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Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
3) Tag
Publisher
New Line Turner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
4) Chevalier
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Greek
Description
In the middle of the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game to deem who among them is the overall 'best'. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the Chevalier.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The coolest SPYkids anywhere are back for a huge new adventure! Carmen and Juni are on a mission to recover a device that threatens the entire world! It is now up to the Cortez family to save the world from the evil scientist.
6) Existenz
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
During a demonstration of a new virtual reality game called eXistenZ, the system's designer is violently attacked. The action explodes as the world's real-life dangers begin to merge with the fantasy of the game.
7) Hellbender
Publisher
Shudder, RLJEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The gang is back, but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world2s most dangerous game.
9) Funny games
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what could be the last.
Language
English
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Description
When a group of rich 20-somethings get stuck at a remote family mansion during a hurricane, a party game ends with a dead body on the ground and fingers pointed everywhere. As they try to find the killer among them, fake friends and real enemies have to learn who to trust-and how to survive-in this fresh and funny Gen-Z meltdown.
12) The game
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in "The Game"--"a profound life experience" with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life."
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this continuation of the Spy Kids saga, Juni Cortez has now retired from being a spy and is trying to live a normal life, while Carmen is still with OSS. When his sister Carmen is trapped inside a groundbreaking new video game, the only way to free her is to enter the game's virtual world and make it to the highest level. Juni goes in to rescue her, and together, the Spy Kids battle through tougher and tougher levels of the game, overcoming challenges...
14) Free guy
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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Description
Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim. A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams, literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past, from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. If he hopes to win his true love, he...
16) The seventh seal
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Swedish
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
18) Punishment park
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a desert zone in California, a civilian tribunal sentences groups of dissidents and gives them the option of participating in law enforcement exercises in the Bear Montain National Punishment Park. Now these prisoners have to fight for their lives.
19) Braid
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Two wanted women decide to rob their wealthy yet mentally unstable friend who lives in a fantasy world they all created as children. To take her money, the girls must take part in a deadly and perverse game of make-believe throughout a sprawling yet decaying estate. As things become increasingly violent and hallucinatory, they realize that obtaining the money may be the least of their concerns.
20) Clue
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Mystery story based on the famous Parker Bros. game, including three surprise alternative endings.
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