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Inu-Oh is born with unique physical characteristics, and the horrified adults cover every inch of his body with garments, including a mask on his face... but through his creative abilities he forges a different destiny to the one they intend.
A woman's hand is chopped off during a dinner date, leading her on an offbeat revenge journey filled with mirrors, ghosts and gore.
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
The tale of an impotent man who tries to assert his masculinity through fighting but cannot come to terms with his past.
A retired assassin regains his murderous instincts when the teenage girl he’s looking after is targeted by a gang.
High school student Sohee starts job training at a call centre, but she faces pressure of greedy company which leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to follow traces to reveal the truth.
A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of a new home turns lives upside down.
Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
After a couple splits up, mould left behind on a mattress slowly grows into a creature that steals the vertebrae of humans who inhabit the bed.
The chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka is caught between the Eastern and Western armies after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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.
A story about a man who has been pointed out as the culprit of a locked-room murder and his lawyer approaching the truth.
Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a 'wellness center' with the help of a washed-up expert cult buster.
George Jones invites country music superstar Troyal Brooks out on the town in Nashville the night before George is to be cryogenically frozen in 1994.
A woman who has lost her sight in her car crash and is guided by a young Chinese orphan tries to escape the serial killer who is stalking the streets of Rome armed with deadly cello strings.
Two young men from different backgrounds find their destinies linked when they meet up in the world of illegal bare-knuckle fighting.
A documentary portrait of filmmaker Jean Rollin.
The story of a critical sea battle between Koreans and invading Japanese forces in 1592.
When an internet vigilante develops a revolutionary new computer program to combat online predators, its rapid advancement leads to serious questions about autonomy, oppression, and what it really means to be human.
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women discover that they are being stalked by a shark.
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father is missing and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
In 1950s Paris, the body of a young woman is found dressed in an evening gown and holding no I.D. When nobody claims the body, Detective Jules Maigret is brought onto the case.
Indigenous artist Uýra harnesses the interconnecting power of their native, queer, and trans identities to blaze a trail of ecological activism and LGBTQ+ pride through the villages and cities of the Amazon.
An urban legend speaks of a summer ghost, a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.
Five girls stray from society on the hunt for something more special...you can find them if you follow the sound.
John Hawkins, who is set to retire as police chief is tucked away in deep wood. Following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he's pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.
Members of a therapy group are forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.
Newlyweds Suse and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
A Kurdish girl in Japan finds her life turned upside down when her family loses its refugee status.
A quartet of drag queens meet on a group therapy retreat that will change their lives forever.
When three boys get lost together in the forest, the adventure they share will change them forever.
Two teenage girls begin a secret relationship in a strict Jehovah’s Witness community.
A film about the weight of patriarchy and the illusion of Manichaeism.
At 83, Madelynn Von Ritz is doing what she loves, making music. This is a film about hard luck, perseverance, loss and hope. About almosts and nevers and keeping on.
When his bipolar mother walks back into his life, a young gay man is forced to contend with his family history of mental illness.
An experimental film which follows its participants as they take voyeurism to the next level, inviting the audience to become an active participant.
After moving into an old isolated house with her newly-single mother and her little sister, 12-year-old Cassie begins to suspect that her family is being tormented by the spirit of a sadistic river witch.
An extra-terrestrial ally steps in to save humanity from kaiju attacks, but the consequences of his decision could be even more dangerous.
An in-depth look at the life and work of the writer.
An inventor is ordered by a Medieval inquisitor to build the perfect torture device.
Travelling to a remote location to celebrate the hen night of her childhood best friend, a woman re-encounters her childhood bully, who is once again determined to make her suffer.
The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over 30 years.
A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Chan-woo is on his fifth attempt to get into the police academy, when his friends make him a strange offer to pay the registration fee in exchange for just one drink at the bar. The next morning, he wakes up hungover in his loud neighbour’s apartment with a corpse lying face down in a pool of blood.
A wriggling, drug-induced creature feature.
A dark and monstrous creature becomes the guardian of an innocent human child.
Black comedy. An employee at a cleaning products company accidentally commits a messily bloody crime – and must figure out how to cover her tracks with the help of her young trainee.
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
A dragon’s adopted daughter befriends a human princess, and must contend with a frog-witch’s curse.
When a man arrives at his former girlfriend's home to tell her he has just escaped from a kidnapper, it's the beginning of a long, rambling, comical story which just might hint at something serious.
The serpent's call Composer Stephen Lukach on creating tension and awe in Beware Boiúna
Care and community Mike Leigh and the Tender Loving Care cast on humanity and looking out for one another
The aftermath Jorge Thielen Armand on returning to Venezuela to make Death Has No Master
Making magic Gregg Bishop on witches, inspiring actors, instinctive filmmaking and The Heretiks
The road to The Guests Cristina Diz and Stefan Butzmühlen on working together on their latest film
Beyond Saturn Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil and Assaad Bouab on Shadows Of Beirut
Puppy love Brad Pitt on the 'moving' Heart Of The Beast shoot thanks to furry co-star Odin
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