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A masked DJ slices and dices his way through an afterparty in the Hollywood Hills.
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes.
On the morning of the winter solstice, Tang Yu's son disappeared in the stairwell; gambler Yuan Wu hid his father's body; and two unsolved cases involving the assault.
The third night of Road to G1 Climax 36 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on June 23, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The show featured a four-way #1 contendership match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and two G1 Climax 36 play-in matches.
Six animation directors draw on the six lines of the I Ching to create distinct shorts rooted in Taiwanese vernacular culture. Blending tradition and futurity, faith and emotion, and science fiction with reality, these intersecting visions spiral toward a cold, fantastical romance in an animated void reminiscent of Black Mirror.
On a remote Australian farm, a weary farmer crosses paths with a wounded stranger desperate for help. What begins as an uneasy act of kindness quickly spirals into a nightmarish fight for survival, as something far more sinister than an injury reveals itself.
Chung-jae, a repairman, cannot stop turning "a round golden doorknob" in a client's bedroom. He visits a consulting room to find its cause. Da-gam, an actor, visits his friend Doo-joon to borrow "a funeral suit" when someone dies. "So who died this time?" Doo-joon asks over a beer. "An actress I worked with." Two men, each in an empty seat, begin to tell their story — about object and object.
An entire generation of Germans was raised on male comedians. But what about their female counterparts? Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Esther Schweins, and Gaby Köster look back at the way women were portrayed on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s, when jokes at women’s expense were the order of the day.
Two married couples living next door to each other become entangled in forbidden love. A powerful attraction develops between a special woman and her daring neighbor, with no idea where it will lead.
During a seemingly ordinary school vacation, eight-year-old Diego struggles to understand why his older brother, Nicco, has suddenly become distant. While Diego clings to the simple rituals that once brought them together, Nicco retreats further into silence, carrying a pain no one around him fully sees. As memories of happier Julys blur with the present, Diego is forced to confront a reality beyond his understanding. Through the eyes of a child, JULY explores the quiet weight of depression, the bonds between siblings, and the small acts of love that can become lifelines in moments of darkness.
During the Paris rebellion, young Louis XIV must be hidden from danger and is secretly replaced at court by a look-alike. Entrusted to the musketeer-poet Cyrano de Bergerac, Louis is sheltered within Madeleine Béjart’s traveling theater troupe, where the actor and aspiring playwright Molière has just joined – unaware their newest member is the future king of France. As Cyrano struggles to handle the arrogant and clumsy young king, he begins writing a bold play for the troupe. Molière, bursting with ideas, transforms the work with wit and heart, awakening his genius for comedy and deepening his secret feelings for Madeleine, while young Louis discovers the joy of theater and the power of friendship. But back in Paris, intrigue is brewing – can the young king return in time before the masquerade is revealed and embrace his true royal destiny?
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.
In the neon-lit streets of Kolkata, a woman searching for redemption crosses paths with a mysterious bar singer whose past remains hidden. Over the course of a restless day, their lives intertwine with strangers carrying their own conflicts and secrets, until a buried truth changes everything.
Cybersecurity lead Jordan Miller discovered something at work that he can't ignore, armed with a stolen USB drive, can he put things right before it's too late?
Prequel short film to “BUM” (2025)
The story of a woman living in the border region between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, who agrees to partake in a special deal in order to help a friend. However, this will lead her into a dangerous situation, and she will have to confront her desires
Former dirty cop Slade Crews is pulled back into a cold case when a masked killer known as “The Gravekeeper” begins murdering people in the small town of St. Graves. As bodies pile up, Slade uncovers a decades-old cover-up tied to corruption, betrayal, and a twisted story he hopes to unravel.
During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in her search for what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her aunt Kati. Kati's return home as head architect for the renovation of the Residenzschloss after many years abroad reunites the family in one place. This reunion raises the hopes of grandparents Friedrich and Christel that they can join forces to give their pension, which has few visitors, a new lease of life.
