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Maldoror Maldoror
Maldoror and Architecton
Aïcha (Country: France, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Mehdi Barsaoui; Stars: Nidhal Saadi, Yassmine Dimassi, Fatma Sfarr, Hela Ayed)
After a woman is the sole survivor of a bus crash she reinvents herself.
Architecton (Country: Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Victor Kossakovsky; Writer: Victor Kossakovsky)
A documentary meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveals our destruction - and offers hope for survival.
La Cocina (Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2024; Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios; Writer: Alonso Ruizpalacios, Arnold Wesker; Stars: Rooney Mara, Oded Fehr, John Pyper-Ferguson, Laura Gómez, James Waterston, Spenser Granese, Finnerty Steeves, Raúl Briones, Kerry Ardra, Leo James Davis, Lee R Sellars, Motell Gyn Foster, Pía Laborde-Noguez, Anna Díaz, Eduardo Olmos)
It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and money has gone missing from the till. All the undocumented cooks are being investigated, and Pedro is the prime suspect...
Eat The Night (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; Writer: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; Stars: Erwan Kepoa Falé, Théo Cholbi, Mahamat Amine Benrachid, Lilia Gueneau)
A brother and sister who share the love of a video game but trouble brews when a real life gang enters the equation.
Ghost Trail (Les Fantômes) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jonathan Millet; Writer: Jonathan Millet; Stars: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter)
Hamid, is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer whom he must confront. Based on true events.
Misericordia Misericordia
Misericordia and Marco
Maldoror (Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Fabrice du Welz; Writer: Domenico La Porta, Fabrice du Welz; Stars: Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi López, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle, Lubna Azabal, Jackie Berroyer, Mélanie Doutey, Félix Maritaud)
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
Marco (Marco, The Invented Truth) (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño; Writer: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jorge Gil Munarriz, Jose Mari Goenaga; Stars: Eduard Fernández, Nathalie Poza, Sonia Almarcha, Chani Martín, Fermí Reixach, Daniela Brown, Vicente Vergara, Jordi Rico)
Based on true events, the film explores the story of a concentration camp deportee from Spain who turned out to be fictitious.
Misericordia (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Alain Guiraudie; Writer: Alain Guiraudie; Stars: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, David Ayala, Jacques Develay, Sébastien Faglain, Salomé Lopes)
A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
Stranger Eyes (Mo Shi Lu) (Country: Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States; Year: 2024; Director: Siew Hua Yeo; Writer: Siew Hua Yeo)
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple begins to receive strange videos, realising someone has been filming their daily life.
A Thousand Blows (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Tinge Krishnan, Nick Murphy; Writer: Steven Knight; Stars: Malachi Kirby, Erin Doherty, Stephen Graham)
Victorian set drama series in London's East End.
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