All The President's Men
The story of the Watergate scandal from the perspective of the reporters who broke the story.
Atropia
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
Babystar
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
The Baltimorons
Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
The Battle of Algiers
A vivid recreation of the events leading up to Algerian independence.
California Schemin'
Two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled.
Carrie
A bullied teenager, pushed to breaking point, discovers something unexpected about herself.
The Curse
A Japanese girl travels to Taiwan to track down the motive behind a friend's bizarre death, which seems to be linked to strange social media posts.

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Death Does Not Exist
After a failed armed attack on wealthy oppressors, Hélène, the leader of a freedom-fighting group, finds her convictions shaken in a world that becomes more surreal with each step.
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Classic black comedy about frantic politicians trying to avert a nuclear war.
The Dutchman
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violent conclusion.
Effi O Blaenau
The tale of a young woman who learns firsthand the personal costs of societal shortcomings.
Erin Brockovich
A feisty single mother uncovers a toxic scandal.
Everybody To Kenmure Street
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Kenneth, fixated on ancestor Douglas Weatherford, descends into madness as a fantasy TV show invades his town, disregarding traditions.
First Light
An elderly nun witnesses the aftermath of a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical principles of the institution she has devoted her life to.
Franz
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
Good Night, And Good Luck
The integrity of journalism is pitted against the politics of the Cold War in Fifties America.
The Home
Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.

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Jailbroken
The day before a violent criminal is due to be released from prison, he receives a threatening call. Armed only with a mobile phone, he must somehow save his family - and himself.
Jaripeo
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Karmadonna
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
Kokuho
A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
Late Fame
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.

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Militantropos
A trio of documentarians captures the everyday realities of Ukrainian life amid the Russian invasion, exploring the fractured psyches of soldiers, survivors, and the country's youth.
Molly Vs The Machines
The tragic story behind a teenager driven to take her life by machines that were built to control people for profit.
Moulin Rouge!
Modern romantic musical based around the mythology of a famous Parisian nightclub in 1900. On re-release.
Nino
Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
OBEX
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
On A String
Fresh out of Juilliard, a young violist returns home to live with her parents in the heart of New York City. Now it’s time to play gigs in the homes of strangers and make art with friends - nothing can go wrong, right?
Orwell: 2+2=5
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
Psalms Of The People
A documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.

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Rebuilding
After a wildfire takes the family farm, a rancher seeks a way forward.
Redoubt
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community
Red Riding
After her mother's overdose, teen Red Riding moves from London to her estranged grandmother's Scottish estate, where dark family secrets, missing children, and a monstrous wolf blur reality, forcing her to fight for survival.
The Restoration At Grayson Manor
After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
Selma
Chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights.
Some Like It Hot
Classic cross-dressing comedy as two unemployed musicians go on the run from gangsters in an all-girl band.
Splitsville
Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
Think Of England
During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
Unidentified
A grieving mother, fueled by her passion for true crime, seeks answers when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert and the police investigation stalls.

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We Believe You
A mother does everything she can to protect her children from their father at a custody hearing.
The Wizard Of The Kremlin
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
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