Amoeba
In a repressive city-state, a tomboy schoolgirl persuades three classmates at an all-girls school to rebel by forming a triad gang.
Ballad Of A Small Player
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
Below The Clouds
Documenting Vesuvius, featuring traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life.
Blue Moon
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
The Blue Trail
To maximise economic productivity, the government orders the elderly to relocate to distant housing colonies. Tereza, 77, refuses – and instead embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.
Best In Show
Everyone's barking at the dog show.
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
Two boadacious dudes totally travel in time, collecting historical personages to help them pass a most heinous examination.
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.
Calle Málaga
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the belongings of a lifetime.
Christy
The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.

D

Dandelion's Odyssey
Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa - four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth - are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive.
Dead Lover
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Dry Leaf
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
Frankenstein
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
Franz
The life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
The Goonies
A pirate treasure map leads a group of kids on an adventure.
High Fidelity
Comedy about a record store owner and his romantic break ups.
Honey Bunch
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she cannot remember why ... As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.

I

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
It Was Just an Accident
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
Jaws
A small seaside community dependent on tourism is terrorised by a great white shark with a hunger for human flesh.
Karmadonna
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
Lady Bird
Teenage traumas in Sacramento, Cal, for 17-year-old Lady Bird who has love issues, sex issues, mom issues, when what she wants most is to be out of there, anywhere, especially New York because it's a long way away and packed with artistic promise.

M

Mama
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion - and her secret romance - to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.
Mare's Nest
A child's adventures in an adult-free world.
Marie Antoinette
A portrait of France's most famous Queen.
Marriaginalia
A surreal portrait of married life told across a day in three parts. A couple navigates life's smaller ruptures - the world distorts, the body surprises - but their bond holds, serene and slightly off-kilter.
Mirrors No.3
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
Nouvelle Vague
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
Nuremberg
Drama chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice following the Second World War.
Out Standing
Officer Sandra Perron resigns from the Canadian military after a controversial photo surfaces. Adapting to civilian life amidst an investigation, she denies abuse allegations despite evidence suggesting mistreatment within her unit.
Peak Everything
A borderline depressive finds himself falling for a woman on a technical support line.
The President’s Cake
While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences.

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The Secret Agent
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Sentimental Value
In the wake of their mother's death, two sisters grapple with their relationship with their filmmaker father as he tries to involve one of them in his latest project.
Sirât
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
The Smashing Machine
The story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr.
Sound Of Falling
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Sound Of Metal
A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Space Cadet
Robot’s sole purpose has always been to nurture Celeste into the brilliant scientist she has now become. But as the young astronaut sets off on her first interstellar mission, Robot is left behind.
Two Prosecutors
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
A Useful Ghost
March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.

V

Wrong Husband
An Arctic fairy tale about a couple who, though promised to each other at birth, become separated.
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