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Atropia (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Hailey Gates; Writer: Hailey Gates; Stars: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy)
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.
Bubble & Squeak (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Evan Twohy; Writer: Evan Twohy; Stars: Himesh Patel, Sarah Goldberg, Steven Yeun, Dave Franco, Matt Berry)
Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, Declan and Delores must confront the fragility of their new marriage while on the run for their lives.
Bunnylovr (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Katarina Zhu; Writer: Katarina Zhu; Stars: Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Jack Kilmer)
A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.
Love, Brooklyn (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Rachael Abigail Holder; Writer: Paul Zimmerman; Stars: André Holland, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, Cadence Reese)
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
Omaha (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Cole Webley; Writer: Robert Machoian; Stars: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam)
After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a world they’ve never seen before. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that things might not be what they seem.
Twinless Twinless
Twinless and Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake)
Plainclothes (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Carmen Emmi; Writer: Carmen Emmi; Stars: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth)
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.
Ricky (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Rashad Frett; Writer: Lin Que Ayoung; Stars: Stephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Titus Welliver, Maliq Johnson, Imani Lewis, Andrene Ward-Hammond)
Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.
Sorry, Baby (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Eva Victor; Writer: Eva Victor; Stars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack)
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake) (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sierra Falconer; Writer: Sierra Falconer; Stars: Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Karsen Liotta, Dominic Bogart, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall)
Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is after the catch of his life.
Twinless (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: James Sweeney; Writer: James Sweeney; Stars: Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney, Lauren Graham, Aisling Franciosi, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti)
Two young men meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
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