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A rookie detective from Tokyo’s red-light district must team up with a counterpart from Seoul with equally questionable practices, to track down a dangerous criminal spreading terror across Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
A Maori boy who misses his deceased mum goes on a road trip with three nuns who are trying to save their convent from developers.
A schoolteacher's late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest - leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences
Three days before her wedding, a deeply troubled woman tells her fiancé the story of her dead sister and the terrible prophecy that haunts her.
After the death of her mother, a young girl goes to live with her grieving father and her grandmother on a remote Finnish island.
A quarrel over a parking space pulls a couple into an unexpected confrontation with a stranger.
A tenant moves into a too good to be true Mumbai apartment only to realise that the house is shrinking in size.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
Events unfold in almost-realtime, as the sun sets on the haunted Wingabar Forest and eerie howls pierce its night.
A woman abandoned in the woods by her boyfriend after she turns down his marriage proposal is taken in by a mysterious couple.
A space opera about a great escape from a horrific prison planet under the rule of Queen Xaltalusia XXIII.
In 1997, 39 members of the American cult known as Heaven's Gate committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.
After being transformed into a vampire, a Parisian singer pursues stardom at the cost of her soul.
A pink meteor transforms shy, gay hairdresser Ada into a stunning superheroine, who must defend her village from giant mutant animals, wretched zombies, and anything else thrown at her by the militant, misandrist Amazonistas from Planet X.
After unknowingly peeking through the veil, two flatmates witness six men sensually licking the pavement on an empty LA street.
Three young men travel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.
A documentary recounting the events surrounding the imposition of martial law in Korea in December 2024, and the peaceful uprising of civilians against dictatorship.
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
A punk kid gets superpowers from alcohol and tries to reshape society, but a violent error sparks global tensions with him at the centre.
Sadie struggles to find balance as she juggles work, her social life and her erotic fascination with insects.
Eccentric twins proclaim themselves prophets to a priest, blurring reality and delusion as they involve him in their supposed divine mission.
A family's Christmas Eve dinner becomes a nightmare as Gino must protect his loved ones from his reanimated grandmother who crashes the celebration with murderous intent.
Watching bizarre footage of a massacre in a café, a police detective is horrified to recognise something he has seen before.
Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.
A fisherman falls in love with a rugged whaler on the isolated Faroe Islands in this unconventional vampire story.
The inside story of a monster-maker par excellence who has worked with some of the most exciting directors in the genre world.
A troubled Métis woman commits to finally facing the figurative demons in her past only to uncover a literal demon living within the bowels of her rural home that she must battle before it kills her and everyone she loves.
In dystopian Seoul, with curfew and lockdown in effect, broke screenwriter Niko suddenly disappears. As her boyfriend Jeremy and new bestie Ji-eun try to locate her, they become unexpectedly intertwined in a love triangle.
A celebration of the superhero from Nebula M78 and his appearances in films, on television, and in wider Japanese culture.
A lawyer and a client she once successfully defended against rape are kidnapped and stranded in the Canadian wilderness together.
Years after Simple Town split up, three comics reunite with their successful ex-collaborator, leading to a fight for their lives (and careers) as it is revealed that one of them has become a serial killer.
A middle-aged yakuza gangster finds a new direction in life after an improvised dance-off goes viral on TikTok.
When an influencer couple's prank turns deadly, blackmail, aliens, and links to a 25-year-old missing child case emerge, plunging them into a web of mystery.
Newly released after seven years in prison, Suleyman only wishes to return to Antwerp’s Paradise apartment complex and spend time with his ailing mother, but to protect her, he's going to need to fight cops and criminals alike.
A son films his father's addiction, hoping to document his recovery; but as he sacrifices everything to save him, he must decide how much he'll lose for someone who may not want saving.
A dangerous experiment goes awry resulting in a Dance Freak running wild.
In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, a Vietnamese revolutionary guerrilla team became the US military's top target - charged with safeguarding a secret group of intelligence agents at all costs.
A teacher gathers students to read classic books, despite the threat from the authorities.
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
A novelist struggling for inspiration tries to weave real people into her narrative, but the complications of reality threaten to overwhelm her.
Each year, millions of Muslims embark on the sacred pilgrimage of Hajj. This documentary provides an intimate look at this spiritual journey through the eyes of six diverse groups of pilgrims.
Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl, sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed.
After a car crash, a man returns home to his family with his face covered in bandages, suffering from amnesia. As mysterious and threatening events accumulate, he fears that he is possessed.
As the city shifts beneath their feet, communities of all kinds endure the trauma of developer-led change, yet slowly rediscover their collective power as they refuse to be pushed out.
As the Mongol Empire crumbles, a battle-scarred Timur Barlas must confront a haunting destiny, and renounce his loyalties, to protect the fate of the Silk Road.
Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week.
A director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.
For one full year between the harvest festivals of Samhain, Immrám follows a charismatic family who are at the centre of a growing movement that aims to reclaim indigenous Irish identity, customs, religion and language. In a post-Catholic, neo-liberal Ireland, they are attempting to propagate new cultural and religious roots in tune with nature.
Black comedy about a man hunting for the spoils from a heist with his brother... who can't remember where it is buried.
New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies
Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach
Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements
That shrinking feeling Shivek Gupta and Syed Shadan on the Mumbai housing market and Chaar Diwaari
A woman who didn't belong Anna Cazenave Cambet on working with Vicky Krieps in Love Me Tender
A dialogue of parchment and celluloid Jean-Jacques Annaud on Umberto Eco and The Name Of The Rose
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