IFC Films
1) Room 237
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
This classic documentary by Errol Morris showcases workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. The first pet mortician featured is Floyd "Mac" McClure, who believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people. The film chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors,...
3) MLK/FBI
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. This documentary lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King's activism throughout the '50s and '60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Delbert, Bill, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their 99-acre dairy farm in Central New York State. Known by their neighbors as “The Ward Boys”, the brothers shared a two-room shack with no running water or indoor toilet for as long as anyone could remember. But their quiet life was shattered June 6, 1990, when Bill was found dead in the bed he shared with Delbert. By day’s end, Delbert had confessed...
5) Biosphere
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Billy and Ray are lifelong best friends and the last two men on Earth. Their survival is largely due to Ray, a brilliant scientist who designed a domed structure with all the systems necessary to sustain life. However, with the fish that provide essential protein dying out, Billy and Ray must find a way to survive.
6) Nobody Knows
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
Four young siblings are forced to rely solely on each other when they are left alone by their loving yet immature mother. This film was the official Japanese entry for the 2004 Academy Awards.
7) A Dark Song
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unholy alliance between two damaged souls leads them on a disturbing descent into the depraved realms of black magic. Sophia is a grieving and desperate woman with a secret. Joseph is an anti-social, alcoholic expert in the occult who reluctantly agrees to help her. Holed up in a remote cabin amidst the desolate wilds of Northern Wales, the two embark on a six-month series of dark rituals that will push them both to the physical and psychological...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dazzling, worthy tribute to Vonnegut and a compelling introduction for the uninitiated. The feature documentary - the first of its kind on Vonnegut - is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s upbringing and his creative output. It spans his childhood in Indianapolis, his experience as a Prisoner of War in World War II, his marriage, family, and divorce, his early careers as a publicist for General Electric and a car salesman, and his long years...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
11) The Other Lamb
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women, teenage Selah lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. When her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence.
12) Hungry Hearts
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this intense psycho-thriller, Adam Driver is a dad who must protect his newborn when his wife is possessed by disturbing obsessions that could endanger their child.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's just another night at the morgue for father (Brian Cox) and son (Emile Hirsch) coroners, until an unidentified corpse arrives. Discovered buried in the basement of a brutally murdered family, the young Jane Doe is eerily well preserved and has no visible signs of trauma. As they work into the night to piece together the cause of her death, the two men begin to uncover the disturbing secrets of her life. Soon, a series of terrifying events make...
14) The Night
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha Noor) and their baby take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night's rest as Babak and Neda soon realize they're locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they've kept from one another.
15) Hatching
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Finnish
Description
12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
When the father of a family of cannibals dies, they must figure out how to sustain their diet of human flesh. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre - a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret and driven by monstrous appetites.
17) The Housemaid
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Korean
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains nudity and sexual acts that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. An innocent young woman is hired as an upper class family housemaid. The master of the house takes advantage of his social position by slipping into the new housemaid's bed. When the woman becomes pregnant and wants to keep the baby, she is forced to have an abortion which turns her already fragile mental condition for the worse. She decides...
18) Relic
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared and her behavior turns increasingly volatile, all begin to sense that an insidious presence in the house might be taking control of her.
19) Maniac
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A 21st century Jack the Ripper set in the present day, MANIAC is a reboot of the cult film considered by many to be the most suspenseful slasher movie ever made. Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, whose life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates and the number of victims increases, it becomes clear that Frank is...
20) Haunter
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The ghost of a teenage girl is stuck in a time loop on the day she and her family were murdered. After becoming aware of her death, she tries to protect a young girl from becoming the next victim of the serial killer who murdered her and her family.