With revolutionary films, documentaries, music events and comedy specials for the next generation of film connoisseurs, SHOWTIME NEXT® serves up the unexpected, the extraordinary, and the best of what's "next".
You're Killing Me
Eden attends a coveted heaven and hell party, hoping to get a letter of recommendation to an elite university, but she finds herself in a fight for her life.
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor). Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
28 Weeks Later
Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless the U.S. Army declares the danger past, and American soldiers arrive to restore order and begin reconstruction. Refugees return to British soil, but one of them carries a deadly secret: The virus is not gone and is even more dangerous than before.
Keeping Company
Two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a stranger's basement.
Days of Heaven
A screen poem about life in America at the turn of the century. A story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive images of nature in 1916. A steelworker flees Chicago after a fight with his boss; he takes his little sister and girlfriend with him.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Marcel, a 1-inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother, Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When discovered by a guest amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans and a new hope of reuniting with his long-lost family.
Forrest Gump
Slow-witted Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother (Sally Field), he leads anything but a restricted life. Whether dominating on the gridiron as a college football star, fighting in Vietnam or captaining a shrimp boat, Forrest inspires people with his childlike optimism. But one person Forrest cares about most may be the most difficult to save -- his childhood love, the sweet but troubled Jenny (Robin Wright).
The Starling Girl
Jem Starling, a 17-year-old, struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.