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By Design new_releases Release: 01-23-2025
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
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Dream Team 2024
In this absurdist homage to 90’s basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery.
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Nell 2024
As the date of her first televised appearance draws near, a hideously ugly cello prodigy and her Stage Mother grapple with public expectations and the throes of puberty.
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Good One 2024    star_border 6.1
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
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Ladies 2024
On an idyllic girls trip, Ruby has what seems like a sex dream about her best friend and can't tell if it actually happened or not.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024    star_border 6.1
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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Give Me Pity! 2023    star_border 8
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.
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The Starr Sisters 2019
Patte and Randa Starr are fun specialists. After growing up in an abusive household set above their father's candy store, they spent their lives fighting to find joy and freedom. Now in their 70s, these sisters do exactly as they please: they live together near the beach, they always have a movie on, and the candy drawer is fully stocked.
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The Follower 2019    star_border 5
Fueled by the hope of escaping her dreary suburban life, a misunderstood teen entertains the increasingly sinister advances of an Internet friend in a riff on the 1966 Joyce Carol Oates story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
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Clara's Ghost 2018    star_border 5.2
Set over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds’ family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz family, finds solace in and guidance from the supernatural force she believes is haunting her.
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Call Your Father 2017    star_border 4.6
On Josh and Greg's first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries.
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Whiskey Fist 2017    star_border 1
A branding intern loses the life he once had after an encounter with a mysterious blonde and her whiskey bottle... but gains something very special in return.
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Men Don't Whisper 2017    star_border 5
After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton set out to do the most masculine thing they can think of - sleep with some women.
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This Beautiful Fantastic 2016    star_border 7.1
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.
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Tond 2016
After suffering a stroke, Tond wakes up to realize he doesn't have any friends aside from his mean old wife, Janice.
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Affections 2016    star_border 5.5
A comedy about isolation and loneliness, Affections follows a young woman, adrift, seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.
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Sour Minnows Release date not available
Plot under wraps.
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Funny Pages Release date not available
Thrill ride through the mind of an insecure and indecisive artist.
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Dolphin Release date not available
In the Virgin Islands in the 1970s an aimless receptionist falls into an interspecies romance with a dolphin while conducting research for a scientist who’s lost his grip on reality.
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Time and Space Release date not available
A mockumentary about a small-town man who is abducted by aliens, meets a group of fellow abductees, leads a daring escape back to Earth, and in the process finds purpose, community, and love.
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