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Tales From The Lodge Tales From The Lodge
Tales From The Lodge and Darlin'
7 Reasons To Run Away (From Society) (Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Esteve Soler; Writer: Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler; Stars: Alain Hernández, Sergi López, Emma Suárez, Lola Dueñas, Alex Brendemühl, Núria Gago, David Verdaguer)
The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories about a dysfunctional society.
Body At Brighton Rock (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Roxanne Benjamin; Writer: Roxanne Benjamin; Stars: Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus)
Wendy, a part-time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she's capable enough to do the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon what might be a potential crime scene - which she is then asked to guard overnight.
Boyz In The Wood (Get Duked!) (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Ninian Doff; Writer: Ninian Doff; Stars: Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthriw, Jonathan Aris, Alice Lowe)
An anarchic cocktail of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers and hallucinogenic rabbit shites, set in the highlands of Scotland.
Daniel Isn’t Real (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer; Writer: Brian DeLeeuw, Adam Egypt Mortimer; Stars: Miles Robbins, Sasha Lane, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hannah Marks)
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.
Darlin' (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Pollyanna McIntosh; Writer: Pollyanna McIntosh, Jack Ketchum; Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Cooper Andrews, Nora-Jane Noone, Eugenie Bondurant, Brian Batt, Lauren Ashley Carter)
A sequel to The Woman in which a feral teenage girl is taken into strict Catholic care and prepared for her First Holy Communion.
Daniel Isn’t Real Daniel Isn’t Real
Daniel Isn’t Real and Boyz In The Wood
Girl On The Third Floor (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Travis Stevens; Writer: Travis Stevens; Stars: CM Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks)
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
I See You (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Adam Randall; Writer: Devon Graye; Stars: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer)
Strange occurrences plague a small town detective and his family as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy.
Tales From The Lodge (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Abigail Blackmore; Writer: Abigail Blackmore; Stars: Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, Kelly Wenham)
When a group of old friends spend the night telling stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions they soon become aware of another tale unfolding around them. And this one is real.
Tone-Deaf (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Richard Bates Jr; Writer: Richard Bates Jr; Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Amanda Crew, Robert Patrick, Kim Delaney)
A woman goes to the countryside to spend a quiet weekend after losing her job and having her last complicated relationship implode. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who struggles to hide his pyschopathic tendencies.
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