On a holiday at the pyramids of Giza, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) bumps into his friend Bouc (Tom Bateman) who invites the renowned detective to attend the lavish wedding celebration of Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot) and Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer). When Simon’s ex-fiancé, Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) has been discovered following the newlyweds, the…
Category: Contemporary
Drive My Car
Yūsuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an acclaimed theatre actor who is married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), an accomplished screenwriter. Their relationship is fraught with tragedy having lost a young daughter to pneumonia, and to escape the troubles of his home life, Yūsuke often goes for drives to clear his mind – a hobby that is jeopardized…
Identifying Features
Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) and Rigo (Armando García), two adolescent boys from Guanajuato, Mexico, announce one morning to their families that they will make the trek north to the United States. Weeks later, when Rigo is found dead, Jesús’ mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez), resolves to follow her son’s footsteps to see if he was able…
Moonfall
When the moon has been discovered to have tilted off orbit and begins to spiral closer to Earth, all of humanity is in danger with mere weeks left before impact. The military, led by Doug Davidson (Eme Ikwuakor) has plans to nuke the moon if NASA Deputy Director – and Davidson’s ex-wife – Jo Fowler (Halle…
Days
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…
The House
In the 1800’s, Raymond (Matthew Goode) is approached by a mysterious benefactor who will build his family a grand estate house and lift them from the poverty they live in currently. Now, in 2022, the house sits in disrepair as a developer (Jarvis Cocker) tries to flip the old home for a quick sale. A…
Scream
Twenty-five years after the initial emergence of Ghostface and the litany of copycat killers that followed, another serial slasher takes hold of the otherwise quaint town of Woodsboro striking fear into its residents both past and present. Ghostface’s identity remains a mystery, but the victims can all be traced back to those affected by the…
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…
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