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2024Movie138 min

HDPG-13

2024 8.9 138 min

In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all ...

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2024Movie131 min

Waves

HDNR

2024 8.4 131 min

Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia

Genre: Drama, History

In the heady days of the 1968 Prague Spring, a group of Czechoslovak Radio journalists risk not just their careers but their lives to distribute independent news amidst national and ...

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2024Movie119 min

Undercover

HDNR

2024 7.3 119 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Crime, Drama

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

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2025Movie122 min

Brave the Dark

HDNR

2025 5.7 122 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen ...

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2024Movie140 min

Nickel Boys

HDNR

2024 6.8 140 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

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2025SS 1EP 6

Apple Cider Vinegar

HDTV-MA

2025 9 n/a

Country: Australia

Genre: Crime, Drama

Two young women advocate for wellness remedies to cure deadly illnesses, unraveling their lives as they unknowingly — and knowingly — mislead the world.

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2024Movie95 min

September 5

HDR

2024 6.6 95 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Drama, History

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

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2025Movie104 min

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger

HDNR

2025 7.0 104 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Two years after founding his own bank, local hero Dave Fishwick takes on the predatory payday lenders bringing misery to his small English town.

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CAM

2024Movie109 min

The Fire Inside

CAMPG-13

2024 9 109 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an ...

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2024Movie127 min

The Six Triple Eight

HDPG-13

2024 6 127 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, War

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been ...

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2024Movie116 min

The Order

HDNR

2024 7.1 116 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

An alarming surge in violent bombings and bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads a weathered FBI agent into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a charismatic domestic terrorist ...

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2020Movie116 min

I Am Woman

HDNR

2020 6.4 116 min

Country: Australia

Genre: Drama, Music

In 1966, Helen Reddy landed in New York with her three year old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five ...

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2024SS 1EP 3

The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga

HDTV-MA

2024 0 n/a

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Documentary

An Elvis impersonator's conspiracy theory sets off a feud that spirals into an attempted presidential assassination.

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2024Movie114 min

The Red Virgin

HDNR

2024 7.1 114 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama, History

Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European ...

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2024SS 1EP 4

Senna

HDN/A

2024 N/A

Country: Brazil

Genre: Drama

Fascinated by cars since childhood, Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna became a sports legend — until tragedy struck, changing Formula 1 forever.

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2024Movie132 min

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

HDPG-13

2024 6.5 132 min

Country: Belgium

Genre: Drama, History

As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is swept into the epicenter of a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler. With his faith and fate at stake, Bonhoeffer ...

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2024SS 1EP 8

The Helicopter Heist

HDNR

2024 10 n/a

Country: Sweden

Genre: Crime, Drama

Two childhood friends decide to try one last heist — to rob millions from Sweden's safest cash depot. But the police are already on their heels.

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2024Movie85 min

Searching for a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story

HDPG-13

2024 0 85 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

A single mother determined to provide a safer world for her daughter, Regina joins the Dallas Police Department. As a rookie, Regina and her partner Eddie stumble upon the first victim ...

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2024SS 1EP 5

Bank Under Siege

HDTV-MA

2024 6.2 n/a

Country: Spain

Genre: Action, Crime

Spain, 1981: When armed men hold up a bank and take hundreds hostage, a reporter races against the authorities to uncover the true motive for the heist.

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2024SS 1EP 9

Say Nothing

HDNR

2024 10 n/a

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

Through the eyes of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, explore the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly ...

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2014Movie110 min

50 to 1

HDPG-13

2014 6.4 110 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the ...

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2024Movie110 min

Average Joe

HDPG-13

2024 0 110 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

After a troubled childhood, a former Marine becomes a beloved high school football coach. However, his reputation comes under fire when he is fired for praying before each games.

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2024Movie85 min

Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story

HDPG-13

2024 0 85 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, TV Movie

Alyssa has a relationship with abusive Steven as a teen, has his child but gives it up for adoption. Years later, their daughter seeks them out, and Steven manipulates her into an ...

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2023SS 1EP 6

Siege 55

HDNR

2023 7.5 44 min

Country: Finland

Genre: Crime, Drama

Just three years earlier, Ilpo Larha was an ordinary taxi driver who had just met the love of his life. A fascination with danger prompts the young man to try his hand at driving a ...

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2024SS 1EP 3

The Manhattan Alien Abduction

HDTV-MA

2024 6 n/a

Country: UK

Genre: Documentary

A woman claims to have been abducted from her bedroom in Manhattan. This docuseries explores whether it was an elaborate hoax — or proof of alien life.

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2023SS 2EP 6

The Law According to Lidia Poët

HDTV-MA

2023 7.3 40 min

Country: Italy

Genre: Crime, Drama

In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A ...

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2024Movie85 min

Mormon Mom Gone Wrong: The Ruby Franke Story

HDPG-13

2024 0 85 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

When a 12-year-old boy escapes from the home he's been raised in by a popular parent influencer, police discover that viral fame was a cover for a house of horrors.

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2024Movie113 min

Pendekar Awang: Darah Indera Gajah

HDNR

2024 6 113 min

Country: Malaysia

Genre: Action, Adventure

The story revolves around the British finding out that Tok Gajah intends to go to Terengganu to seek support from the Sultan and Malay heroes of Terengganu. The British ordered the ...

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