An original 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today. It feeds a growing appetite for history from a different perspective, as we grapple with the legacy of empire, colonialism, and its impact on the modern world.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1191662-walter-rodney-what-they-don-t-want-you-to-know

This one is a bit hard to categorize. It's a trailer for both a new series of Every Frame A Painting video essays on YouTube, as well as the creators announcing production on a short film called The Second.

So yeah, it's not really a movie, television show or game, but I like these folks and the work they do. So here ya' go.

https://www.youtube.com/@everyframeapainting

Curtis (John Cho) and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family’s way.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1062215-afraid

Leaving a life of stability and happiness to revive a broken dream of his past, a 32 year old man takes off on a 40 day, 10,000 mile journey with a childhood friend to capture the stories, dreams, and chapters of life showcasing the diversity of everyday Americans, but also displaying just how similar we all are.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8175150/

Original title (ES): Agua salá (Salt Water)

After a chasm of over two decades, thirty-three-year-old Jacobo reignites a connection with José Luis, a fifty-year-old Catholic priest navigating the twilight of his clerical life amid swirling allegations that have cast a shadow over his sacred vows.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1258406-agua-sala

On a remote ranch, a mother and her daughter fight for survival when a wounded outlaw seeking refuge brings a notorious bank robber and his ruthless gang, all desperate to reclaim a stolen fortune, right to their doorstep.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1080249-place-of-bones

Decorated cop David (Bruce Willis) is working to bring down one of the most dangerous drug operations but gets captured when his fiery partner Cal prematurely attempts a bust. David manages to free himself but the Drug Lord is on his way with reinforcements to take them out, turning the area into an all-out war zone. Eric (Chad Michael Murray), a brave Iraq war veteran, quickly gets entangled in the battle that has developed on his property. David, Cal, and Eric band together to survive and take down the head of the brutal drug ring.

Original Title (CZ): Drie dagen vis (Three Days of Fish)

Gerrie (68) from Rotterdam has been living in the Algarve with his second wife Rosa for years but is still officially registered in the Netherlands. Gerrie, who used to be a bus driver, is a COPD patient and travels to Rotterdam once a year for his checkups and other routine visits. He stays with his Cape Verdean stepdaughter and reunites with his son Dick (45), who is at odds with himself and the rest of the world. Gerrie has not been paying attention to his son's issues for years. Dick always expects too much from the brief reunion with his father and wants quality time. This year there is a chance that it could be Gerrie's last visit to the Netherlands.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1157712-drie-dagen-vis

Original title (CZ): Proslava (Celebration)

The film follows the life of Mijo and his family in a poor Croatian village, during the turbulent years of World War II. The non-linear and elliptical plot gradually forms a clear picture that testifies to the eternal cycle of history and the impossibility of a real change in the Balkans.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1261060-proslava

A young woman embarks on a series of sexual adventures with a series of men and women against the backdrop of expatriate life in Bangkok.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/976576-emmanuelle

Born with a silver spoon, Jonathan Shaw chose, at the height of his career as a tattoo artist, to give up on his celebrity lifestyle in order to escape from his own vicious cycle.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1031442-scab-vendor-the-life-and-times-of-jonathan-shaw

Follows on-going efforts to expose America's "troubled teen" industry (TTI). For six decades and counting, this billion-dollar business has used what it calls "tough love" as a form of treatment despite numerous deaths, countless suicides, life-altering injuries, and instances of child sexual abuse. Until recently, nobody has been able to stop it. The series follows a recurring band of young survivors and whistleblowers and their harrowing first-hand accounts of extreme abuse and cult-like brainwashing at the hands of these programs, starting a social media firestorm in 2021.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/258342-teen-torture-inc

A film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America may depend on it. Follow the story of America’s civic unraveling through the work of Robert Putnam, whose legendary book Bowling Alone findings light a path out of our democracy’s crisis.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1073091-join-or-die

Set in a very near future where a Grand Lottery has been founded in economically struggling California. The only caveat? If you want to legitimately claim the award, you must murder the winner before sunset.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1094138-jackpot

Manik is a lonely middle-aged man who lives with his father, but with whom he has no contact. Instead, his life consists of taking care of his plants and ants, plus a spider and a lizard. But then a change happens in the man’s dull life – he notices a cloud in the sky that seems to follow him all the time. Life takes on a new, previously unknown value for him. Is it friendship or perhaps love?

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/884783-manikbabur-megh

A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1225518-the-whip

In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen), the most feared drama critic in town, finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper's new owner. Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), the actress determined to win his favor, becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/992940-the-critic

Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent get stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past: the Crooked Man.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1087822-hellboy-the-crooked-man

In 1992, Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son (Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood) put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/413846-1992

A father (Josh Hartnett) and teen daughter (Ariel Donoghue) attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1032823-trap

The remarkable life of Lhakpa Sherpa, who, as a girl denied an education, conceals her gender to work in the mountains, and became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the United States, raising children as a single mother, and climbing in pursuit of a better life.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1156649-mountain-queen-the-summits-of-lhakpa-sherpa

Plot summary tbd

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1275026-bando-stone-and-the-new-world

Original title (ES): Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes)

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas (Jose Coronado), a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/997294-cerrar-los-ojos

Original title (DE): Sisi & Ich

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/913521-sisi-ich

Original title (KO): 하이재킹 (Hijacking)

The movie depicts the story of people fighting for their lives in an extreme situation when a passenger plane is hijacked in the airspace of Korea in 1971.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1147710

A woman looks back on her life, through narration and song. In Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan, filmmaker Tessa Leuwsha uses a stream of fascinating colorized archival footage to illustrate the lives of Surinamese women like her grandmother, who was a washerwoman.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1200266-moeder-suriname-mama-sranan

A Japanese businessman (Arata Iura) goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1039780-tokyo-cowboy

After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his wife Leah (Ella Rae Peck) head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception (John Speredakos), blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called... the crumb catcher.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1028688-crumb-catcher

A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1241674-the-last-breath

The film dives into the dangerous world of Jack, a logger working in the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. What begins as a routine day of timber cutting quickly spirals into a harrowing fight for survival when Jack and his team stumble upon a meth lab hidden deep in the forest. This discovery sets off a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a relentless drug cartel.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1309770-clear-cut

A pilot (Mark Wahlberg) transports an Air Marshal (Michelle Dockery) accompanying a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial. As they go across the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested as not everyone on board is who they seem.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1126166-flight-risk

Original title (ES): Negociando con mi mujer (Negotiating With My Woman)

Alan Bender (Mauricio Ochmann) is a skillful hostage negotiator, the best in Mexico, who will soon face the most crucial case of his career when the President and his lover are kidnapped. The kidnapper demands to negotiate only with him.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227221/

The first feature-length documentary about Faye Dunaway who speaks about her career, with landmark roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. Joining Faye are her son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, James Gray and many others.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1280483-faye

In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s becoming a transformative summer.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/947891-my-old-ass

Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1067485-sebastian

Two teenage Mexican-American loners (Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales) in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/500104-aristotle-and-dante-discover-the-secrets-of-the-universe

Nellie (Erana James), Daisy (Manaia Hall) and Lou (Nathalie Morris) attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island in 1954. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their friendship but this is challenged when the school's matron (Rima Te Wiata) divides them.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1229266-we-were-dangerous

Capturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi (Mona Pirzad).

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/912726-rheingold

A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1186672-war-game

Original title (NO): Konvoi

In 1942, a convoy of 35 civilian ships, carrying vital supplies from Iceland to the Soviet Union, faces deadly challenges in the Arctic. Despite Allied naval escort, catastrophic intelligence errors expose the convoy to relentless German air and naval attacks. In the brutal conditions, inexperienced civilian sailors fight for survival, with only 12 ships making it to their destination.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/983044-konvoi