of his town.
People's Republic Of Desire
A documentary exploring live streaming, fame and fandom in China.
Petite Avarie
When Laura learns that she has breast cancer, her partner Sylvain doesn't respond in the way she might have hoped.
Piercing
A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
Pledge
Rejected by the main campus fraternities, three young men accept a beautiful woman's invitation to undergo a hazing experience at a remote woodland mansion, only to find that their lives are on the line.
Puppet Master
A lonely woman allows a man to transform her into a puppet.

R

The Ranger
A gang of young punks on the run from the cops encounter something nasty in the woods.
Relaxer
With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
Rokuroku: The Promise Of The Witch
Two recently reunited former schoolmates try to find out what's behind a bizarre and deadly series of supernatural events.
Rondo
A invitation to cross sexual boundaries leads a troubled young man into a dangerous world.
Satan's Slaves
A family find themselves haunted by the living, the dead and non-human entities.
The Scythian
After his wife and child are kidnapped, a warrior must seek help from a prisoner in order to save them - but can either man trust the other?
Searching
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
As the end of the world approaches, two vampire clans fight it out over a human girl with special blood.
Tremble All You Want
Life becomes complicated when a young woman who has clung onto her unspoken love for a high school classmate for ten years meets him again - just after she's met somebody else.
Two Balloons
Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
Under The Silver Lake
A man becomes obsessed with the strange circumstances of a billionaire mogul's murder and the kidnapping of a girl.

V

The Vanished
A murder investigation becomes even more complicated when the corpse disappears from the morgue.
Violence Voyager
An American boy in Japan finds himself facing a legion of horrors when he, his Japanese friend and his cat decide to explore an old abandoned amusement park.
Voyager
A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.
What Keeps You Alive
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?
Who's Who In Mycology
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.
The Witch: Part 1, The Subversion
A nefarious agency has been conducting experiments on children. One of them escapes and goes into hiding with an adopted family. Ten years later, she appears on a talent show, where she's spotted by the bad guys and becomes prey for both her peers and a hit squad.
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