1. A Vardy
Scott is an emotionally damaged eighteen year old boy. After his mother dies, he starts to care for his abusive, alcoholic father. Spurred on by his girlfriend, Scott confronts him in an attempt to break the negative cycle of his roots.
2. Der Koffermacher (Der Koffermacher)
(Der Koffermacher)
3. We Vanish (Las Desaparecidas)
After the devastating disappearance of her teenaged daughter, Rocío attempts to uncover the truth in the dense tangle of bureaucracy and patriarchal social norms.
4. Metropolis (Metropolis)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
It has an average vote of 8.139 on TMDB.
5. Inside (Dentro)
Two friends doggedly build a mysterious artefact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end. INSIDE starts with a shot of a burnt tree stump in a forest. Materials are gathered. What are the various branches, stones and pieces of grass for and what will the silent activities lead to? INSIDE slowly uncovers an act of human solidarity. The camera hovers around two boys, ramping up the tension, and is supported by an excellent soundtrack.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
6. Leo
Leo, a transgender teenager, is secretly in love with his best friend Kai. On their last day together before Leo moves to LA for college, they hide in the sports center where they play basketball. What starts as a prank ends with Leo finding the courage to confess his feelings for his best friend.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
7. People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
It has an average vote of 7.275 on TMDB.
8. The Demonic Lord and the Virtuous Cultivator (The Demonic Lord and the Virtuous Cultivator)
She was taken in by a cultivation master after her family was slaughtered. Vowing unconditional loyalty to her newfound teacher and savior, she followers her every step into adulthood. Can such reverence save her when a demonic cultivator comes into the scene and shakes up the entire villa?
9. Cold Snap
A boy in a forest, trapping animals for a living. The woman next door, planning a fresh start. As a desolate winter sets in, their lives begin to intertwine.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
10. Walls
A teenage boy named David is afraid of being transparent. When David's best friend, Johnathan, notices his abuse at home, David must overcome his fear of rejection in order to embrace his friend's support.
11. The Room (La Habitación)
Mariana must sacrifice her dog Frida after violently beating it for having destroyed her recently deceased son's toys. The pet's death helps Mariana accept and overcome the loss of her son.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
12. Absence (Ausencia)
Carlos, a man haunted by his past, plunges into an existential crisis that leads him to day-to-day apathy due to the loss of a child, an act that condemns a declining marriage and continuous desolation.
13. The Kiln (El Horno)
At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister.
14. Cristeros and Federals (Cristeros y Federales)
In 1929, during the Cristiada, Ranulfo, captain of the Cristero army, kept a federal prisoner, whom he tortured and threatened. At another time, Eugenio, captain of the federal army, rebukes and mocks the faith of a group of Cristeros peasants who are weak but not defenseless.
15. Pecera (Pecera)
Lola, an employment agency branch director receives a strange call in the late of the night. It is his boss. Unfair dismissals are quickly increasing in her sector. This means huge expenditures increase for the company. The situation must be stopped or her branch will have to be closed.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
16. Test
A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility. Through his day he interacts with the odd, detached employees of the facility, guiding him from section to section, obscuring the intentions or duration of the test.
It has an average vote of 7.862 on TMDB.
17. Relativity
Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
18. Pet World
The suspicious death of a pet snake puts a chokehold on a loving father.
19. The After
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
20. Topo Gigio Is Dead (Topo Gigio Is Dead)
Two Chileans, Daniela and Tomas, meet in Philadelphia. Daniela is the daughter of a former political prisoner, tortured during Pinochet's dictatorship. Tomas is the son of the physician that tortured her father. Both have been forced to deal with a past that doesn't belong to them, and together they will find a space to question their roles and their heritage.
