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Browse 23 movies from Smudge Films
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.
May 2024
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
Aug 2024
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.
Oct 2016
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
Feb 2026
It's the Midwest,1973, and Holocaust survivor Lena works as a hosiery shopgirl in an attempt at an ordinary American life, but her past trauma drives her to hysteria in this absurd, hallucinatory nightmare.
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Set over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds’ family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz family, finds solace in and guidance from the supernatural force she believes is haunting her.
Dec 2018
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.
Aug 2023
After suffering a stroke, Tond wakes up to realize he doesn't have any friends aside from his mean old wife, Janice.
Aug 2016
Usually a reserved guy, Greg struggles to keep up with young, unpredictable Josh on their first date. But as the night continues, things spiral out of control and the two men must confront the generational divide in this cutting and insightful comedy about what it means to be gay in contemporary America.
Apr 2017
Joybubbles discovers he can manipulate the telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession unwittingly lays the groundwork for a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.
Jan 2026
After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton decide the only way to regain their confidence and prove their masculinity is to sleep with some women. When they meet fellow conference attendees and pleasure seekers Beth and Dominique, it seems like a perfect match. Unfortunately sealing the deal is easier said than done.
Feb 2017
As the date of her first televised appearance draws near, a hideously ugly cello prodigy and her stage mother grapple with public expectations and the throes of puberty.
Oct 2024
Fueled by the hope of escaping her dreary suburban life, a misunderstood teen entertains the increasingly sinister advances of an Internet friend in a riff on the 1966 Joyce Carol Oates story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
May 2019
A comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.
Jan 2016
Seems Nice follows Calvin, a persistent and delusional “Nice Guy” with a fertile imagination, who will go to unbelievable lengths to win the heart of his dream girl. But Jess, a very real woman with problems of her own, is definitely not the dream girl Calvin thinks she is. Their realities clash, inciting mind games, bloodshed, and worst of all, hurt feelings.
On an idyllic girls trip, Ruby has what seems like a sex dream about her best friend and can't tell if it actually happened or not.
Jun 2024
In this absurdist homage to '90s basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery.
Nov 2024
A branding intern loses the life he once had after an encounter with a mysterious blonde and her whiskey bottle... but gains something very special in return.
Mar 2017
Thrill ride through the mind of an insecure and indecisive artist.
A mockumentary about a small-town man who is abducted by aliens, meets a group of fellow abductees, leads a daring escape back to Earth, and in the process finds purpose, community, and love.