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2 Thumbs Up (2021-2022)
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Movie: The Road Up
The Road Up follows four participants in Cara, a Chicago job-training program, as they seek to make the long journey from rock bottom to stable employment. Throughout, they are guided, goaded, and challenged by their impassioned mentor, Mr. Jesse, whose own complicated past drives him to help others find hope in the face of poverty, addiction, homelessness, and trauma...Read all
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TV Show: The Premise
dupe of: https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/56581/the-premise
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Movie: World's Best ( 2023 )
Follows Prem Patel, who is an expert at math but is also secretly obsessed with his late father's dream of becoming a rap musician, and he almost loses everything in his attempt to achieve multiple goals in life.
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Movie: Neptune Frost ( 2023 )
An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
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Movie: Leonor Will Never Die ( 2023 )
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
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Movie: Riotsville, U.S.A. ( 2023 )
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
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Movie: Medusa ( 2023 )
In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.
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Movie: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ( 2023 )
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
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Movie: Loudmouth ( 2023 )
It tells the story of Rev. Al Sharpton, painting an intimate portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.
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Movie: Nothing Lasts Forever ( 2023 )
Illusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.
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Movie: All That Breathes ( 2023 )
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
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Movie: Sirens ( 2023 )
Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
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Movie: Holy Spider ( 2023 )
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
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Movie: Hold Me Tight ( 2023 )
A woman one day simply walks out on her family. Or does she?
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Movie: Avatar: The Way of Water ( 2022 )
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
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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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Movie: Framing Agnes ( 2022 )
FRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
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Movie: Retrograde ( 2022 )
Tells the story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.
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Movie: Empire of Light ( 2022 )
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
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Movie: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio ( 2022 )
A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.
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Movie: Spoiler Alert ( 2022 )
The story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship, which takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Movie: I'm Totally Fine ( 2022 )
Vanessa, a woman in mourning, takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend, but her self-care vacation plans change when she's met with an out-of-this-world situation.
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TV Show: George & Tammy ( 2022 )
George & Tammy chronicles the country music power couple, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time.
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Movie: Sr. ( 2022 )
Follow the tender but appropriately irreverent account of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr., the fearless and visionary American director who set the standard for countercultural comedy in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Movie: The Eternal Daughter ( 2022 )
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
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Movie: The Inspection ( 2022 )
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.
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Movie: Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 2022 )
An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
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Movie: A Wounded Fawn ( 2022 )
A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She's buying into his faux charms, and he's eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?
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Movie: Sharp Stick ( 2022 )
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
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Movie: Devotion ( 2022 )
A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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Movie: The Fabelmans ( 2022 )
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Movie: Good Night Oppy ( 2022 )
The film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
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Movie: The Swimmers ( 2022 )
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.
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Movie: Bones and All ( 2022 )
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
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Movie: Strange World ( 2022 )
The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.
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Movie: Something in the Dirt ( 2022 )
Maverick filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead offer up a twisted reflection of our paranoid times in this inventive mix of buddy comedy and sci-fi thriller.
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Movie: The Menu ( 2022 )
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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Movie: Aftersun ( 2022 )
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
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Movie: She Said ( 2022 )
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation - a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
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Movie: Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen ( 2022 )
A documentary about the making of the musical film Fiddler on the Roof (1971).
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TV Show: Fleishman is in Trouble ( 2022 )
The series centers on recently separated fortysomething Toby Fleishman, who dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth, before he got married at the tail end of medical school. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return.
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TV Show: Pepsi, Where's My Jet? ( 2022 )
The year was 1996, and the cola wars were raging. Despite Pepsi's celeb-soaked advertisements, Coke still held the bigger market share, so the second-place brand decided to roll out their biggest campaign ever: Called "Pepsi Stuff," it featured a soon-to-be infamous commercial implying that if you just bought enough of their products, you could use "Pepsi Points" to purchase sunglasses, leather jackets… and maybe a Harrier jet? Pepsi execs assumed the astronomical "price" of the military plane was set high enough to indicate it was a joke, but college student John Leonard saw it as a challenge, and decided to call their bluff. Enlisting the help (and funding) of mountaineering buddy Todd Hoffman, Leonard hashed out a plan to score the grandest prize of all – even if it never existed in the first place. Shot in a rollicking, irreverent style and soaked in the music and culture of the mid-'90s, Pepsi, Where's My Jet? sits down with Leonard, Hoffman, the commercial's creative team, and a truly unexpected cast of tangentially-involved public figures to tell the legendary tale of the kid who sued Pepsi for a fighter jet, and became the hero of a new generation.
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Movie: Master of Light ( 2022 )
George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.
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Movie: Stutz ( 2022 )
Follow Hill and his therapist as he has candid discussions of mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks related to movie promotion that have turned his dream job into a nightmare.
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Movie: My Father's Dragon ( 2022 )
Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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Movie: Fire of Love ( 2022 )
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
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Movie: Is That Black Enough for You?!? ( 2022 )
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
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TV Show: The English ( 2022 )
Set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890, The English follows Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp, an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.
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Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin ( 2022 )
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Movie: Enola Holmes 2 ( 2022 )
Now a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock himself - to unravel.
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Movie: Causeway ( 2022 )
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
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Movie: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story ( 2022 )
Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.
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Movie: The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile ( 2022 )
Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
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Movie: Soft & Quiet ( 2022 )
Playing out in real time, an elementary school teacher organizes a mixer of like-minded women, when she encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
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Movie: Wendell & Wild ( 2022 )
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
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Movie: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues ( 2022 )
Follow the life and legacy of the master and so-called founding father of jazz, America's first pop star, and cultural ambassador.
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Movie: Call Jane ( 2022 )
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
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Movie: Tár ( 2022 )
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
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Movie: Till ( 2022 )
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
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Movie: The Sparring Partner ( 2022 )
Based on a shocking case in real life, a young man partners with his friend to murder and dismember his parents. Pleading not guilty to the crime, defense attorneys face each other as nine jurors grapple with the truth.
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Movie: Brother's Keeper ( 2022 )
Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.
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Movie: The African Desperate ( 2022 )
This coming-of-age comedy tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant, a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip.
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Movie: Black Adam ( 2022 )
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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Movie: Decision to Leave ( 2022 )
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
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Movie: Un couple ( 2022 )
The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
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Movie: The Stranger ( 2022 )
Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
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Movie: Stars at Noon ( 2022 )
A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, however, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.
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Movie: Stay the Night ( 2022 )
A failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he's an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.
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TV Show: The Midnight Club ( 2022 )
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
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Movie: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile ( 2022 )
Feature film based on the children's book about a crocodile that lives in New York City.
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Movie: Flux Gourmet ( 2022 )
Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
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Movie: Dead for a Dollar ( 2022 )
A famed bounty hunter runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before.
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Movie: Entergalactic ( 2022 )
Jabari, a charming, streetwear-clad artist on the cusp of real success. After a chance run-in with his cool new photographer neighbor, Meadow, Jabari has to figure out whether he can make space for love in his life.
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Movie: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon ( 2022 )
A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
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Movie: Nothing Compares ( 2022 )
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
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Movie: Vesper ( 2022 )
Struggling to survive with her father after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, 13-year-old Vesper must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.
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Movie: Hocus Pocus 2 ( 2022 )
Two young women accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters to modern day Salem and must figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on the world.
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TV Show: Hostages ( 2022 )
Series explores the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and the tumultuous history of U.S./Iran relations. On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour sit-in to protest American imperialism, ballooned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days. With never-before-seen archival footage and revelatory new interviews with the American hostages and Iranian hostage-takers alike, the series is a gripping chronicle of one of the most dramatic international deadlocks in American history, a deep dive into the geo-political history that led to the crisis, and an exploration of the political fallout that reverberates today.
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Movie: The Munsters ( 2022 )
Reboot of "The Munsters," that followed a family of monsters who moves from Transylvania to an American suburb.
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Movie: Athena ( 2022 )
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
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Movie: A Jazzman's Blues ( 2022 )
Follows an investigation into an unsolved murder unveiling a story full of forbidden love, deceit and a secret.
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Movie: The Justice of Bunny King ( 2022 )
A triumph over adversity tale about women fighting their way back from the bottom of society.
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Movie: Triangle of Sadness ( 2022 )
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
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Movie: The Woman King ( 2022 )
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Movie: Do Revenge ( 2022 )
Drea and Eleanor agree to go after one another's bullies.
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Movie: God's Country ( 2022 )
When a college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
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Movie: Moonage Daydream ( 2022 )
A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.
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Movie: House of Darkness ( 2022 )
Hap offers Mina a ride home with ulterior motives, but his night takes a turn when he learns she lives in a creepy American castle...and the shadowy figures in the corridors make it clear that he isn't welcome.
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Movie: Barbarian ( 2022 )
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
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Movie: True Things ( 2022 )
It follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
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Movie: Saloum ( 2022 )
In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.
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Movie: McEnroe ( 2022 )
It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
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Movie: Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. ( 2022 )
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
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Movie: Both Sides of the Blade ( 2022 )
A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
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Movie: Funny Pages ( 2022 )
A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
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Movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing ( 2022 )
A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
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Movie: Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby ( 2022 )
It follows the career of Atlanta rapper Lil Baby and his rise in rap and pop culture.
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Movie: Breaking ( 2022 )
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.
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TV Show: Lost Ollie ( 2022 )
Lost Ollie is the tale of a lost toy searching across the countryside for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.