Description: Another Playlist of Movies and TV shows dedicated to the Drama genre that I like.
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My Zinc Bed
( 2008 )
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
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My Own Country
( 1998 )
"My Own Country" tells the story of an East Indian doctor who settles in Johnson City, Tennessee. The doctor's name is Abraham Verghese, and he specializes in infectious diseases. It's 1985, and AIDS is spreading from the big cities to the rural areas. Abraham takes AIDS as his personal crusade and is soon well-known for his compassion and non-judgmental treatment. He soon becomes overwhelmed with patients from the surrounding states, which strains his marriage.
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My Name Is Bill W.
( 1989 )
The story of Bill Wilson and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Mrs. Soffel
( 1985 )
Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland.
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Moll Flanders
( 1996 )
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
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Mistresses
( 2008 )
Drama series about four female friends' marital and extramarital relationships.
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Minamata
( 2021 )
New York, 1971. Following his celebrated days as one of the most revered photojournalists of World War II, W. Eugene Smith (Johnny Depp) has become a recluse, disconnected from society and his career. But a secret commission from Life magazine editor Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy) sends him to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, which has been ravaged by mercury poisoning; the result of decades of gross industrial negligence by the country's Chisso Corporation. There, Smith immerses himself in the community, documenting their efforts to live with Minamata Disease and their passionate campaign to achieve recognition from Chisso and the Japanese government. Armed with only his trusted camera, Smith's images from the toxic village give the disaster a heartbreaking human dimension, and his initial assignment turns into a life-changing experience.
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Measure for Measure
( 2020 )
The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep.
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Meadowland
( 2015 )
In MEADOWLAND Sarah (Wilde) and Philip (Wilson), deal with the unthinkable in the wake of their son's strange disappearance. Philip, a New York City policeman, attempts a more traditional form of healing, only to lose his moral compass. Sarah goes down an unexpected path towards acceptance as she places herself in increasingly dangerous situations.
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Max Anger - With One Eye Open
( 2021 )
A man scarred by battle and a mysterious past, Max Anger at last has a shot at a peaceful life when he falls for Pashie, his colleague at Russia-focused think tank Vektor. But when she suddenly disappears, Max is plunged into a world of crime, corruption and international intrigue in St. Petersburg, where the fates of both Pashie and an entire country hang in the balance.
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Margaret
( 2012 )
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
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Manhattan
( 2014 )
Set in Los Alamos, N.M., at the Manhattan Project during the race to build the world's first atomic bomb, Manhattan explores the cost of secrets and the corrosive effect they have on individuals, families and their relationships.
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Making Love
( 1982 )
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feel...Read all
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Madly
( 2016 )
A global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world's most visionary directors.
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Madame Bovary
( 1991 )
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert's novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and the opera in Rouen.
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Love on the Spectrum
( 2019 )
Relationships and the dating game are exciting but sometimes overwhelming for everyone – particularly for those on the autism spectrum. Just like neurotypical people, those on the spectrum have the same desire for intimacy and companionship as the rest of the population, but difficulties in social interaction are a key feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which makes finding a partner an often daunting and difficult experience. This affectionate and revealing series draws on relationship coaching to help young neuro-diverse people have a better chance of finding true love. In the fast paced and often confusing world of modern dating, Love on the Spectrum sets out to teach us all new lessons on love, intimacy and acceptance.
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Longtime Companion
( 1990 )
The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.
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Little Children
( 2006 )
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
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Laurel Canyon
( 2003 )
When an uptight young man and his fiancee move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
( 1989 )
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.
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Kissinger and Nixon
( 1995 )
Told mainly from Henry Kissinger's point of view, this movie explores the sad betrayal of South Vietnam to the Communists by Kissinger while working in the Nixon administration. It shows his attempts to negotiate with Communist North Vietnam at the expense of the South in order to achieve a U.S. withdrawing at any price. These efforts led up to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords which in turn led to 1975 total Communist takeover of South Vietnam.
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King of Devil's Island
( 2010 )
Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
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Killing Reagan
( 2016 )
A look at John Hinkley's 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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Killing Kennedy
( 2013 )
Based on Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin. As John F. Kennedy (Lowe) rises to become U.S. president, a former Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of history is changed forever as seen in this mesmerizing film about the assassination of JFK - and its chilling aftermath.
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Killing Jesus
( 2015 )
A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Kalifat
( 2020 )
Agent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, the teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to her student assistant who opens the doors to a new fascinating world.
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Jump!
( 2007 )
Police in 1928 Austria arrest Phillippe Halsman, of Jewish origin, for patricide and allege that he killed his father, Morduch, while on a hiking trip. Phillippe is defended by a Jewish lawyer, Richard Pressburger, who quickly comes to the conclusion that Judge Larcher is prejudiced against his client. This allegation prompts Larcher to warn Richard to continue defending his client, or join him in the cell for contempt charges. The question remains will Richard continue to defend his client, or give up this case as he probably realizes that there is no chance of a fair trial.
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Jane Eyre
( 1996 )
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside of the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.
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Jack Goes Boating
( 2010 )
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
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Into Temptation
( 2009 )
A prostitute plans to end her life on her birthday, but her priest attempts to stop her from doing so.
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Infamous
( 2006 )
While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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I Dreamed of Africa
( 2000 )
Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn't know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo's love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?
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Home Before Dark
( 2020 )
Inspired by the reporting of young investigative journalist Hilde Lysiak, Home Before Dark follows a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.
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Here Are the Young Men
( 2021 )
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
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Hearts in Atlantis
( 2001 )
Widowed Liz Garfield (Hope Davis) and her son Bobby (Anton Yelchin) change when mysterious stranger Ted Brautigan (Sir Anthony Hopkins) enters their lives.
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Head in the Clouds
( 2004 )
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
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Hamlet/Horatio
( 2020 )
HAMLET/HORATIO celebrates the power of love to transcend corruption and evil driven by Horatio's mission to keep Hamlet's spirit alive, even after death.
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Halston
( 2021 )
Halston follows the legendary fashion designer, as he leverages his single, invented name into a worldwide fashion empire that's synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era he lives in, 1970's and ‘80's New York — until a hostile takeover forces him to battle for control of his most precious asset… the name Halston itself.
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
( 1991 )
Bobby McLoughlin is the adopted child of Harold and Mary Hohne. He's a problem child, so when he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, he is soon recognized guilty. After a moment of doubt, his father will be convinced of his son's innoncence, and will fight to get him out of jail. He will need a lot of work and effort to make the administration of justice admit it...Read all
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Grandview, U.S.A.
( 1984 )
With only a week left before graduation, a young dreamer itches to renounce an uninspiring scholarship, stand up to his despotic father and pursue a career in oceanography. But, has anyone ever spread his wings away from Grandview, U.S.A.?
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Gideon's Daughter
( 2006 )
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.
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Frozen Kiss
( 2010 )
Based on true events, Shelley and Ryan are two young lovers who get stranded during a raging blizzard. With the authorities unable to locate them they must fight for survival from both the elements and the mysterious figures who are trailing them.
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Fosse/Verdon
( 2019 )
Spanning five decades, Fosse/Verdon explores the singular romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. He is a visionary filmmaker and one of the theater's most influential choreographers and directors. She is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Only Bob can create the groundbreaking musicals that allow Gwen to showcase her greatness. Only Gwen can realize the unique vision in Bob's head. Together, they will change the face of American entertainment - at a perilous cost.
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Forever Lulu
( 2000 )
A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.
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Fool for Love
( 1986 )
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
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Flightplan
( 2005 )
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
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Find Me in Paris
( 2018 )
Find Me in Paris is centering on Lena Grisky, a typical teenage girl attending the Paris Opera Ballet School, the most elite dance institution in the world. But Lena has a secret. She's a time traveler, accidentally propelled from 1905 into the 21st century by her boyfriend Henri. Stuck in the past, Henri does everything he can to find a way to bring her home. Meanwhile, Lena tries to fit in, juggling high school and rigorous ballet training. She even becomes a member of an elite underground dance crew, the BLOK, all while trying to keep her secret.
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Finding Forrester
( 2001 )
A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
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Feel Good
( 2020 )
Feel Good follows Mae, a rising talent on the stand-up circuit and recovering addict whose addictive behaviors and intense romanticism dominate every single part of her life. When she meets pragmatic—but so far heterosexual—George she's smitten, and much to her surprise George feels the same. They embark on an intoxicating romance as Mae juggles relationships with her parents, fellow addicts in a drugs support group, her colleagues at the local stand up club, and most importantly tries to transform her relationship with George from an addictive one to a healthy one. But the real question is can Mae replace a toxic addiction to love with love itself.
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Far More
( 2021 )
FAR MORE is a heartwarming film that tells the story of Sean, a successful fashion designer who hasn't seen his family in years after being rejected by his father. He returns to his hometown for a painstaking family reunion that will take him back to his past only to rebuild his future. Thrown into a bowling tournament as his ailing brother's substitute, Sean clashes with his father. But instead of reliving the past, they pull together to bowl their best for 11-year-old Eli. Funny, sweet, and soulful - FAR MORE takes us on a powerful and emotional journey to learn that the secret to life is loving what you have. FAR MORE is a directors cut and remaster of Sex, Death and Bowling.
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Farewell, My Queen
( 2012 )
A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
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Fandango
( 1985 )
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
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Falling
( 2021 )
John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
( 2012 )
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Evil Stepmom
( 2021 )
A widower and his daughters become the targets of two con-artists.
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Evelyn
( 2002 )
1953. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot, and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Irish courts put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that he'll get his children back after he gets a job, he learns there's another barrier. During that time, Evelyn suffers abuse, while Desmond goes to court to get his children back. A barmaid, her brother, her suitor, and a tippling footballer become Desmond's team.
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Eva
( 2010 )
Starring Vincent Regan (Clash of the Titans, 300), Michael Ironside (TV's Cold Case, Wolverine and the X-Men, Patrick Bergen (Patriot Games) and Amy Hayes ((TV's Doctor Who).
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End of Summer
( 1997 )
A young woman returns to her annual summer retreat and is reunited with a lover from the past. Their passion reignited, they make up for lost time. However, a younger visitor, intent on breaking up the couple, tries to woo the gentleman away. This causes a stir in the relationship, and adultery, jealousy, drama, and passion ensue.
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Empire Falls
( 2005 )
Empire Falls is a two-part miniseries event tells the humorous, poignant story of a declining New England town and its inhabitants, whose lives are deeply rooted in and influenced by the Knox River and its vacant mills, their class differences, and ghosts of the past.At the center of the story is Miles Roby, for whom the promising opportunities of youth have given way to the demands of family obligations, especially those concerning his cantankerous father Max and impressionable daughter Tick.
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Edge of the World
( 2021 )
The adventures of Sir James Brooke, who defied the British Empire to rule a jungle kingdom in 1840s Borneo, embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy, slavery and head-hunting, and inspired LORD JIM and THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.
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Dynasty
( 2017 )
This new version of the original ABC hit series from the 1980's. Dynasty follows two of America's wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children. The series will be told primarily through the perspectives of two women at odds: Fallon Carrington — daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington — and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal — a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America's most powerful class.
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Draft Day
( 2014 )
At the NFL Draft, General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
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Downriver
( 2015 )
James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit from his victim's mother upon parole sends him on a quest to find the truth. With little time and danger at every turn, James risks his freedom and his life to uncover the trail of sins that might give closure to the grieving mother.
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Disconnect
( 2013 )
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world.
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Death in Texas
( 2021 )
Just out of prison, Billy Walker comes home to El Paso to find his mom dying of liver failure but low on the transplant list. However, along the border there are other, darker options. The Juarez Cartel soon notices and a crescendo of violence offers redemption or damnation to all involved.
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Dead Still
( 2020 )
Dublin, 1880. The practice of memorial portraiture is at the height of its popularity – that is, the portrait photography of the recently deceased. As renowned memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset expands his business with the help of his would-be actress niece Nancy Vickers and assistant Conall Molloy, someone with more sinister designs is getting in on the death photography game. A serial killer is cashing in on the sordid, developing taste for ‘snuff' imagery – pictures of people in their death throes. The murders escalate and Detective Frederick Regan of the Dublin Metropolitan Police suspects that Ireland may have its first serial murderer at large. As Blennerhasset becomes a possible suspect and his family is put in harm's way, they must track down the serial killer before he strikes again.
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Dangerous Remedy
( 2012 )
In 1969, Dr Bertram Wainer is called out to tend to a young woman dying as a result of a backyard abortion. When an angry Wainer investigates the illegal abortion racket, it leads him into the dark and murky world of criminals, paranoid doctors who operate illegally, and desperate women. Passionate, courageous and flawed, Wainer launched a campaign that both challenged and changed our society.
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Control Z
( 2020 )
When a hacker begins releasing students secrets to the entire high school, the socially isolated but observant Sofía works to uncover his/her identity.
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Clique
( 2017 )
Psychological thriller exploring the power of friendship between intensely smart, complicated and ambitious young people at University.
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Capadocia
( 2008 )
A drastic reformulation is urgent in order to reestablish control over the the reigning chaos and corruption in the penitentiary system in Mexico City, A group of unscrupulous business men manages to get the government representative in charge to agree on building a private penitentiary (Capadocia) inside which the interns, women, will work virtually for free. Teresa Lagos, in charge of the institution, advocates for the well-being of the interns and continuously faces the challenges of standing right in the middle of the justice balance while being exposed to the general corruption in the system. Capadocia, a place without forgiveness, hosts inside its doors a lot of women, each one with a story to tell.
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Call the Midwife
( 2012 )
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Broken
( 2017 )
Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.
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Breaking Up
( 1997 )
A couple circa 30 breaks up after 2 1/2 years - or do they?
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Botoks
( 2017 )
"Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined and expressive physicians who struggle with life's decisions and problems: discrimination, maternity pressures, the pursuit of youth, the fight for the right to free choice and own views.
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Body of Lies
( 2008 )
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
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Blue Miracle
( 2021 )
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
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Blaze You Out
( 2013 )
An unyielding young woman ventures into the ruthless underworld of the town's heroin trade in order to save her younger sister's life.
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Black Butterflies
( 2011 )
In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
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Big Love
( 2006 )
Bill Henrickson seems like a typical suburban husband and father, except for the fact that he has three wives, seven kids and three homes to maintain. The Salt Lake City polygamist has to juggle his families' needs while overseeing his growing chain of home-improvement stores and attempting to reconnect with his fundamentalist relatives.
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Beyond the Limit
( 1983 )
During Dirty War, half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. When the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by the rebels, he must pick a side.
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Betrayal of Trust
( 1994 )
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her out. One day, she was coming around when she notices that the doctor is molesting her. She then tries to get some justice by suing him, and reporting him to the licensing bureau, and the American psychiatric association. And also seeing another psychiatrist to try and figure out what's wrong with her.
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Best. Partee. Ever.
( 2016 )
Mikey, a young, discreet, gay man from the affluent class, spends five years in a city jail while hearing his case for drug pushing. Inside prison, Mikey holds back to adapt to the culture and stratification among inmates. Eventually, Mikey becomes a 'Mayor' (ring leader) to a group of gay inmates called "Gang-da". Together, they thrive to survive the dangers of several gang riots, the mundane, and the decay of human dignity.
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Back to 1942
( 2012 )
A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
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A Walk on the Moon
( 1999 )
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
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Avalon
( 1990 )
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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Australia Day
( 2017 )
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.
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A Town Like Alice
( 1981 )
A Town Like Alice is an epic love story that takes place during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in 1941–45.
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A Promise
( 2014 )
Young Friederich has humble origins, but rises to the attention of his new boss, Karl. As he volunteers to tutor his employer's son, he gets more and more attached to Karl's young wife Lotte. She refuses however to betray her husband even when they learn Friedrich must go to Mexico for two years to supervise a mining project for Karl. Friedrich and Lotte swear to one another they will stay true to each other, but the oncoming war keeps them apart for far longer than expected.
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Answers to Nothing
( 2011 )
Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don't always see.
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Anna Karenina
( 1997 )
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
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American Woman
( 2019 )
In a small, blue-collar town in Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old woman's teen daughter goes missing and she is left to raise her infant grandson alone. The story is told over the course of 11 years, from the time her daughter vanishes, through the the trials-and-tribulations of subsequent years looking for closure, leading up the long-awaited discovery of the truth.
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American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
( 2021 )
An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.
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A Little Chaos
( 2015 )
Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.
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Albert Nobbs
( 2012 )
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
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A Journey Through Pines
( 2017 )
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
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3 Nights in the Desert
( 2014 )
THE BIG CHILL meets THE GRADUATE. What could have been? What might have been? Reunions can be exciting, frustrating, exhilarating, nostalgic, one life given over to practicality while another chases lost dreams. Set against the majestic landscape of the desert, three estranged friends and former band mates "celebrate" turning 30, carrying their hopes, unresolved wound...Read all
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21 Bridges
( 2019 )
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
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1st Strike
( 2016 )
Juan is a teenager in a gang-infested LA barrio. When his Uncle Manny invites him out on a joy ride, the situation goes bad. Juan is accused of a crime he did not commit. Now Juan is caught between loyalty to his uncle and the Law.
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11:14
( 2004 )
The events leading up to an 11:14 p.m. car crash, from five very different perspectives.
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