Category 2023

The Whale

In A Baleia, we follow an English teacher and his fragile relationship with his daughter, Ellie. Charlie (Brendan Fraser) is a reclusive English professor living with severe obesity and battling a binge eating disorder. He teaches online, but he always leaves his webcam turned off, afraid of his appearance. Despite living alone, he is cared for by his friend and nurse, Liz (Hong Chau). Even so, he is alone, living daily only with guilt, for abandoning Ellie (Sadie Sink), his now teenage daughter who he left with her mother Mary (Samantha Morton), when she fell in love with a man. Now, he will seek to reconnect with his teenage daughter and repair his past mistakes...

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Marlowe

Private investigator Philip Marlowe’s (Liam Neeson) business goes awry when the beautiful Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger) lights up his run-down office with her face. She has a mission: her lover Nico Peterson (François Arnaud) has disappeared without a trace and Marlowe must find him. A job comes in handy for the detective and he’s never been able to refuse a wish from a mysterious beauty. He also fell in love with the black-eyed blonde right away. So he throws himself into the middle of the quest, and thus once again right in the middle of big trouble...

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Scream VI

Sam (Melissa Barrera), Tara (Jenna Ortega), Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad (Mason Gooding) have had enough. After surviving Ghostface’s final massacre in Woodsboro, the four unceremoniously move to New York. There, the two brothers want to start a new life, so to speak, and leave the small town and its traumatic experiences behind. But the damn killer with a ghost mask and a sharp blade can’t be shaken so easily, because he suddenly appears in the Big Apple too. On the street, on the subway, in the supermarket – seemingly everywhere he takes advantage of the hustle and bustle of the big city to disappear into the crowd as quickly as he appeared before. And although Sam, Tara, Mindy and Chad already know the killer, this time they can’t rely on his experience...

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Air

AIR: The Story Behind the Logo is based on the incredible true story of head of Nike sportswear and footwear brand Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) and Nike founder Phil Knight (Ben Affleck). Both are trying to make the brand one of the most famous in the world, and write their names in history. The pair then try to get basketball legend Michael Jordan to endorse their products, way back in the 1980s. The film follows the tireless efforts of the two Nike members to achieve their dreams...

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Shazam! Wrath of Gods is the sequel to the first film of the hero that presents the adventures of the orphaned teenager Billy Batson (Asher Angel). Just shout one word – SHAZAM! – so that the young man becomes the adult superhero Shazam (Zachary Levi), a gift he received from an ancient wizard. A boy inside a hero’s body, Shazam revels in his superpowers and begins to test the limits of his abilities, even as he needs to master these powers quickly to fight the forces of evil. In this new adventure, bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his companions are still learning to reconcile their teenage life with the alter egos of adult superheroes...

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The Pope’s Exorcist

Inspired by the real archives of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican. The priest performed more than 100,000 exorcisms in his lifetime and passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. Amorth wrote two memoirs – An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories – and detailed his experiences battling Satan and demons that gripped and possessed people with their evil...

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Mario is a film based on the video game series, Super Mario Bros, by Nintendo. In Super Mario Bros. – The Movie, Mario (Chris Pratt) is a random plumber in the neighborhood of Brooklyn along with his brother Luigi (Charlie Day). One day, Mario and Luigi go to the Mushroom Kingdom, ruled by Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), but threatened by the King of the Koopas, Bowser (Jack Black), who will do anything to reign everywhere. That’s when Luigi is kidnapped by Bowser and uses him to look for Mario, the only one capable of stopping the Koopa and restoring peace. Mario will have to learn how to live in this dangerous new realm, going through several biomes, learning how to drive cars, using items that make him release fireballs from his hands, turning into an animal and walking on unreliable platforms...

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Drive My Car

In Drive My Car, adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami, the film follows two lonely people who find the courage to face their past. Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a successful theater actor and director, married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), a very beautiful woman, but also a screenwriter with many secrets, with whom he shares his life, his past and artistic collaboration. When Oto suddenly dies, Kafuku is left with many unanswered questions of his relationship with her and regret at never being able to fully understand her. Two years later, still unable to get out of mourning, he accepts directing a play at the theater in Hiroshima, boarding his precious Saab 900 car. There, he meets and has to deal with Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a young chauffeur, with you have to leave the car...

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Corsage

In Corsage, Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and known for setting fashion trends. But, in 1877, the Empress turns 40 and is officially considered old...

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The Offering

A family struggling with loss finds itself at the mercy of an ancient demon trying to destroy them from within. Offering to the Devil is a story loosely based on Jewish folktales that follows the story of Art (Nick Blood), a man who, desperate to pay off his debts, tries to manipulate his father into selling the family business, a funeral home. It doesn’t seem like a difficult task, but soon the differing beliefs and superstitions between him and his father will put everything he believed in on a tightrope. One night, while tending the body of a deceased, he inadvertently releases an ancient demon that has taken hold of the souls of children and now has its sights on his pregnant wife (Emily Wiseman)...

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