The Fifth Quarter

Checkmate

May 2025 •Portuguese

When starting a chess game, João does everything he can to try to emerge victorious. During the game, strange things start to happen in your home. To try to understand what is happening, João will need to gather strength to defeat his biggest adversary: ​​himself.

Paycheck

December 2003 •English

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

Child's Play

May 1980 •English

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.

Dissociative

June 2015 •Portuguese

A young woman with a personality disorder is forced to fight for her life when she learns a killer is stalking her inside her apartment.

Alice Rose

September 2006 •English

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.

Oiled Up

September 2016 •English

Oiled Up is a heartfelt, fast-paced caper comedy about the reconciliation of brotherhood after a destructive family event, and a metaphor about the advancement of technology and its impact on an older generation, contrasting both the early baby boomers generation & the youth we know today. The story is told through Mike, the oldest brother of 3.

Smile

September 2021 •Spanish

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their desires.

The Uninvited

July 2014 •Korean

Jeong-tae, who was sleeping late, wakes up when his daughter brings a friend. But Jung-tae looks familiar to his daughter's friend. Jung-tae tries to get out of the house to avoid her. But he can't get out.

Blood on the Mountain

January 1974 •English

A story about friendship and forgiveness. Fury explodes high above the Royal Gorge in the spectacular Colorado mountains. Two fugitives run for their lives. A bitter cop seeks revenge for his wife’s death.

Fender

Invalid date •English

On the final night of summer, Annie is confronted by a relentless stalker—the embodiment of her deepest childhood fears. When her friends dismiss her concerns, Annie must contend with her anxieties and the unsettling truth.

The Kingdom of Doug

June 2013 •English

A devoted cult gathers in an ice-skating rink to mass suicide. All are complicit but one. At the eleventh hour a young woman called Josie begins to doubt her faith in Doug, her charismatic cult leader.

Boiling Point

March 2019 •English

During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant's flash façade.

The Last Light

January 2017 •Spanish

A girl finds a boy tied up in an abandoned house on her family's land.

The Black Virgin

February 2018 •Spanish

Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.

Jingle Bells

August 1996 •Dutch

A young motorist intending to do a good deed for a laryngectomy patient at a gas station winds up in a hell of a mess.

Still There?

November 2023 •English

Rhys flees to his garage as the report of a zombie virus hits the world. Trapped in his dark corner, gripping onto sanity, he hears the beckoning voice of a zombie on the outside.

If I Should Die Before I Wake

March 1952 •Spanish

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

Kerosene

August 2022 •Spanish

Two couples take their vehicles and hit the road. Through curves and straights the speed and heat increase. They go in opposite directions, faster and faster, closer and closer.

Провиденс

June 2020 •Russian

Insomnia

October 2018 •Chinese

A young man, alone in his room, is visited by a mysterious voice, who forces him to reveal the murder he committed.