Backrooms

Directed by: Kane Parsons
Studio: A24

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. A therapist ventures into an otherworldly dimension in search of her missing patient, trapped within a sprawling, impossible maze of yellow fluorescent corridors that exist outside of space and time.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
R (for language and some violent content/bloody images)
USA | Canada (English)
110 minutes

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Pressure

Directed by: Anthony Maras
Studio: Focus Features

In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, Pressure follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice — launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

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Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis
Drama | History | International | Thriller | War
PG-13 (for war violence, bloody images, some strong language, and smoking)
USA | UK | France (English)
100 minutes

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Power Ballad

Directed by: John Carney
Studio: Lionsgate

When Rick, a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves — even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), Power Ballad is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.

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Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, Peter McDonald, Marcella Plunkett, Havana Rose Liu, Jack Reynor
Comedy | Drama | Music | Musical
R (For language throughout and some drug use)
USA | Ireland (English)
98 minutes

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The Last Viking

Directed by: Anders Thomas Jensen
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has since forgotten its location — sending them on an unexpected journey to recover the loot and confront who they really are.

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Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling, Bodil Jørgensen, Lars Brygmann, Kardo Razzazi, Nicolas Bro, Peter Düring
Comedy | Crime | Drama | International
Not Rated
Denmark | Sweden (Danish, Swedish)
116 minutes

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The Breadwinner

Directed by: Eric Appel
Studio: TriStar Pictures

After his supermom wife Katie lands a once-in-a-lifetime deal on Shark Tank that takes her on a prolonged business trip, lifelong breadwinner Nate Wilcox now has to fend for his family as a first-time stay-at-home dad — quickly realizing he’s in way over his head.

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Nate Bargatze, Mandy Moore, Colin Jost, Kumail Nanjiani, Will Forte, Zach Cherry, Martin Herlihy, Kate Berlant
Comedy | Family
PG (for some mild suggestive references)
USA (English)
95 minutes

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Propeller One-Way Night Coach

Directed by: John Travolta
Studio: Apple TV

Set in the golden age of aviation, young airplane enthusiast Jeff and his mother set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood — a simple flight that transforms into the trip of a lifetime, filled with airline meals, charming flight attendants, unexpected stopovers, larger-than-life passengers, and a thrilling glimpse at first class, charting the course for the boy’s future.

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Clark Shotwell, Kelly Eviston-Quinnett, Ella Bleu Travolta, Olga Hoffmann
Adventure | Drama | Family
Not Rated
USA (English)
61 minutes

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Rich Flu

Directed by: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Studio: Eagle Films

A strange disease begins killing the wealthiest people on Earth — first billionaires, then multi-millionaires, and progressively downward — threatening anyone who possesses any kind of fortune. With the world in panic and people desperately trying to shed their assets, the film explores how far people will go to save themselves when wealth itself becomes the most dangerous commodity.

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rafe Spall, Lorraine Bracco, Jonah Hauer-King, Timothy Spall
International | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Not Rated
Spain | Chile | USA (English, Catalan, Italian, Arabic)
116 minutes

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Miss You, Love You

Directed by: Jim Rash
Studio: HBO Max

A grieving widow is forced to plan her husband’s funeral alongside her estranged son’s personal assistant — a stranger who becomes an unlikely companion as both of them navigate loss, resentment, and unexpected intimacy in the most vulnerable hours of her life.

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Allison Janney, Andrew Rannells, Bonnie Hunt, Suzy Nakamura, Oscar Nunez, Lisa Schurga
Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
— minutes

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The Currents

Directed by: Milagros Mumenthaler
Studio: Kino Lorber

While visiting Switzerland to accept an award for her fashion career, accomplished Argentine designer Lina is seized by a sudden, inexplicable urge to jump off a bridge into an icy river. She survives the plunge and returns to Buenos Aires, telling no one of the incident — but a transformation has taken place within her. Left with a paralyzing fear of water and a growing sense of isolation, Lina finds it impossible to readjust to her former life as a wife, mother, and artist.

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Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi, Ernestina Gatti, Jazmín Carballo, Emma Fayo Duarte, Patricia Mouzo, Susana Saulquin
Drama | International
Not Rated
Switzerland | Argentina (Spanish)
104 minutes

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Lucid

Directed by: Ramsey Fendall & Deanna Milligan
Studio: Dark Star Pictures

Mia, an art student on the verge of being expelled from school, finds her last hope for combating her creative block in a magical lucid dreaming elixir. Awakening her creativity, the potion also unleashes dark monsters from within her subconscious — including her own mother, who appears transformed into a hairy monster that Mia is forced to confront.

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Caitlin Acken Taylor, Georgia Acken, Amber Dandelion, John Luna, Vivian Vanderpuss
Horror | International
Not Rated
Canada (English)
108 minutes

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Legally Blonde (25th Anniversary)

Directed by: Robert Luketic
Studio: Fathom Entertainment

Elle Woods is a California blonde with couture clothes, fabulous friends, and the hottest boyfriend on campus. When Warner Huntington III suddenly dumps her and heads to Harvard Law School, Elle takes matters into her own manicured hands — and enrolls too. This special anniversary re-release includes an exclusive introduction from Reese Witherspoon and Lexi Minetree, star of the upcoming prequel series Elle, plus a sneak peek at the series.

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Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor
Comedy | Romance
PG-13
USA (English, Vietnamese)
96 minutes

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Speed Demon

Directed by: Jon Keeyes
Studio: Maverick Film | Complex Corp

When Father Novak and Sister Lu board a train from Montreal to New York City, they aren’t prepared for the danger and evil that pursues them. After the train is taken over by the demon Asmodeus, Father Novak and Sister Lu must battle possessed passengers on a runaway train — with Sister Lu forced to overcome her faltering faith and perform the first exorcism ever done by a nun.

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Katie Cassidy, William H. Macy
Horror
Not Rated
USA (English)
93 minutes

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Forastera

Directed by: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Studio: Grasshopper Film

Teenager Cata is summering at her grandparents’ house on the Spanish island of Mallorca — swimming in the turquoise Mediterranean, teasing her younger sister, flirting with a Swedish boy. But the vacation idyll is cut short when her beloved grandmother abruptly dies, hurling each member of the family into mourning. One day, Cata slips into her grandmother’s dress and feels an unexpected pull toward her clothes and belongings. As the boundary between the living and the departed begins to blur, Forastera (Spanish for “stranger”) becomes a quietly suspenseful meditation on memory, grief, and the unseen forces that continue to influence our lives.

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Zoe Stein, Lluís Homar, Marta Angelat, Martina García, Nonni Ardal Hammarström
Drama
Not Rated
Spain | Sweden | Italy (Catalan, Spanish, English)
97 minutes

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Pitfall

Directed by: James Kondelik
Studio: Cineverse

After a young man gets separated from his friends while hiking in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through the leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident — but the opening move in a deadly hunt orchestrated by a relentless predator who has stalked these woods for decades.

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Richard Harmon, Alexandra Essoe, Randy Couture, Marshall Williams, Jordan Claire Robbins
Horror | Thriller
Not Rated
USA | Canada (English)
108 minutes

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Renoir

Directed by: Chie Hayakawa
Studio: Film Movement

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift — her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Left largely to herself, Fuki drifts through the summer holidays, fascinated by telepathy, lost in her own world. When she comes across a mysterious phone hotline, she puts herself in great danger.

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Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida, Yuumi Kawai, Ayumu Nakajima, Hana Hope
Drama | International
Not Rated
Japan | France | Singapore | Philippines | Indonesia | Qatar | USA (Japanese, English)
120 minutes

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Crossing A Dawn

Directed by: Zhao Badou
Studio: China Lion Film Distribution

While on a date, designer Xu Qiu unexpectedly crosses paths with writer Chen Yuzhou. Both wanting some time alone, they find themselves repeatedly interrupted. Yet over the course of one night, as they experience a series of unique urban encounters across Beijing’s streets, the two gradually open their hearts and share a sincere, unforgettable connection.

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Ma Sichun, Edward Chen, Zhang Yifan, Song Yang, Lü Xingchen
Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Not Rated
China (Mandarin)
103 minutes

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With Hasan in Gaza

Directed by: Kamal Aljafari
Studio: The Cinema Guild

In November 2001, amid the Second Intifada, Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari began documenting his search for a man he had been imprisoned with in Gaza in 1989, accompanied by a man named Hasan Elboubou. Aljafari recently rediscovered that footage — stored on three MiniDV tapes — and it became With Hasan in Gaza: an intimate portrait of Palestinian life during a pivotal moment, and a devastating act of witness and preservation.

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Kamal Aljafari, Hasan Elboubou
Documentary | International
Not Rated
Qatar | Germany | France (Arabic)
106 minutes

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10 Good Men

Directed by: Trent “TJ” Jones
Studio: TJ3 Productions

Ten of the last remaining veterans of the B-17 Flying Fortress — pilots, navigators, bombardiers, and gunners — recall their missions over Europe in World War II, revealing how courage, loss, and duty shaped the air war and the men who fought it. Structured chronologically and supported by newly restored archival footage from American and German archives, the film documents both the machinery of war and the humanity behind it.

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Paul Haedike, Trent Jones, Dan Nachtrab, Richard Nelms, Walter Ram
Documentary
Not Rated
USA (English)
90 minutes

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This Is Your Captain Speaking

Directed by: Tristan Loraine & Sandra Skibsted
Studio: Fact Not Fiction Films

An investigative documentary exposing a hidden health risk aboard commercial and military aircraft: a design flaw that can allow the breathing air supply to be contaminated with toxic chemicals from engine oil decomposition and hydraulic fluids. Directed by former airline captain Tristan Loraine, the film is the product of more than two decades of research into contaminated cabin air and its implications for both flight safety and public health.

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Tristan Loraine
Documentary | International
Not Rated
UK (English)
106 minutes

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Tekkonkinkreet (20th Anniversary)

Directed by: Michael Arias
Studio: GKIDS

Two penniless orphans — streetwise Black and innocent White — struggle to survive in Treasure Town, a scabrous, labyrinthine city stacked with architecture from across time. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park and sends yakuza and alien assassins to clear the way, the two brothers are thrown into a nonstop battle to protect their home — and ultimately themselves.

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Kazunari Ninomiya, Yû Aoi, Yûsuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô, Min Tanaka
Animation | Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | International
R (for some violent and disturbing images, and brief sexuality)
Japan (Japanese)
111 minutes

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The 47

Directed by: Marcel Barrena
Studio: Myriad Pictures

Barcelona, 1978. Incensed by the contempt faced by impoverished Extremaduran and Andalusian immigrant communities on the city outskirts, bus driver Manolo Vital hijacks a vehicle of the 47 bus line to debunk the local government’s lie that buses cannot reach the Torre Baró neighborhood. Based on a true story, and winner of five Goya Awards including Best Picture.

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Eduard Fernández, Clara Segura, Zoe Bonafonte, Salva Reina, Óscar de la Fuente, Betsy Túrnez, Vicente Romero, Carlos Cuevas, David Verdaguer
Biography | Drama
Not Rated
Spain (Catalan, Spanish)
110 minutes

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Time and Water

Directed by: Sara Dosa
Studio: 1-2 Special | National Geographic Documentary Films

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs and films, and traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him — a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

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Andri Snær Magnason
Documentary | Family
PG (for some thematic elements, smoking and brief language)
Iceland | USA (Icelandic, English)
93 minutes

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Cast Aside the Clouds

Directed by: Mary Darling, Felicia Sobhani, & Bre Vader
Studio: WestWind Releasing

Set in present-day Tehran, this is the story of Layla, a young Bahá’í woman who summons the courage to navigate love, identity, and belief in a society shaped by deep-rooted religious discrimination. Layla has spent her life living under surveillance and systemic persecution — her faith not officially recognized, leaving her vulnerable to limitations in education, employment, and personal freedoms. When she falls in love with a secular Muslim doctor, both families oppose the relationship, and Layla faces imprisonment, torture, and execution simply for who she is.

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Parmiss Sehat, Shirin Youssefian, Behtash Fazlali, Anthony Azizi
Drama | International
Not Rated
Canada | Greece (Persian, Farsi)
115 minutes

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Nesting

Directed by: Chloé Cinq-Mars
Studio: Breaking Glass Pictures

Pénélope, a new mother struggling with postpartum depression and the lingering trauma of her sister’s death, finds the boundary between dream and reality beginning to collapse as sleep deprivation takes hold — pulling her into a paranoid and increasingly dangerous psychological spiral. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2025 Fantasia Film Festival.

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Rose-Marie Perreault, Simon Landry-Desy, Saladin Dellers
Drama | Horror | International | Thriller
Not Rated
Canada | Switzerland (French)
103 minutes

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Room to Move

Directed by: Alexander Hammer
Studio: Netflix

A deeply personal and visually expressive documentary following acclaimed choreographer, dancer, and educator Jenn Freeman as she navigates the most transformative chapter of her life: receiving an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis at the age of 33. Rather than a performance-focused dance film, Room to Move is a portrait of neurodivergence, identity, and the quiet power of finally being able to name your truth. Executive produced by Amy Schumer.

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Jenn Freeman, Sonya Tayeh
Biography | Documentary | Music
TV-MA
USA (English)
110 minutes

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Hucch

Directed by: Thinesh Kumar
Studio: Buffalo 8

Set in a small village in southern India, this black-and-white silent political satire follows Ramasamy, a chilli farmer with an uncontrollable sneezing problem, who must survive under a tyrannical zamindar who has banned sneezing under penalty of death. An absurdist comedy told entirely without dialogue.

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Comedy | International
Not Rated
India (No dialogue)
61 minutes

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