Portobello 196

6.3

Into the Night

October 2019 •English

A yuppie seeks help from two townspeople in finding his wife and daughter, during a blizzard storm. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

0.0

Erica

September 2016 •Norwegian

Erica has a secret relationship to the married Sebastian. When his wife Liv finds out, she decides to confront Erica over an evening of gin and tonics. Erica is soon being pushed to question what things in life are worth fighting for.

6.0

Pepper

November 2014 •French

The painful awakening of a couple after an evening of fantasies ...

0.0

The Morphable Man

January 2018 •English

Adio is a young man able to control a condition that causes his involuntary transformation into objects based on his emotions until he meets Sophie.

8.0

Our Problems

August 2004 •French

While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?

0.0

First Day in the Grave

May 2017 •English

A student movie loosely based on the short story by Sadegh Chubak

6.7

The Quiet

July 2019 •English

In the midst of a deadly outbreak, a man returns home in search of family.

0.0

Pulse

June 2019 •English

A desperate mother, who suffers from a mental breakdown due to her husband's death in Orlando nightclub shooting, struggles with the relationship between her son and his swimming coach.

0.0

Romie-0 and Julie-8

April 1979 •English

Two rival robotics companies in the future release their latest creations at a robotics convention, claiming each to be the latest and greatest in technological advances. Mega Stellar Company's release is a robot boy named Romie-O, while Super Solar Cybernetics has released a girl robot named Julie-8. Unforeseen to each of the company's creators, is how each of the advanced robots soon falls in love with the other.

0.0

Into the Thicket

July 2023 •English

A young woman struggles with her fractured home life, failing to find common ground with her volatile yet emotionally repressed mother. Longing for a maternal figure, she continues to be haunted by visions of a mystical woman, and soon, dream intertwines with reality as she discovers a deeper connection to the mysterious lady of the woods.

0.0

Diwa

June 2018 •English

An unflinching look at the plight of immigrants victimized by violent crimes and the obstacles they face as they seek justice - told thru the eyes of one victim.

8.0

Abigail

March 2021 •English

A lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstances surrounding her death. When he visits her grave, he encounters a little girl who shows him the path to healing and fills him with hope.

7.5

I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again

October 2016 •French

A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls madly in love with an H+.

0.0

Lioness

October 2019 •German

11-year-old Leo has to deal with her depressive father while secretly falling in love with her best friend Isabell. Slowly she realizes that she deserves to be free despite her father's illness.

6.2

Shabbat Dinner

June 2012 •English

Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn't have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay.

4.8

Butterflies Do Not Drink Coffee

August 2009 •French

Pierre is a very shy man in his sixties, with no family or friends and who just retired. What will he do now?

1.0

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again

August 1991 •English

A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.

4.0

Paseo por una guerra antigua

January 1949 •Spanish

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

7.0

Animal Control

March 2011 •English

Before Sammy, his best friends were stuffed animals. Larry, an eccentric amateur taxidermist, works for Animal Services picking up road kill along the highway. Socially isolated, he's retreated into an emotional state where his only companions are the animals he's stuffed.