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The Holy Mountain
Alejandro Jodorowsky · 1973
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Sicario
Denis Villeneuve · 2015
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford · 2016
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest
Antoine de Gaudemar · 2011
A documentary about the making of Milos Forman's 1975 film ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, featuring interviews with the director, cast, and crew.
Incendies
Denis Villeneuve · 2010
À la lecture du testament de leur mère, Jeanne et Simon Marwan se voient remettre deux enveloppes : l’une destinée à un père qu’ils croyaient mort et l‘autre à un frère dont ils ignoraient l’existence. Jeanne voit dans cet énigmatique legs la clé du silence de sa mère, enfermée dans un mutisme inexpliqué les dernières semaines précédant sa mort. Elle décide immédiatement de partir au Moyen Orient exhumer le passé de cette famille dont elle ne sait presque rien… Simon, lui, n’a que faire des caprices posthumes de cette mère qui s’est toujours montrée distante. Mais son amour pour sa sœur jumelle le poussera bientôt à rejoindre Jeanne et à sillonner avec elle le pays de leurs ancêtres sur la piste d’une mère bien loin de celle qu’ils ont connue.
Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino · 2018
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
Liverleaf
Eisuke Naito · 2018
The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
Ichi the Killer
Takashi Miike · 2001
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
The King of Pigs
Yeon Sang-ho · 2022
Two friends in the past were victims of serious school bulling. One could not resist his trauma, and becomes a serial killer, walking in the path of revenge. Another one tries his best to overcome the trauma and becomes a police detective. He now faces tragic fate to risk his life to capture the serial killer.
Evilive
2023
A hardworking lawyer who randomly selects prisoners to visit and find jobs for himself meets a former baseball player who is also the second in command of a criminal organization. Will he be able to resist the temptations of evil?
Vigilante
Moon Yoo-seok · 2023
Kim Ji-yong leads a double life as a Korean National Police University student by day and the Vigilante by night, personally punishing criminals who evade the law. He is surrounded by people who all possess different ulterior motives.
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon-ho · 2003
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
Burning
Lee Chang-dong · 2018
A gang of kids tries to avoid boredom in this meditative, observational and ultimately tragic short film. #BURNING uses beautiful photography and quiet drama to convey the ennui of contemporary youth.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Rob Marshall · 2005
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
The Danish Girl
Tom Hooper · 2015
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kemp Powers · 2023
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti · 2018
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Helter Skelter
Mika Ninagawa · 2012
Adaptación de un popular manga sobre una joven estrella que llegará a incrementar su paso por la cirugía plástica para mantener su imagen.
Arcane
Christian Linke, Alex Yee · 2021
Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
Samurai Champloo
Shinichiro Watanabe · 2004
Break-dancing but fierce warrior Mugen has to deal with the cold-blooded and conceited Jin, a samurai who believes he is above all. These sworn enemies are brought together by Fuu for a special task.
Entertaining
American Psycho
Mary Harron · 2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Narco-Saints
Yoon Jong-bin · 2022
An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.
Mask Girl
Kim Yong-hoon, Kim Young-hoon · 2023
An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night — until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life.
Smugglers
Ryoo Seung-wan · 2023
During the 1970s, in Kunchon, there were women divers who were able to dive without equipment, including two best friends Choon-ja and Jin-sook, Jin-sook's brother and Hammer. They always collected seafood under water for living. But, as fewer factories started to be built near the beach, the women divers started to have trouble with what they were doing for living. Without any choice, the ship crews decided to join the smuggling business in the water to seek a way for their living. But the smuggling business in their village got too big for Jin-sook's family to handle and the peaceful village was gradually broken.
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Midsommar
Ari Aster · 2019
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Lady Macbeth
William Oldroyd · 2016
Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
1917
Sam Mendes · 2019
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson · 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2017
In 1950s London, renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes ever present in his life as his muse and lover.
The Lover
Jean-Jacques Annaud · 1992
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
The Color of Pomegranates
Sergei Parajanov · 1969
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-Wai · 1995
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Raise the Red Lantern
Zhang Yimou · 1991
In 1920s China, nineteen-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Lady Vengeance
Park Chan-wook · 2005
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Gangubai Kathiawadi
Sanjay Leela Bhansali · 2022
Duped and sold to a brothel, a young woman fearlessly reclaims her power, using underworld connections to preside over the world she was once a pawn in.
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve · 2024
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Dune
Denis Villeneuve · 2021
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell · 2023
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Shōgun
Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo · 2024
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Curse of the Golden Flower
Zhang Yimou · 2006
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Queen Woo
2024
Upon the announcement of the king's death in Goguryeo, a fierce battle ensues among tribes. Queen Woo, who immediately becomes the target of princes and five tribes vying for the throne, struggles to crown a new king within 24 hours. Will Queen Woo be able to transcend the constraints of gender and era to carve out her own destiny?
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick · 1999
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
The Fall
Tarsem Singh · 2008
Miejski szpital w Los Angeles, rok 1912. Roy Walker odniósł poważne obrażenia podczas kręcenia jednej z kaskaderskich scen filmowych. Złamane zostało również jego serce, kiedy ukochana dziewczyna uciekła z pewnym aktorem. Zrozpaczony i zdesperowany chłopak ma plan ostatecznego uwolnienia się od cierpienia, ale, unieruchomiony na szpitalnym łóżku, nie jest w stanie sam go zrealizować. Zaprzyjaźnia się więc z małą pacjentką ze złamaną ręką, 5-letnią Aleksandrią. Codziennie opowiada dziewczynce kolejny fragment fantastycznej opowieści.
Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige · 1993
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Trauma
The Flowers of War
Zhang Yimou · 2011
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Better Days
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung · 2019
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Night in Paradise
Park Hoon-jung · 2020
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
D.P.
Kim Bo-tong, Han Jun-hee · 2021
A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.
The Worst of Evil
Jang Min-seok, Han Dong-wook · 2023
Set in the 1980s, a husband and wife, both detectives, infiltrate a massive criminal organization responsible for the illegal drug trade between Korea, China, and Japan.
Man in Love
Chen-Hao Yin · 2021
A debt collector strikes a deal with a debt-ridden woman struggling to care for her ailing father: he will take care of her bills if she agrees to date him.
