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When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.

A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.

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.

The kick-ass assassins with slacker tendencies are back.

A three part documentary charting the Chilean struggle which led to the fall of Salvador Allende and the rise to power, by means of a coup, of Augusto Pinochet.

In the near future a woman decides to purify her DNA in a machine that takes her into her past lives. Then she meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had always known him.

An 18-year-old football-mad girl defies her parents' wishes to conform by pursuing her dream to play footie like David Beckham.

An elegiac tribute to the hugely influential Scots filmmaker featuring contributions from the life-long friend who knew him best, Peter Jewell, as well as directors Lynne Ramsay and Lenny Abrahamson.

Two teenagers' lives collide when one is mugged, leading to an unexpected road trip.

After overdosing on benzodiazepines and opioids, a young woman is picked up from the hospital by her father and the two embark on a road trip together. He was absent during most of her childhood due to addiction. In a last ditch effort to save her, he attempts to convince her to get sober.

A high school teacher undergoes transition to her new life while working in a conservative small-town school.

The story of an affair unfolds backwards over a series of summers to reveal long-held secrets.

A teenager investigates the underworld of a local high school.

Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea.

The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.

Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.

The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.

Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.

A couple producing custom erotic films are dragged into a nightmarish conspiracy.
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Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.

The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.

Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.

Refugee Jacqueline, alone and penniless on a Greek island embarks on a friendship with a tour guide.

Jamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee. Things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.

A girl makes a friend while on holiday with her mum but when the boy shows her an abandoned tin mine what they hear there leads to trouble above ground.

A German-Kurdish woman tries to decide whether to cover up the fact that she is no longer a virgin in the run up to her wedding in this poignant exploration of cultural pressure and self-determination.

A romance between two people, who met too briefly over a winter weekend while on the run from themselves.

Profile of the It’s A Wonderful Life director using previously unseen archive material to explore his rise from childhood poverty in Sicily to become one of the world’s most celebrated filmmakers.

After a corrupt legal guardian ruins her life, a gran sets out for revenge.

Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.

Exploration of the breakdown of a gay relationship.

A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.

Documentary about controversial fashion designer John Galliano.

Violence begets violence in a study of retribution and small town defiance.

1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.

A man becomes determined to realise his dad's dream of taking their small-town football club to the Icelandic FA Cup and playing a home game.

A fateful night in the life of a father and son after a kidnapping goes awry.

After a grieving dad and his daughter move from England to Israel, she encounters a little girl that only she can see.
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A raptor created as part of a top secret military experiment escapes from the lab and threatens the residents of a small town. Oh, and it's also invisible.

After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.

Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.

Documentary charting an acid attack survivor's personal journey.

A gay musician spends his weekend trying to find the money for HIV-preventive treatment after being sexually assaulted by a stranger.

A documentary about the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Cathal McNaughton.

Documentary profile of comic Janey Godley.

A lone officer with a broken ankle fights for survival at a police station.

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.

Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.

Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
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Documentary about the acclaimed directors, their work and its legacy.

Trouble brews for a young woman and her mother after they take in a foundling youngster against the wishes of their community.

A young mother struggles to cope alone in a new home.

The story of a husband and wife's killing spree.

An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.

As the old man goes about his day to day toil on the land, his children squabble over its future.

A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.

Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.

An exploration of the roots of racism as experienced in the US.

Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
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In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and maybe even their genius. Based on a true story.

An insight into the anguish of a young boy in the wake of a tragic accident.

It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.

Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.

An archival constellation from the still and moving images of the British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran in the early 20th century.

Thriller showing what happens when three flatmates find and keep a suitcase of money.

A couple find their marriage deteriorating after a disturbing episode when the husband declares in his sleep, “Someone’s inside”.

The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.

Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.

On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.

A re-examination of the case of Louis CK, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, exploring his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

Absurdist comedy that sees a family try to cope after the patriarch dies with an erection that won't go away.

A self-centred tattoo artist finds his request for a selfie leads to a dangerous late-night game after a famous client comes to call.

1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain.
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Historic vampire tale, adapted from a Tolstoy novella.

Swept away to a magical land, young Dorothy sets out to find the wizard who can help her get home, meeting some unusual friends along the way. Out on IMAX reissue.

Backpackers go looking for hedonism in the Aussie outback... and find horror.

Johnny Cash biopic that feels the lurve.

A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.

A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know the sinister secret behind it - or what is going on down in the cellar.

In the middle of a performance of The Cuckold, a very bad boulevard play, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take control of the evening...

Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave.

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