10 Things I Hate About You
A high school version of The Taming Of The Shrew.
Aftersun
Sometime in the Nineties, somewhere in a Turkish coastal resort, a young, divorced father is spending the vacation with his daughter pre-teen daughter Sophie.
Alice, Darling
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
All Quiet On The Western Front
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Amanda
As far as 24-year-old Amanda can remember, she has never had friends. It’s the thing she desires most. When she finds out that as infants she and Rebecca had spent a lot of time together, Amanda settles on her new mission: convincing her that they are still best friends.
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Blueback
The story of a child who befriends a magnificent wild blue grouper while diving. When she realises that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist mother, and takes on poachers to save her friend.
The Blue Caftan
Halim and Mina own a small family tailor shop that specializes in sewing ceremonial caftans. Since traditional hand-crafted work is time-consuming, Halim decides to hire an assistant, Youssef. The presence of the attractive young man arouses long-suppressed feelings in Halim, something that does not go unnoticed by his wife Mina.
Broker
Drama following a group of people brought together by "baby post boxes" used to help abandoned babies.
Casa Susanna
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
Catherine Called Birdy
A 14-year-old girl in Medieval England navigates through life and avoiding potential suitors her father has in mind.
Charcoal
A rural family who make their living from a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner, who turns out to be using their home as a hideout.
Chevalier
The true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
Corsage
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.

D

Daughter Of Rage
A young girl finds herself separated from her mother and working in a recycling plant.
Decision To Leave
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
Driving Madeleine
A taxi driver drives a passenger across Paris as she recalls her life.
Emily
The journey to womanhood of rebel and misfit Emily Brontë.
Empire Of Light
A peek into the lives of staff at a cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
The End Of Sex
A couple feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to winter camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
EO
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
The Fabelmans
Growing up in post-World War Two era Arizona, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Falcon Lake
A young teenager falls in love with an older girl while on holiday.
Fixation
A young woman undergoes a psychiatric evaluation before her sentencing in an unusual murder trial. But as the tests become more personal and frightening, she begins to question the true motives of her doctors.
Free Money
When universal basic income (UBI) comes to the Kenyan village of Kogutu, lives are forever changed.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.
Godland
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
Good Night Oppy
The story of Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
The Good Nurse
An infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients.
The Greatest Showman
Musical celebration of PT Barnum's life as salesman, circus promoter, freak show entrepreneur, producer and show biz risk taker in 19th century America
Holy Spider
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.

I

Joyland
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Leonor Will Never Die
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
Living
In 1952 London, veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post-WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
The Lost King
An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Twin brothers find their lives disrupted after a phone call about their long-estranged dad.

M

The Maiden
The lives of three suburban teenagers intersect.
The Menu
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Moonage Daydream
Documentary featuring a wealth of David Bowie archive.
The Mummy
There are problems at the pyramids after an archaeological dig accidentally wakes a mummy - 25th anniversary reissue.
My Imaginary Country
Protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile's capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.
My Sailor, My Love
A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.
Nanny
Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent supernatural presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
The NeverEnding Story
Enchanting fantasy adventure about a magical land under threat.
No Bears
The director appears as himself, relocated to a rural border town to remotely oversee the making of a new film in Turkey, the story of which comes to sharply parallel disturbing events that begin to occur around him.
One Fine Morning
A woman who is raising her daughter alone and looking after her dad, who has a degenerative disease, embarks on a passionate affair.
Other People's Children
A childless woman forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter.
Paris Memories
A woman is caught up in a Paris terror attack and three months on she tries to piece together her memory.
Plan 75
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.
Project Wolf Hunting
The story of dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape attempt leads to a riot.

R

Riceboy Sleeps
A Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Nineties Canada, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
Saint Omer
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
The School Of Rock
A drop-out muso poses as a schoolteacher and finds himself setting up a rock band with a group of schoolkids.
Something You Said Last Night
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her Canadian-Italian family on vacation.
The Son
Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
The Substitute
A professor tries to help a student who is being hounded by drug traffickers.
Strictly Ballroom
An 'ugly duckling' dancer teams up with the champ in waiting for feelgood romp.
To Kill A Tiger
Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.
Triangle Of Sadness
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.
The Umbrella Men
A ragtag bunch of musicians are forced to rob a bank during the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival in the hope they will save their iconic but indebted nightclub in the Bo Kaap.
Under The Fig Trees
Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

V

Victim
A Ukranian immigrant faces racism as she seeks justice.
The Water
First love plays out against a backdrop of a hot summer and local myth.
Wendell & Wild
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raul.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Cosmos gives way to chaos in Tarr's whale of a tale - 4k reissue.
West Side Story
Musical sees romance fuel a gang rivalry in New York.
We Are Still Here
Eight stories by and about First Nations people.
The Whale
A reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
While We Watched
A turbulent newsroom drama which intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation.
Winter Boy
Set over the course of one winter, a 17-year-old high school student struggles with grief.
The Woman King
A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Women Talking
A group of women from a remote religious community deal with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men.
The Wonder
The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
The Worst Ones
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.
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