Film Movement Plus - February 2025 Streaming Premieres

Semret is an Eritrean single mother who works at a local Zurich hospital and is studying to become a midwife. But when her now teenage daughter Joe begins to ask questions about her origins, she must confront the tragic memories of her past and relive her traumas as a refugee.

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, and Gong LI star in Chen Kaige's adaptation of Lilian Lee's epic novel set against the backdrop of the Peking Opera.

A steamy encounter with a new neighbor who has gone missing leads the recently unemployed Lucia to take on work as a cab driver in hopes of finding the man that reawakened her latent sexuality.

A depraved Sung Dynasty lothario, who already has one wife and three concubines, resorts to murder and bribery in order to satisfy his sexual whims and conquer the objects of his desire.

Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect the human manure from the outhouse. Okiku takes a special interest in Chuji.

Inside his secret workshop, a psychotic retired swordsman creates lanterns made from the human skin of his enemies’ sisters, mistresses and wives.

During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic, a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. Once only concerned with personal interests, he now must choose between freedom and taking a stand.

A jaded psychiatrist enters a menacing relationship of power, sex and betrayal with a woman he has begun to control through hypnotism.