All The President's Men
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.
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.

D

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.
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.
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.

I

Karmadonna
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
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.
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.
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.

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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
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.
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.
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