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Movie: Drive My Car ( 2021 )
A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with his wife's unexpected passing when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
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Movie: The Summit of the Gods ( 2021 )
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
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Movie: Licorice Pizza ( 2021 )
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Movie: The Humans ( 2021 )
During one evening, the Blake family gathers to celebrate thanksgiving in a broken-down flat newly rented by the daughter and her new man. As the darkness falls, we find that all have less to be thankful about.
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Movie: #Dupe# ( 2021 )
The film is centered on a young girl and her family in Colombia, who all have magical powers, sadly, the young girl has no powers.
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TV Show: The Beatles: Get Back ( 2021 )
The Beatles: Get Back takes audiences back in time to the band's intimate recording sessions during a pivotal moment in music history. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly restored.Jackson is the only person in 50 years to have been given access to these private film archives. The Beatles: Get Back is the story of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as they plan their first live show in over two years, capturing the writing and rehearsing of 14 new songs, originally intended for release on an accompanying live album. The documentary features – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles' last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London's Savile Row, as well as other songs and classic compositions featured on the band's final two albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be.
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Movie: 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible ( 2021 )
Fearless Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.
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Movie: Life of Crime 1984-2020 ( 2021 )
A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.
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Movie: Listening to Kenny G ( 2021 )
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
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Movie: Try Harder! ( 2021 )
At Lowell High School, the top public high school in San Francisco, the seniors are stressed out. As they prepare for the emotionally draining college application process, students are keenly aware of the intense competition for the few open spots in their dream colleges. At Lowell - where cool kids are nerds, nearly everyone has an amazing talent, and most of the student body is Asian American - the things that usually make a person stand out can feel commonplace. With humor and heart, director Debbie Lum captures the reality of the American college application process and the intersection of class, race, and educational opportunity as young adults navigate a quintessential rite of passage.
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Movie: Torn ( 2021 )
Alex Lowe's ill-fated climb and his son's arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.
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Movie: Mixtape ( 2021 )
When a young girl accidentally destroys the mixtape that belonged to her mother, she sets out to track down each of the obscure songs on the cassette.
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TV Show: Landscapers ( 2021 )
Inspired by real events, Landscapers explores the lives of convicted killers Susan and Christopher Edwards, and asks how this devoted and mild-mannered couple came to kill Susan's parents and bury them in the back garden of their Mansfield home, in a crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade. This blackly comic, narratively playful true crime drama is based on extensive research, hours of interviews and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence of murder.
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Movie: Citizen Ashe ( 2021 )
Explores the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and his impact on tennis and HIV activism.
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Movie: The Hand of God ( 2021 )
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
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Movie: Flee ( 2021 )
An animated documentary telling the true story about a man's need to confront his past in order to truly have a future. Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time, he is sharing his story with his close friend.
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Movie: Benedetta ( 2021 )
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
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Movie: The Forever Prisoner ( 2021 )
Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
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Movie: Agnes ( 2021 )
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
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Movie: A Son ( 2021 )
11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
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Movie: Red Rocket ( 2021 )
Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.
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Movie: Being the Ricardos ( 2021 )
Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
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Movie: West Side Story ( 2021 )
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
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TV Show: Station Eleven ( 2021 )
A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, Station Eleven tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
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Movie: President ( 2021 )
A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
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Movie: Swan Song ( 2021 )
In the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.
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Movie: The Lost Daughter ( 2021 )
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
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Movie: The Novice ( 2021 )
A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
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Movie: Nightmare Alley ( 2021 )
A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.
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Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home ( 2021 )
With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
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Movie: The Velvet Queen ( 2021 )
Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.
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Movie: The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 2022 )
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
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Movie: A Journal for Jordan ( 2021 )
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
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Movie: Parallel Mothers ( 2021 )
The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.
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Movie: Memoria ( 2021 )
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
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Movie: Jockey ( 2022 )
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
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Movie: A Hero ( 2022 )
Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.
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TV Show: Women of the Movement ( 2022 )
Limited series focusing on Mamie Till Mobley, who spent her entire life seeking justice for her son Emmett Till after being brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South.
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Movie: King Car ( 2022 )
A teen's ability to surreally speak with cars sparks a revolution that could save his community. However, he soon finds himself in a fight for survival when his invention inadvertently accelerates the underlying problems.
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Movie: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America ( 2021 )
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
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TV Show: The House ( 2022 )
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
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Movie: Scream ( 2022 )
25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past.
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Movie: Belle ( 2022 )
Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U", a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
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Movie: Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania ( 2022 )
After one experiment, Johnny turns into a monster and everyone else becomes human. Now it has to be seen whether they will be able to reverse this experiment.
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Movie: The Last Thing Mary Saw ( 2022 )
The daughter in a strict religious family is interrogated after the death of her family's uncanny matriarch.
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TV Show: We Need to Talk About Cosby ( 2022 )
Comic-director W. Kamau Bell explores Bill Cosby's life and work, weighing his actions against his indisputable influence through interviews with comedians, cultural commentators, journalists and women who share their personal encounters with him.
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Movie: Compartment Number 6 ( 2021 )
As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
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Movie: After Yang ( 2022 )
In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
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Movie: Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché ( 2021 )
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
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Movie: Jackass Forever ( 2022 )
After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for another crusade.
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Movie: The Worst Person in the World ( 2021 )
A modern dramedy about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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Movie: Last Looks ( 2022 )
A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate a murder.
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Movie: Lingui ( 2021 )
Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
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Movie: Kimi ( 2022 )
An agoraphobic Seattle tech worker uncovers evidence of a crime.
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Movie: Playground ( 2022 )
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
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Movie: Big Bug ( 2022 )
A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.
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Movie: Catch the Fair One ( 2021 )
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
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Movie: Marry Me ( 2022 )
Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she instead decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd.
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Movie: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom ( 2019 )
An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
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Movie: Breaking Bread ( 2021 )
Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - the first Muslim Arab to win Israel's MasterChef - is on a quest to make social change through food. And so, she founded the A-sham Arabic Food Festival, where pairs of Arab and Jewish chefs collaborate on exotic dishes like kishek (a Syrian yogurt soup), and qatayef (a dessert typically served during Ramadan). A film about hope, synergy and mouthwatering fare, Breaking Bread illustrates what happens when people focus on the person, rather than her religion; on the public, rather than the politicians.
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Movie: The Long Walk ( 2019 )
An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
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Movie: Dog ( 2022 )
Two former Army Rangers are paired against their will on the road trip of a lifetime. Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois) race down the Pacific Coast to get to a fellow soldier's funeral on time.
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Movie: Ted K ( 2022 )
An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
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Movie: Strawberry Mansion ( 2021 )
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.
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Movie: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing ( 2022 )
Examining the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.
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Movie: The Cursed ( 2022 )
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
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Movie: Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches ( 2022 )
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
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Movie: Hellbender ( 2022 )
A lonely teen discovers her family's ties to witchcraft.
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Movie: Cyrano ( 2022 )
Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.
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TV Show: The Tourist ( 2022 )
In the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, a British man is pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and The Man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man's search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.
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Movie: Against the Ice ( 2022 )
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Movie: The Weekend Away ( 2022 )
A weekend getaway to Croatia that goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend. As she attempts to clear her name and uncover the truth, her efforts unearth a painful secret.
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Movie: Dear Mr. Brody ( 2021 )
A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
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Movie: Great Freedom ( 2022 )
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
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Movie: Lucy and Desi ( 2022 )
This film will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi Arnaz, and how their groundbreaking sitcom I Love Lucy forever changed Hollywood, cementing her legacy long after her death in 1989.
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Movie: Fresh ( 2022 )
The horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman's defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend's unusual appetites.
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Movie: Huda's Salon ( 2022 )
A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.
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Movie: The Batman ( 2022 )
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
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Movie: Mad God ( 2021 )
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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Movie: Calendar Girl ( 2020 )
For over 70 years, founder Ruth Finley and the game-changing Fashion Calendar scheduled every fashion event in New York City. At 95, Ruth sold the calendar, ending an era.
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Movie: Turning Red ( 2022 )
A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
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Movie: The Adam Project ( 2022 )
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future.
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Movie: Ultrasound ( 2022 )
After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.
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TV Show: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey ( 2022 )
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he's given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew's death and come to terms with his past.
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Movie: X ( 2022 )
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
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TV Show: Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. ( 2022 )
A scandalous four-part documentary series that uncovers how Sarma Melngailis, the celebrity restaurateur behind the New York hotspot Pure Food and Wine, went from being the queen of vegan cuisine to the tabloid-touted "Vegan Fugitive" when she falls for a man who promises to make her dreams come true. Millions of dollars, immortal dogs, meat suits, and secrets lead to a twisted tale of love turned criminal. Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
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Movie: Black Crab ( 2022 )
In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago. Noomi Rapace stars.
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Movie: The Outfit ( 2022 )
An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
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TV Show: WeCrashed ( 2022 )
Follow the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.
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Movie: Deep Water ( 2022 )
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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Movie: Ahed's Knee ( 2021 )
An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.
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Movie: You Are Not My Mother ( 2022 )
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
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Movie: The Automat ( 2017 )
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TV Show: Pachinko ( 2022 )
Told in three different languages: Korean, Japanese and English, Pachinko chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family.
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Movie: Infinite Storm ( 2022 )
When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.
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Movie: 7 Days ( 2022 )
As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn't uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19's reach intensifies.
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TV Show: The Girl from Plainville ( 2022 )
The Girl from Plainville is inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter, of Massachusetts, and her controversial "texting-suicide" case. Based off of the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron, the series will explore Carter's relationship with Conrad Roy III and the events that led to his death and, later, her controversial conviction of involuntary manslaughter. Carter was convicted in 2017 for encouraging Roy's suicide via a series of texts and phone calls.
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Movie: Nitram ( 2021 )
Nitram lives with his mother and father in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen. However when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram's loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent that leads to disaster.
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Movie: See You Then ( 2022 )
A decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris' transition.
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Movie: Better Nate Than Ever ( 2022 )
13-year-old Nate Foster fantasizes about becoming a big Broadway star. He and his best friend Libby mastermind a daring trip to New York City to audition for "Lilo and Stitch: The Musical".