Folk Stories: The Tricksters(2023)

The Black Book(en)

After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.

The Inhabitant(en)

Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

The Quiller Memorandum(en)

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

The Deadly Affair(en)

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

Hide and Seek(zh)

A man lives in a lovely apartment with his wife and 2 children. He is obsessed with cleanliness, has strange dreams and struggles with a mystery in his past. He goes to a bad part of town hunting for a long lost brother, leaving his wife and children in their car. As he tries to get cooperation from neighbors, the wife finds her children are missing. A stranger wearing a dark motorcycle helmet appears, frightening her. As the story unfolds this stranger follows them becoming more and more threatening.

The Looming Storm(zh)

Yu, a self-assured factory guard, fancies himself a detective and begins poking his nose into a murder investigation.

Suburbicon(en)

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

The King Tide(en)

After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.

Nocebo(en)

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

The Glass Key(en)

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Compulsion(en)

Two women—Diana, a flamboyant and ruthless thief, and Evie, a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past—become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.

The Hideout(en)

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

All the Devils Are Here(en)

After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.

Overdrive(en)

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

The Girl Who Got Away(en)

A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer escapes and begins hunting for the one who got away.

The 355(en)

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.

Cleaner(en)

Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.

Chief of Station(en)

After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.

Night Watch(en)

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.

Hunting Season(en)

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

Breathe(en)

A woman is drawn to a lake by an unforeseeable force that keeps her there.

Bone Face(en)

When a masked killer slaughters several campers in a small town, a sheriff and a deputy track the murderer to a local diner where, using their investigative skills, they must discover which person in the diner is the actual killer.

The Murder of the Monster(en)

What’s your breaking point? What will you do when you feel like there’s no other choice? One woman has had enough. After documenting her abuse to show the world who her monster is, things get out of hand. There is only one thing left to do…murder the monster.

Unmai Kadhai(ta)

A guilt-filled patient meets a psychiatrist for the first time. The probe to find out why the patient feels guilty turns out to be an instant nightmare for the psychiatrist.

Fear Of The Dawn(en)

After years of fighting the Crusades, a soldier returns home and loses the love of his life. In hopes of rebuilding his relationship with God, he retreats into the woods to live a life of isolation. That is until he is met one day by a mysterious traveler.

In Silence(pt)

In Silence (No Silêncio) STORYLINE: Eduardo Porto is a TV series director who, after being assaulted by actress Glória Pedrosa's father, gathers his filming crew at Camila's, his art director, house to try to reverse the situation before it becomes a media scandal. *_The film has won 10 awards: 6 awards - Best Feature Film, 2 - Best Director and Best Debut Filmmaker (Alexandre Britto), Best Photographer (Pedro Iorio), Best Actor (Evandro Miúdo)_* The feature film is in the international festival circuit.

The Mastermind Killer !!(en)

After the shocking murder of the most powerful man in Chicago - George Murphy, police detective Ethan Graham begins investigation to solve the case. The complexity builds up leading to no end. It must have been plotted by a Mastermind.

The Secret(fr)

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?

Volpina(ca)

IT´S CHICO TIME!(pt)

In 1974, Chico, a beloved host of a children’s TV show at the service of a repressive authoritarian regime, is forced to make the hardest decision of his life: murder a colleague live on air, or lose the approval of his powerful father. As the cameras roll, the program unravels into a surreal theatre of obedience, repression, and madness.

V.C. Andrews' All That Glitters(en)

Ruby returns to her childhood home and finds herself lured into a twisted plan to be with Beau.

Sorry, Charlie(en)

A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by "The Gentleman," a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.

The Black Water Vampire(en)

A documentary film crew investigate a series of brutal killings known as the Black Water murders. As they dwelve deeper into the story, they stumble upon a horrifying secret. One they may not survive.

Do Patti(hi)

A puzzling investigation leads a no-nonsense cop down a dark path involving the vicious rivalry between twin sisters and the volatile man they both love.

Bodom(hu)

For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.

Rope(en)

Australian television adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play.

39: A Film by Carroll McKane(en)

Carroll McKane's DVcams have recorded the deaths of his 36 past victims. His killing room, a makeshift studio, is the set for the murders of two more victims and the torture of a forensic psychiatrist, destined to be his biographer and the killer of his final victim... number 39.

Happy Ending(en)

A couple attempts to revive their spark at a "happy ending" massage parlor, but they're trapped inside when a murderous client's obsession with a masseuse turns violent, thrusting everyone in the spa into a fight for survival.

The Falcon and the Snowman(en)

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Fractured Justice(en)

To save the woman he loves from a human trafficking auction, a former criminal hitman must return to the violent life he deserted and dismantle the empire he once served.