Non (Anong Houngheuangsy) is a young man that lives alone busying himself with the chores necessary to meet the needs of his meager existence. He works as a masseuse where he meets Kang (Lee Kang-sheng), another solitary man who suffers from pain in his neck and back, though with a slightly more extravagant abode than…
Category: 2021
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a Danish documentarian, and while he is featured in Neon’s Flee, this is not his story. Rather, it is the story of Amin Nawabi, a childhood friend of Rasmussen who opens up to the filmmaker about his youth. He recounts what life was like growing up in Afghanistan in the 1980s, fleeing to Russia and eventually Denmark, as…
The Pit
Markuss (Damir Onackis) is a troubled young boy. After the death of his artist father, Markuss’ own drawings begin to take a darker turn as he copes with the loss. After he orchestrates a prank that leaves Emili (Luize Birkenberga), a young neighborhood playmate, trapped at the bottom of the titular pit, Markuss becomes the target of scorn for…
Parallel Mothers
Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Mielna Smit) are two expecting mothers who meet as roommates in the maternity ward. With similar, yet different, circumstances that brought them together, the two become unlikely friends through the shared trials of single motherhood. After their discharge from the hospital, the two promise to stay in touch but time, as…
A Hero
Rahim Soltani (Amir Jadidi) is on leave from prison for falling behind on his debts owed to his estranged father-in-law, Bahram (Mohsen Tanabandeh). When Rahim finds a purse abandoned and full of gold coins, he considers selling the gold to pay back his debt, gain his freedom, and marry his new love, Farkondeh (Sahar Goldust). Rahim ultimately decides to try and find the owner to…
Red Rocket
Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), a decorated porn actor, down on his luck, returns to his small Texas town in 2016 and attempts to reunite with his estranged wife, Lexi (Bree Elrod), while he gets back on his feet. He finds it hard to shake his hustling tendencies despite trying to walk the straight and narrow…
Encounter
Malik Kahn (Riz Ahmed) returns home from the Marines, questionably discharged with frantic fears of a parasitic alien species which uses humans as their host. He takes his two young boys, Jay (Lucian-River Chauhan) and Bobby (Aditya Geddada), on the run to safety. As their mission winds through the night and finds them farther from home,…
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth. Not much else needs to be said in terms of plot. Macbeth (Denzel Washington), upon returning from a successful battle against the traitorous Thane of Cawdor, encounters three strange sisters (Kathryn Hunter) who prophecies that Macbeth will be the King of Scotland. When his wife (Frances McDormand) learns of the prophecy,…
Encanto
Deep in the Columbian jungle sits a small town built around a magical, sentient house, and the matriarch of the home Alma Madrigal (María Cecillia Botero). She lives there with her triplet children and multiple grandchildren, all of whom were granted a special power from the magic house: super strength, control of the weather, and…
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