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A Portuguese production, the psychological thriller horror movie Amelia’s Children had its premiere at the MOTELx Lisbon Horror Film Festival last year, then received a theatrical release in Portugal last month. Now Magnolia Pictures is gearing up to give the film a VOD and limited theatrical release in the US on March 1st – and with that date just one month away, we’ve got a trailer for Amelia’s Children embedded above.

Written and directed by Gabriel Abrantes, who previously made the comedy Diamantino with Daniel Schmidt, the film has the following synopsis: When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward...

If you’re in the mood for an ethereal blank slate of a movie that’s more about mood than movement, Infinite Sea (Mar Infinito) might be your ticket. It’s set in a gray dystopian future or alternate reality. A handful of characters remain in a largely abandoned city. The lights are still on, but hardly anyone is at home. Most have been selected for space travel to colonize other worlds light-years away. Nuno Nolasco stars as a young man who was rejected by whoever is picking the pilgrims, and now spends his life trying to hack into that system to create a spot for himself. He meets a waiflike woman (Maria Leite) who may or may not help him achieve that goal.

Though only 78 minutes, the film seems longer, as eerie music and barren surroundings dominate over words and deeds. The film’s tone is more melancholy than Kirsten Dunst’s Melancholia.