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Animation · Hopeful tone · Happy ending

Grand Prix of Europe (2025)

Edda, a young mouse with dreams of racing glory, sees her world upended and assumes the identity of her idol, the legendary driver Ed, to claim a once‑in‑a‑lifetime spot in the Grand Prix. What begins as a bold stunt turns into the race of her life as she competes in Ed’s place, with the prize money promising to transform her future.

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Biography · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Christy (2025)

Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney) never imagined life beyond her small‑town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination and an unshakable desire to win, she dives into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager‑turned‑husband, Jim (Ben Foster), confronting personal and professional hurdles while balancing a tumultuous personal life as she fights to claim her place in the sport.

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Biography · Melancholic tone · Bittersweet ending

Peter Hujar's Day (2025)

The newly uncovered 1974 audio dialogue between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz provides a rare, candid look at New York’s downtown art world. Their conversation weaves together the cultural pulse of the era with Hujar’s personal struggles, artistic epiphanies, and the intimate dynamics that shape an artist’s life.

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Action · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Stone Cold Fox (2025)

Fox (Kiernan Shipka) escapes an abusive commune, only to have the queenpin (Krysten Ritter) kidnap her younger sister and enlist a crooked cop (Kiefer Sutherland) to hunt her down. Forced to return, Fox must infiltrate the very community she fled, navigating treacherous alliances while trying to rescue her sister and outsmart both the violent boss and the corrupt lawman.

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Drama · Bittersweet tone · Ambiguous ending

Humans in the Loop (2025)

A single mother from the Oraon tribe balances training AI systems and reconnecting with her roots, while her pre-teen son struggles to accept their new life away from the city.

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Crime · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Dorothea (2025)

A chilling true‑crime story that follows notorious serial killer Dorothea Puente, an elderly woman who preys on the vulnerable, murders with cold indifference, and hides her victims in her own garden. Her deceptive smiles mask a ruthless evil, leaving viewers questioning the true face of kindness.

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Biography · Bittersweet ending

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

After writing for the influential film journal Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean‑Luc Godard concludes that the most effective form of criticism is to make movies himself. He persuades the wealthy patron Claude Beauregard to finance a low‑budget feature and, together with fellow critic François Truffaut, drafts a treatment for a gritty gangster‑couple drama.

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Action · Tense tone · Happy ending

Baahubali: The Epic (2025)

Rescued as an infant and brought up in exile, a lost prince grows unaware of his royal lineage. When he reaches adulthood, he returns to his homeland to discover the truth behind his father's assassination and his mother's captivity, and must fight to claim his birthright as the true king and restore the kingdom.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Hallow Road (2025)

After a late‑night call from their teenage daughter, who has just struck a pedestrian, two parents rush to the scene, desperate to arrive before anyone else discovers it. As they drive deeper into the darkness, unsettling truths emerge, straining their bonds and hinting at a dangerous secret that could shatter the family.

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Thriller · Tense tone · Ambiguous ending

Safe House (2025)

After a terrorist strike decimates downtown Los Angeles, six government agents find themselves locked inside a high‑security safe house. As they work to hold out against the hostile forces outside, suspicion grows that one of their own may be a traitor, forcing them to confront threats from both sides.

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Animation · Whimsical tone · Happy ending

Lesbian Space Princess (2025)

A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.

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Animation · Whimsical tone · Happy ending

Stitch Head (2025)

Stitch Head, the first creature Erasmus barely brought to life, now tends the professor’s growing menagerie, teaching each beast to hide its inner monster and stay hidden in the castle away from the valley folk. When circus owner Fulbert Freakfinder offers him a starring role in a freak show, Stitch is lured by the promise of love and acceptance.

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Thriller · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Anniversary (2025)

Ellen and Paul (Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler) watch their world unravel when Ellen’s former student Liz (Phoebe Dynevor) returns and begins dating their son (Dylan O’Brien). As Liz embeds herself in the Taylor family, tensions flare and loyalties are strained. Her involvement in the controversial activist group “The Change” brings fresh conflict, forcing the family to confront both personal betrayals and larger moral questions.

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Comedy · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Bugonia (2025)

Obsessed with conspiracy theories, two young men kidnap the powerful CEO of a major corporation, convinced that she is an alien entity intent on destroying Earth. Their fanatic belief drives the abduction, setting the stage for a tense confrontation between radical idealism and corporate power.

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Biography · Melancholic tone · Bittersweet ending

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)

Chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska when he was on the brink of fame, wrestling with success and the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4‑track recorder in his New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a stark acoustic shift. The documentary blends interviews and archival footage, showing the tension between commercial expectations and his personal vision, capturing the record’s raw, haunting atmosphere.

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Animation · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)

Chainsaw Man slashes onto the big screen in an epic, action‑fueled adventure that continues the popular anime series. Denji worked as a Devil Hunter for the yakuza, trying to repay the debt he inherited from his parents, until they betrayed him and had him killed. As he slips toward death, the film ends on a cliffhanger, hinting at new conflicts.

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Drama · Bittersweet tone · Happy ending

Regretting You (2025)

The film follows the fraught bond between young mother Morgan Grant and her teenage daughter Clara, a tension heightened after the sudden, tragic death of Morgan’s husband Chris. As they grapple with grief and everyday obstacles, they are forced to confront their differences and learn to rely on each other.

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Horror · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Shelby Oaks (2025)

Years after her sister Riley’s mysterious disappearance, Mia receives a disturbing video that shows Riley alive but terrified. The recording draws her to the isolated community of Shelby Oaks, where each clue pulls her deeper into a tangled web of childhood memories and a lurking, malevolent force that had once been dismissed as mere imagination.

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Horror · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Dream Eater (2025)

While vacationing at an isolated cabin in the woods, a filmmaker records her boyfriend's increasingly violent episodes of parasomnia and sleepwalking. As his nocturnal behavior escalates, she becomes convinced that a darker, possibly supernatural force is behind the disturbances.

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Horror · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

The Elixir (2025)

Within a celebrated herbal‑medicine company, a deeply conflicted family struggles to keep the business afloat. When the owner pushes for a breakthrough, he brews an experimental elixir that unexpectedly unleashes a zombie outbreak, forcing the relatives to confront both the living threat and their own discord.

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Drama · Dark tone · Ambiguous ending

Hedda (2025)

Hedda (Tessa Thompson) is torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the suffocating quiet of her present life. Over one charged night, long‑repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt, pulling her and those around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion and betrayal. It is a contemporary reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler.

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Horror · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)

Suburban couple Caitlin and Miguel Morales hire the seemingly sweet nanny Polly to look after their newborn. As she settles in, her hidden agenda emerges, turning the household into a suspenseful battleground where her manipulations and threats horrify the family.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Frankenstein (2025)

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant yet selfish scientist, succeeds in animating a stitched‑together being through a grotesque experiment. The creature, desperate for acceptance, becomes a source of terror, and the obsessive quest for control drives both creator and his tragic creation toward inevitable ruin.

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Action · Hopeful tone · Happy ending

Good Fortune (2025)

Gabriel serves as a guardian angel for ordinary people. When he watches the hapless Arj, a handyman employed by wealthy socialite Jeff, hit rock bottom after his car is towed, Gabriel steps in. He tries to persuade Arj that swapping lives with Jeff and chasing wealth won’t solve his troubles.

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Horror · Tense tone · Happy ending

Black Phone 2 (2025)

Now 17, Finn wrestles with the aftermath of his captivity while his sister is haunted by a mysterious black phone that rings in her dreams, delivering unsettling calls and visions of three boys being pursued at the remote Alpine Lake winter camp.

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Biography · Melancholic tone · Sad ending

Blue Moon (2025)

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart sits in the famed Sardi’s bar, wrestling with a shattered self‑confidence while his former partner Richard Rodgers is reveling in the opening‑night celebration of his groundbreaking musical “Oklahoma!”. The contrast between Hart’s inner turmoil and Rodgers’ public triumph underscores the bittersweet atmosphere of that historic night.

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Animation · Whimsical tone · Happy ending

Pets on a Train (2025)

A crew of animal bandits sets out for a routine con, but the job quickly escalates into a sophisticated, high‑tech train robbery. With the locomotive turned into a runaway high‑speed threat, Falcon—a crafty raccoon thief—teams with Rex, a devoted police dog, to rescue the captive animals and thwart the heist.

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Crime · Bleak tone · Sad ending

The Mastermind (2025)

Set in a quiet Massachusetts town in 1970, the film follows JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter who has turned to stealing modest art pieces. He meticulously plans his first major heist, but the job collapses, sending his orderly life into chaos and forcing him to face the consequences.

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Animation · Whimsical tone · Happy ending

The Twits (2025)

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people on earth, and they run the hideous, dangerous, and absurd amusement park called Twitlandia. When the Twits seize control of their town, two courageous orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as cunning as the Twits themselves.

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Horror · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

The Astronaut (2025)

After her spacecraft crashes on Earth, a military General confines the astronaut to a secure quarantine facility for rehabilitation and experimental testing. As strange and unsettling phenomena begin to occur within the base, she becomes convinced that an alien presence has survived the crash and is now stalking her among the humans.

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Action · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

Good News (2025)

In 1970, a Japanese communist faction hijacks a commercial airliner, forcing it to fly to Pyongyang, North Korea. The enigmatic operative known only as “Nobody,” whose identity is unknown, is tasked by Park Sang‑hyeon, director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, to orchestrate a clandestine mission that ultimately secures a safe landing for the aircraft at a designated location.

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Drama · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (2025)

Set in the gritty nightscape of Manila, teenage runaway Zion encounters a tight‑knit community of queer street hustlers. As he navigates the city's seductive yet perilous nightlife, they guide him through a fierce, transformative journey of self‑discovery, confronting desire, danger, and identity.

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Action · Tense tone · Ambiguous ending

It Was Just an Accident (2025)

While working in his garage, Vahid is approached by a customer with car trouble and suddenly thinks he recognizes Eghbal, the officer who tortured him in prison. Consumed by thoughts of revenge yet plagued by doubt, Vahid and several fellow survivors launch a desperate investigation to uncover the truth. Their quest leads them into increasingly risky and absurd situations as they struggle to confirm they have the right man.

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Crime · Melancholic tone · Bittersweet ending

Ballad of a Small Player (2025)

Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) hides out in Macau, spending his days and nights on casino floors, drinking heavily and betting the last of his money. Burdened by rapidly mounting debt, he receives a lifeline from the enigmatic Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino employee who hides her own secrets. Their uneasy alliance pulls them deeper into the high‑stakes underworld, where trust is scarce and every gamble could be fatal.

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Horror · Dark tone · Bleak ending

Your Host (2025)

Four friends are thrust into a cruel, televised game where a twisted serial killer controls every move. As the relentless clock counts down, they must outwit him, solve deadly challenges and make harrowing choices that could lead either to a narrow escape or a gruesome end.

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Animation · Hopeful tone · Ambiguous ending

100 Meters (2025)

Togashi, a natural track star, wins every 100‑meter race as a child. In sixth grade he meets Komiya, a transfer student lacking technique. Teaching Komiya gives Togashi a new purpose: to win at any cost. Their rivalry pushes them toward national titles. Years later they stay linked, each pushing the other toward elite sprint competition.

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Action · Tense tone · Bittersweet ending

TRON: Ares (2025)

A highly sophisticated program named Ares is dispatched from the digital realm into the real world on a perilous mission, becoming humanity’s first direct encounter with an autonomous artificial intelligence. As Ares navigates the physical landscape, the film explores the clash between code and flesh, the ethical stakes of advanced A.I., and the looming consequences of a technology that can think and act beyond its creators.

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Crime · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

After the Hunt (2025)

A college professor (Julia Roberts) is forced to confront a personal and professional crisis when a top student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her colleague (Andrew Garfield) of misconduct, while a long‑hidden secret from the professor’s own past threatens to surface, putting her career and relationships at risk.

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Drama · Bittersweet tone · Bittersweet ending

Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)

Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, is paired with Molina (Tonatiuh), a flamboyant window dresser incarcerated for public indecency. Their unlikely companionship grows as Molina vividly recounts the storyline of an extravagant Hollywood musical starring his beloved silver‑screen icon, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez). The film is an adaptation of the acclaimed Tony‑winning Broadway musical.

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Biography · Dark tone · Bittersweet ending

Roofman (2025)

Based on an unbelievable true story, Roofman follows Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum), a former Army Ranger and struggling father who turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname Roofman. After escaping prison, he hides inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected and evading the authorities.

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