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Mara
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife; the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

- Metascore32
- 2018
Tales from the Hood 2
Horror is back in the hood! The sequel to the ground-breaking original film Tales From the Hood reunites Executive Producer Spike Lee (Honorary Academy Award® winner) and Writers/Directors/Producers Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott for an all-new gripping, horrifying and oftentimes devilishly comical anthology. Keith David stars as a contemporary Mr. Simms to tell bloodcurdling stories about lust, greed, pride and politics through tales with demonic dolls, possessed psychics, vengeful vixens and historical ghosts. Mr. Simms's haunting stories will make you laugh...while you scream.

- 2018
Cruel Hearts
A young man, Guy, discovers the woman he's been sleeping with is not only married, but married to Burt Walker, a notorious low-level crime boss. Worried that Walker will at some point discover the affair and kill him, Guy decides to be upfront, tell Walker about his transgression and beg for forgiveness. The ploy works, and the pair form a very unusual, and ultimately dangerous, friendship.

- 2018
Blindspotting
Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men's friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

- Metascore75
- 2018
The Strike
When a trio of struggling and increasingly desperate thirty-something actors -- Alberto, Molly and Richard -- discover that A-list talent agent Carlo Lombardi is taking classes at the yoga studio where Molly teaches, they concoct the perfect scheme to convince him of their talent: Lay siege to the yoga studio, tie Carlo up -- and with a gun to his head -- give the performance of their lives. A perfect plan. Now what could go wrong? 'The Strike': Just because they have a plan, doesn't mean they've got a clue.

- 2016
Death of a Cheerleader
A shy outsider tries to make friends with the popular high school cheerleader and seeks revenge after she's rejected.

- 2019
The Last Boy
With the world's end imminent, a dying mother sends her young son on a journey to the place which grants wishes. The film's inspired by the works of 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.

- 2019
Isolani
- 2021
Trauma Center
Alone and trapped in a locked-down hospital isolation ward overnight, an injured young woman must escape a pair of vicious killers who are after the only piece of evidence that can implicate them in a grisly murder - the bullet in her leg. Luckily, a veteran cop is assigned to protect her, and he becomes her protector as the night grows more dangerous.

- 2019
American Gothic
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure...

- 2017
Christmas Crime Story
A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads down a destructive path for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, a coming-apart-at-the-seams amateur photographer, his vindictive and murderous fiancee, her secret lover and a strung-out mall Santa…as they all converge in one explosive and deadly night.

- 2016
Altered Skin
Craig Evans, an American expat living in Karachi, Pakistan, is married to Insiya Zia, a Pakistani doctor. During a routine hospital round, she contracts a virus called the MN-2. A devastating pathogen, the virus causes uncontrollable outbursts of violent rage. With no cure in sight, the doctors have no choice but put Insiya in a state of induced coma. Meanwhile, the virus continues to spread through the country. People infected by it are referred to as 'carriers'. The only relief is a drug called Sedare. It is manufactured by Ingenec, a local pharmaceutical company, and sold as an adhesive patch. It is so ubiquitous that in the market it is simply called the 'patch'. However, it's not a cure; it only calms the symptoms for a few hours at a time. The patch is also useless in advanced stages of the disease. As Insiya's condition deteriorates, it appears Craig has accepted her impending death. But the dead body of an investigative reporter turns up in a sewer, setting off a domino of events that leads Craig to the mystery behind the virus...and to the last chance at saving his wife.

- 2018
Code 8
In an alternate reality, 4% of the world's population is born with special abilities. Most of these "specials" live under poverty line. Taylor, a "special" living way under the poverty line takes different construction jobs in order to support his family. One day after work, over payment issues, Taylor intentionally damages his employer's property. The police goes after Taylor and his friend, and just when the police is about to arrest Taylor, a fight erupts.

- 2016
Ecstasy
August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. He sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie. On his way he meets Liz, the literary agent and Nina, a sex worker who services her clients in elaborate scenarios and films the encounters. Nina feels attracted to Frank in a strange way. He starts to work for her as a cameraman. She sometimes performs with another young woman who very much resembles Marie, prompting even more tedious fugue-state philosophizing.

- 2017
Run with the Hunted
Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to run away from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. 15 years later, he has forgotten his past and become the leader of a band of lost children. Loux takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.

- Metascore38
- 2019
Beyond the Law
Steven Seagal, DMX and Johnny Messner star in this action-packed thriller about one man’s quest for justice in a corrupt city. When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.

- 2019
Heart of Wilderness
Travis Wallien (33) is going nowhere fast. He and his wife, Aimee (34) are struggling to stay afloat financially and to keep their marriage in tact. Travis risks everything and becomes entangled in a drug deal that goes south. Under false pretenses, he convinces Aimee to join him on a canoe trip in northern Minnesota, where they soon find themselves paddling through the icy waters of the wilderness. While there, he must tell Aimee that they cannot return home and convince her that she and their six-year old daughter must come with him to start a new life somewhere else. On the journey, Travis discovers that Aimee has her own secrets as well.

- 2015
Adiós
Sevilla, Andalucía (southern Spain). The neighborhood of Las 3.000 Viviendas (The 3,000 Homes or "The 3,000" for short) is a ruthless, cruel place where police, law and order have no power. In this underworld of drug and crime, Juan Santos is a con man with supervised freedom who steps out from jail for one day to celebrate with his wife Triana the First Communion of their only daughter Estrella. But during the celebration,, his younger brother Chico and Uncle Andrés appear as uninvited guests to offer Juan a business to take drugs back into the jail. Fearing to lose his prison privileges, Juan refuses, then when the three head back home, another car bangs into theirs, killing Estrella. At the same time, veteran cop Manuel Santacana and younger partner Eli arrive at a murder scene to investigate the killing of four Romanian drug traffickers, finding in it the cops Barroso and his new partner rookie Nando, Manuel's son, being notified about the car crash. Discovering that the car that killed Estrella is the same of the Romanians' killers, Juan meets his mother María, former Santos family mob boss expelled from The 3,000 by rival families Fortuna and Taboa, who helps Juan to avenge her granddaughter's death. Looking for clues, Eli and Manuel question a junkie named Maravilla, noticing the implication of Fortuna family, and start a strong police deployment to catch all them, but boss Gordo Fortuna and one of his sons escape while Juan, Andrés, and Chico are investigate by their own to find the guilty. helped by the neighbors, who point to a junkie named Kempes. However, all changes when Eli finds an unexpected dark relation between the crime with the own Barroso, despite Manuel's opposition by absence of physical evidence. Meanwhile, Triana thinks she's pregnant again, and Juan and his relatives looking for Fortuna family accepting be a drug mule to obtain information, Eli's attempts to know the truth better after he locates the long-time wanted Kempes, who blames Barroso and Nando as the Romanians' killers. But Eli's check of Kempes' cellphone discloses a new, darker implication between a third cop and the Taboa family that forces Eli to run to The 3,000 after she was shot, being saved by chance by Triana and Juan when she almost is killed by junkies. Telling the truth to Juan and Triana, Eli allies with the Santos as the last hope to reveal all, and Juan alerts the family to save them and concoct a revenge plot, in a race against time where there's no guarantee of survival.

- 2019
Disappearance
When author George Boulangé agrees to the wishes of his wife, Isabelle, and brings a young and beautiful waitress (Cecile) from café along for their weekend sailing trip, it becomes clear that he has agreed to do this for his own desires to stir up trouble, develop a plot for his novel, and ultimately discard Isabelle and replace her with Cecile. Isabelle is forced to confront the fact that she is aging out of what George wants in a playmate and spouse, and knows that the only way to hold onto her relationship is to become the alpha in the relationship. But George fights back, forcing them into a game of one-oneupmanship. Eventually the trio - Isabelle, Cecile and the ship's Captain - join forces against George, making their position clear. In the morning, he is reported missing, and Detective Kenny Park must sort through everyone's stories to ascertain if there was foul play, or if George simply left for greener pastures.

- 2019

- 2017
Paradise Z
Two young women try to live a normal life in isolation after a cataclysmic apocalypse until they are discovered.

- 2020
Escape from Pretoria
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

- Metascore56
- 2020
Malibu Road
Fast living Los Angelenos are targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency during Operation Midnight Climax, part of MKUltra. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year's Eve 1960 and now a professor, a starlet and the workers at a hotel with a questionable reputation must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in 'paradise.'

- 2021
Alice D
In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.

- 2014