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The Bikeriders - Jeff Nichols Cover Art

The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders captures a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing. After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy). Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

© 2023 Focus Features LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Thelma - Josh Margolin Cover Art

Thelma

Thelma

Oscar® nominee June Squibb portrays Thelma Post, a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson (The White Lotus’ Fred Hechinger). Accompanied by an old friend (Richard Roundtree) and his motorized scooter, she sets out on a wild adventure to reclaim what was taken from her. Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, Thelma puts a clever spin on movies like Mission: Impossible, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero, with infectious humor throughout. Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, and Malcolm McDowell also star.

© 2024 [Team Thelma LLC]

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The Dead Don't Hurt - Viggo Mortensen Cover Art

The Dead Don't Hurt

The Dead Don't Hurt

From the producers of Old Henry, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outbreak of the civil war separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by corrupt Mayor Rudolph Schiller (Danny Huston) and his unscrupulous business partner, powerful rancher Alfred Jeffries (Garret Dillahunt). Alfred’s violent, wayward son Weston (Solly McLeod) aggressively pursues Vivienne, who is determined to resist his unwanted advances. When Olsen returns from the war, he and Vivienne must confront and make peace with the person each has become. Both a tragic love story and a nuanced depiction of the conflict between revenge and forgiveness, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a portrait of a passionate woman determined to stand up for herself in an unforgiving world dominated by ruthless men.

© 2023 TDDH, LLC All Rights Reserved

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Babes - Pamela Adlon Cover Art

Babes

Babes

When carefree and single Eden (Ilana Glazer) decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, her friendship with childhood best friend Dawn (Michelle Buteau) faces its greatest challenge. "Babes" is a hilarious and heartfelt comedy about the bonds of female friendship and the messy, unpredictable challenges of adulthood and becoming a parent.

© 2024 MEGA MOO DISTRIBUTION, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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The Boy and the Heron - Hayao Miyazaki Cover Art

The Boy and the Heron

The Boy and the Heron

In this Academy Award-winning film from Studio Ghibli and legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, young Mahito accompanies a mysterious heron into a fantastical world shared by the living and the dead to search for his missing stepmother.

© 2023 Studio Ghibli

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Starve Acre - Daniel Kokotajlo Cover Art

Starve Acre

Starve Acre

When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening an ancient evil.

© 2023 House Starve Acre Limited, Acre Film LLC, British Broadcasting Corporation and The British Film Institute

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One Hour Photo - Mark Romanek Cover Art

One Hour Photo

One Hour Photo

Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When Sy discovers the family's dark secret, a bizarre and thrilling confrontation ensues.

© 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

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In a Violent Nature - Chris Nash Cover Art

In a Violent Nature

In a Violent Nature

The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.

© 2023 Zygote Pictures Inc

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Late Night with the Devil - Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes Cover Art

Late Night with the Devil

Late Night with the Devil

A live television broadcast of a popular late night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

© 2023 Future Pictures and Spooky Pictures

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The Arctic Convoy - Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Cover Art

The Arctic Convoy

The Arctic Convoy

English dub available. In the midst of WWII, following Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, a convoy of 35 civilian cargo ships from around the world embark on a journey to bring vital military supplies to a Norwegian outpost under the protection of Allied naval vessels. When the leader of the convoy decides to proceed through treacherous, enemy infested waters despite the recall of their military escort the supposedly safe expedition turns deadly. Fighting for their lives against merciless German air and naval attacks, the civilian merchant ships brave brutal Arctic seas to bring critical support to soldiers on the front lines. Caught at sea without defense or war experience, courage becomes their only lifeline.

© 2023 Fantefilm Produksjon AS. All rights reserved.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson Cover Art

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of legendary concierge Gustave H. and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft of a priceless painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; and a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis - all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

© 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Hereditary - Ari Aster Cover Art

Hereditary

Hereditary

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

© 2018 Hereditary Film Productions, LLC and A24 Distribution, LLC

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Fresh Kills - Jennifer Esposito Cover Art

Fresh Kills

Fresh Kills

The daughters of the Larusso family struggle to break the unspoken code of women behind men in the 80s/90s mob world of Staten Island. Fear, violence, rage dictate who they are and who they become. A quest for freedom in a world they may never leave.

© 2023 Fresh Kills Inc.

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Time Bandits - Terry Gilliam Cover Art

Time Bandits

Time Bandits

In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder treasure from Napoleon (Ian Holm) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery)?but the Evil Genius (David Warner) is watching their every move. Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry.

© 1981 HANDMADE FILM PARTNERSHIP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Wicked Little Letters - Thea Sharrock Cover Art

Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters

A farcical and occasionally sinister scandal drives this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town's women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

© 2024 StudioCanal SAS and Channel Four Television Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle Cover Art

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

When a penniless, eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai comes within one question of winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, a police investigation reveals his amazing story. Slumdog Millionaire is the winner of 8 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture of the Year and Best Director, Danny Boyle.

© 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Godzilla Minus One - Takashi Yamazaki Cover Art

Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One

Academy Award® Winner Best Visual Effects. In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

© 2023 Toho Co., Ltd.

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Anthony Fabian Cover Art

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris tells a humorously heartwarming tale about a London housecleaner Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) who thinks her lonely life might turn around if she can become the owner of a Christian Dior gown. Saying goodbye to friends like Archie (Jason Isaacs) won't be easy, and neither will be winning over elite people in Paris from Madame Colbert (Isabelle Huppert) to idealistic accountant André (Lucas Bravo). But Ada's irrepressible charm just might end up saving the whole House of Dior in this uplifting story of how an ordinary woman becomes an extraordinary inspiration by daring to follow her dreams.

© 2022 Focus Features LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Sorry/Not Sorry - Caroline Suh & Cara Mones Cover Art

Sorry/Not Sorry

Sorry/Not Sorry

An inside look at Louis CK’s public downfall and surprising return to the spotlight. Featuring interviews with women who spoke up about his sexual misconduct, New York Times journalists who broke the story, and fellow comedians such as Michael Ian Black, Michael Schur, and Aida Rodriguez. Examines cancel culture and the legacy of the #MeToo movement. A New York Times production.

© 2023 Copyright owner. All Rights Reserved.

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The Long Game - Julio Quintana Cover Art

The Long Game

The Long Game

The Long Game is a beautiful, inspirational true story about five young Mexican-American caddies in 1957 who, barred from playing on the courses where they caddied, decided to build their own golf course in the South Texas desert and ultimately won the state championship with the help of their superintendent-turned-coach. Starring Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, and Cheech Marin.

© 2024 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.

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The Convert - Lee Tamahori Cover Art

The Convert

The Convert

New Zealand in the 1830s is a world dominated by tribal wars. Seeking redemption from a dark past, lay preacher Thomas Munro (Guy Pearce) is on board a ship heading to a new settlement in that far corner of the world. When the ship anchors for repairs, Munro is caught in a battle between Māori tribes and witnesses the slaughter of innocents at the hands of chief Akatārawa. Munro saves the life of the daughter of Maianui, a rival chief whose land the settlement leases in a delicate arrangement. Munro soon realizes he is a pawn in a strategic power play, and with bloody war between the two tribes inevitable, he must decide the role he will play – and if his faith is of any value.

© 2023 OzConvert Holdings Pty Ltd, The Convert Rights Limited

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Goodnight, Sugarbabe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle - J. David Miles Cover Art

Goodnight, Sugarbabe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

Goodnight, Sugarbabe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable that the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder.

© 2012 Dreamscape Media, LLC

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Vivarium - Lorcan Finnegan Cover Art

Vivarium

Vivarium

Tom and Gemma (Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots) are looking for the perfect home. When a strange real-estate agent takes them to Yonder, a mysterious suburban neighborhood of identical houses, Tom and Gemma can’t leave quick enough. But when they try to exit the labyrinth-like housing development, each road takes them back to where they started. Soon, they realize their search for a dream home has plunged them into a terrifying nightmare, in this taut thriller filled with white-knuckle suspense.

© 2019 Fantastic Films Limited- Frakas Productions SPRL – PingPong Film APS. All Rights Reserved.

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The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky Cover Art

The Wrestler

The Wrestler

A powerful portrait of a battered dreamer, ex-professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke), who despite himself and the odds stacked against him, lives to be a hero once again in the only place he considers home — inside the ring. The Wrestler is the winner of 2 Golden Globes® including Best Actor Mickey Rourke and Best Original Song by Bruce Springsteen.

© 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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What We Do In the Shadows

What We Do In the Shadows

Housemates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are three vampires who are trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and doing housework to trying to get invited into nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else - except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood. When their 8000 year-old roommate Petyr, turns 20-something human hipster Nick, into a vampire, the guys must guide him through his newfound eternal life. In return, they are forced to learn a thing or two about modern society, fashion, technology, and the internet. But it’s the introduction of Nick’s human friend, Stu, that really changes the vampires’ lives and attitudes towards the world around them. When Stu’s life is threatened, the vampires discover that humans are worth fighting for, and thateven though a heart may be cold and dead, it can still have feelings.

© 2014 Shadow Pictures Ltd

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Old Henry - Potsy Ponciroli Cover Art

Old Henry

Old Henry

A widowed farmer (Tim Blake Nelson) and his son take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gunslinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question. “Old Henry is the best revisionist Western since Unforgiven.” (Kaveh Jalinous, Under The Radar)

© 2021 Hideout Fund 1, LLC under exclusive license to Shout! Factory LLC

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Thirteen - Catherine Hardwicke Cover Art

Thirteen

Thirteen

The unhinged joy and high angst of hitting modern adolescence with full force is explored with honesty, clarity, and passion in Thirteen. The story follows the transformation of Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), who begins as a promising, pig-tailed student still playing with teddy bears and Barbie dolls. When Tracy enters the hyper-sexualized, peer-pressure cooker of junior high, she witnesses the power and hipness of Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed, co-writer of the script), who has become widely known as “the hottest chick in school.” Ultra-popular, model-gorgeous, and bewitchingly snobby, Evie represents everything Tracy suddenly wants, and needs, to be.

© 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

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Donnie Darko: Anniversary Special Edition - Richard Kelly Cover Art

Donnie Darko: Anniversary Special Edition

Donnie Darko: Anniversary Special Edition

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template – and the high-water mark – with his debut feature, Donnie Darko. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium. Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum. Described by its director as “The Catcher in the Rye as told by Philip K. Dick”, Donnie Darko combines an eye-catching, eclectic cast – pre-stardom Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, heartthrob Patrick Swayze, former child star Drew Barrymore, Oscar nominees Mary McDonnell and Katherine Ross, and television favourite Noah Wyle – and an evocative soundtrack of 80s classics by Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran. This brand-new 4K restoration, carried out exclusively for this release by Arrow Video, allows a modern classic to finally receive the home video treatment it deserves.

© 2016 Arrow Video

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Paris, 13th District - Jacques Audiard Cover Art

Paris, 13th District

Paris, 13th District

Four young people fall in and out of love (and sex) with each other while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine.

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Restrepo - Tim Hetherington Cover Art

Restrepo

Restrepo

Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentary, RESTREPO chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. The movie focuses on 15 soldiers based at "Outpost Restrepo," named after a platoon medic killed early in the deployment. Filmed by author Sebastian Junger ("War") and award-winning photographer Tim Hetherington, RESTREPO takes viewers on their own 90-minute deployment, without comment or agenda. This is war, full stop. A National Geographic Entertainment release.

© 2010 National Geographic Entertainment

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Bone Tomahawk - S. Craig Zahler Cover Art

Bone Tomahawk

Bone Tomahawk

When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Hunt (Kurt Russell), sets out to bring them home.

© 2015 Twilight Riders, LLC

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Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Cover Art

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program... with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her - with riotously funny results.

© 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

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The Grab - Gabriela Cowperthwaite Cover Art

The Grab

The Grab

From filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish), THE GRAB is a global thriller following an investigative journalist who uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet. Quietly and seemingly out of sight, governments, private investors and mercenaries are working to seize food and water resources at the expense of entire populations. These groups are establishing themselves as the new OPEC, where the future world powers will be those who control not oil, but food. Behind the scenes, the world’s superpowers are bracing for shortages that will trigger civil wars, topple governments and spark the mass migration of hundreds of millions of refugees. The stakes in THE GRAB are nothing less than survival.

© 2022, Center for Investigative Reporting Studios, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Arcadian - Ben Brewer Cover Art

Arcadian

Arcadian

In a near future, normal life on Earth has been decimated. Paul and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, have been living a half-life – tranquility by day and torment by night. Every night, after the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a mysterious and violent evil. One day, when Thomas doesn't return home before sundown, Paul must leave the safety of their fortified farm to find him. A nightmarish battle ensues that forces the family to execute a desperate plan to survive.

© 2023. 6001, Inc.

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Black Bear - Lawrence Michael Levine Cover Art

Black Bear

Black Bear

At a remote lake house, a filmmaker named Allison (Aubrey Plaza) arrives to play house guest to a troubled couple (Abbott and Gadon), who have eschewed their life in the city after inheriting a family retreat. Battling writer's block, Allison sparks a calculated game of desire and jealousy in pursuit of a new work that blurs the boundaries of autobiography and invention. Black Bear explores the complex nature of relationships, gender dynamics, and the erratic nature of love as it traces the conflict between our lust and our longing for internal harmony.

© 2020 Momentum Pictures, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Midsommar

Midsommar

Dani and Christian are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.

© 2019 A24 Films, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling—where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars. Aided by Nina (Rene Russo), a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

© 2014 Open Road Films. All Rights Reserved.

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Race (2016) - Stephen Hopkins Cover Art

Race (2016)

Race (2016)

The incredible true story of Olympic legend Jesse Owens is vividly brought to life in Race. In his epic quest to be the greatest athlete in history, Owens (Stephan James, Selma) chooses to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he must overcome not only elite competition, but also the brutal racial climate of Adolf Hitler's Germany. Also starring Jason Sudekis (We're the Millers) and Academy Award® winners Jeremy Irons and William Hurt, Race is a film about courage, determination, tolerance, friendship and trust that critics are calling "Movie magic!" (Brian Truitt, USA TODAY).

© 2015 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved.

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Spirited Away

Spirited Away

Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki's wondrous fantasy adventure is a dazzling masterpiece from one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation. Chihiro's family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for spirits and demons, Chihiro must use all her wits to survive in this strange new place, find a way to free her parents and return to the normal world. Overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, Spirited Away became a worldwide smash hit, and is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time.

© 2019 Studio Ghibli/GKIDS under exclusive license to Shout Factory LLC , 2001 Studio Ghibli - NDDTM

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Enemy (2014) - Denis Villeneuve Cover Art

Enemy (2014)

Enemy (2014)

Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with PRISONERS director Denis Villeneuve in this sexy and mind bending thriller. Adam Bell is a glum professor who has grown disinterested by his ordinary life. When Adam discovers a man who appears to be his double, the identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and hauntingly intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing playing both roles, journeying through a world both familiar and strange. The film’s final and unnerving image will not be soon forgotten by audiences. In the end, only one man can survive.

© 2013 Rhombus Media (Enemy) Inc. / Roxbury Pictures S.L. / 9232-2437 Québec Inc. / Mecanismo Films, S.L. / Roxbury EnemyS.L. All Rights Reserved.

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The Ringer

The Ringer

Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home the gold. But when Steve's fellow competitors get wise to the con, they inspire him to rise to the greatest challenge of all: becoming a better person. Produced by the fearless Farrelly Brothers (There's Something About Mary, Shallow Hal), The Ringer will keep you smiling all the way to the finish line!

© 2005 Twentieth Century Fox.

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Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

From the rural town of Preston, Idaho, comes Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder). With a red 'fro, his moon boots, and illegal government ninja moves, he is a new kind of hero. His family consists of fragile brother Kip (Aaron Ruell), who's seeking his soulmate in online chat rooms; Uncle Rico (Jon Gries), who is stuck in his "glory" days of high school football; and Grandma (Sandy Martin), who enjoys going out to the dunes on her quad-runner. Napoleon spends his days drawing magical beasts, working on his computer hacking skills to impress the chicks, and begrudgingly feeding his Grandma's pet llama. When his friend Pedro (Efren Ramirez) decides to run for class president, it is Napoleon to the rescue to help him triumph over adversity.

© 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Paramount Pictures Corporation.

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What Remains (2022) - Ran Huang Cover Art

What Remains (2022)

What Remains (2022)

At a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective, all have a vested interest in solving a cold case before their obsessive quest consumes them all.

© 2024 iQUIYI Pictures

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Songs of Earth - Margreth Olin Cover Art

Songs of Earth

Songs of Earth

A majestic visual symphony with the filmmaker’s father as our guide, bringing us through a breathtaking journey of Norway’s most scenic valley. He grew up where generations have lived alongside nature to survive. The sounds of the earth harmonize in this breathtaking journey. Executive produced by Liv Ullmann and Wim Wenders.

© 2023 Speranza Film AS

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Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil.

© 2006 New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Conviction (2010) - Tony Goldwyn Cover Art

Conviction (2010)

Conviction (2010)

Two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell deliver unforgettable performances in this incredible true story that co-stars Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis and Peter Gallagher. Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a young woman whose world is shattered when her beloved brother Kenny (Rockwell) is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Steadfastly convinced of his innocence, Betty Anne embarks on an 18-year journey to set Kenny free, using state-of-the-art forensic technology. The unshakable bond between a brother and sister, at the heart of this real-life drama, will stir your emotions and inspire you.

© 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Waves

Waves

Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, ‘Waves’ traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. From acclaimed director Trey Edward Shults, ‘Waves’ is a heartrending story about the universal capacity for compassion and growth even in the darkest of times.

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Mirai

Mirai

From acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children) comes a daringly original story of love passed down through generations. When four-year-old Kun meets his new baby sister, his world is turned upside down. Named Mirai (meaning "future"), the baby quickly wins the hearts of Kun's entire family. Kun becomes increasingly jealous of her, until one day he storms off into the garden, where he encounters strange guests from the past and future – including his sister Mirai, as a teenager. Together, Kun and Mirai go on a journey through time and space, uncovering their family’s incredible story, in this magical and emotionally soaring adventure about the ties that bring families together and make us who we are.

© 2018 Studio Chizu. All Rights Reserved.

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Cora Bora

Cora Bora

Cora (Meg Stalter) puts her fledgling music career and life of random hookups on hold to go back home to win her girlfriend back, where she realizes that it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.

© 2023 LAMF Cora Bora LLC

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Mere seconds before the earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

© Touchstone Pictures. All Rights Reserved