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Orphan

Orphan

🧠 Overview: Orphan (2009), by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows, House of Wax), is a gothic psychological horror-thriller that takes a well-trodden concept of the “evil child” and contorts it into something more sinister, bizarre, and profoundly unsettling. The plot revolves around Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard), a couple grappling with the heart-wrenching stillbirth […]

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Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris

🧠 Overview: Last Tango in Paris (1972), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, remains one of the landmarks of cinema; both controversial and landmark, simultaneously praised as an existential raw masterwork and condemned for its exploitation as an arthouse rebellion. A rainy, somber Paris serves as the backdrop, as a mid-aged American Paul (Marlon Brando) is struggling

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A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place

🧠 Estreno Don’t Breathe (2016), the film directed by Fede Álvarez (Evil Dead, 2013), is a tight, sadistic cat-and-mouse game set in a home-invasion thriller. Taking place in Detroit’s decaying metropolitan sprawl, the movie features three young thieves—Rocky (Jane Levy), Alex (Dylan Minnette), and Money (Daniel Zovatto)—who attempt to rob a blind Gulf War veteran

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Don’t Breathe

Don’t Breathe

🧠 Estreno Don’t Breathe (2016), the film directed by Fede Álvarez (Evil Dead, 2013), is a tight, sadistic cat-and-mouse game set in a home-invasion thriller. Taking place in Detroit’s decaying metropolitan sprawl, the movie features three young thieves—Rocky (Jane Levy), Alex (Dylan Minnette), and Money (Daniel Zovatto)—who attempt to rob a blind Gulf War veteran

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Live Flesh

Live Flesh

🧠 Estreno: Set in Madrid, the 1997 erotic neo-noir drama “Live Flesh”, or “Carne TrĂ©mula” in Spanish, is a product of Pedro AlmodĂłvar and is loosely based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. As the narration begins in the year 1970, there is a backdrop of state of emergency in Spain and a prostitute is

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Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

🧠 Estreno: Cruel Intentions (1999) is a film that can only be described as lavish, and it certainly lives up to its name. In the film, Les Liaisons Dangereuses are set into Roger Kumble’s ’wildly imaginative world containing decadent included prep schools situated on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The story is centered around

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High Art

High Art

🧠 Estreno: Independent films usually attract a niche audience and have passion-driven creators. High Art (1998), the piece comes off as an astonishing feature debut by Lisa Cholodenko; is a slow-burn indie drama that fuses romance with ambition, as well as with self-destructive creative tendencies. Radha Mitchell stars as Syd, a young photo editor with

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The Damned

The Damned

🧠 Estreno: The Damned (2024) is a folk horror drama that blends Icelandic mythology with psychological disintegration. The movie has been directed by Thordur Palsson. It is set in a remote 19th-century fishing outpost, the story follows Eva (Odessa Young), a young widow and crew leader suffering under the unending cruelty of winter. A foreign

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The Wolfman

The Wolfman

🧠 Estreno: The Wolfman (2010) is Universal Pictures’ adaptation of their iconic horror from 1941, and its attempt, albeit flawed, at grand gothic ambitions. Following a famously troubled production, Joe Johnston assumed directing duties and cast Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, a shakespearean actor who returns to Blackmoor, England, after his brother dies under

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