This isn’t Hollywood. It’s the backroads, the diners, the borders, the forests. The U.S. and Canada in films that live far from the spotlight.

Normal

Clint Eastwood’s award-winning masterpiece about the relationship between a veteran coach and a young boxer who won’t stop fighting. The movie won 4 Oscars: Best Movie, Directing, Actress in a Leading Role (Hilary Swank) and Actor in a Supporting Role (Morgan Freeman)

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Frankie Dunn is a veteran boxing coach in Los Angeles. He keeps everyone at arm’s length except for his old-time friend and partner, Eddie. When Maggie, a young woman from a working-class Missouri background, comes to Frankie’s gym in search of his expertise, he is reluctant to become her trainer. Eventually, he gives in and the two of them form a tight bond that will irrevocably change both.

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Best Film | Oscars | 2005
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Hilary Swank) | Oscars | 2005
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Morgan Freeman) | Oscars | 2005
Best Director | Oscars | 2005
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama (Hilary Swank) | Golden Globes | 2005
Best Director | Golden Globes | 2005
Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2006

Million Dollar Baby

Where reason ends, the cinema of David Lynch begins. As dreamy, nightmarish and “lynch” as ever, the great American director delivers a 3-hour magnum opus-riddle, where everything that makes his work unique, thrives.

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A Hollywood star is set to star in the remake of a 'cursed' Polish film. As she immerses herself in the role, beginning to adopt the persona of her character, her world turns into a surreal nightmare.

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Future Film Festival Digital Award | Venice Film Festival | 2006

INLAND EMPIRE

Sometimes you find love in places where there is no hope. The most unusual vampire movie you've ever seen, full of romance and humor, where Wes Anderson meets Tim Burton. It was talked about as few in Venice where it premiered, and in all its appearances since then.

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Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her enraged parents cut off her blood supply, issuing her a death sentence, Sasha's life is in danger. Fortunately, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nightly quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes.

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Best Film - Giornate Degli Autori | Venice Film Festival | 2023
Best Director - Giornate Degli Autori | Venice Film Festival | 2023
Audience Award - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2023

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Where "The Office" meets "BoJack Horseman", the most uproarious cult comedy about the dead ends of Hollywood ambition is born. Featuring one of the sharpest comedic ensembles in recent American television, the series is packed with guest stars playing glorified versions of themselves.
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A ragtag group of aspiring actors and screenwriters work for a Los Angeles catering company, serving at high-profile events while waiting, often in vain, for their big break in show business. Through awkward parties, fragile egos, and creeping personal anxieties, the show lays bare the harsh reality behind Hollywood dreams. Led by Ron, an eternally optimistic yet utterly incompetent boss, the crew navigates pretentious clients, emotional meltdowns, and their own deeply dysfunctional group dynamics.

Party Down

Ryan Gosling as Ken years before the Barbie phenomenon, in this charming gem of 2000s independent American cinema that receved an Oscar nomination for Original Screenplay.

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A kind-hearted but socially awkward young man develops a romantic relationship with the girl of his dreams. Problem is, that he ordered her from the internet, and she happens to be a sex doll.

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Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2008
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Ryan Gosling) | Golden Globes | 2008

Lars and the Real Girl

Laughter and tears alternate in this relatable and disarmingly bittersweet comedy that portrays a triumphant life journey that confirms and transcends the truth behind any cliche about "special abilities".

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Three young people with different disabilities decide to take a daring road trip with a jaded nurse driver to Montreal, Canada, to visit an asylum that specializes in physically challenged clients.

Come As You Are

Christopher Nolan masterfully turns the relentless light into a mechanism of psychological erosion, mapping with his trademark directorial precision the slow unraveling of a man who can no longer distinguish between what is right and what is necessary.

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A veteran detective arrives in a small Alaskan town to investigate the murder of a young girl. As the endless daylight of the polar summer robs him of sleep, a fatal mistake draws him into a vicious cycle of guilt, cover-ups, and psychological disintegration.

Insomnia

With clear eclectic influences from similar literary and cinematic heroes, and a roster of recognizable stars, this indie film is an inspired modern coming-of-age tale that unfolds splendidly via Marc Webb’s (500 Days of Summer) visual ingenuity.

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Thomas, the son of a publisher and his artist wife, just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in life. His world begins to change when he discovers that his married father is having an affair with an enchanting younger woman. Determined to break up the affair, Thomas sleeps with his father’s mistress, thus offsetting a chain of events that will forever change what he knew about himself and his family.

The Only Living Boy in New York

Master provocateur Paul Verhoeven directs one of the most iconic thrillers in Hollywood history: Sharon Stone at her most indelible, Michael Douglas drenched in sweat and paranoia, an unforgettable whodunit steeped in sex, blood, and betrayal - and an ice pick that earns its place in the pantheon of cinematic murder weapons. Absolute cinema.

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A bloodied ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a bedpost, and crumpled sheets bearing witness to a torrid night are all the clues San Francisco detective Nick Curran has to go on. As the investigation deepens, his suspicions turn to the alluring Catherine Tramell, a novelist whose crime fiction bears an unsettling resemblance to the murder itself.

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Nomination for Best Film Editing | Oscars | 1993
Nomination for Best Original Score | Oscars | 1993
Nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sharon Stone) | Golden Globes | 2001
Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1992

Basic Instinct

With a sensual atmosphere and a vein of jazz-infused melancholy, this poignant portrait of American nightlife turns music into a language of desire, disillusionment, and fragile hope. Michelle Pfeiffer has perhaps never been more radiant, grounded, and alluring than she is here - a performance that rightfully earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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Two brothers travel from venue to venue, performing piano in small-time clubs. When they decide to bring in a singer to refresh their act, her arrival unsettles the delicate balance, both on stage and within their relationship.

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Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Michelle Pfeiffer) | Oscars | 1990
Nomination for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 1990
Nomination for Best Film Editing | Oscars | 1990
Nomination for Best Original Score | Oscars | 1990
Best Actress in a Leading Role (Michelle Pfeiffer) | Golden Globes | 1990
Best Sound | BAFTA | 1991

The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Industrial Revolution through cinema, a belated welcome to the 20th century with unimaginable kinesiology that unites man and machine in a common rhythm, in the interest of our productivity, political analysis and entertainment.

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Subjected to the infernal production rate of the factory, a model worker suddenly has a nervous breakdown and goes mad. From hospital, to prison, to unemployment, the Little Tramp gets caught up in the sprockets and cogs of modern industrialization. That is, until he comes across a beautiful orphaned gamine, whom he helps escape from the police. How to break free from the constraints of modern life? Chaplin provides a critical look at productivity in the early 20th century… and well beyond!

Modern Times

Paolo Sorrentino’s English-language debut is less a tale of revenge and more a coming-of-age journey, featuring a spunky Sean Penn, made up in the likeness of Cure's Robert Smith.

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A veteran rock star, long retired in Dublin and living off the royalties of past recordings, returns to New York to track down the Nazi who tortured his father during World War II.

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Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2011

This Must Be the Place

In his third feature film, the hitherto enfant terrible of French-language cinema Xavier Dolan delivers a baroque melodrama of epic proportions about the entropic power of love and the complex journey of transition, full of color, music and emotion.

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A young philologist suddenly announces to his partner that he wants to dress in women's clothes, but he does not want to divorce her under any circumstances. Against all social norms, the two will fight to stay together.

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Best Actress (Suzanne Clément) - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Best Canadian Feature | Toronto Film Festival | 2012

Laurence Anyways

In his second film in London, after the beloved Match Point, Woody Allen once again puts Scarlett Johansson at the centre of a mystery comedy that combines the filmmaker's trademark humour with his concerns (and, more importantly, his phobias) about mortality.

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When an American journalism student in London attends the show of a  magician called Waterman, she is visited by the ghost of a famous journalist, revealing that the amiable aristocrat Peter Lyman is in fact a serial killer. Immediately she, along with Waterman, takes it upon herself to get a press scoop.

Scoop

After the horror gems "Hereditary" and "Midsommar", Ari Aster directs his most ambitious film, a surreal adventure influenced by Tolkien, The Odyssey and Charlie Kaufman, where the most frightening obstacles are the ones that lie within us.

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Beau is a man full of anxieties and obsessions who embarks on an adventurous odyssey to reach his parents' home after the sudden death of his mother. Along the way he will be called upon to confront his greatest fears.

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Nomination for Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) | Golden Globes | 2024

Beau Is Afraid

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style.

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A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.

The Amputee Version 2

Dreams do not have age restrictions, on the contrary, those who strive to realize them put age distinctions set by modern societies aside. A comedy that screams "it's never too late" with a fine cast of actors ready to give it their all.

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In a retirement community, two daring women (Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver) decide to start a cheerleading squad, regaining their zest for life and proving that it's never too late for new beginnings!

Poms

Can you heal others when you feel nothing for yourself? A psychiatrist harnesses empathy to understand her patients, opening the way to provocative, unorthodox methods in a gripping series that challenges convention.

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After a two-year absence, forensic psychiatrist Susan returns to a high-security psychiatric unit, taking on its most dangerous cases. Marked by a traumatic past, she can still understand her patients - but has lost all empathy for herself. As she turns to unorthodox methods, her colleagues grow increasingly uneasy - everyone except Mortimer, with whom she forms a deep bond. What appears to be a relapse may ultimately become her salvation.

Empathy

Long before Christopher Nolan, the ingenious Coen brothers approached Homer’s Odyssey with their trademark playful, postmodern irony, constructing a chain of surreal episodes that teeter between fairy tale and political allegory.

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Three convicts escape from a Mississippi prison and set off on a journey in search of a mythical treasure. Along the way, they encounter eccentric characters, populist demagogues, and musicians of American folk tradition, in a series of episodes that freely reinterpret Homer’s Odyssey.

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Nomination for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2001
Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2001
Best Actor (George Clooney) | Golden Globes | 2001
Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Shot in stark black and white and steeped in a vintage, analog melancholy, this handcrafted cinematic experience invites the viewer into an enigmatic drift, seemingly born of obsolete software and VHS-era dreams.

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A solitary man lives in isolation with his dog and becomes obsessed with an enigmatic video game. When his only companion vanishes without a trace, the boundaries between reality and the game begin to blur and dissolve.

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Official Selection - NEXT | Sundance Film Festival | 2025

Obex

Nominated for 14 Oscars and winner of six, Damien Chazelle’s film revisits the myth of classic Hollywood and redefines it through a cinematic language overflowing with color, melody, and emotion.

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In a Los Angeles where song and dance burst to life at every turn, a musician and an aspiring actress fall into a dazzling romance as they each chase their dreams.

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Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2017
Best Director | Oscars | 2017
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Emma Stone) | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Ryan Gosling) | Oscars | 2017
Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2017
Best Original Score | Oscars | 2017
Best Original Song | Oscars | 2017
Best Production Design | Oscars | 2017

La La Land

Featuring a scene-stealing turn by Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”), Babak Jalali channels the spirit of Jim Jarmusch in one of the freshest and most offbeat gems of recent American indie cinema.

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Donya works at a fortune cookie factory. After serving as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to find her footing in her new life in San Francisco. On impulse, she slips a personal message into a cookie and sends it out into the world.

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Best Director | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2023
John Cassavetes Award | Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2023
Official Selection - NEXT | Sundance Film Festival | 2023

Fremont

An ambitious and multi-layered study of the concept of fame and pop culture that always gets reborn from its ashes, with original songs by Sia and the fearless Natalie Portman in the lead role.

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After a multiple-fatality school tragedy, a surviving student sings a song for her classmates and turns into a popstar overnight. Years later, she attempts to make a comeback that will bring her back to the top.

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Official Selection | Venice Film festival | 2018

Vox Lux

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

Björk redefines the relationship between music and image through an ecologically charged futuristic universe, where digital landscapes and organic soundscapes coexist in a ritual of rebirth. Nature and technology converge in a fragile yet visionary harmony.

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The iconic Icelandic artist seamlessly blends music, visuals and performance into a singular audiovisual spectacle that transcends the boundaries of the traditional live experience.

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