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A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

A group of friends uncover an otherworldly object in a rural field, which they soon discover holds greater secrets than they could imagine.

Encounter is the story of a missing cat, an unhappy teenager, a lonely little girl, a single mum and a tramp. The tramp, invited by the little girl, comes into the family home at Christmas time and has an effect on each one of them. He has a surprising gentleness and wisdom that works to soften relationships between mother and daughters. And of course he has his own stories to tell, which unfold as the story develops.

A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a séance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away.

A woman is questioned by a mysterious man after the sudden disappearance of her brother to describe her encounter with an otherworldly phenomena she cannot explain…

The stop-motion animation is about a mischief boy adventuring in an unknown house and getting caught by the owner who lost her grandson in a car accident years ago. The intruder feels the grandma's sorrow, and tries to help her find peace of mind. The setting is based on the architecture of Suzhou, a historical water-town in Southern China.

Nella lives an extremely work-oriented life. It may have started as a dream career, but now it is taking the best of her. Her career stress, along with anti-anxiety pills and isolation, is eating into her mind and numbing her to life itself. One day, while on her way from one workplace to another, her tightly-scheduled life is shattered by a special encounter. Such an encounter triggers an explosion of emotions and sets all the dormant demons to ricochet inside her head. On the same sleepless night, she takes drastic measures.

After college, Via, who was sick met a man who took her home. However, Via did not know who the man was, so the next day she and her friends decided to find out who the man was.

A boy and girl, a hot July day, a railway station, an encounter.

Two disillusioned people have an encounter in a bar which may change the way they view their places in life.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

A metaphorical, coming-of-age story about a girl’s journey towards freedom and reclaiming her own voice. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Arctic Qu, Encounter presents a mysterious, dreamlike other-world where every element in this surrealistic adventure points at, dissects, and deconstructs the worldly reality we live by.

Two medieval knights defend their world when aliens arrive.

A young man crossing the park receives a strange proposition from an even stranger man. When he is unable to connect with his friends he reconsiders the offer.

A biker stops to investigate something on the side of the road. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Filmi Competition, 2013.

Sci-fi short film featuring Karen Boles as Cassie Martin, Chris Cashon as Brodie Martin, and Wofford Jones as an alien.

A voice draws two destined individuals together for a showdown, awakening 1/12-scale statues of the Nu Gundam and Sazabi, leading to a fierce battle inside the mall.

The hilarious sequel to the 1989 hit The Yuppie Fantasia, Brief Encounter in Shinjuku brings back Lawrence Cheng as a thirty-something Hong Kong yuppie finding misadventures in love and marriage. Leung Foon and Ann reunite after the events of The Yuppie Fantasia, but issues still exist. Ann works overtime to be a better wife, and Leung Foon attempts mightily to be a model, upright husband.

"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies, and vampires.

School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right.

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Shankar, a trigger-happy encounter specialist with a tragic past, is posted to Bokkapatnam village , to halt the illegal operations of the influential don Damodar, whose dream project is to build a power plant also with whom Shankar has a personal score to settle.

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

One of several 1970s documentaries on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFO), supporting the view that Earth is visited regularly by extra-terrestrial engines and aliens.

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder.

Jacob is stuck in a rut. Fogged out and depressed after a break up, he seeks a spiritual reset: trying DMT. His search leads him to South Pasadena, where he enlists the help of a spiritual healer named Laura. After being invited into her sacred temple it becomes clear that Jacob’s case of the blues may be a symptom of a bigger problem. Laura cleanses him with bells, sananga and other holistic divine healings. But, it is not enough. She discovers a great darkness in Jacob’s aura and urgently pleads for him to partake in a taboo ritual. Could this cure what ails him? Reluctant yet desperate, Jacob agrees to a ceremony that will leave him changed forever.

Ryoko becomes a reporter for a major newspaper after receiving a master's degree from Tokyo University's graduate program. While concealing her adult video acting experience during her university days, she spends her evenings frequenting "host clubs" with her friend. At the same time, she is in a stimulating relationship with boyfriend Rei. Ryoko seeks emotional balance, and despite feeling the contradiction between her day and night lifestyle, hopes to gain happiness in her life.

An emotionally reclusive Welsh man must spend a night with an outgoing Irish man after an awkward sexual encounter leaves one being stranded.

Neighbors quarrel over land. A mother and daughter's bizarre relationship. A bizarre encounter between a desolate young man and a monster. The struggle of a father who intuited the grim future of his son's generation. An unstable society, a fantastic thriller that summons anxious people.

In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.