Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978) is a French filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough slasher film High Tension (2003) before making the transition to American films with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He has gone on to direct other notable horror films such as Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013), Crawl (2019), Oxygen (2021) and Never Let Go (2024).

  • Title: Alexandre Aja
  • Popularity: 0.8566
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1978-08-07
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • Also Known As: Alexandre-Jouan Arcady, Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, Alexandre Jouan, Alexandre Jouan Arcady, Alexandre Juan, 알렉산드르 아야
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Alexandre Aja Movies

  • 2013
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    Maniac: The Making of Documentary

    Maniac: The Making of Documentary

    1 2013 HD

    Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.

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  • 1989
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    Brothers in Arms

    Brothers in Arms

    6.7 1989 HD

    Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.

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  • 2022
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    Under the Stars

    Under the Stars

    5.8 2022 HD

    Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – this heartfelt documentary captures efforts to preserve these nostalgic theaters in small-towns across the country.

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  • 2017
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    Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

    Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2010
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    Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies

    Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies

    1 2010 HD

    In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about our politics, about ourselves? Why such a revival of horror today?

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  • 2019
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    Beyond Blood

    Beyond Blood

    1 2019 HD

    High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left huge impact around the world. This movement is called New Wave of French Horror. This film explores the meaning and hidden secrets of this significant movement.

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  • 2010
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    French Meat

    French Meat

    5.3 2010 HD

    Documentary on the rise of New French Extremism.

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  • 2013
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    Du sang sur la neige

    Du sang sur la neige

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2014
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    Why Horror?

    Why Horror?

    5.9 2014 HD

    Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.

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  • 2016
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    Fury of the Demon

    Fury of the Demon

    6.6 2016 HD

    An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.

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  • 2015
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    Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw

    Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw

    7 2015 HD

    Generations of movie fans have thrilled to Saw's blood-curdling story of a serial killer who traps his victims in a sadistic game of survival. Game Changer takes you behind the scenes, as cast and crew reveal the stories behind the film that launched the most successful horror franchise in movie history.

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  • 1983
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    Le Grand Carnaval

    Le Grand Carnaval

    5.5 1983 HD

    The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.

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  • 1982
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    The Big Pardon

    The Big Pardon

    6.2 1982 HD

    The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.

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  • 1992
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    The Big Pardon 2

    The Big Pardon 2

    5.8 1992 HD

    The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.

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  • 2024
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    Jaws, a Monstrous Success

    Jaws, a Monstrous Success

    6.3 2024 HD

    In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

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  • 2011
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    Don't Scream, Just Swim: Behind-the-Scenes of 'Piranha 3D'

    Don't Scream, Just Swim: Behind-the-Scenes of 'Piranha 3D'

    1 2011 HD

    Behind the scenes documentary of making the film Piranha 3D

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  • 2003
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    High Tension

    High Tension

    6.763 2003 HD

    Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

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  • 2006
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    The Hills Have Eyes

    The Hills Have Eyes

    6.457 2006 HD

    Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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  • 2006
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    The Hills Have Eyes

    The Hills Have Eyes

    6.457 2006 HD

    Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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  • 2008
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    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    6.3 2008 HD

    An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

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  • 2010
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    Piranha 3D

    Piranha 3D

    5.419 2010 HD

    Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

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  • 1999
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    Furia

    Furia

    5.3 1999 HD

    In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.

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  • 2007
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    P2

    P2

    6.2 2007 HD

    A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.

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  • 2008
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    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    6.3 2008 HD

    An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

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  • 2007
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    P2

    P2

    6.2 2007 HD

    A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.

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  • 2012
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    Maniac

    Maniac

    6.042 2012 HD

    As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

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  • 2003
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    High Tension

    High Tension

    6.763 2003 HD

    Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

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  • 1997
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    Over the Rainbow

    Over the Rainbow

    4.8 1997 HD

    An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants.

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  • 2012
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    Maniac

    Maniac

    6.042 2012 HD

    As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

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  • 1999
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    Furia

    Furia

    5.3 1999 HD

    In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.

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  • 2024
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    Never Let Go

    Never Let Go

    6.105 2024 HD

    As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

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  • 2024
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    Never Let Go

    Never Let Go

    6.105 2024 HD

    As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

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  • 2013
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    Horns

    Horns

    6.3 2013 HD

    In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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  • 2016
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    The Other Side of the Door

    The Other Side of the Door

    5.6 2016 HD

    Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.

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  • 2007
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    P2

    P2

    6.2 2007 HD

    A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.

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  • 2010
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    Piranha 3D

    Piranha 3D

    5.419 2010 HD

    Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

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  • 1997
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    Over the Rainbow

    Over the Rainbow

    4.8 1997 HD

    An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants.

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  • 2014
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    The Pyramid

    The Pyramid

    5.3 2014 HD

    An archaeological team attempt to unlock the secrets of a lost pyramid only to find themselves hunted by an insidious creature.

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  • 2016
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    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    6.4 2016 HD

    A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

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  • 2013
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    Horns

    Horns

    6.3 2013 HD

    In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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  • 1970
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    Smart House

    Smart House

    1 1970 HD

    A family in the witness protection program placed in the custody of a state of the art, autonomous 'smart house'. When a group of assassins locates the family, the house goes into a lethal defense mode.

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  • 1970
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    Smart House

    Smart House

    1 1970 HD

    A family in the witness protection program placed in the custody of a state of the art, autonomous 'smart house'. When a group of assassins locates the family, the house goes into a lethal defense mode.

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  • 2016
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    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    6.4 2016 HD

    A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

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  • 2002
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    Break of Dawn

    Break of Dawn

    4.9 2002 HD

    An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.

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  • 2004
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    Mixed Marriage

    Mixed Marriage

    4.9 2004 HD

    A woman seeks the blessing of her wealthy father when she becomes engaged.

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  • 2014
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    24 Days

    24 Days

    6.6 2014 HD

    When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

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  • 2000
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    Return to Algiers

    Return to Algiers

    6.5 2000 HD

    Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

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  • 2019
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    Crawl

    Crawl

    6.321 2019 HD

    When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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  • 2017
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    47 Meters Down

    47 Meters Down

    5.806 2017 HD

    Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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  • 2023
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    The Blond Boy from the Casbah

    The Blond Boy from the Casbah

    5.2 2023 HD

    The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.

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  • 2017
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    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    7 2017 HD

    Long before written language, cinema or television, there were campfire stories. Youth scaring the living bejeezus out of each other on dark nights at summer camp is a tradition as rich and eternal as the earliest campfire tales.

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  • 2017
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    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    7 2017 HD

    Long before written language, cinema or television, there were campfire stories. Youth scaring the living bejeezus out of each other on dark nights at summer camp is a tradition as rich and eternal as the earliest campfire tales.

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  • 2017
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    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam

    7 2017 HD

    Long before written language, cinema or television, there were campfire stories. Youth scaring the living bejeezus out of each other on dark nights at summer camp is a tradition as rich and eternal as the earliest campfire tales.

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  • 2019
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    Crawl

    Crawl

    6.321 2019 HD

    When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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  • 1970
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    Crawl 2

    Crawl 2

    1 1970 HD

    Chaos is unleashed when animals from New York's Central Park Zoo escape during a violent storm, posing a new and unpredictable danger to survivors.

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  • 1970
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    Crawl 2

    Crawl 2

    1 1970 HD

    Chaos is unleashed when animals from New York's Central Park Zoo escape during a violent storm, posing a new and unpredictable danger to survivors.

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  • 2023
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    Night of the Hunted

    Night of the Hunted

    6 2023 HD

    When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.

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  • 1970
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    Mice and Mystics

    Mice and Mystics

    1 1970 HD

    The movie will be based on the Plaid Hat tabletop game, created by Jerry Hawthorne, which is a role-playing adventure following players loyal to the king who are imprisoned in a seaside castle and turned into mice by the evil Vanestra. They must fight their way out of the castle as they face dangerous foes including rats, cockroaches, spiders and the castle’s house cat, Brodie.

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  • 1970
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    Mice and Mystics

    Mice and Mystics

    1 1970 HD

    The movie will be based on the Plaid Hat tabletop game, created by Jerry Hawthorne, which is a role-playing adventure following players loyal to the king who are imprisoned in a seaside castle and turned into mice by the evil Vanestra. They must fight their way out of the castle as they face dangerous foes including rats, cockroaches, spiders and the castle’s house cat, Brodie.

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  • 2021
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    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    6.607 2021 HD

    A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

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  • 2021
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    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    6.607 2021 HD

    A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

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  • 2002
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    Break of Dawn

    Break of Dawn

    4.9 2002 HD

    An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.

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  • 2013
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    Rock the Casbah

    Rock the Casbah

    6.3 2013 HD

    The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.

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  • 2013
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    Rock the Casbah

    Rock the Casbah

    6.3 2013 HD

    The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.

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  • 2009
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    The Esseker File

    The Esseker File

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    The Esseker File

    The Esseker File

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    The Esseker File

    The Esseker File

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Flowers of Evil

    The Flowers of Evil

    1 1970 HD

    The story of Jeanne Duval and Charles Baudelaire's passionate relationship.

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  • 1970
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    The Flowers of Evil

    The Flowers of Evil

    1 1970 HD

    The story of Jeanne Duval and Charles Baudelaire's passionate relationship.

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  • 1970
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    Under Paris 2

    Under Paris 2

    1 1970 HD

    The sequel to the 2024 film. Plot TBA.

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  • 1970
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    Dead by Daylight

    Dead by Daylight

    1 1970 HD

    Planned feature film adaptation based on the hit horror multiplayer video game of the same name.

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  • 1987
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    Sacrée Soirée

    Sacrée Soirée

    5.1 1987 HD

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  • 2018
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    Vidéo Club

    Vidéo Club

    7.5 2018 HD

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  • 1970
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    Vidéo Club

    Vidéo Club

    1 1970 HD

    A beautiful high school girl who goes missing and pieces of her body are discovered scattered around a small town. But what starts out as a murder mystery turns into something even more horrific.

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  • 1970
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    Vidéo Club

    Vidéo Club

    1 1970 HD

    Through a series of never-before-seen home videos, police evidence and interviews, this documentary series examines the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of two police officers. But what motivated the lone suspect in the case, John Kyle? How did he avoid the police arrest for 8 years? And more importantly, can occult powers play a role in this mystery?

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