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Fake Me A Happy New Year(2012)

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

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Three Days in August(2016)

An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.

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Absolution(2010)

A down and out professional tries and fails to commit suicide. He wanders the streets and bumps into the man who caused his hardships...

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Electric Swan(2019)

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.

5.9

Bandyta(1997)

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

5.8

The Seventh Seal(1957)

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

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Monster(2003)

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

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Requiem(2006)

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

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Paralysis(2016)

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life.

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The Fisher King(1991)

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.

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Antoine and Colette(1962)

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

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Safe(2013)

A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.

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Monster(2013)

Sara helps her little brother Tomas to overcome his fear of the monster under the bed, but it is harder to protect him from his violent and authoritarian father.

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Hold Your Breath(2021)

Hold Your Breath had its premiere in Screamfest New Orleans 2021. During a deadly home invasion, a terrified woman discovers she has an unexpected power.

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Code_Switch(2019)

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

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Monster(2020)

Nacho appears on a TV program to undergo hypnosis in order to prove that what he allegedly witnessed on the beach four years ago when his wife drowned was real.

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Operation Guaraná(2023)

A group of TV reporters gather a team of experts in the town of Moquebatu da Moca, where the residents believe in the myth of "Tupã-Guaraná", a being that is supposedly behind the missing people in the area. The story progresses with more and more ridiculous scenarios as the team conducts investigations and interviews with the locals.

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Doretha's Blues(2021)

Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.

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Summer Animals(2021)

Living out of a motel, 15-year-old Tommy makes a drastic decision in order for her siblings to escape the heat before the summer’s over.

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Nice Coloured Girls(1987)

Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.

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