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A warrior with a magical sword sets out to take back a powerful talisman from the sorceress who destroyed her city.
An origin story for the legendary sword and sorcery heroine, who must survive the gladiatorial arena as she searches for her people.
Luxembourg Airport. Late in the evening. A veiled 16-year-old Iranian girl is frightened to take her red suitcase on the automatic carpet. She hesitates to go through the arrival gate and seems more and more terrified.
A struggling single mother makes a desperate journey across state lines to obtain an abortion.
When reed cutter Johan discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land, he is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While taking care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil. But darkness can thrive in unexpected places.
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women discover that they are being stalked by a shark.
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
When a young girl is left with her aging grandmother in rural Kazakhstan, an ordinary act of familial care quickly turns into an unsettling descent into the unknown where loss can take monstrous forms.
With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and taking control of Edna.
Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend break, but gradually become convinced that somebody is spying on them.
A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
A lonely carer looking for love becomes obsessed by a videotape featuring a man who offers to be his friend.
An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
A man and a woman from two disparate worlds meet at nights just to have sex. However, when they get caught, the extra-marital relationship between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man causes tensions in the socio-politically divided Jerusalem.
The intense life of a young punk repo man in a city haunted by a car with a secret.
A lonely young woman gradually loses her mind.
A girl is hidden from view, confined from modern society by her family. Yet as Liv’s curiosity to an existence outside her confinement comes to the fore, she starts to question her parents’ worldview.
An alternate history story in which German soldiers occupy a Welsh village during World War Two.
The story of Marcel Marceau, who before he became a world famous mime worked with the French Resistance which saved the lives of ten thousand orphans during the Second World War.
A biopic about Aretha Franklin.
The banal life of a middle-aged empty nester is violently shaken in the blink of an eye when hard-partying - and potentially dangerous - new neighbours move in next door.
After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.
A teenage boy finds his world turned upside down when he learns a secret about his beloved father.
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
A man in the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife fantasises about everything he'd love to do in retirement, once he finally has the 'time'.
A hiking trip goes awry, leaving a man who was warned about the wendigo fighting for his sanity.
A lesbian couple with a rocky relationship go to a pre-wedding retreat and end up fighting for their lives.
The indigenous people of the Guarani tribe has either been exterminated or reduced to servitude. Julia, the wife of a wealthy landowner, gives birth to her third dead child. In desperation, she begs Kerana, her indigenous housekeeper with ancient powers, to bring him back to life - but he doesn't return alone.
Retired alcoholic Captain Invincible is called out of retirement to take on the sinister Mr. Midnight.
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the world of men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
A school reunion is arranged, but one former student is determined to make the others face up to how they treated her.
Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago.
A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
After a young woman is drugged at a party, her cousin's all-female biker gang rides out for revenge.
A look at campaigning aiming to overturn the US' Roe vs. Wade ruling on abortion, and efforts to defend it.
A novelist struggling for inspiration tries to weave real people into her narrative, but the complications of reality threaten to overwhelm her.
Transfer student Yasuhiko has had an amazing 21 days with Miyuki and their shared secret, that Yasuhiko comes from the future, binds them even closer.
Rangers must relocate 21 black rhinos to a new sanctuary after their successful protection efforts led to overcrowding in their current space, which is surrounded by poachers.
Starting out as a petty thief, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?
A Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Nineties Canada, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
A strange disease threatens to kill anyone with any sort of fortune.
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
A washed-up stuntman and his stunt horse become an overnight social media sensation when their real-life fight with debt collectors goes viral.
A teenage Scottish surfing champ prepares to ride a dangerous Irish big wave.
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Passion piece Steve Oram on exploring a gentle character in a dangerous world in Crushed
'I wanted to talk about the things that truly matter' Yoon Dan-bi on young love and adolescence in The World Before
It's a steal Mikel Gurrea on mothers, daughters and heists in Saints
'We don't have nearly enough films that talk about Sudanese women' Suzannah Mirghani on culture and politics in Cotton Queen
A moment of change David Arrow and Amber Paul on November 1963 and making the Oscar-qualifying Drive
Eva Marie Saint dies On The Waterfront Oscar-winner was 102
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