Amped

The Chord of David

2024

Isaiah is a wanna-be rockstar who is granted knowledge of a sacred guitar chord from above. With this chord, he and his punk band, The Tips, quickly gain notoriety, leading Isaiah to become vain.

Identity

2003 · ★ 7.2

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Siew Lup

2017 · ★ 3.5

Mia, an ex-prostitute, is trapped in a loveless marriage with the abusive Quan (Sunny Pang, who also stars in Headshot in this year’s Festival lineup), a butcher who runs a roast meat shop. When she meets sensitive funeral director Wu, their passion for one another escalates into an affair. But the path to true love is fraught with jealousy, forcing someone to make a deadly move.

The Night of the Hunter

1955 · ★ 7.9

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Nothing But the Truth

1995 · ★ 10

A polygraph examiner has an affair with a murder suspect after her test clears him, but new evidence then suggests that he's guilty after all.

The Hands of Orlac

1924 · ★ 6.9

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

Tiger by the Tail

1970 · ★ 5.3

Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.

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A story about two girls, both living in their dreams, because they have no hope in their lives, their stories converge in a peculiar way.

Stop

1989

A disturbed young man fantasizes about massacres.

Baise-moi

2000 · ★ 4.8

Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!

Mr. Brooks

2007 · ★ 6.9

A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

88 Minutes

2007 · ★ 5.8

Famed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm enjoys a reputation as one of the most sought-after profilers around. His expert testimony has resulted in the conviction of many criminals, including serial killer Jon Forster. On the eve of Forster's execution, one of Gramm's students is murdered in a vicious copycat crime, and Gramm himself receives an ominous message informing him that he has less than 90 minutes to live.