A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot outs.

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence (or 'yang element')...

Legendary producer, author and gifted raconteur Joe Boyd has created a unique event: a narrated journey through the world's music. Based on his new book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, he has assembled rarely-if-ever-seen clips showing Kate Bush with Bulgaria's Trio Bulgarka, Taj Mahal with kora great Toumani Diabaté, Ravi Shankar with George Harrison, Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ivo Papasov, Django Reinhardt, Carmen Miranda, Dizzy Gillespie and many more.  Boyd shows how personalities, events and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio were as colourful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And moreover, how jazz, rhythm & blues and rock'n'roll would never have happened if it weren't for the melodies and rhythms emanating from over the horizon.

The complex and revolutionary music and lyrics of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, the glam rock powerhouse behind “Bang a Gong (Get it On)” and other iconic songs. Featuring archival performances and interviews with Elton John, Ringo Starr, and David Bowie, plus filmed musical interpretations by artists such as Nick Cave, John Cameron Mitchell, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, U2, and Father John Misty.

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

25th Anniversary! A look at San Francisco's modren dance pioneers, from the 1960s on. Under the guidance and spirit of matriarch Anna Halprin, who began staging counter-culture dance happenings in the 1950s, the local dance scene grew to include a great variety of performative styles and experimental dance troupes.

BAICFF a Playdate for the ImaginationTM is where education and imagination collide. The festival offers families a cinematic view of the world’s varied cultures and traditions. The films inspire curiosity and conversation, and allow children to experience a wide range of cultural perspectives. The Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival began as a creative community event to support education programs that foster global understanding and cultural exchange. Between 2009 to 2021 BAICFF produced 13 annual festivals and presented over 500 family-friendly films of high artistic value from around the world, and held workshops for nearly 900 children designed to introduce kids to the world of animation and live-action filmmaking. With our new partnership with The Roxie Theatre we are hoping to reestablish BAICFF as the premiere Children’s Film Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area! 1. Slave of the Rave - Directed by William Garratt, UK, 2 mins 40s Music worlds collide! A short animated comedy about how an audience reacts to different types of music. 2. The Sled – Belchonok i sanki Directed by Olesya Shchukina, 4 mins 19s, Russia The little squirrel finds something he has never seen before. 3. If I Were God - Directed by Cordell Barker, Canada, 8 mins What would you do if you were 12 and suddenly found yourself charged with God-like powers? Would you use them for good? For bad? Perhaps a little of both? 4. Mo’s Bows - Directed by Jennifer Treuting and Kristen McGregor USA 6 mins 19s Most sixth-graders count their accomplishments in terms of trophies and medals, but not Moziah Bridges: he tracks his achievements by the number of bow ties he has sold. 5. Luki and the Lights - Directed by Toby Cochran, USA,11 mins 2024 LUKi, a charming and upbeat robot known for living life to the fullest, is diagnosed with the life-altering disease ALS. He must choose how to face life going forward. * *Q&A after the shorts program with Director Toby Cochran and Producer Adrian Ochoa 6, Dot - Directed by Will Studd and Ed Patterson, 2 mins, UK A microscopic character battles the perils of being small using the materials at hand and her wits. followed by - Making of Dot - 5:36 See how Aardman made this teeny tiny film. Noted in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tiniest character animated short ever. 7. My Mom is an Airplane by Yula Aronova, 7 mins, Russia A young boy imagines his mother to be an airplane traveling to exotic lands. 8. Negative Space Directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, 5 mins 30s, France My dad taught me how to pack. 9. My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts directed by Torill Kove, 10min 05s, Canada 1999 This Oscar®-nominated animated film comes from Oscar®-winning filmmaker Torill Kove (The Danish Poet). It’s a tall tale about her grandmother’s life in Oslo, Norway, during World War II. 10. The Night Boots by Pierre-Luc Granjon, 13 min, France 2025 *Winner Audience Award Annecy 2025 While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots.

BAICFF a Playdate for the ImaginationTM is where education and imagination collide. The festival offers families a cinematic view of the world’s varied cultures and traditions. The films inspire curiosity and conversation, and allow children to experience a wide range of cultural perspectives.The Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival began as a creative community event to support education programs that foster global understanding and cultural exchange. Between 2009 to 2021 BAICFF produced 13 annual festivals and presented over 500 family-friendly films of high artistic value from around the world, and held workshops for nearly 900 children designed to introduce kids to the world of animation and live-action filmmaking. With our new partnership with The Roxie Theatre we are hoping to reestablish BAICFF as the premiere Children’s Film Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area! 1. Graveyard Jamboree with Mysterious Mose Directed by Screen Novelties, 5 mins, USA. Dead Pirate Mysterious Mose has a rousing bone-yard bash! 2. Lego Adventure in the City by Rogier Wieland, 3 mins 17s, The Netherlands, A snake has to save his city from “the grey”! It is better then the Lego Movie because it is all real! Followed by - The Making of Lego Adventure in the City -3′ See behind the scenes of how Lego Adventure in the City was made. You won’t believe how many Legos they had to use! 3. Odd Dog by Keika Lee, 4,30 min, USA Watch as the cat entertains the boy with his crazy dog-like antics to win the boy over and see if the two end up becoming best friends.* *Q&A with director/producer Keika Lee after the shorts program 4. Bottle by Kirsten Lepore, 5 mins, USA The story of two unlikely penpals: one a mound of sand, the other a pile of snow. 5. Persevere: The Wilma Rudolph Story * wrote and preformed by kids *by Lisa Rossi and Tony Saxe, 10’ mins 54s, USA The students of one second grade class at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, CA share the journey of Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph. 6. Nube directed by Christian Arredondo Narváez & Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, 7 mins 30s Mexico 2024 Noma, a puffy white cloud realises that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely. 7. Pigeons directed by Zazie Capobianco, 2 mins 52s UK 2025 Did you know there is no difference between pigeons and doves? Well you will, and much more, in this light hearted animated documentary about our ubiquitous avian neighbor. 8. ( Notes on ) Biology Directed by Danny Madden, 5 mins 41s USA A bored high-school student turns his biology notes into a wildly adventurous flipbook. 9. CARDBOARD directed by J.P Vine 8 mins 5s UK 2025 A single dad fears he’s failed his family but his kids create an imaginative game, and Dad has a choice: dwell in the past or join them on their intergalactic adventure. 10. Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella, 6 mins, Argentina In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things. 11. Éiru by Giovanna Ferrari, 13 min Ireland, 2024 Cartoon Saloon’s latest short - When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it.

This International Dog Day, celebrate our canine friends with San Francisco Film Preserve’s dog-centric program. Premiering their new 4K restoration of Black Lightning starring Clara Bow and Thunder the Marvel Dog, the program will be accompanied live by composer Wayne Barker. The feature will be preceded by the short film The Love Fighter, which also features a four-legged hero!

From pushy bottoms to macho femmes, Bloodsisters is an A-Z documentary guide that takes an in-depth look at the San Francisco Leatherdyke scene during the mid-nineties.

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend a young man is accosted by a local gang member. Later, the three friends administer justice, in the process of which the gang member is killed, so they leave Hong Kong to avoid the police and the gang. They run black market supplies to Saigon and get embroiled in the war, being arrested as Viet Cong, then later captured by the Viet Cong, and find that their friendship is tested to the limits as they try to escape.

CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. CatVideoFest is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area. We are committed to raising awareness and money for cats in need around the world. A percentage of the proceeds from each event go to local animal shelters and/or animal welfare organizations. Since 2019, over $150,000 has been raised for local shelters in addition to adoptions, fostering, volunteer sign-ups and much more at shows. By focusing our fundraising efforts on behalf of local shelters and organizations, we’re able to divert money and attention directly to the places and causes that need it most. We trust local people working on behalf of cats to know and understand the problems that need to be solved. The 75-minute-reel of cat videos is family-friendly and can be enjoyed by anyone. The wide demographic appeal allows for it to be shown in virtually any type of setting - from museums to theaters to outdoor festivals and beyond. This flexibility means there are almost no limits to where CatVideoFest can go!

Adapted from actress and musician Cristiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, Cristiane F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Cristiane (Natja Brunckhorst) begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother (Christiane Lechle) and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev (Thomas Haustein), whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked. Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side.

Ko Chow is about to resign from the police force when he is asked to take on one more case. He is to go undercover in a gang that is robbing jewellery stores. He accepts the task and successfully infiltrates the gang. It is a very dangerous mission, not just because the gang might discover his true identity but because many of the police suspect he may well be a criminal.

Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

After John Haloran (Peter Read) dies, his wife, Louise (Luana Anders), fears that she will be denied his inheritance. Fabricating a story about John traveling to the United States, she joins the rest of the Haloran family at their Irish estate as they hold a memorial for John's sister, who died in a lake eight years ago. Louise schemes to convince Lady Haloran (Eithne Dunne) that she can speak with the dead child. However, this plan is interrupted by an axe murderer loose on the estate.

Flying cows, mysterious gods and lyrical pandemonium: Don Hertzfeldt has made Animation Mixtape just for you. The dazzling 85-minute program features 12 exciting, animated shorts from up-and-coming filmmakers, Academy Award nominees and classic pieces that originally inspired Don to start making his own iconic work. Including a new animated introduction from Don and never before seen work from famed underground animator Bruce Bickford.

Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential. As they debate whether to publish it, Johanne navigates the gap between her romantic fantasy and reality, and all three women confront their differing views on love, sexuality, and self-discovery. DREAMS (SEX LOVE) is part of the SEX-LOVE-DREAMS trilogy of director Dag Johan Haugerud.

San Francisco, CA — Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Theater are proud to present a special screening of Drugs in the Tenderloin, Robert Zagone’s groundbreaking 1967 documentary that captures a pivotal era in the city’s history with unflinching honesty and street-level intimacy. Director Robert Zagone in attendance for a post-film Q&A moderated by the Tenderloin Museum. Shot in 1966 on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Drugs in the Tenderloin is a visceral time capsule of a community on the edge—where young queer people, sex workers, drug users, and local organizers navigated life in a neighborhood often dismissed or demonized. Originally aired only once on public television in 1967, the film was lost for decades before being rediscovered in 2015 by the Tenderloin Museum. Since then, it has played to sold-out audiences and received renewed acclaim for its raw power and cultural significance.

Join Betty Boop & Friends for a block of classic Fairy Tales on the big screen with brand new digital restorations from the legendary Fleischer Studios. Program: 1. Dizzy Red Riding Hood 2. Poor Cinderella 3. Mother Goose Land 4. Koko Lamps Aladdin 5. Betty in Blunderland 6. Popeye - Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp 7. Snow White

Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly.

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

After being brutally dumped, 17-year-old Sydnie discovers she is pregnant. Seeing this as an opportunity to get her ex back and give her life direction, she decides to keep the baby. She soon realizes that this won’t be the quick fix she had hoped for and finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle and totally lost.

A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.

Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from those closest to him offer a portrait of the captivating singer.

A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

After 23 years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead, Pilar hires more help, throwing Raquel into a jealous frenzy.

Director Joe Hill in attendance for a Q&A! When Russia invaded, the women of Ukraine's leading contemporary dance group struggled to find purpose in their work. A search for new forms of resistance ultimately led them back to dance. From Executive Producer Misty Copeland and Director Joe Hill comes a documentary about resilience and a group of artists clinging to their sense of purpose despite the worst circumstances.

Exploring the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, a filmmaker takes a vulnerable, personal look at her community revisiting their unexamined past.

Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

One fall day in 2018, Ellen Jovin set up a folding table on a Manhattan sidewalk with a homemade sign that said “Grammar Table.” Right away, passersby began excitedly asking questions, telling stories, and filing complaints. What happened next is the stuff of grammar legend. Ellen and her filmmaker husband, Brandt Johnson, took the table on the road, visiting all 50 US states as Brandt shot the grammar action. The media went into a tizzy and people from every imaginable background visited the table to share a laugh, settle disputes, and talk about their grammar insecurities. These conversations took place in small towns and big cities, by bookstores and coffee shops, on beaches and mountainsides.

Join the San Francisco Community Land Trust for a powerful evening of film, conversation, and community at the Roxie Theater. We’re proud to present Reclaiming Home, a one-night event featuring a screening of Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square, an inspiring documentary that chronicles one of the most successful community ownership and anti-displacement battles in New York City history. Through rare archival footage and first-person accounts, Rabble Rousers tells the story of organizers who stopped a top-down urban renewal plan and created a model for permanently affordable housing that endures to this day.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Pow! Director: Joey Clift (Cowlitz) An animated comedy short about a young Native American kid scrambling to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow. Runtime: 8 mins Witness Directors: Radha Mehta and Saif Jaan A revered small-town imam faces a crisis of faith when he must choose between upholding the values of his mosque or protecting the safety and spiritual belonging of a trans man congregant. Runtime: 14 mins 18s TWO SHIPS Director: McKinley Benson While working opposite schedules, a couple attempts to maintain their connection through fleeting encounters. Runtime: 7 mins There Will Come Soft Rains Director: Elham Ehsas Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground. Runtime: 14 mins 47s FLIGHT 182 Director: Rippin Sindher Before 9/11, Air India Flight 182 was the deadliest act of aviation terrorism in the world. Based on true events, FLIGHT 182 is a heart-wrenching drama about an immigrant father caught between love, duty and the threat of political violence, as he must choose between visiting his dying mother one last time or heeding warnings from a separatist group openly seeking revenge against the government. Runtime: 16 mins 48s Wild Horses at the Door Director: Carrie Lederer Runtime: 39 mins 56s

Two men, both in heterosexual marriages, have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity. One has a sexual encounter with another man, without considering it either an expression of homosexuality or infidelity, and discusses it with his wife afterwards. The other finds himself in nocturnal dreams here he is seen as a woman, stirring confusion and leading him to question how much his personality is shaped by the gaze of others.

This curated program of short films made from San Francisco-centric footage includes famous neon-lit scenes from feature films and home movie clips. A featured presentation will be “hot of the scanner” found footage of the city’s lost neon landscape compiled and edited by Megan Prelinger of the Prelinger Archive. An official event of the Neon Speaks Festival, produces and hosted by Al Barna and Randall Ann Homan of SFNeon.org. In proud partnership with the Roxie Theater and the Tenderloin Museum.

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

Hayao Miyazaki’s ninth feature film follows a 10-year-old girl named Chihiro whose parents get lost when moving to their new home. Unknowingly they all enter a magical world that Chihiro’s father insists on exploring. Arguably the greatest movie by Studio Ghibli, do not miss haunting coming of age tale.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side. Starring Toshiro Mifune, as the rookie cop, and Takashi Shimura, as the seasoned detective who keeps him on the right side of the law, STRAY DOG (NORA INU) goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.

A juried open-call-instigated program of shorts by SFAI alumni, preceded by films by the jurors and a special program of Gunvor Nelson films: the seldom screened collage/animation Field Study #2 and her ever-mesmerizing Moons Pool. One ticket for all programs.

In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins. Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. SUDAN, REMEMBER US bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.

Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and teaching separate, but he sometimes corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score. He cruises constantly, and one evening, he meets Bernd. They become lovers. While Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways. For how long will Bernd and Frank tolerate each other's habits, and for how long can Frank keep his sexual orientation out of the classroom? Things come to a head during Berlin's annual Queen's Ball and the morning after.

Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.

The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de . . . (Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls’s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel employs to ravishing effect the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned.

San Francisco faces a devastating homeless crisis. Moved to act, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun, a family physician, chronicles the stories of his homeless neighbors in the Tenderloin and other areas of San Francisco. “Fog,” a stunningly fresh short documentary (14 minutes), is nothing short of inspirational. This film showing is part of “Hope Lives Here: The Tenderloin Speaks,” a fundraiser for The Healing WELL, a wellness and leadership development center in the Tenderloin. In addition to the film, renowned journalist Kevin Fagan will speak about his award-winning book, "The Lost and the Found." This will be followed by a brief discussion with Tenderloin leaders and a private reception.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.

A Hong Kong hitman accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help her regain her sight but he needs to complete one more hit first. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape: someone wants him dead. Meanwhile a resourceful, unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail.

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.