The Abyss
Action-packed underwater rescue thriller, with nuclear warheads, explosive relationships and extra-terrestrials.
All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
All You Need Is Death
A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with a music professor to discover an ancient song.
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
Caligula
Graphic retelling of the story of the Roman emperor.
Crash
After being caught up in a violent crash, a quiet man with a struggling marriage discovers a cult of car crash sex fetishists.
The Creator
A post-apocalyptic thriller involving a future impacted by a war between humans and AI.

D

Enter The Clones Of Bruce Lee
A documentary about the men drafted in to fill the gap and keep audiences happy after the death of cinema's greatest martial arts star.
Femme
Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
Final Destination
Teens take on death after escaping a plane crash.
Hostile Dimensions
Two documentary filmmakers traverse alternate dimensions, confronting nightmares to uncover the truth behind a graffiti artist’s disappearance who seems to have vanished into thin air. These dimensions mix the ordinary with the bizarre - a hilly idyll is thrown off kilter by whales floating across the skies.

I

The Iron Giant
A boy forms a bond with an alien giant.
Last Straw
Miscommunication and a lack of empathy cause events to spiral out of control as a young waitress finds herself in the centre of a murder spree.
Lovely, Dark, And Deep
A new back-country ranger travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy which has haunted her since she was a child.

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Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life Of Cliff Twemlow
Polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor, who for a decade was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK! Witness how this 20th century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester.
Manhunter
A scarred FBI agent tracks a serial killer.
Omen
When a man who was cast out as a child after being considered a sorceror returns home, he faces prejudice.
Pacific Rim
Men operating giant robot suits are the last line of defence against sea monsters from another dimension.

R

Raging Grace
An undocumented Filipina immigrant is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter when she secures the perfect job, taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads but very soon, she realise that something is amiss.
The Raid
An elite SWAT team try to clear out an apartment complex controlled by a drug dealer, but nothing goes to plan.
The Royal Hotel
US backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
The Seeding
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
Suitable Flesh
A psychiatrist becomes obsessed by a young patient who seems to have multiple personalities.
True Romance
An earnest young comics geek goes on the run with an inexperienced hooker and an accidentally acquired suitcase full of cocaine - Christopher Walken's cocaine...
To Fire You Come At Last
In rural 17th century England, a group of men gather to carry a coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial. A great deal of ancient folklore and superstition surrounds the pathway to the church, and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark.

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V/H/S/85
An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analogue mashup of the forgotten Eighties.
Vincent Must Die
Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.
When Evil Lurks
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
The Wicker Man
A policeman gets more than he bargained for on a remote Scottish isle.
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