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1) The Dig
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find his victim’s father searching for the body on an endless bog. When he asks the local police officer to remove the man from his land, he soon realizes that the police and community want the killer in their midst gone for good. With no memory of the murder and no way of stopping Sean, Callahan’s only option is to join THE DIG.
2) Red
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Language
English
Description
After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures.
3) Beirut
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Language
English
Description
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris) must send a former U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
4) 600 Miles
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Oscar® nominee Tim Roth is riveting as Hank Harris, a U.S. agent out to bust an international arms-smuggling racket. While attempting an arrest, Hank is overpowered by a young Mexican gunrunner (Kristyan Ferrer), who makes a fateful decision to smuggle Hank into Mexico and deliver him to his crime bosses. As the two enemies begin a tense journey into the heart of deadly cartel country, they are suddenly bound in a desperate fight for survival in...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Language
English
Description
Warwick is the consummate host. John is a career criminal. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend. We become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**
8) Monos
Publisher
Neon
Language
English
Description
MONOS is a breathtaking saga where the mission of teenage soldiers descends into chaos and the strong begin to prey on the weak on a remote mountain in Latin America. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
11) Never Here
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Disturbing events lead an artist who photographs strangers to suspect that someone out there is watching HER. Boundaries blur between real and imaginary, crime and art, the watcher and the watched.
12) Wake in Fright
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Language
English
Description
Considered a classic of Australian New Wave cinema, WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in the outback.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
14) Compliance
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, COMPLIANCE tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd) receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she’s only doing what’s right, Sandra commences the investigation,...
15) Frailty
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Wesley Doyle is startled by the spontaneous declaration of youngster Fenton Meiks that Fenton’s delusion father believed he had a divine mission as avenging angel that required him and his brother Adam to become his “demon-slaying” murder accomplices. Fenton promises to provide the agent with a complete confession if he agrees to be shown the secret graves of the victims. Agent Doyle agrees, but this seemingly open-and-shut case is...
16) The Appearance
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Description
Mateho the Inquisitor (Jake Stormoen, "The Outpost") and his comrade (Kristian Nairn, “Game of Thrones”) are summoned to investigate a series of mysterious murders and the alleged ‘witch’ accused of the horrific crimes.
17) Firstborn
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
16 year old Jake Livingston (Christopher Collet) has always been the man of the Livingston home since his parents divorce. That is, until his mother (Teri Garr) started seeing Sam. Sam (Peter Weller), an alcoholic and drug addict, introduces Jake's mother into a self-destructive lifestyle. It's up to Jake to protect his mother from her new boyfriend's dangerous ways. This family drama also stars Robert Downey Jr. and Sarah Jessica Parker. Nominated...
18) Blindfire
Publisher
Kandoo Films
Language
English
Description
Lives are left in pieces after a white cop responds to a violent hostage call and kills the black suspect, only to learn he may have been set up. Facing trial, he must find the person responsible while examining his own accountability. Winner of Best Crime Drama, World-Fest Houston Film Festival.
20) Subway
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Language
Français
Description
Having stolen some compromising documents from a powerful and successful gangster at a party, a man known as Fred (Lambert) escapes from the police and takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro. There he integrates with the dwellers and befriends several colourful characters, some of which are living under the subway to avoid police arrest like him. While the gangster's henchmen look for his trail, Fred develops a romance with the...
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