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Henry Violence, an anti-hero in an alternate 1980s world, becomes entangled in a brutal drug war as rival cartels battle for supremacy, forcing him to make difficult choices to navigate the treacherous landscape.
A documentary following three hijra women though a series of transitional life experiences.
Wild schoolboy and son of an alcoholic miner, Rich Jenkins is mentored by teacher Philip Burton to transform into Richard Burton - Wales's greatest star.
Violette is having a difficult maternity leave. Florence is dealing with depression. Despite their careers and families, they feel like failures. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. When having fun is far down the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy could be revolutionary.
A portrait of a man with an intellectual disability, and the community he lives in.
An actor and a politician start an affair and discover a fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dreams, the more risk taking they become.
After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was offered to direct The Exorcist II. The film became a massive failure, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value.
A documentary following one gay Namibian man's battle to stand up for the rights of same-sex couples.
When a mysterious young woman comes to interview a paranoid man living in rural isolation, he is forced to confront the truth about his daughter's murder.
When an ungovernable fortysomething wild child collides with her venomous mother, her life blows up spectacularly, leaving her evicted and single.
A man trying to recover his reputation and his confidence after a financial scandal decides to take on the Oceans Seven marathon swimming challenge.
Five stories on the theme of home.
Twins Alfie and Elise find a magical watch on Christmas Eve and are swept by the Wish Collector into the musical Land of Sometimes, where they learn that wishes have consequences.
Three friends have spent their childhoods drinking, wreaking havoc, and filming crude stunts in their small town. Everyone hates them. Wanting to finally prove their lives have meaning, they decide to make a 'real movie'.
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
It’s a Friday night and two college students plan to do drugs and order pizza. But when the home-made drug they ingest turns out to be wilder than expected, the simple journey down two flights of stairs becomes a mind-bogglingly transformative quest.
When Abby’s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. They spend a long night wandering around their town, examining their futures and unearthing surprises from their past.
An Arab Israeli man working in a supermarket in Tel Aviv is accused of tearing down hostage posters in the break room. He sets out to prove his innocence to keep this job that he desperately needs.
An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.
An intimate chronicle about documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian War.
In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his expensive education has missed a spot.
A short documentary following correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, an unhappy woman shops compulsively in an exclusive boutique. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl.
An impromptu singing contest takes place in a lonely bar.
A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience - but the biggest danger she faces comes from the living.
A timid dork accidentally takes the spotlight when she starts a punk band with her fellow 'turds', becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her all-girls Catholic school while managing to piss off the hot girls, the nuns, and a horny altar boy.
A lonely widow's quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.
Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub filled with his own blood, his wrists slit and his life rapidly nearing completion. This would be a textbook failed suicide attempt, but he's pretty sure he didn't do it.
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
An elderly nun witnesses the aftermath of a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical principles of the institution she has devoted her life to.
The day before a violent criminal is due to be released from prison, he receives a threatening call. Armed only with a mobile phone, he must somehow save his family - and himself.
A documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.
A comparison of the work of the two great landscape artists on their 250th anniversary, based around an exhibition in London.
With time running out and a desperate need for cash, two Mongolian immigrants turn to crime as their only solution.
After her mother's overdose, teen Red Riding moves from London to her estranged grandmother's Scottish estate, where dark family secrets, missing children, and a monstrous wolf blur reality, forcing her to fight for survival.
Kenneth, fixated on ancestor Douglas Weatherford, descends into madness as a fantasy TV show invades his town, disregarding traditions.
The tale of a young woman who learns firsthand the personal costs of societal shortcomings.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
A grieving mother, fueled by her passion for true crime, seeks answers when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert and the police investigation stalls.
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violent conclusion.
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
The tragic story behind a teenager driven to take her life by machines that were built to control people for profit.
Christmas Eve, a broken tooth, and just one dentist on call – thus begins the strange odyssey of the newly sober Cliff and the lonely Didi through the streets of Baltimore.
When, a mortuary science graduate takes a night job at River Fields Mortuary, what begins with routine work soon turns sinister as she faces terrifying supernatural forces, in this adaptation of the computer game.
A filmmaker spirals into an out of control bender, during which he comes to believe that he has been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts an old friend to help him gear up for war.
Two women's struggle to survive during the Dark Ages is complicated when a childhood friend returns with bad news.
Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
The mighty Amazon Gabriel Mascaro on balancing beauty and identification in The Blue Trail
The borders of reality Jeremiah Kipp on creating atmosphere, Willa Holland, and The Mortuary Assistant
'You let people see what's happening and it makes its own argument' Tony Jones on editorial choices in Sentient
Journey from extrovert to introvert The Stranger star Benjamin Voisin on Camus, Ozon and learning not to act
Trying on masks Paloma Schneideman on antipodean summers and Big Girls Don't Cry
Spirit of the age Arabella Oz on jealousy, therapy and Mallory's Ghost
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