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Model Citizen

Model Citizen

Crime · 2026

With his memories gone and his past a blur, ex-cop Steven Bay seeks treatment for his amnesia while working on an isolated farm. Instead, he's met with rising hostility, strange surveillance, and instincts he can’t fully control. When the pressure becomes unbearable, Bay begins a desperate hunt for the truth behind his fractured reality.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Adventure · 2026

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

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Resident Evil

Resident Evil

Horror · 2026

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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Heart of the Beast

Heart of the Beast

Adventure · 2026

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.

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Godzilla Minus Zero

Godzilla Minus Zero

Sci-fi · 2026

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant. There is no third time. Everything ends here.

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Other Mommy

Other Mommy

Horror · 2026

Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.

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Primetime

Primetime

Thriller · 2026

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

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The Mongoose

The Mongoose

Action · 2026

A falsely accused war hero with nothing to lose leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase, helped by members of his former Special Forces Army battalion and closely monitored by a fascinated public rooting for his safe getaway.

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Possible Love

Possible Love

Drama · 2026

Working-class An Mi Ok and Choi Ho Seok, who have been together since middle school and are the parents of a taciturn 10-year-old, are still reckoning with the fallout from Ho Seok’s firing from his factory job after a violently suppressed labor union strike. The well-off Lee Ye Ji, a documentary filmmaker, with her businessman husband, Sang-woo, has decided to make a movie about job layoffs and wants to make Mi-Ok and Ho-Seok her main camera subjects.

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Ebenezer

Ebenezer

Fantasy · 2026

An elderly miser embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come force him to confront his past and fight for a second chance at happiness.

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Ramayana: Rise of a Legend

Ramayana: Rise of a Legend

Fantasy · 2026

An ancient epic follows a young prince and princess whose marriage and subsequent exile mark the beginning of a legendary journey. Their story of love, duty and destiny sets the stage for greater challenges ahead.

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Wildwood

Wildwood

Animation · 2026

Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a murder of crows led by a mysterious woman named Alexandra.

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