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Brother's Keeper and Boiling Point
Boiling Point
(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Philip Barantini; Writer: James Cummings, Philip Barantini; Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Jason Flemyng, Ray Panthaki, Malachi Kirby, Alice Feetham, izuka Hoyle, Hannah Walters, Taz Skylar, Lauryn Ajufo)
The shift has hardly begun for head chef Andy and he’s already behind with everything. His restaurant is overbooked, there’s a disgruntled inspector combing the kitchen and, if that weren’t enough, a culinary icon and a respected food critic have turned up for dinner.
Brother's Keeper (Okul Tıraşı)
(Country: Turkey, Romania; Year: 2021; Director: Ferit Karahan; Writer: Gülistan Acet, Ferit Karahan; Stars: Samet Yıldız, Ekin Koç, Mahir İpek, Melih Selçuk, Cansu Fırıncı, Nurullah Alaca)
When a boy falls ill at an authoritarian boarding school, his friend struggles to get the staff to take notice.
Bull
(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Tamzin Outhwaite, Neil Maskell, David Hayman)
Bull mysteriously returns home after a 10 year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him all those years ago.
Encounter
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2021; Director: Michael Pearce; Writer: Joe Barton, Michael Pearce; Stars: Janina Gavankar, Octavia Spencer, Riz Ahmed, Rory Cochrane, Keith Szarabajka, Shane McRae, Antonio Jaramillo, Lucian-River Chauhan, Aditya Geddada, Bill Dawes, Brennan Keel Cook, Alisha Seaton, Stefan Sims, Melissa Jo Bailey, Peter Nikkos)
A man fearing an alien invasion goes on the run with his sons.
Hellbound
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2021; Director: Yeon Sang-ho; Writer: Choi Kyu-Seok, YeonSang-ho; Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hyun-joo, Jeong Min Park, Won Jin-ah)
After people receive a text message telling them when they are going to hell and demon rocks up to oblige, setting a detective on a hunt for the truth.
See For Me and Wild Indian
Hinterland
(Country: Austria, Luxembourg; Year: 2021; Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky; Writer: Robert Buchschwenter, Hanno Pinter, Stefan Ruzowitzky; Stars: Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries, Marc Limpach, Max von der Groeben, Maximillien Jadin, Timo Wagner, Aaron Friesz, Stipe Erceg, Trystan Pütter, Germain Wagner, Matthias Schweighöfer, Margarete Tiesel, Nilton Martins, Jeanne Werner, Konstantin Rommelfangen)
Returning to a Vienna they hardly recognise after two years in a Russian PoW camp, a group of Austrian soldiers are hunted by a sadistic serial killer.
Munich: The Edge Of War
(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Christian Schwochow; Writer: Ben Power adapted from the novel by Robert Harris; Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, George MacKay, Jeremy Irons, Anjli Mohindra, Alex Jennings, Robert Bathurst, Mark Lewis Jones, August Diehl, Sandra Hüller, Liv Lisa Fries, Jannis Niewöhner, Tina Louise Owens, Genevieve Florence, Nicholas Shaw, Helen Clyro)
Political thriller set against the backdrop of autumn 1938 with Europe on the brink of war.
See For Me
(Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Randall Okita; Writer: Adam Yorke, Tommy Gushue; Stars: Skyler Davenport, Kim Coates, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Laura Vandervoort, Matthew Gouveia, Keaton Kaplan, Pascal Langdale, Emily Piggford, Joe Pingue, George Tchortov, Drew Tyce)
A legally blind housesitter turns to a mobile app service for help when the remote mansion she’s looking after is targeted by a gang of thieves.
Wild Indian
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr; Writer: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr; Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth, Phoenix Wilson, Julian Gopal)
Two men are inextricably bound together after covering up the savage murder of a schoolmate. After years of separation following wildly divergent paths, they must finally confront how their traumatic secret has irrevocably shaped their lives.
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