The Slate

Stranded in Berlin after chasing the wrong romance to the wrong city, an anxious American spends a fateful week falling for a fiercely independent street musician who has no interest in being anyone's tourist.

CompsLost in Translation meets Before Sunrise.

A young woman using a solo wilderness hike to outrun her own anxiety discovers, alone in the dark miles from help, that something is actually hunting her.

CompsThe Descent meets Fresh.

When a skeptical American mother travels with her husband and young son to sell his family's ancestral home in Vietnam, a terrifying childlike presence begins stalking the boy, forcing her to confront what the house has been hiding for fifty years.

CompsPan's Labyrinth meets The Orphanage, set against the Vietnam War.

The untold rise of a closeted, driven lawyer-turned-tabloid kingpin who built the paparazzi machine that redefined celebrity culture while hiding the one story he wouldn't let anyone break: his own.

CompsThe Social Network meets I, Tonya.

A single mother hustling three jobs in LA bets she can talk a burned-out movie star into finally making his long-buried passion project.

CompsHacks meets The Bear.

A gentle horse finds an unlikely family among a Hollywood stable's smallest, most overlooked animals — whose efforts to help their friend fit in accidentally make him a star.

CompsCharlotte's Web meets Peppa Pig.

A social-media influencer's jet-setting life is actually cover for her estranged father's underground mission returning Nazi-looted art to the families it was stolen from.

CompsThe Devil Wears Prada meets The Monuments Men.

When a mother's small rebellion against her family's phone addiction ends with every device in the house going up in flames, the family gets an unplanned, chaotic chance to remember how to actually be one.

CompsAmerican Beauty meets Black Mirror.

A resourceful Cajun teenager racing to save his family's home from foreclosure falls in with a ragtag fireworks crew, and has to out-hustle a wealthy landowner's insurance scam before it costs his family everything.

CompsStand By Me meets Logan Lucky.

A drifter with an almost otherworldly past returns to protect the family who raised him from a corrupt developer and a bought sheriff pushing his community out of their homes.

CompsNobody meets Minari.

Based on a true story: as Katrina drowns New Orleans, a hard-living Louisiana fisherman steers his boat into the flood to pull strangers from the wreckage, forcing him to finally show up for the family he never learned how to save.

CompsThe Impossible meets Beasts of the Southern Wild.

A decade after a beach day neither of them talks about, two people are forced to finally reckon with what really happened the summer they fell for each other.

CompsBlue Valentine meets The Way We Were.

When the newly sworn-in First Lady is shot and secretly replaced by a body double, the real woman must escape captivity and outrun her own government to expose the conspiracy that stole her identity, and the presidency.

CompsHomeland meets Salt.

A couple's discount cruise to save their marriage turns into a nightmare of rigid class lines and glittering illusions when the ship, literally, starts coming apart beneath them.

CompsTriangle of Sadness meets The Twilight Zone.

An off-grid father defends his family behind their hand-built electrified fence, until a supply run into a lawless town gets him captured by raiders, and back home, the fence goes dark.

CompsA Quiet Place meets The Road.

At a scrappy karaoke bar chasing a shot at the world championships, the bar's shy waitress and its heartbroken sound engineer find their voices, and each other.

CompsPitch Perfect meets Love Actually.