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💎BLEAK BUT BRILLIANT💎
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No Hollywood happy dappy here, just some f*cking great films.
This playlist is entirely subjective, and I’ll only include films I’ve actually watched. Having said that, I’m totally not into torture porn, or gratuitous hack n slash shite. But… If it’s on this list, I’ve watched it and think it has merit. That doesn’t mean I enjoyed them all, hahahaha… even though I did.😎

🛠 Still under construction…


Creator: Merrigan Able
Posted: 3 years ago
 
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Movie: A Monster Calls ( 2016 )
A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.
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Movie: Morgan ( 2016 )
A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.
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Movie: Complete Unknown ( 2016 )
This shape-shifting tale of the perils and pleasures of self-reinvention begins at a dinner party, when Tom's (Michael Shannon) co-worker arrives with an intriguing date named Alice (Rachel Weisz). Tom is convinced he knows her, but she refuses to acknowledge their history. And when Alice makes a hasty exit, Tom sets off after her. What follows is an all-night odyssey shared by two people, one needing to change his life, the other questioning how to stop changing.
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Movie: Alison ( 2016 )
When the going gets really tough, we need ordinary people of extraordinary strength and courage to jolt us into action and offer us hope. In December 1994 Alison Botha became such an individual. She needed a hero that night, so that's what she became.
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Movie: Elle ( 2016 )
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
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Movie: Pervert Park ( 2016 )
Pervert Park follows the everyday lives of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society.
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Movie: The Family Fang ( 2016 )
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
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Movie: The Sea of Trees ( 2016 )
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
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Movie: Mr. Right ( 2016 )
A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
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Movie: The Witch ( 2016 )
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
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Movie: Bone Tomahawk ( 2016 )
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
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Movie: The Hateful Eight ( 2015 )
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
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Movie: Concussion ( 2015 )
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
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Movie: Shelter ( 2015 )
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
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Movie: Room ( 2015 )
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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Movie: Dead of Winter: The Donner Party ( 2015 )
What starts as a call to the West quickly turns to a deadly journey for three families and their compatriots on a quest for the American Dream. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they fall prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, floods and ten foot snow drifts, and are eventually forced to turn on each other in order to survive. Using a hybrid, multi-media approach we set out to explore one of the most macabre and sensational stories in American history through first-person narration, dramatic reenactment, expert interviews, green screen, CGI, and archival materials. Through the scope of the landscape and the weather encountered, the audience will be brought closer to the emotional and mental anguish these settlers experienced in this timeless battle of Man vs. Nature.
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Movie: Secret in Their Eyes ( 2015 )
A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
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Movie: Remember ( 2015 )
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
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Movie: The Lobster ( 2015 )
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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Movie: Bridge of Spies ( 2015 )
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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Movie: Sicario ( 2015 )
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Movie: Hidden ( 2015 )
A family takes refuge in a bomb shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
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Movie: Z for Zachariah ( 2015 )
In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.
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Movie: Strangerland ( 2015 )
A family finds their dull life in a rural outback town rocked after their two teenage children disappear into the desert, sparking disturbing rumors of their past.
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Movie: Return to Sender ( 2015 )
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
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Movie: An Open Secret ( 2015 )
AN OPEN SECRET looks at the lives of children betrayed and abandoned by a system that essentially funnels them towards sexual predators without any oversight or regard for their safety. It documents not only these young peoples' experiences, but also how some have emerged stronger for their speaking out. It beg the questions of why children working in entertainment aren't afforded the same protections they are afforded at school, and argues for more effective treatment and stronger penalties for child sex offenders.
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Movie: Cleveland Abduction ( 2015 )
A single mother who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and sister to two other women who are taken captive by Castro.
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Movie: While We're Young ( 2015 )
A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
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Movie: True Story ( 2015 )
When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.
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Movie: Beyond the Reach ( 2015 )
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
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Movie: Child 44 ( 2015 )
A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
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Movie: Dark Places ( 2015 )
Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.
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Movie: Backcountry ( 2015 )
An urban couple go camping in the woods and find themselves lost in the territory of a predatory black bear.
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TV Show: Better Call Saul ( 2015 )
Better Call Saul is the prequel to the award-winning series Breaking Bad, set six years before Saul Goodman became Walter White's lawyer. When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and often against, Jimmy is "fixer" Mike Ehrmantraut, a beloved character introduced in Breaking Bad. The series will track Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts "criminal" in "criminal lawyer.
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Movie: Hungry Hearts ( 2015 )
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.
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Movie: Sunlight Jr. ( 2015 )
A Florida couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs.
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Movie: Foxcatcher ( 2014 )
U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.
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Movie: Interstellar ( 2014 )
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
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Movie: Escobar: Paradise Lost ( 2014 )
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
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Movie: Big Driver ( 2014 )
A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.
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Movie: A Good Marriage ( 2014 )
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
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Movie: Gone Girl ( 2014 )
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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Movie: Tusk ( 2014 )
A brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse... who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
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Movie: Force Majeure ( 2014 )
A family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
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Movie: Coherence ( 2014 )
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
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Movie: Lucy ( 2014 )
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Movie: Words and Pictures ( 2014 )
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
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Movie: Snowpiercer ( 2014 )
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
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Movie: The Rover ( 2014 )
Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naïve young man along as his unwitting accomplice.
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Movie: The Railway Man ( 2014 )
A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
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Movie: The Homesman ( 2014 )
Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
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Movie: Under the Skin ( 2014 )
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
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Movie: Bayou Blue ( 2014 )
From 1997 to 2006, serial killer Ronald Dominique raped and killed twenty-three men in poverty- stricken Southeastern Louisiana. Difficulties in apprehending Dominique ranged from the underfunding of law enforcement to a lack of family advocacy for the victims, to the general distraction by other catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina. Bayou Blue meditates on the decay of a community. It is a portrait of one American region's descent into darkness.
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Movie: Devil's Knot ( 2014 )
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a Satanic ritual.
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TV Show: True Detective ( 2014 )
Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case.True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. 
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Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive ( 2013 )
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
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Movie: Dallas Buyers Club ( 2013 )
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
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Movie: The Selfish Giant ( 2013 )
Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.
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Movie: The Counsellor ( 2013 )
A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.
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Movie: Prisoners ( 2013 )
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
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Movie: A Single Shot ( 2013 )
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
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Movie: Blue Jasmine ( 2013 )
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...
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Movie: World War Z ( 2013 )
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.
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Movie: Behind the Candelabra ( 2013 )
A chronicle of the tempestuous six year romance between megastar singer, Liberace, and his young lover, Scott Thorson.
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Movie: Byzantium ( 2013 )
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.
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Movie: The Challenger Disaster ( 2013 )
Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.
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Movie: The Gatekeepers ( 2013 )
A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
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TV Show: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States ( 2012 )
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, also known as The Untold History of the United States, is a 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script. The documentary miniseries for Showtime had a working title Oliver Stone's Secret History of America. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes. The series is a re-examination of some of the under-reported and darkest parts of American modern history using little known documents and newly uncovered archival material.
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Movie: Flight ( 2012 )
Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
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Movie: Cloud Atlas ( 2012 )
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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Movie: The Paperboy ( 2012 )
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
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Movie: The Impossible ( 2012 )
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Movie: The Master ( 2012 )
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
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Movie: I Melt with You ( 2012 )
When four 40-something college friends meet up for their annual reunion, things start to spiral out of control, and a pact they made as young men is revisited.
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Movie: Killer Joe ( 2012 )
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
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Movie: Prometheus ( 2012 )
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
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Movie: Children of the Tsunami ( 2012 )
The Japanese tsunami of 2011 and the ensuing nuclear disaster in Fukushima, told through the eyes of 7-10 year-old children.
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Movie: Rampart ( 2012 )
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.
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Movie: Sleeping Beauty ( 2011 )
A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
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Movie: Beautiful Boy ( 2011 )
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
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Movie: A Dangerous Method ( 2011 )
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
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Movie: We Need to Talk About Kevin ( 2011 )
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
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Movie: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( 2011 )
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
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Movie: Michael ( 2011 )
Five months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.
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Movie: The Help ( 2011 )
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
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Movie: Ghosted ( 2011 )
'GHOSTED' tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son's death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack's cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path tha...Read all
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Movie: The Whistleblower ( 2011 )
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
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Movie: The Beaver ( 2011 )
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
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Movie: Trash Humpers ( 2011 )
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Movie: Biutiful ( 2011 )
A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
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Movie: 127 Hours ( 2011 )
An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
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Movie: Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? ( 2011 )
In 1993, Jon Venables was one of two 10-year-olds who abducted, tortured, and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger. Since his release in 2001, Venables has been found in possession of child porn on several occasions. This program examines his case.
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Movie: True Grit ( 2010 )
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
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Movie: Conviction ( 2010 )
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
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TV Show: The Walking Dead ( 2010 )
The Walking Dead tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by former police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home. As the world overrun by the dead takes its toll on the survivors, their interpersonal conflicts present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the walkers that roam the country. Over time, the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death and some grow willing to do anything to survive.Based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.
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Movie: Never Let Me Go ( 2010 )
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
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Movie: Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer ( 2010 )
Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer is a movie about politics and corruption, suicide and survival. Four years in the making, it explores the scandal that led an honest, hard-working man to take his own life. This independently produced feature-length documentary follows Budd Dwyer, a Pennsylvania politician who infamously committed suicide at a televised press conference. The film chronicles Dwyer's meteoric rise to political power and examines the bribery scandal and subsequent trial that pushed him to his breaking point. Honest Man also delves into the controversy and consequences of the uncensored airing of Dwyer's death on television stations worldwide. Honest Man reveals a story that has remained untold for over 24 years. The film features exclusive new interviews, including William Smith, the man whose testimony convicted Dwyer, and Dwyer's widow Joanne--her last interview before her death in 2009. Was Dwyer venal, or a victim? Did he kill himself because he couldn't live with being guilty, or because he couldn't live with being innocent? Honest Man allows audiences to judge for themselves.
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Movie: World's Greatest Dad ( 2010 )
When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.
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Movie: Virginia ( 2010 )
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.