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Adam is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier's technical support line, he meets Tina, a radiant woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unexpected encounter changes everything: Earth trembles, and hearts explode… It's love!
Aug 2025
A young boy who gradually loses sight goes on a getaway vacation with his divorced parents.
Sep 2025
Elizabeth Smart's harrowing abduction at 14 from her family's Utah home unfolds through her own words and never-before-seen material in this documentary.
Jan 2026
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
Sep 2024
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult twins called back to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy.
Dec 2025
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission into the prestigious botany department, confronting the sexism of both professors and peers. In 1972, amidst counterculture movements, a reserved student finds his attention captured by a fellow housemate and the geranium plant she studies. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong secures the help of a renowned botanist for an experiment on the old ginkgo tree.
After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother and wife.
Jul 2025
Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.
Mar 2007
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the realm was thrown into chaos. Cao Cao campaigned against Dong Zhuo, welcomed the Emperor, and fought at Guandu, emerging as a hero of his time.
Oct 2025
Working in HR at a challenging company, Fren interviews young new hires and is secretly one month pregnant, grappling with the decision to have a child in difficult circumstances.
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Nov 2025
Set ten years after the events of the first film, the story explores the impact of time on institutions, relationships, and individuals, delivering a poignant yet inspiring tale about the invisible costs of pursuing one's dreams.
Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
In 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach.
Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern and daughter, cover the murder of a young girl for their magazine. Through their investigation, they discover disturbing similarities with the murder of another woman.
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
Oct 2006
Norbert, the posh conservative aristocrat vampire, must find a pure blooded woman to bite if he wants to survive and not be rejected by his parents. Sent by ship to Japan, along with his museum watchman butler, he’s shipwrecked on Boulet Rouge Island…
Amanda Knox returns to Italy to confront Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor who locked her up for a murder she did not commit
When Salman falls ill, his saloon is at stake as the local moneylender wants it. The only person standing in the way is Salman's daughter, Safia. Will she be able to keep the salon running as Safdar?