Trailers for movies, television and games

Liverpool takes centre stage in this year-in-the-life documentary portrait. An observation of a city and its people over the passing seasons.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1381693-liverpool-story

Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/977339-theatre-of-thought

Original title (FR): Maya, donne-moi un titre

A father and daughter maintain their bond despite living in different countries through an imaginative nightly ritual where she suggests a title and he creates short animated films starring her as the hero.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1259477-maya-donne-moi-un-titre

Charming, passionate, totally irresponsible young novelist Werther (Douglas Booth) is sent to the city on an errand by his mother. By chance, he meets lovely Charlotte (Alison Pill), whose allure and commitment to her impressive, stable fiancé Albert will turn Werther’s life upside down. Werther and Charlotte embark on an emotional affair, while Werther and Albert start an awkward friendship. The more entwined this trio becomes, the harder it is to navigate the complexities of lust, affinity, and love.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1168294-young-werther

Original title (FR): Allons enfants (Let's Go Children)

HipHop as a language and an outlet for young people: The film follows the youngest class members of a dance academy on their way to becoming professional dancers. Many of the students come from the socially deprived areas of Paris. Accompanied by a pulsating, dancing camera that pulls the audience right into the action, the film negotiates themes such as origins, pains, dreams and hopes.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/916403-allons-enfants

Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1045563-piper

Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She transformed into the "Fairy of Light", was taken up (especially in her Serpentine Dance) by Georges Méliès and Alice Guy and influenced René Clair's early films.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1193015-obsessed-with-light

Follows two friends growing relationship over the course of a year in holidays.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31199966/

It’s Christmas, so come with us on a blood-soaked sleigh ride to the conservative hometown of trans true-crime podcaster, Lola. Worried about the town’s reaction to her transition, Lola is ready to take on anyone this holiday season! However, she didn't expect that person to be a Santa masked killer - paying grisly homage to the town’s own haunted legend, The Toymaker. Now Lola - who has her own connection to the original Toymaker murders - must put an end to these gruesome murders.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1198620-carnage-for-christmas

Original title (KR): 오징어 게임 (Ojing-eo Geim)

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

Season 2 picks up three years after the deadly games in Season 1. Consumed by a desire to dismantle the sinister organization behind the games, Gi-hun hunts down the elusive figure who recruits participants by playing ddakji in the subway. However, as he delves deeper, he discovers that the path to ending the games is fraught with even greater dangers, forcing him to re-enter the lethal competition.

Season 2 premieres Dec 26, 2024.

A third and final season will premiere in 2025.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/93405

When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1302916-heart-eyes

A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1140535-presence

A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1178381-omar-and-cedric-if-this-ever-gets-weird

Genre-busting tale of how unemployed amateur cyclist, Bryan Allen, and heavily in debt father of three, Paul MacCready, together with a rag tag team of neuro-diverse outliers, set out on a death-defying and madcap quest to untangle the mystery of human powered flight and in doing so win the most coveted prize in aviation. Built from a remarkable trove of recently discovered 16mm footage along with an arsenal of innovative techniques, this uplifting story of ingenuity, courage and determination, challenges us to question the assumptions we make about about society's outliers and reminds us of how the stories we tell can help us to understand and perhaps change the world.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1375296-the-flight-of-bryan

A rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family traditions ensue.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1073650-christmas-eve-in-miller-s-point

A documentary showcasing a group of young Maori musicians and their rise to fame, along with the struggles that come from success at a young age.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1176606-alien-weaponry

Original title (JP): 化け猫あんずちゃん (Bakenekoanzuchan, Monster cat Anzu-chan)

Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1030588

An American cycling team trains at a remote European lodge. Teammates start dying mysteriously. Rivals Connor and Greg battle to survive and uncover the cause behind the team's demise.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1378771-trapped-inn

Three detectives follow the trail of a copycat serial killer to an abandoned insane asylum, and find they've been lured there by something evil.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1308310-wicked-season

Native folklore says the Lady of the Lake will take any man who enters her domain. A young Native American woman, grieving the loss of her brother in the lake, is determined to uncover its secrets.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1319651-the-lady-of-the-lake

A Brooklyn wife and mother of 5 who's been beset by supernatural entities since the age of 11, attempts to rid her house of malevolent spirits now afflicting her children.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1107574-it-s-coming

A 19th-century widow (Odessa Young) is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/850439-the-damned

A true-crime junkie must determine which of the three guys she’s dating is her fuckboy, which is marriage material, and which is the killer who wants to murder her.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1200801-f-marry-kill

Two college freshmen (Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga) who decided to stick with their high school sweethearts have to pull a 'Turkey Dump' and break up with them over "Drunksgiving"—the one chaotic night before Thanksgiving in their hometown that puts their codependent friendship to the test.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/999890-sweethearts

When a spy's secret lover is killed, an assassin is assigned to protect her life as she investigates the murder. Together they uncover a vast interconnected conspiracy that leads them to question the cost of their moral choices.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/225385-black-doves