Deep in the Wood 2015

Deep in the Wood 2015

Deep in the Wood 2015

Deep in the Wood 2015
In fondo al bosco (original title)
1h 32min | Mystery, Thriller | 19 November 2015 (Italy)

Storyline:

Winter 2010. Dolomites. Tommaso Conci, a 4 year old child, disappears during a festival where people disguised as devils, the Krampus, terrorize the village with whips and chains. Five years later, a child was found nameless and without documents. DNA matches: he is Tommi. Manuel, the father, can finally embrace his son. The mother, Linda, however, can not adapt to the new situation. A suspect digs inside her: what if that child is not really her son?

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Code of Hunting 1983

Code of Hunting 1983

Code of Hunting 1983

Code of Hunting 1983
Coto de caza (original title)
1h 49min | Crime, Thriller | January 1988 (West Germany)

Storyline:

Assumpta Serna plays a lawyer who passionately defends ‘criminal scum’. Her latest defendants though have no quarrels in singling her out as their next victim. They steal her car, find keys to her country villa and decide to rob the place at the next opportunity. Unfortunately, the lawyer’s family turns up at the villa, a struggle ensues and the husband is killed. But this is only the beginning of the nightmare…

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The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020
Yakusoku no Neverland (original title)
1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 18 December 2020 (Japan)

Storyline:

A number of Japanese children all complete with Western names are being well fed, taken care of and pampered at a very meticulate and managed orphanage. The facility and grounds are impressive, but the wall acting as a barrier is high. There is a secret to the place and once it is revealed to several orphans they are desperate to depart from the facility.

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The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020
1h 34min | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8 June 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.

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Child’s Play (1980)

Child's Play (1980)

Child’s Play (1980)

Child’s Play (1980)
27min | Short, Thriller

Storyline:

Lonely orphan Conrad (Paul Schoeman) not only had to suffer the loss of both parents in a drowning accident, but is also stuck in a home at the mercy of the icy, evil and cruel Miss DeRopp (Savannah Bentley). Mostly forced to stay indoors, denied friends and kept sickly and frail by his new guardian (who it’s strongly hinted at also sexually abuses the poor boy), Conrad’s only companion is his beloved pet chicken Cackler. A neighborhood boy (Bill Barrett) might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature (it’s basically just a barely-seen, small black dog) and – after Miss DeRopp kills Cackler and serves him up as dinner – uses it to get revenge.

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Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021
R | 1h 40min | Action, Drama, Thriller | 14 May 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him — and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

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The Mark of the Angels – Miserere (2013)

The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)

The Mark of the Angels – Miserere (2013)

The Mark of the Angels – Miserere (2013)
La marque des anges – Miserere (original title)
1h 46min | Thriller | 26 June 2013 (France)

Storyline:

When a truck trafficking children is intercepted in the desert by the army, one of the traffickers is captured. Interpol agent Frank Salek comes to the police station with his partner to interrogate the prisoner. However, the man lures his partner and commits suicide in the toilet. Frank, who is addicted in pills and is haunted by his past, finds three names in the prisoner’s cellular that is broken. In France, the President of the International Court Laura Bernheim is chasing the Blackstream Army, an evil organization protected by worldwide authorities. In Paris, the retired and awarded detective Lionel Kasdan, who grieves the loss of his wife, is summoned by the parochial priest since the regent of his choir Goetz Willhen has been found dead in the church. The coroner has found foot steps of children around the corpse with stain of blood. Kasdan decides to conduct his own investigation and finds that Goetz was Chilean. He also discovers that Goetz was homosexual and had an affair with a young man named Naciro. When Frank learns that Goetz is one of the men in his list, he travels to Paris and meets Kasdan in the beginning of the most unlikely partnership. Together they discover an evil plan to eliminate Ms. Laura Bernheim.

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Alex Winter 2019

Alex Winter 2019

Alex Winter 2019

Alex Winter 2019
1h 6min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 4 March 2019 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Alex, a lonely adolescent affected by the abandonment of his father, lives in the countryside with his mother, an authoritarian woman with whom he has a complicated relationship. The boy decides to explore new opportunities that will lead him to worsen his mental condition and lose control of his emotions.

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The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953
1h 16min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4 October 1953 (USA)

Storyline:

One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident. He poses as Frankie’s friend and blackmails the boy into stealing from his parents to finance Len’s escape. When Len decides that Frankie may know enough to connect him with the murder, he decides to silence the boy in a tense “hide and seek” chase through the ruins.

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