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Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.

When faced with discharge, a psychiatric patient is ambivalent about returning to the real world.

A broken-down sheriff is forced to join forces with an obsessed Victorian vampire hunter to defeat an undead force consuming a small frontier town in 1892 New Mexico.

A paraplegic young woman on her way to university meets a sadistic serial killer, and must work to escape an cycle of torment.

Lilith wakes up to the perfect man-- or so he seems.

A man is confronted with his purgatory.

After seven years of confinement in a psychiatric hospital for being declared insane after murder, Kristen is released on supervised parole by her doctor. As part of her therapy, she is allowed to return to the house where she committed the murder. However, a stalker living in the neighborhood appears to have it in for Kristen...

A young man, William Hawthorne, gets drafted into a brutal war for the U.S. Once on the battlefield, William loses his squad after a deadly bombing and searches for salvation.

Grieving widower, Bernard, is approached by a spiritual healer and a voodoo high priest with an enticing offer to reconnect with his late wife, Sophia, in the afterlife. In the process, Bernard faces spirits, demons, and life-altering secrets.

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A woman wakes up to discover herself in a hospital room. She wanders the corridors before making a shocking discovery.

Jack, Bobby and Alex are on a dirt-biking vacation in the remote canyons of the Mojave south of Palm Springs, unaware that this part of the desert is the main route for illegal immigrants who are making a desperate run to the U.S. Riding alone out in this endless maze of canyons, miles from civilization, the three city boys stumble across the body of an illegal immigrant who has been shot to death. They soon encounter the killers: a couple of locals who have made a game out of hunting the desert-weary illegals. They quickly end up captured and imprisoned by these human predators and find themselves in a life-and-death struggle. Can their will to survive keep them alive long enough to escape purgatory?

Purgatory is defined as the condition or process of purification or temporary punishment in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven. A man stuck in Purgatory, cleaning his shirt as punishment for killing himself. A demon pays him a visit to remind him that the shirt is still dirty. Reminded by the demon, the man comes to witness his own death.

A man tries to stop a hit and run crime, but his efforts are in vain.

In Purgatory, young witch Jane Raimi accidentally opens the door to Purgatory while practicing forbidden magic, allowing a demon to escape and possess her unsuspecting babysitter. As chaos unfolds, Jane must confront her mistake and find a way to banish the demon before it spreads its dark influence. The short film weaves supernatural horror with a gripping tale of responsibility and redemption.

“Purgatory” is a visual short story that delves into the life of a man who finds himself stuck between here and the hereafter.

A young man suffers a ruthless death by the hands of his Father. What lies in the afterlife for this damned soul

A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college students become perpetrators of violent crimes. An elderly man falls victim to a police officer. A couple tries to repair their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.

A man wakes up in the middle of the street with no idea where he is or how he ended up there. Soon he is forced to confront the demons he is battling within before a gateway to the underworld unlocks the secret of Algea the God of Pain.

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.

The gates of Heaven & Hell have been broken and the afterlife is in ruins. One group of new arrivals must find a way to put things right to prevent an eternal battle between good & evil.

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944).

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.

The trippy and terrifying past of a psychedelic rock band comes back to haunt them at a remote mountain lodge.

The little asshole's grandfather, the old bag, has fallen into the coffin at a funeral and been buried alive. It's no surprise that instead of going to heaven, the old sack goes straight to hell. The little asshole and his dog Peppi, whom he inherited from Mrs. Mövenpick, try everything in their power to snatch the old bag from the clutches of the devil and do not shy away from dubious cloning techniques and black magic.

Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a young man who finds himself in the Inbetween, a mysterious realm between life and death, after his life is suddenly cut short. As he journeys through this liminal space, guided by a group of other young men, they confront what it means to be a Black boy in today’s society, weaving together a narrative of resilience and self-discovery, in order to ultimately empower each other to embrace empathy, mutual compassion and self-worth.

Ever since she was a little girl, Iris has wanted to be a filmmaker. For the last five years though, she's been trapped working in reality television, directing episodes for a series that's barely able to compete with Ghost Hunters. Iris sees her big chance to prove herself when she gets sent on assignment to her hometown of Black Falls, a small town harboring an abandoned insane asylum that has a dark history of excessive shock therapy. Filming inside the asylum brings back childhood memories for Iris, memories of sneaking into the asylum with her friends to shoot homemade horror movies. Little does Iris know, her life is about to imitate her art.

A woman's accidental death quickly leads to her waiting for the next life to begin.

Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him.

Aurora and Alba, inseparable friends, are very different from each other. One lives in compliance with the rules imposed by her parents, the other one is independent, free and tries to look mature for her age. One day Alba convinces Aurora to leave for a journey together, towards a secret and mysterious place.

Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times. The film goes off in too many directions, but generally delivers the goods laugh-wise. (Source: SWDB)

A former mercenary who runs an air-transport service gets caught up in political intrigue.

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The dogma who escapes the freakshow will find out that the world can be an even worst scenary, while a lone cowboy searching for his lost love will fight his demons...

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his relationship with the loved ones who have inspired his art.

Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won't be as simple as they'd hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must believe in the power of their desire and support of their loved ones. If they can do that, miracles will happen…

A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.

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