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Documentary exploring the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernisation through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War.
A documentary about the making of the original Ghostbusters.
The citizen journalists risking their lives to report on atrocities within in Syria.
Who ya gonna call?
After the death of Egon Spengler, his daughter and grandkids find themselves bustin' a whole new army of ghosts.
When the discovery of an ancient artefact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
A woman who has never had an orgasm finally finds the right man. There is just one issue: he’s a ghost.
Four lives intersect on day in Istanbul.
The host of a recently cancelled TV series is invited to Cyprus to make a pilot about the tragically famous Hotel Gula where more than a hundred people died in mysterious circumstances 25 years ago.
Animation evokes memories of domestic violence.
Five soldiers are assigned to hold a French chateau that was formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, only to encounter a supernatural enemy.
A popular Chinese TV show, Window on the World, looks at life in the economically deprived West in 2040.
Supernatural revenge beckons after a woman commits a jealous murder.
A modern-day contract killer in New York, who works according to the Samurai code.
A theatre troupe finds itself in trouble after an actor disregards the warnings associated with performing Macbeth.
A young woman searching for her missing sister meets a mysterious plastic surgeon.
In 1973, director-on-the-rise Peter Medak nabbed notoriously difficult comic genius and box-office star Peter Sellers for his new pirate comedy, Ghost In The Noonday Sun. Sellers immediately began sabotaging the film.
Johnny Blaze returns as the Ghost Rider, who must stop the devil taking human form on earth.
Spooky things happen when a salvage crew board a stricken liner.
A trio of spooky tales.
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
Two brothers make a pilgrimage to the place where, as children, they dared each other to ride the ghost train, with awful consequences.
A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.
Teenage rebel makes friends with middle-aged jazz collector and discovers alienation.
A ghost writer recruited to pen the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister gets caught up in a web of political intrigue, lies and corruption.
A team take on a ghost invasion of Manhattan.
Think Alan Clarke's Scum, updated for 2011.
The life of an illegal Chinese immigrant, based on a true story.
Mystery of a lost child and two teenage girls on the run.
As two men talk one night, a camera sits in the window, watching the street below. One of them is waiting for somebody to pass by.
Documentary investigation into the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison.
A look at the lives and origins of the young gangsters who control Haiti's shanty towns.
An eternal bachelor finds himself haunted by romance past, present and future.
Two boys hide the corpse of a ghost by making it into burger meat but find themselves in trouble when the new 'burger blanc' becomes a craze.
Controversial Thai horror, pushing reality TV to its limit.
A literate anime that sets a dog loving, once-human detective to discover why female sex droids are killing their users.
The latest feature length instalment of the renowned anime series.
A young couple fall foul of a ghost.
Biker sells soul to the devil in Marvel Comic book adaptation.
Old school pals visit a country mansion but their relaxing plans are scuppered by an insane ghost.
This is the story of a ghost and the house he haunts.
After a brush with mortality a dentist finds himself haunted by ghosts desperate for him to help them with unfinished business.
Spain's most revered artist observes the Inquisition and European wars and keeps on painting.
A gambling addict agrees to do a favour for a triad boss in order to pay off his debts, only to find himself in a perilous situation that neither of them could have imagined.
A toxic monster terrorises Seoul.
Convoluted double hostage thriller with a skinny ex-action hero losing the plot.
November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the US embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event which would last for 444 days.
Teen backpackers get more than they bargain for in sex-fuelled horror.
An Army captain escorts a Cheyenne chief through hostile territory.
Two documentary filmmakers traverse alternate dimensions, confronting nightmares to uncover the truth behind a graffiti artist’s disappearance who seems to have vanished into thin air. These dimensions mix the ordinary with the bizarre - a hilly idyll is thrown off kilter by whales floating across the skies.
When a family invites their neighbours, a sweet young couple, over to celebrate Christmas Eve and some very happy personal news, they do not realise that their dinner guests have just become hosts to malicious entities.
Haunted by visions, a socially inept man invites friends round.
A documentarian uncovers the story of a petroleum geologist who searched for the origins of civilisation in Iran in the 1930s.
A documentary about Irish priest Father Malachi Martin and his crusade battling the devil from the release of The Exorcist movie through to his suspicious death in 1999.
A bunch of annoying American students get tricked by stereotypical Eastern Europeans.
A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.
A filmmaker explores the life of the mother who died when he was just three years old.
Documentary looking at the impact of an asylum seeker detention centre on Christmas Island.
A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
A filmmaker's life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Law enforcement officers on Mars are attacked by Alice Cooper lookalikes in a mining town.
Ethan Hunt is forced to become a rogue agent in order to clear his name.
Sailors on a Spanish fishing ship fight a silent battle during their long, empty hours in the port of Montevideo.
A man whose young son has disappeared gradually uncovers a terrible secret as he searches for him.
A portrait of the city of Recife, re-envisioned in its 20th Century glory through the remains of the cinema palaces which were central to its busy social milieu.
A notorious criminal is sent to rescue an abducted woman who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
A non-linear discussion of Adrian Crowley’s life, his struggles to define his creativity, and reflections on his own persona.
When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
An urban legend speaks of a summer ghost, a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.
With their follower count dwindling, travel vloggers Teddy and Claire pivot to creating viral content around their most recent 'superhost', Rebecca, who wants more from the duo than a great review.
A house full of ghosts spooks Tony Shalhoub and family.
An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost.
A teen who survives a car crash finds herself the focus of things that go bump in the night.
Story of a talented bass player on the path to self-destruction.
On the borderline Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo on crossing genres in The Soul Eater
Camp culture Andrew Reich with Ed Bahlman on Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Hunt for truth Director Christos Pitharas on building fiction on fact in his latest feature
Happy holidays Nick Frost and Aisling Bea on playing Brits abroad in Get Away
Bloody good fun Steffen Haars, Maisie Ayres and Sebastian Croft on Get Away
Kneecap sweeps the BIFAs Seven awards for Irish outsider
Emilia Pérez shines at the European Film Awards The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent wins Best Short
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