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A team of scientists has resumed an experiment to find individuals who can control the ultimate weapon: a force called "absolute energy". During a fight, Kaneda’s best friend, Tetsuo, suffers a freak accident and ends up entering a military installation. There the scientists will discover that he is the possessor of absolute energy.

Genres: Animation, Cult, Anime, Action/Adventure, Science fiction, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Mahatma Gandhi advocated for the rights of black citizens in South Africa before turning his attention to Hindus in India. He encouraged them to rebel against British rule using non-violence and civil disobedience. This movement eventually led to India gaining independence from the British empire in the 1940s.

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Frank Slade, a retired colonel who is blind, is being assisted by a young student, Charlie. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Frank convinces Charlie to accompany him to New York City instead of staying home.

Genre: Drama

In the early 1990s, the young and idealistic Christopher McCandless, adopted the name Alexander Supertramp, left his possessions and savings to charity, and left the civilized world for wild Alaska to come into contact with nature and discover the true meaning of life.

Genres: Drama, Action/Adventure

The explorer Hugh Glass is critically injured in a bear attack and left to fend for himself by a treacherous member of his team. With willpower as her only weapon, Glass will have to face a hostile territory.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Biography, History

A thousand years after an apocalyptic war, the Earth appears covered in forests infested with poisonous mushrooms and giant insects. Nausicaä is the princess of the Valley of the Wind, a tiny kingdom. The crisis erupts when the neighboring kingdom of Tolmekia, led by Princess Kushana, invades the Valley of the Wind.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Anime, Fantasy, Animation, Science fiction

Adrián Doria, a successful young businessman, wakes up in a hotel room next to the corpse of his lover. Accused of murder, he decides to hire the services of Virginia Goodman, the best witness trainer in the country.

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Set in 1962 Hong Kong, two lonely neighbors discover their spouses' affair. Chow and Su form a restrained, growing bond—honorable yet aching—captured in a lush, melancholy portrait of longing.

Genres: Cult, Drama, Independent, Romance

A college student rescues a drunken, unpredictable woman on a Seoul subway, is mistaken for her boyfriend, and gets drawn into her outrageous antics and blackouts, slowly growing attached.

Genres: Drama, Romance

3-Iron follows a drifter who silently inhabits vacant homes, living owners' routines briefly. His pattern shifts after meeting a trapped, abused woman; their bond becomes a sparse, haunting meditation on escape, impermanence, and connection.

Genres: Drama, Romance

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial deformity that has forced him to have surgery 27 times, strives to fit into his new school.

Genres: Drama, Family

Charlie, a New York theater director, and his female actress, Nicole, are struggling to overcome a divorce process.

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance

Charlie, a quiet '90s freshman, copes with grief and depression by writing letters. Taken in by seniors Sam and Patrick, he discovers music, friends, first love—and must confront buried trauma.

Genres: Drama, LGBTQ, Romance, Crime, Science fiction

Twelve strange and mysterious alien ships are located around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to find a way to converse with the aliens to find out if they came with peaceful or threatening intentions.

Genres: Drama, Mystery

When the renowned mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his mansion, just after the family celebration of his 85th birthday, detective Benoit Blanc is recruited to investigate the matter. He will move among a network of false clues and interesting lies to try to discover the truth after the writer's death.

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Comedy

A long time ago, in a very distant swamp, lived a fierce ogre called Shrek. One day, his loneliness is interrupted by an invasion of surprising characters. To save his territory, Shrek makes a pact to undertake a journey to get the princess Fiona.

Genres: Animation, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An American cyclist and a Russian scientist, Grigory Rodchenkov, uncovers a doping scandal in which the scientist is involved, whom Putin wants to silence. Research on sports doping uncovered an international scandal, and the documentary had the main consequence of the IOC's ban on Russia in South Korea Winter Olympics.

Genres: Documentary, Thriller, Sport

In cramped Tokyo, poor Osamu's family survives by petty theft. They shelter an abandoned girl who joins them—until an incident reveals secrets and sparks conflict with society.

Genres: Drama, Drama

Hirayama, a solitary Tokyo restroom cleaner, lives a quiet, routine life devoted to books, classic rock and photographing trees. Unexpected encounters stir memories, letting buried emotions surface.

Genres: Drama, Independent

Chungking Express: two mood-driven 1990s Hong Kong vignettes about lonely policemen—one clinging to expired pineapples meets a mysterious blonde; the other finds slow affection with quirky diner worker Faye. An atmospheric, neon-lit study of urban solitude.

Genres: Cult, Drama, Romance