In the early 2000s, a killer had been stalking sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. After each kill, he would phone the newspaper to report where the body was buried. As his victim count increases, journalist Arezoo Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) is sent to report on the murders, but as she grows…
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Chupa
Alex (Evan Whitten) begrudgingly goes on a trip to Mexico to visit his grandfather, Chava (Demián Bichir), though he would rather stay in his room and play on his GameBoy. After his father died months earlier from cancer, Alex began to reject his Mexican heritage despite his mother’s (Adriana Paz) pressing. When he arrives at…
Kill Boksoon
Gil Bok-soon (Jeon Do-yeon) is one of the best assassins in the MK Company, but with a teenage daughter, Gil Jae-yeong (Kim Si-a), back at home and her contract set to expire, she begins to focus her efforts more on being a mother than a killer. Not wanting to lose his company’s best asset, Cha…
The Kings of the World
Rá (Carlos Andrés Castañeda) receives a letter from the court that after a long trial, the land that once belonged to his now-deceased grandmother will be legally turned over to him as her remaining heir. The teenager is not the only one in Medellín without a family. Culebro (Cristian David Duque), Sere (Davison Florez), Winny…
The Catholic School
Edoardo (Emanuele Maria Di Stefano) is a junior at a prestigious catholic school in 1975. Despite being taught to live a life of peace and grace, the boys flirt with violence constantly as they navigate their adolescence, rejecting anyone who is different, and acting on their growing attention to the neighborhood girls. While Edoardo fumbles…
The Wonder
Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is an English nurse called to Ireland during a time of famine to observe a young girl, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), after she stopped eating on her eleventh birthday some four months prior. Seen by some as a miracle, others as a scientific oddity, as well as a fair number…
The Pale Blue Eye
During the autopsy of Leroy Fry (Steven Maier), a young cadet at West Point Military Academy, it becomes alarmingly aware that his hanging was more likely an act of murder than one of suicide further complicated by the postmortem removal of the young man’s heart. Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is brought in to investigate the…
Troll
After a mysterious explosion during the excavation of the Dovre mountains for the construction of a rail tunnel leaves environmental protestors dead, the Norwegian government assembles a task squad to determine the source of the explosion. One expert tapped is Nora Tidemman (Ine Marie Wilmann), a renowned paleontologist. As more details about the disaster come…
White Noise
Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is the premiere professor in Hitler Studies, a program which he founded in his ongoing tenure at The College on the Hill. The patriarch of a blended family with his current wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig), his two children from a previous marriage, Heinrich (Sam Nivola) and Steffie (May Nivola), Babette’s daughter…
The Marquee Topic 