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Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)
In his youth, Li Bai witnessed the tragic Battle of Broken Leaf City, embarked on the path of seeking fair power with the teachings of an old master who saved the world and his teacher Pei Yi. Entering Chang’an for the first time, with no ambitions and pity, Li Bai, who was recommended by Anxi Dufu to enter the government with poetry and literary talent, turned out to be a night marcher to fight against evildoers. Unexpectedly, the conspiracy of blood and rain is waiting in the dark, and the mystery in the alchemy is so heavy. Can the sleeping Chang’an be saved from danger? Can Li Bai grow up to be a real hero in the fight against the bandits?
In the wake of a tragedy, a grieving widower turns to a mysterious self help book from the dark web written by an eccentric guru, which promises to unlock the power to fly.
In a world where order has broken down, darkness reigns, forces are at work, and conspiracies abound. The son of a notorious drug cartel leader fights for his life, and gradually rises to prominence. The captain of the anti-narcotics squad is a vicious and ruthless killer. The violent thugs who roam in the darkness intervene to stir up trouble and vow to seize the benefits. The situation becomes more and more confusing as the whole team goes crazy, not realizing that a huge revenge plot is involved behind the scenes. Under the darkness of the money and power transactions, factional armed struggle, black gold insider surfaced one by one. The long-awaited game of life and death has already begun……
The Faroe Islands are an ancient microcosmos of exciting products, Nordic history, tales, 37 words for fog and even more for fermentation, a thriving seafood industry, ravishing waterfalls, eccentric personalities, a native tongue, and the culinary pearl: KOKS. How is it possible to run a top restaurant like this at the end of the world? Prior to covid-19, people took immense detours to dine at this eatery serving food sourced from just 500 square miles of produce, in a rugged terrain and where the climate is subpolar, windy, wet, cloudy, and cold, with average temperatures close to freezing throughout the year, everlasting light in summer and a scorching darkness all through winter. In Nordic by Nature we dive into the poetic mind of young Faroese chef Poul Andrias Ziska, and seek to find the traditions, history and distinctive ancient practices that lie beneath the world’s most remote fine dining experience.
When a beautiful biochemist arrives at a foreboding castle to work for a sinister baron, she unlocks a nightmare of dark romance, sexual violence, and grisly family secrets.
A social media influencer with a dark alternate personality, goes to extreme measures to achieve fame, unaware her success is entwined with her inner demons
Ayah Win composes a computer program to summon and control mystical forces. Unable to contain these forces, Ayah Win is possessed by the dark side. Tok Wan a Silat master and sparing partner Komang help Ayah Win to confront the evil within. Komang trying to find an answer to his friends sudden violent change, is himself possessed by the dark forces. Abandoning his son Abang Long and master Tok Wan, Komang becomes a powerful underworld figure trading in human organs, extortion and money laundering. Tok Wan takes Abang Long as his own and trains him in the ways of Silat. Komang’s search for a way to crack the program and gain untold power, recruits young hackers. Maya, Harun, Shahrul and their gang of cyber thieves swindle tens of millions from dormant accounts. Lavishing themselves with expensive clothes, vehicles and partying brings them to the attention of Komang. Can Tok Wan and Abang Long save Maya, Harun, Shahrul and their gang from Komang and the dark forces within?
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her with only his faithful friend Flicka at his side. He heads for that darkest of areas
A seemingly ordinary family harbors a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but one day, their truth comes to light.
Olga discovers the unfinished diary of a notorious killer and becomes captivated by its dark secrets. As she delves deeper, she uncovers a mysterious connection between them, putting her life—and the lives of those around her—in grave danger.
When a group of friends play spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways. Now, the survivors must stick together to uncover the house’s dark secrets and end the bloodshed.
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.
Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father’s death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.
Still mourning her husband’s death, Elizabeth moves home with daughter and meets neighbor rumored to have a dark past who is also drowning in grief.
Three women in a small village conceal dark secrets, including unholy alliances and a mysterious ingredient used in a popular curry restaurant.
When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.
In the effervescent Spain of the 80s, Xavi Font, an artistic misfit, together with his friend Lurdes Iribar and her lover Manolo Arjona, founds Locomía. Although he achieves success, he also experiences the dark reality of the industry at the hands of powerful producer José Luís Gil.
A Dark Comedy by Guile Branco. As Angela, a former dancer, descends into madness, her family tries to cope the best they can. After an infamous dinner where a certain “finger” incident occurs, their lives collectively spiral to new levels of chaos, including, but not limited to, a sadomasochistic power dynamic, a cozy coffin and a bloody endeavor where a dinosaur may or not be present. All of the skeletons will come out at a Halloween night feast.
Dr. Goro is reborn as the son of the young starlet Ai Hoshino after her delusional stalker murders him. Now, he wants to help his new mother rise to the top, but what can a child do about the dark underbelly of the entertainment industry?
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community’s dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past.
Iris dreams of being an artist. Silas is a taxidermist who longs to be revered. Louis is a painter searching for his next muse. As their lives collide a love triangle appears to bloom. But this will morph into a story of dark obsession.
In the City of Angels, everyone is striving for the unattainable high life, and some are willing to kill for it. Encompassing everything from beach communities like Venice and Malibu to the wealth of Beverly Hills and hip enclaves like Thai Town and Highland Park, Real Murders of Los Angeles exposes the dark underbelly of the city’s glamorous façade. Follow the stories of those whose lust for fame and fortune led them to commit salacious, sinful, and scandalous murders.
A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town’s dark history.
Examining unspeakable crimes in Las Vegas, where the bright lights and good times belie a dark underbelly of evildoing transpiring on the glamorous Strip and in the vast desert surrounding it.
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect — including local authorities. As the body count rises and the dark mystery deepens, the chief detective becomes haunted by the horrors of his past.
ACP Satyabhama confronts her haunted past, diving into a high-stakes investigation to find a missing man. As she unravels dark secrets in various towns cloaked in shadows, redemption hangs in the balance. Will she triumph over the past or be consumed by its shadows?
One night, two strangers meet in a bar. Karla just lost her husband, but she doesn’t know how to deal with grief since her husband abuses her. Meanwhile, it’s Dindo’s last night as a free man because he will surrender himself to the authorities the next day. They get to talk before the night is over and they discover a shocking truth that binds them forever. This bond leads to the unraveling of dark secrets from their individual pasts, secrets that have kept them in misery.
An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into “Black Hole” – a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.
Show creator Nicolas Winding Refn and his team detail how they brought the stoic heroine and dark fairy tale version of Copenhagen’s netherworld to life.
Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship between the two men, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.
What do you do when love simply isn’t on the cards and keeps passing you by? 60-year-old Kristýna has lost her last ray of hope, so she goes off with her daughter Sára to talk to a fortune-teller about her sorry lot in life. One year on from Mirrors in the Dark, Šimon Holý brings us another wholly independent film about life’s traumas as seen from a female perspective, this time with a liberal dose of esoterica on top.
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Sam, a seemingly poised and glamorous real estate agent in a small mountain community, is revealed to be an unhinged and troubled alcoholic with a dark secret, when a charismatic man named Peter shows up in town one day. As she tries to keep her life from unravelling, an older co-worker named Brenda is targeted by Peter for information at the behest of his powerful and shadowy boss, Mr. Lock.
A young couple conjures a dark presence that hungers for their unborn baby as they prepare to burn up the dance floor at LA’s hottest disco.
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
In the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares one unsolicited thought after the next, most particularly focusing on the elusive nomads whom he suspects have been trespassing on his property. The day and night wear on, and each member of the clan takes his turn entrusting the film’s audience with his own dark secret.
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens’ book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo’s child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
