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The Beasts
With big plans to farm the land and sell vegetables at the local market for a living, former teacher Antoine and his supportive wife Olga have left their comfortable life in France behind to seek a fresh start in a remote rural part of Galicia. Instead, the dream turned sour--resentment, xenophobia, and a corrosive undercurrent of unrelenting animosity awaited the grizzled French couple. Because, like it or not, when your immediate neighbours plan an all-out war, there is no turning back. And as tensions simmer and the inflamed row escalates into a full-blown vendetta, the inevitable clash between the newcomers and the locals can only end in a shocking outbreak of violence that changes everything.

- Metascore85
- 2022
War Pony
Follows the intertwined lives of two young Plains Red men navigating life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The film splits into two narratives: 23-year-old Bill hustles to support his children, while 12-year-old Matho deals drugs to navigate an unstable home life. Both characters fight for survival, identity, and love.

- Metascore70
- 2022
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will be granted a wish. But there's a catch: if they don't leave the castle by five o'clock, they will be punished. As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved.

- 2022
The Ones You Didn't Burn
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.

- 2022
Lost Soulz
Set to a lo-fi, genre-bending soundtrack, LOST SOULZ follows a young rapper as he leaves behind his surrogate family and sets out on an expedition across Texas, contemplating new and old friendships.

- Metascore74
- 2023
Hamsayeh
A story that drifts between the lives of five generations of mothers and daughters, 'The Neighbor' takes its audience on an unexpected journey. At the center is a the story of Shirin, a dancer with unfulfilled dreams, and her fateful connection with her next door neighbor, Leila, a young woman with a small secret. Shirin struggles to come to terms with her estranged mother as Leila struggles to reconcile present life circumstances with her yearnings for a better future.

- 2010
Pretty Red Dress
Set against the backdrop of South London and humming with the energy of iconic Tina Turner hits, Pretty Red Dress follows a family tested to their limit when Travis (Natey Jones), fresh out of jail, is found wearing a dress by his partner Candice (Alexandra Burke) and secretive teenage daughter Kenisha. The family is sent spinning by this startling discovery and the truths that remain.

- Metascore71
- 2022
Repulse
Trapped in a marriage with the cold-hearted Robert, Catherine has long been determined to leave. The situation reaches breaking point when Robert returns from a business trip and catches her cheating. For Catherine, this finally marks the beginning of the end, but Robert refuses to let her go. Everything changes when Robert has a car accident in which he and their daughter Sarah are badly injured. Little does he know that this is where his story will intertwine with that of Viktor, a mentally retarded boy whose abusive mother dies in the same car accident. For some time, Viktor had wanted to break out from under her tyranny and go his own way but couldn't stand up to her. In Robert's wallet, Viktor finds a photograph of Catherine, and his sick mind hatches a mad plan: Catherine should pay for his mother's death.

- 2021
What's My Name Again?
In 1985, a seemingly quintessential Southern California teen's identity unravels as he's forced to choose one of his 3 fathers' last names before he comes of age.

- 2023
Mami Wata
In Iyi village, villagers worship the mermaid deity Mami Wata and turn to their healer Mama Efe, the intermediary between them and Mami Wata, as well as Mama Efe's daughter Zinwe and her protegee Prisca. When their children begin to die and disappear, local resident Jabi casts doubt on the population, while Zinwe flees, driven by her own anguish. Soon, the arrival of rebellious warlord Jasper tips the scales in Jabi's favor. With the village under new control, Prisca and Zinwe must plot to save their people and restore Mami Wata's glory to Iyi.

- Metascore87
- 2023
The Thing Behind the Door
The French countryside, 1914. With the Great War ravaging France, young patriot Jean leaves his beloved Adèle behind to do his part. But war is a beast; there is no guarantee of a safe return. As intense nightmares haunt her sleep and indecipherable visions manipulate reality, Adèle sinks deeper and deeper into uncertainty and despair until a forbidden discovery offers her enlightenment. Somewhere in the gloomy woods, occult secrets reveal the path to unlock eternal life, but at a steep price. Now, the thing behind the door is real. And blood is the least it demands.

- 2023
Before, Now & Then
Raden Nana Suhani, a Sundanese woman in the 1960s, lost a father and son to the war in West Java. She remarried to start a new life with a man who was rich but always looked down on her. Her husband was also an unfaithful person. Nana suffers in silence. Until one day, she became friends with one of her husband's mistresses who made everything change. Together, these two women seek hope for independence.

- Metascore70
- 2022
Trafficking
A former hitman and down-on-his-luck debt collector known only as Requiem rescues a young girl after her parents are murdered by an international child trafficking gang, igniting an violent game of cat-and-mouse.

- 2023
Unveiled
Using the natural beauty and mystique of Marrakech, Morocco as a backdrop, Stephanie uses herself as bait to discover the sadistic murderer of her childhood friend. C.I.A. agents Peter Masters and Jeremy Avery lead her on an erotic and intriguing trail in search of the killer. The trap is set and the killer is "Unveiled".

- 1994
I'll Show You Mine
An author, who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a model. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.

- 2022
Sun Moon
After being left at the altar, a young woman escapes to Taiwan on a quest for hope and healing.

- 2023
South of Sanity
South of Sanity is a dark comedy spanning from 2018-2022 and follows Lacy Hilgreen, a recovering addict, and her dysfunctional Alabama family through the flea market circuits of the Deep South. Fresh out of rehab, fresh out of money and fresh out of options, Lacy is forced to leave Los Angeles and return to her home in rural Alabama and help with the family business to make ends meet. The flea market is no place for a recovering addict, however, as the family uses their booth as a cover for their meth operation. Using the code word "wholesale", customers of the Hilgreens' booths can purchase some of Alabama's finest crystal. Sex tapes, STD's and meth-laced candies are just a few of the topics tackled by South of Sanity, not to mention the family's dealings pre, mid and post pandemic. The Hilgreens keep it brutally real in its depiction of recovery, redemption, and hilarious roadblocks encountered along the way. Lacy is joined on her journey by her brother Mike and sister-in-law Ila, who run the family flea market, her hellion nephews Rowdy and Ryder, wild niece Rebel, Ila's cousin and resident alcoholic Jeff, her cousin Tori, the only "sane" one in the family, and a one-night stand that lasts way longer than planned. SOMETIMES THE ENVIRONMENT THAT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE IN, IS THE ONE THAT MAKES YOU FEEL THE MOST ALIVE BASED ON SOME REAL SH*#

- 2023
Brooklyn 45
On a winter night in 1945, Clive Hockstatter gathers his lifelong friends for a reunion in his Brooklyn home. The evening shifts from drinks to a desperate séance intended to contact his recently deceased wife. The ritual succeeds but ends in tragedy when Clive Hockstatter takes his own life, trapping his guests inside the parlor. As they discover a captive neighbor, Hildegard, hidden in a closet, the group descends into paranoia and violence. Marla Sheridan and her peers must decide between morality and survival as the supernatural presence in the room forces them to confront their own dark histories.

- Metascore71
- 2023
The Unknown Country
An invitation to reunite with her estranged Oglala Lakota family launches a grieving young woman (Lily Gladstone) on an unexpected road trip from the Midwest toward the Texas-Mexico border. In this largely solitary journey with an unknown destination, Tana navigates the complex, post-2016 election social climate, and a natural landscape that is increasingly surreal. Along the way, she bonds with unexpected people that are as much a part of the landscape as the mountains and roads. At times at ease, at times on edge as a woman traveling alone, familiar faces and strangers shape her journey as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.

- Metascore82
- 2022
Nune
Dressed in mismatched hand-me-downs and armed with a glove to mask her scars, Nune (pronounced NOON-NAY) Lusparian is doomed and troubled. Raised on welfare by two lesbian moms who don't believe in her potential and rejected by kids at school, Nune wishes her life was different. Nune escapes to a colorful interstellar world that's free of the pain of rejection. But reality hits hard when her daily passage through school feels like a "walk down death row." She's met by a klatch of privileged wannabe thugs eager to break her. Hunched over and often in tears, Nune drifts through Paradise High School struggling for invisibility. Her dark shadowy figure grabs the attention of a star athlete, Briana Enright, who's the arch-rival's girlfriend. Briana's clique wonders why a girl who has it all, would jeopardize her rank by sympathizing with the high school's ugly duckling. Then start the rumors that Briana might be gay. Pained by an irrevocable yearning, Briana must brave going out on a limb to follow her heart. But will Nune rise up to catch her falling star?

- 2016
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

- Metascore70
- 2023
Descendants: The Royal Wedding
Happily-ever-after continues for Auradon's power couple, Mal and Ben, as they prepare to say "I do" at an epic celebration with their friends and family, but Hades threatens to ruin it all.

- 2021
The Radicals
The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.

- 1989

- 2023