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SUSPIRIA
Directed By: Luca Guadagnino
Studio: Amazon Studios
Official Synopsis: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Christine LeBoutte, Fabrizia Sacchi, Małgosia Bela, Jessica Harper, and Chloë Grace Moretz
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JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
Directed By: David Kerr
Studio: Universal Pictures
Official Synopsis: After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Jake Lacy, and Emma Thompson
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HUNTER KILLER
Directed By: Donovan Marsh
Studio: Lionsgate / Summit Premiere
Official Synopsis: An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Michael Nyqvist, Common and Toby Stephens
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LONDON FIELDS
Directed By: Mathew Cullen
Studio: Paladin
Official Synopsis: Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
Starring: Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Johnny Depp, Cara Delevingne and Jaimie Alexander.
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BURNING
(Beoning)
Directed By: Chang-dong Lee
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Jong-su, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae-mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae-mi asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. When Hae-mi comes back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met in Africa, to Jong-su. One day, Ben visits Jong-su’s with Hae-mi and confesses his own secret hobby.
Starring: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo
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INDIVISIBLE
Directed By: David G. Evans
Studio: Pure Flix
Official Synopsis: INDIVISIBLE is the extraordinary true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. When war etches battle scars on their hearts, they face one more battle: the fight to save their marriage. One marriage, one family, under God.
Starring: Sarah Drew, Justin Bruening, Tia Mowry and Eric Close
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BORDER
(Gräns)
Directed By: Ali Abbasi
Studio: Neon
Official Synopsis: A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Sten Ljunggren, Jörgen Thorsson, Viktor Åkerblom, Rakel Wärmländer, Ann Petrén, Kjell Wilhelmsen, and Matti Boustedt
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AIR STRIKE
Directed By: Xiao Feng
Studio: Lionsgate
Official Synopsis: During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940.
Starring: Liu Ye, Bruce Willis, Adrien Brody, Rumer Willis, Song Seung-heon, William Chan, Nicholas Tse, and Fan Bingbing
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SOLIS
Directed By: Carl Strathie
Studio: Blue Fox Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Following an accident, asteroid mining engineer Troy Holloway wakes to find himself trapped inside an escape pod helplessly idling towards the sun. Now he must endure the horrifying limits, physical and psychological, of human survival.
Starring: Steven Ogg & Alice Lowe
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LIFE AND NOTHING MORE
Directed By: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Studio: CFI Releasing
Official Synopsis: Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today’s America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.
Starring: Andrew Bleechington, Regina Williams, and Ry’nesia Chambers
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VIPER CLUB
Directed By: Maryam Keshavarz
Studio: YouTube Original Films
Official Synopsis: ER nurse Helen Sterling (Susan Sarandon) struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, advocates, and philanthropists who might be able to help.
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke, Julian Morris, and Edie Falco
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1985
Directed By: Yen Tan
Studio: Wolfe Releasing
Official Synopsis: A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Starring: Jamie Chung, Michael Chiklis, Virginia Madsen, Cory Michael Smith, and Ryan Piers Williams
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3100: RUN AND BECOME
Directed By: Sanjay Rawal
Studio: GathrFilms
Official Synopsis: What if running could lead to enlightenment? 3100: Run and Become follows an unassuming Finnish paperboy in the Self-Transcendence 3100 Miler – the world’s longest race. His story takes the viewer around the world to the Kalahari Desert, the mountain temples of Japan and the Navajo Reservation.
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KILLER KATE!
Directed By: Elliot Feld
Studio: Feld Films
Official Synopsis: Kate attends her estranged sister’s bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.
Starring: Alexandra Feld, Amaris Davidson, Danielle Burgess, Abby Eiland, and Tiffany Shepis
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TRUST MACHINE: THE STORY OF BLOCKCHAIN
Directed By: Alex Winter
Studio: SingularDTV
Official Synopsis: With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, The Price of Everything dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a mirror up to our values and our times–where everything can be bought and sold.
Starring: Rosario Dawson
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THE LONG SHADOW
Directed By: Frances Causey
Studio: Passion River Pictures
Official Synopsis: Two filmmakers, both privileged Southerners haunted by their families slave-owning pasts, seek the hidden truth and the untold stories of how America-guided by the South’s powerful political influence-steadily, deliberately and at times secretly, established white privilege in our institutions, laws, culture and economy.
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MONROVIA, INDIANA
Directed By: Frederick Wiseman
Studio: Zipporah Films
Official Synopsis: Forty-six million Americans live in rural, small town America. These towns were once the backbone of American life. While their number and populations have shrunk, the importance of rural America as a formative center of American politics and values was demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election. To understand more about American life, it is important acknowledge the unique and important contributions small towns make to American character and culture, in addition to providing most of our food, raw materials and drinking water. The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important in America but whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.
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SILENCIO
Directed By: Lorena Villarreal
Studio: Tulip Pictures
Official Synopsis: In order to save her son’s life, Ana must find a powerful stone. Her grandfather originally discovered it in the Zone of Silence, the Bermuda Triangle of Mexico. Throughout her desperate search, Ana stumbles upon family secrets and enemies who believe the stone’s power is worth killing for.
Starring: Melina Matthews, Rupert Graves, John Noble, and Michel Chauvet
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THE DARK
Directed By: Justin P. Lange
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Official Synopsis: An undead teenage girl befriends a blind boy that she meets in a forest she haunts and hunts in. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel, but it will come with a body count.
Starring: Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics, Dylan Trowbridge, and Margarete Tiesel
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SHIRKERS
Directed By: Sandi Tan
Studio: Netflix
Official Synopsis: Shirkers was a Singapore-made 1992 cult classic from teenage friends Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique–or it would have been, had the 16mm footage not been stolen by their enigmatic American collaborator Georges Cardona. More than two decades after Cardona disappeared, Tan, now a novelist in L.A., returns to the country of her youth and to the memories of a man who both enabled and thwarted her dreams. Magically, too, she returns to the film itself, revived in a way she never could have imagined.
Starring: Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
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DON’T GO
Directed By: David Gleeson
Studio: IFC Films
Official Synopsis: Somewhere between dreams and reality lies a terrifying hidden truth… Reeling from the shock of their young daughter’s death, Ben (Stephen Dorff) and Hazel (Melissa George) attempt to restart their lives in a picturesque seaside village. But when the girl begins appearing to Ben in a haunting recurring dream, he becomes convinced that she is attempting to make contact from beyond the grave–and that his nightmare may hold the key to bringing her back to life. As Hazel begins to fear for her husband’s sanity, they are each drawn into a mystery far beyond their understanding. This tantalizing psychological puzzle plumbs the depths of grief and guilt as it unravels the dark secret at its center.
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Melissa George, Simon Delaney, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Grace Farrell, and Gavin O’Connor
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BULLITT COUNTY
Directed By: David McCracken
Studio: Mr. Pictures
Official Synopsis: An action/thriller about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party in the Fall of 1977 to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky’s Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
Starring: Mike C. Nelson, Jenni Melear, David McCracken, Napoleon Ryan, Richard Riehle, and Dorothy Lyman
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DOVLATOV
Directed By: Alexey German
Studio: Netflix
Official Synopsis: The story circles around life of an outstanding Russian author just one year before he has to leave his homeland and move to Tallinn. By this time, Dovlatov is already quite a prolific writer, but his stories are constantly being rejected by all Soviet magazines and journals.
Starring: Milan Marić, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Anton Shagin, Svetlana Khodchenkova, and Elena Lyadova
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BEEN SO LONG
Directed By: Tinge Krishnan
Studio: Netflix
Official Synopsis: Romance, rage and revenge. Been So Long is a neon soaked, modern day romance set on the streets of London’s musical hot-bed of Camden. We follow Simone (Michaela Coel), a dedicated single mother who, on a rare night on the town is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger, Raymond (Arinzé Kene), igniting old and new feelings. Set against the backdrop of an ever-changing city, Been So Long is a fresh take on love, life and moving on.
Starring: Michaela Coel, Arinzé Kene, George MacKay, Ronke Adekoluejo, Ashley Thomas, and Joe Dempsie
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A BREAD FACTORY: PART ONE – FOR THE SAKE OF GOLD
Directed By: Patrick Wang
Studio: Vanishing Angle
Official Synopsis: After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple–performance artists from China–come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.
Starring: Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters, Nana Visitor, Janeane Garofalo, and Amy Carlson
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A BREAD FACTORY: PART TWO – WALK WITH ME A WHILE
Directed By: Patrick Wang
Studio: Vanishing Angle
Official Synopsis: At The Bread Factory, they rehearse the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
Starring: Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters, Nana Visitor, Janeane Garofalo, and Amy Carlson
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WEED THE PEOPLE
Directed By: Abby Epstein
Studio: Mangurama Consciousness Films
Official Synopsis: Cannabis has been off-limits to doctors and researchers in the US for the past 80 years, but recently scientists have discovered its anti-cancer properties. Armed with only these laboratory studies, desperate parents obtain cannabis oil from underground sources to save their children from childhood cancers. “Weed the People” follows these families through uncharted waters as they take their children’s survival into their own hands. Some of their miraculous outcomes beget the unsettling question at the heart of the film: If weed is truly saving lives, why doesn’t the government want people to access it?
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THE FIRST PATIENT
Directed By: Chip Duncan
Studio: The Duncan Entertainment Group
Official Synopsis: A dramatic expedition into an unknown world, THE FIRST PATIENT challenges audiences to embrace their curiosity and courage as they follow first year medical students through gross anatomy – the dissection of the human body. The Mayo Clinic School of Medicine granted unprecedented access to veteran filmmaker Chip Duncan and The Duncan Entertainment Group team to explore a world long considered taboo. The documentary proves both entertaining and emotional as the camera follows a diverse group of students, faculty and body donors on this life-affirming journey inside the human body. THE FIRST PATIENT provides dynamic insights into medical science, teamwork, death, and spirituality as students discover what it means to be a doctor…and what it means to be a human being.
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GLASS JAW
Directed By: Jeff Celentano
Studio: Vision Films
Official Synopsis: Glass Jaw is the redemption story of Travis Austin, a one time champion boxer who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experiences the trials and tribulations of redeeming his reputation, his belt, and his true love.
Starring: Lee Kholafai, Korrina Rico, Jon Gries, Mark Rolston, Rey Gallegos, and Lil Boosie
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THE SCHOOL
Directed By: Storm Ashwood
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Official Synopsis: A doctor’s child goes missing and she goes looking for him. While searching, she finds herself waking up in an abandoned school crawling with supernatural beings. She must then battle them as well as her own inner demons to locate her son’s whereabouts.
Starring: Nicholas Hope, Milly Alcock, Will McDonald, Megan Drury, and Texas Watterston
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THE HEALTH OF HOPE
Directed By: Sai Varadan
Studio: Indie Rights
Official Synopsis: The true story of how the community of Mott Haven in the South Bronx combats the poverty, crime, and poor health habits of its inner city youth, featuring Bill De Blasio, the current Mayor of New York City.
Starring: Bill de Blasio
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LONG TIME COMING: A 1955 BASEBALL STORY
Directed By: Jon Strong
Studio: Strong Films
Official Synopsis: In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two groups of twelve-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of history.
Starring: Hank Aaron, Cal Ripken Jr., Gary Sheffield, and Davey Johnson
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