Description: Films that are shortlisted for the 97th annual Academy Awards. Nominees were announced on December 17, 2024. The shortlists are International Feature Film, Documentary, Sound, Original Score, Original Song, Makeup and Hairstyling, Visual Effects, Live-Action Short Film, Documentary Short Subject, and Animated Short Film. This playlist is the list of films that were mentioned, in no particular order. The awards ceremony will take place on March 2, 2025.
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🏆 2024 Oscar shortlists
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The Bibi Files
( 2024 )
An inside look into the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through leaked police interrogation videos.
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Black Box Diaries
( 2024 )
Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
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Dahomey
( 2024 )
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.
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Daughters
( 2024 )
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.
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Eno
( 2024 )
It is a documentary about artist Brian Eno.
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Frida
( 2024 )
A raw and magical journey into the life of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, told through her own words from diaries, letters, essays, and interviews. Vividly brought to life with lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
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Hollywoodgate
( 2024 )
Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.
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No Other Land
( 2025 )
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
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Porcelain War
( 2024 )
Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it's easy to make people afraid, it's hard to destroy their passion for living.
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Queendom
( 2023 )
Gena, an artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes and protests on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public, which becomes a new form of art and activism and puts her life in danger.
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
( 2024 )
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
( 2024 )
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
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Sugarcane
( 2024 )
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
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Union
( 2024 )
A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City's Staten Island challenges one of the world's largest companies in a unionization battle.
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Will & Harper
( 2024 )
In this intimate portrayal of friendship, transition, and America, Will Ferrell and his close friend of thirty years decide to go on a cross-country road trip to explore a new chapter in their relationship.
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Death by Numbers (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
Four years after being shot with an AR-15 in her high school, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.
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Eternal Father (Short 2023)
( 2023 )
Having started a family later in life, Nasar fears he won't live to see his children grow up and decides to be cryonically frozen after death, hoping to reunite in the future. His family face a dilemma: follow suit or risk being left behind? As their future concerns start to overshadow the present, Nasar is forced to confront his decision and rediscover what truly mat...Read all
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I am Ready, Warden (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
John Henry Ramirez is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the state of Texas. During his incarceration, Ramirez tries to reach out to his victim's son while also preparing to say goodbye to his family.
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Instruments of a Beating Heart (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part - the big drum.
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Once Upon a Time in Ukraine (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
As the Ukraine war moves into its third year, a surprising story of resilience: how children in Ukraine are surviving the Russian war machine that has targeted them and their families. With creativity and imagination they have transformed backyards and playgrounds destroyed by missiles, invented fairy tales where vegetable armies vanquish Russian attackers, and carrie...Read all
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Planetwalker (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
After witnessing a devastating oil spill, a man takes a vow of silence and gives up motorized transport, embarking on a 17-year journey across the US to raise awareness about environmental issues, armed only with a banjo and his principles
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The Quilters (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
THE QUILTERS follows the daily lives of several men, spending most of its screen time inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis. As we follow several quilts from design to completion, audiences will come to know these men, witnessing their struggles, triumphs, and sense o...Read all
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Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
A short documentary goes behind the scenes with the state representative from Montana as she made international news fighting for trans medical care-and making a momentous decision in her own life.
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A Swim Lesson (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
A SWIM LESSON is an ode to an everyday hero: Bill Marsh, a swim teacher who helps children manage their fears and discover their own power when submerged in an overwhelming unknown.
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Until He's Back (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
After learning that his son, Yahya, has died at sea trying to get to Spain, Ahmed Tchiche must find a way to bring his remains back to Morocco so he and his family can have a proper goodbye. A Spanish mortician, an NGO worker and an established Moroccan immigrant living in Spain all struggle to help Ahmed get his son's body home.
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I'm Still Here
( 2025 )
A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.
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Universal Language
( 2024 )
Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.
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The Girl with the Needle
( 2025 )
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.
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Emilia Pérez
( 2024 )
In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
( 2024 )
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
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Touch
( 2024 )
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.
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Kneecap
( 2024 )
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
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Vermiglio
( 2024 )
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
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Flow
( 2024 )
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
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Armand
( 2025 )
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.
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From Ground Zero
( 2025 )
From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza. Initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the project was born to give a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell the untold stories of the current war on film.
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Santosh
( 2024 )
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl's body is found, she's pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
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The Apprentice
( 2024 )
The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
( 2024 )
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
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A Different Man
( 2024 )
After undergoing facial-reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
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Dune: Part Two
( 2024 )
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
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Maria
( 2024 )
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
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Nosferatu
( 2024 )
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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The Substance
( 2024 )
A fading celebrity decides to use a black-market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
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Wicked
( 2024 )
Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads.
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Alien: Romulus
( 2024 )
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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Babygirl
( 2024 )
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.
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Blink Twice
( 2024 )
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
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Blitz
( 2024 )
Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II.
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The Brutalist
( 2025 )
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious, wealthy client.
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Challengers
( 2024 )
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
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Conclave
( 2024 )
When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.
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The Fire Inside
( 2024 )
The story of Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, a boxer from Flint, Michigan who trained to become the first woman in her country's history to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport.
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Gladiator II
( 2024 )
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
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Inside Out 2
( 2024 )
A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
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The Room Next Door
( 2024 )
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
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Sing Sing
( 2024 )
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
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The Six Triple Eight
( 2024 )
855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
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The Wild Robot
( 2024 )
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
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Young Woman and the Sea
( 2024 )
The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.
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Elton John: Never Too Late
( 2024 )
It showcases a never-before-seen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, as well as hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family.
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Moana 2
( 2024 )
After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.
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Mufasa: The Lion King
( 2024 )
Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.
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Piece by Piece
( 2024 )
A vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams, told through the lens of LEGO animation.
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Twisters
( 2024 )
A retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.
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Beautiful Men (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
The insecurities of three bald brothers intensify during their stay in an Istanbul hotel for hair transplants.
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A Crab in the Pool (Short 2023)
( 2023 )
Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves on a scorching summer day. In order to keep their connection intact, they will need to burst its abscess.
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Magic Candies (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
The other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play. That's ok. He's fine just playing marbles on his own. One day, he buys a bag of colorful candies instead of new marbles. The first time he pops one of them into his mouth, his old sofa starts talking to him. The two share an unexpected conversation before the sweet melts away. As it happens, the people, animals, ...Read all
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Me
( 2024 )
Me follows a 12-year-old kid named Ben who is in the throes of middle school (complete with bullies, crushes and school dances!) as he adjusts to a newly blended family AND the realization that he has super powers.
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Percebes (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.
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The 21 (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
A short film honoring the 21 Coptic men martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015, produced in the style of Coptic iconography by a global team of more than 70 artists from more than 24 countries. The film is narrated in English, with Arabic dialogue. Subtitles have been produced in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian.
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Wander to Wonder (Short 2023)
( 2024 )
In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children's television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show's originator passed away.
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The Wild-Tempered Clavier (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
"One night, I built my version of an editing machine and began animating on toilet paper. It was my reaction to everything that was in the air - the uncertainty, the erratic human behavior and the overwhelming feeling of being lost. I created my set of rules, which helped me imitate the process of animating directly on film stock. One such rule was to not watch the an...Read all
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Anuja (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
When Anuja, a precocious nine-year-old orphan, quits school to work alongside her sister at a local garment factory, she finds herself faced with a choice that will determine the fate of her future and her family.
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Crust
( 2024 )
A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a protective, cute, murderous monster named Crust.
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Dovecote (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
Confined to a seaside prison in Venice, women's final moments before release are explored.
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Edge of Space (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
Set in 1961, during the height of the US-Soviet space race, an ambitious USAF test pilot is recruited by NASA for a daring suborbital mission in an X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft with astronomical implications.
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The Ice Cream Man (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
After the Nazi's invade the Netherlands, Jewish ice cream parlor owner, Ernst Cahn, is targeted by the "Butcher of Lyon" Klaus Barbie. "The Ice Cream Man" must choose between resistance & death. Based on actual events.
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The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Short 2024)
( 2024 )
1993, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them.
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An Orange from Jaffa (Short 2023)
( 2023 )
Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
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Paris 70 (Short 2023)
( 2023 )
Jan's life suddenly changed after his mother Angela started to succumb to Alzheimer's. He's in charge of taking care of her, which tests his commitment and resistance. Is there a way for Jan to ensure that his mother does not suffer?
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A Complete Unknown
( 2024 )
In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.
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Deadpool & Wolverine
( 2024 )
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.
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Joker: Folie à Deux
( 2024 )
Struggling with his dual identity, failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital.
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Better Man
( 2025 )
The meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams.
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Civil War
( 2024 )
A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
( 2024 )
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
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