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Ina desperate attempt to entice new customers to his once-thriving escape room, Brice (Skeet Ulrich) decides to buy a mysterious new attraction - The Skull Box. His decision proves fatal as fun quickly escalates in to terror when a group of friends have less than an hour to solve the puzzles needed to escape the room alive, after an evil demon is unleashed. In order to avoid certain death, the group must work together - but they have less than an hour. Who - if any - will survive and escape with their lives? - Director:
- Peter Dukes
- Cast:
- Skeet Ulrich, Sean Young, Christine Donlon
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Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom... blood red. - Director:
- Ana Lily Amirpour
- Cast:
- Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
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Punishment Park (1971)Strafpark
Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park's pseudo-documentary style (continuing Watkins' subversive innovations with Culloden and The War Game) places a British film crew amongst a group of young students and minor dissidents who have opted to spend three days in 'Bear Mountain Punishment Park'. The detainees, rather than accept lengthy jail sentences for their 'crimes', gamble their freedom on an attempt to reach an American flag— on foot and without water—through the searing heat of the desert. What follows is a lethal, one-sided game of cat-and-mouse with a squad of heavily armed police and National Guardsmen. - Director:
- Peter Watkins
- Cast:
- Patrick Boland, Mitchell Harding, Mike Hodel
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At a lavish ceremony hosted by her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist), the wedding of Justine (Dunst, in an award winning performance) and her fiance Michael (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood) is marred by fractious familial exchanges and Justine's battle with her own inner demons. Meanwhile, the mysterious planet Melancholia emerges from behind the sun and appears to be headed on an apocalyptic collision course with the Earth... - Director:
- Lars Von Trier
- Cast:
- Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
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Palindromes (2004)Palíndromos
12-year old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is a round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again. - Director:
- Todd Solondz
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Bad Boy Bubby (1993)Bubby, el noi dolent
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, 'Bad Boy Bubby' with its hard-hitting content of deprivation, mental illness and incest, shocked its audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the 1990s. Nicholas Hope gives an astonishing performance as Bubby, a demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother who uses him for sex. When Bubby - who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do - escapes into the outside world, he soon discovers young women, crime, rock 'n' roll, and pizza. Will this naive 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all? - Director:
- Rolf De Heer
- Cast:
- Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill
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Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) is infatuated by the seemingly perfect couple she sees from her daily commuter train that runs past their house. One day she sees something shocking and in that moment, everything changes. Driven by intrigue and obsession, Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar, but to what lengths will she go to uncover the truth? - Director:
- Tate Taylor
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson
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Arrival (2016)Story of Your Life
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - led by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As nations struggle to coordinate a response, mankind teeters on the verge of global war, leaving Banks and the team in a race against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity's very existence. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
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On a remote mountaintop, a rebel group of commandos perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner (Julianne Nicholson) for a shadowy force known only as 'The Organization'. After a series of unexpected events drives them deep into the jungle, fracturing their intricate bond, their mission slowly begins to collapse. Set against a stunningly beautiful but dangerous landscape, Alejandro Landes' awe-inspiring film is a breathtakingly epic vision that will leave you both mesmerised and utterly gripped. - Director:
- Alejandro Landes
- Cast:
- Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
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