Thriller

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After the success of “In the Fade”, Fatih Akin is inspired by the true story of a notorious German serial killer and returns with the most daring and controversial film of his career. Not for the faint of heart.

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Hamburg, 1970’s. At first glance, Fritz “Fite” Honka is a pathetic loser like so many around him. The man with the disfigured face spends his nights getting drunk at “The Golden Glove” pub chasing lonely women for a bit of company. None of the other regulars can suspect that the, seemingly harmless, Fite is actually a monster…

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Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 2019

The Golden Glove

Before the much talked-about Babygirl, Halina Reijn penned this series that looks the underworld of trafficking and organised crime in the eye, full of suspense and a shocking lead performance from Game of Thrones' Carice Van Houten.
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Three women become involved in the world of human trafficking and prostitution when the husband of one of them suddenly disappears. Coming from completely different backgrounds, these women's lives intersect and they discover that they need each other to escape the difficult situations in which they are trapped. 

Red Light

What happens when a tiny Brazilian village starts disappearing from the map? A bloody, futuristic neo-western that spews rage, with influences ranging from John Carpenter to Asterix. Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps. There is no phone signal anywhere, strange visitors start showing up and an imperceptible threat lurks nearby…

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Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2019

Bacurau

A new life or a dream? Reality and fantasy merge into one in David Lynch's riveting neo-noir, under the emblematic soundtrack of Angelo Badalamenti, starring Oscar winner Patricia Arquette.

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A saxophonist is accused under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man leading a completely different life. When the young man is released, their paths begin to cross in a surreal, suspenseful web of intrigue, orchestrated by a shady gangster boss.

Lost Highway

The story's beginning or maybe its end? David Lynch’s cryptic film, which initially angered those who asked for an explanatory sequel to the series, is now considered a masterpiece by many, an introduction to a dream from which we refuse to come out of until this day.

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The chronicle of the painful last days of Laura Palmer, almost a year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of a town neighboring Twin Peaks in a prequel to the famous series by David Lynch.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1992

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me

This BBC TV movie, led many to believe it was a live show, managed to scare the crowds years before the Blair Witch Project and Late Night with the Devil and earned a place in the British Medical Journal as being responsible for causing post-traumatic stress in viewers.

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The BBC gives over a whole evening to an 'investigation into the supernatural'. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind 'The most haunted house in Britain', expecting a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax. They think they are in control of the situation. They think they are safe. Nothing is how it seems.

Ghostwatch

Between the two Godfathers, Francis Ford Coppola delivered a masterpiece about the years of paranoia and surveillance - evergreen, like the image of the introverted Gene Hackman as a cynic caught in a crisis of conscience. Palme d’Or at Cannes and a defining moment for the 1970s American cinema.

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Harry Caul is a lonely man who works in surveillance during an era dominated by conspiracy theories. In essence, he has no personal life. When the director of a multinational company assigns him to record the conversations of a man and a woman, his inner world is thrown into turmoil.

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Palme D'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1974
Nomination for Best Picture | Oscars | 1975
Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1975
Nomination for Best Sound | Oscars | 1975
Best Editing | BAFTA Awards | 1975
Best Soundtrack | BAFTA Awards | 1975

The Conversation

What is the cost of absolute happiness? Cannes award-winning science fiction film of impressive color shades and existential extensions with a riveting leading performance by Emily Beecham.

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A divorced mother and dedicated scientist, specializes in the development of new species of plants on behalf of a company. She has designed a special kind of flower with therapeutic properties. If kept at an ideal temperature, fed with the right ingredients, and people often talk to it, this plant will make its owner happy. But at what cost? Everything gets complicated when, against the company’s policy, the scientist takes a flower home with her…

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Best Actress Award (Emily Beecham) | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Little Joe

The ghosts of the past return to haunt and extract revenge, in this skillfully constructed, full-of-twists drama. The film walks a fine line between satire and thriller and continuously torpedoes the concept of "holy matrimony".

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A young couple's wedding day begins auspiciously, but is gradually ruined by a strange visitor. The mysterious young man claims to be an old friend from the groom's school. He is warmly welcomed, yet everything changes when he confesses his true identity to the bride. The secrets that will be revealed will force the newlyweds to view their relationship in a new light, that's neither innocent nor magical.

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Best Director | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2013

Honeymoon

The "poet of the underworld" Jean-Pierre Melville enlists in his penultimate film Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volontè for another masterful policier, a model of unique narrative and aesthetic accuracy, culminating in the unrepeatable scene of the robbery.

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A skilled and wanted burglar returns to action shortly after his release from prison and plans the perfect robbery of a jewelry store in Paris, along with a fugitive and an alcoholic ex-cop.

Le Cercle Rouge

The film that Stanley Kubrick described as the scariest he ever saw, haunted a whole generation of viewers at the end of the 80s, with zero effects, exaggerations or metaphysical loans, just based on a shocking disappearance story and a finale engraved in the memory of those who have watched it.

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Rex and Saskia, a couple in love, are on vacation. During their trip they make a stop at a busy service station, where Saskia vanishes and a search adventure begins for Rex. He looks for her everywhere, until one day three years later, he receives a card from someone that knows what happened to his wife.

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Best Supporting Actress | European Film Awards | 1988

The Vanishing

A fan of American film noir, but also of French policiers, Jean-Pierre Melville wrote his own history with gangster films immersed in the shadows of the underworld. "Le Doulos", in which Jean-Paul Belmondo gives one of his first great performances, is one of them.

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Maurice is released from prison and prepares a new hit, a bank robbery along with his accomplice Remy. At the same time, he asks for Silien’s help. Silien is nicknamed "Le Doulos" as everyone is afraid of him because they think he is a police informer. Who will betray whom in the end?

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Grand Jury Prize | Faro Island Film Festival | 1962

Le Doulos

What can you make with $7,000? The most "realistic" film about time travel. A science fiction cinema of ideas, unapologetically cerebral, that keeps you riveted in the vortex of its intricate narrative. A must-watch for sci-fi fans and a chance for those who haven't seen it "since later this afternoon" to revisit it.

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Four friends and fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

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Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2024
Best Director | Sundance Film Festival | 2024

Primer

Jean-Pierre Melville's archetypal gangster noir that influenced more than any other the subsequent generations of filmmakers, from Nouvelle Vague to Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino.

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A veteran gangster and avid gambler, on the verge of bankruptcy, decides to form a gang and rob a large casino. Will everything go according to plan or is it all doomed from the start?

Bob le Flambeur

If the term neo-western exists, it can be applied perfectly to films like this one, a surprising marriage of the classic American genre with sharp glances at the present day. Unique performances by Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster.

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Two brothers, Toby, a divorced father trying to make a better life for his son, and Tanner, a hot-tempered ex-convict, team up to rob branches of the bank that has foreclosed on their family property. Armed robberies are their last resort to take back the future that forces beyond their control have robbed them of.

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Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Jeff Bridges) | Oscars 2017
Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Film | Golden Globes | 2017
Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

Hell or High Water

The film that re-established Chan-wook Park's popularity on a scale similar to that of "Oldboy". An erotic thriller during the era of Japanese-occupied Korea that magnetizes the audience due to its amazing visual work that turns it into a true celebration of the senses.

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In 1930s Korea, during the Japanese occupation, a young girl (Sook-Hee) is hired as a maid to a Japanese heiress (Lady Hideko) who lives a lonely life on a large estate in the countryside, with her domineering uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket who has been hired by a fraudster to seduce the heiress, steal her property and have her locked up in a madhouse. Things seem to go according to plan, until Sook-Hee and Hideko "discover" an unexpected connection between them.

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Vulcain Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Best Non-English Language Film | BAFTA Awards | 2018

The Handmaiden

A riddle of identities, a satire of the entertainment world or simply a dream journey like no other, David Lynch's masterpiece changes, transforms and hypnotizes, certain that truth is only found in dreams.

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A dark-haired woman gets amnesia after a car accident. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles before taking refuge in an apartment. There she is discovered by Betty, a blonde woman from the Midwest who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Together, the two try to solve the mystery of Rita's true identity in a dreamy Los Angeles, untroubled by traffic jams or smog.

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Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002
Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002
Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002
Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

Mulholland Drive

That's how the world ends. John Hillcoat ("Lawless" with Tom Hardy) adapts Cormac McCarthy's classic with Vigo Mortensen and Cody Schmidt-McPhee in a fight for survival against the backdrop of the end of civilization.

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America is a bleak, grey shadow of itself after a disaster. A man and his young son wander this post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the dream of civilization alive. They travel to the sea, survive as best they can with whatever they can concoct, and try to avoid roving bands of wild men who will turn them into slaves, or worse.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2009
Nomination for Best Cinematography | BAFTA | 2010

The Road

"If you want to win the lottery you have to make the money to buy a ticket" says Jake Gyllenhaal, who is prepared to do anything for his lottery ticket. Atmospheric, paranoid thriller about the world of media, nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Oscar for Original Screenplay.

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Louis Bloom is desperately looking for work, until he discovers the underground and ephemeral world of police reporting in Los Angeles. He will work with a TV crew and meet Nina, a veteran of the "sport", who will help him experience success. Frantically searching for hot news that will skyrocket the ratings, he turns into a morally questionable journalist who will do anything for a scoop.

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Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2015

Nightcrawler

The crime thriller is transformed through its socially-minded attentiveness, and the two stellar protagonists, Cassel and Duris, give it their all in a story of many implications and even more twists.

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Α teenage boy disappears and his family is frantic. An experienced but overworked police detective takes over the case and starts investigating the missing young man, but seems reluctant to deal with his own 16-year-old son. When the boy's teacher finds out about the disappearance, he shows a keen interest and offers to help the police with their investigation. The case comes closer to a solution, yet things are not what they seem to be.

Black Tide

Fatih Akin is in the mood for epic adventure and history, courageously focusing on the Armenian genocide. This imposing and affecting quest of one man gives us a chance to contemplate: how far would we go to be reunited with our loved ones?

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Mardin, 1915. A young blacksmith is violently separated from his family. Years later, having survived the genocide, he discovers that his daughters are still alive, and his life's mission becomes to find them again. He travels from the deserts of Mesopotamia to Havana and the pastures of North Dakota. During his journey, he will experience people’s capacity for kindness, but also disdain and brutality.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award | Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Audience Award | Sofia International Film Festival | 2015

The Cut

One of the most notable entries in the thriving Spanish thriller wave, and a true descendant of the American school of its kind, this movie combines two impressive performances alongside images of an increasingly helpless society.

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Madrid, 2011. Hottest August in the history of the Spanish capital. A million and a half Christians are waiting for the Pope and security forces are closely supervising the city. The celebratory atmosphere is violently interrupted by a series of awful crimes: elderly women are found murdered, with signs of sexual assault. Two unlikeable detectives are forced to work the case, for which they receive the following instruction: solve the crimes as soon as possible and with the utmost secrecy.

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Jury Prize for Best Screenplay | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016
Best Lead Actor (Roberto Álamo) | Goya Awards | 2017

May God Save us

In this hard-hitting, fiercely anti-Nazi film by Fatih Akin, Diane Kruger stars (and wins big at Cannes) as a woman who loses everything, is betrayed by the system and decides to take revenge. Akin also casts, in a surprising role, the acclaimed director Yannis Economides!

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A woman's life collapses when her Kurdish-born husband and their young son are killed in a bombing. With the help of friends and relatives, she barely manages to endure, but the search for the culprits and the motives behind the tragedy keeps her up at night. Her husband's lawyer and best friend represents her in the trial against two suspects: a young couple in neo-Nazi circles. The court's ruling will drive her over the edge.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Actress (Diane Kruger) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Foreign Language Picture | Golden Globes | | 2018

In the Fade

Festival prodigy and Cinobo favorite Xavier Dolan is signing on for his first TV series, and if you are a fan of his work, you'll be hooked. A very powerful story about the traumas of the past and the need to heal, this mini-series is a gripping psychological drama full of mystery, strong performances, and dark family secrets.
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In the early 1990s, Mimi and her brother Gilles were best friends with Logan. Together, they formed an inseparable trio. But in October 1991, Logan rapes Mimi, leading the two families, but most importantly their friendship, into a major conflict. 30 years later, Mimi returns home, and buried secrets of the past resurface.

The Night Logan Woke Up

If sex could - literally!- kill. With one of the top horrors of the 21st century, David Robert Mitchell stands as a proud successor to John Carpenter, and Maika Monroe is transformed overnight into a new, brooding scream queen.

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When teenage Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim through sexual intercourse. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the threat where no one else sees anything...

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Official Selection - Critic's Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2014