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2 Thumbs Up (2023-2024)
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2023-2024 critically acclaimed, eclectic, arthouse, and award winning movies, shows and docus reviewed and rated 3+ on rogerebert dot com.
—Links to current and (2023-2024), (2021-2022), (2019-2020) years are on each playlist page.—                                     
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Movie: Carmen ( 2022 )
In a small Mediterranean village, Carmen has looked after her brother, the local priest, for her entire life. When the Church abandons Carmen, she is mistaken for the new priest. Carmen begins to see the world, and herself, in a new light.
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Movie: Judy Blume Forever ( 2023 )
Judy Blume and the generations of readers who have sparked to her work. Examines her impact on pop culture and the occasional controversies over her frankness about puberty and sex.
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Movie: Chevalier ( 2023 )
Based on factual story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African enslaved and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
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Movie: Evil Dead Rise ( 2023 )
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
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TV Show: Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur ( 2023 )
From Allen Hughes, Dear Mama dives into the personal relationship of mother and son, Afeni and Tupac Shakur, a revolutionary and one of the most influential artists of all time. Afeni Shakur was a revolutionary, an intellect and a voice for the people. She became a feminist darling of the '70s, a female leader in the movement amidst the macho milieu of the Black Panther Party. Tupac was a rapper and poet, a political visionary and philosopher who became known as one of the greatest rap artists of all time. In addition to becoming a global sex symbol and media favorite for his outspoken and sometimes outrageous antics, he would eventually become the poster child for modern Black activism. Their story chronicles the possibilities and contradictions of the United States from a time of revolutionary fervor to Hip Hop culture's most ostentatious decade.For Tupac superfans, Hughes promises there will be never seen before audio and video footage.
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TV Show: Dead Ringers ( 2023 )
Elliot and Beverly Mantle are OBGYNs and identical twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes - including pushing the boundaries of medical ethics - in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women's health care to the forefront.
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Movie: Sisu ( 2023 )
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
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Movie: The Artifice Girl ( 2023 )
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
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TV Show: Love & Death ( 2023 )
Love & Death tells the unbelievable true story of Candy Montgomery, a 1980s Texas housewife accused of murder. Despite a loving family, a picture-perfect home, and an active presence at church, Candy is unable to shake her sense of suburban ennui. After an unexpectedly charged moment with fellow church member Allan Gore, Candy finds just the risk-taking thrill that's been missing from her life. Their ensuing, meticulously strategized affair unfolds mostly as planned – until their respective spouses, Pat and Betty, each discover their secret… and someone picks up an axe.
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Movie: 32 Sounds ( 2022 )
Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
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Movie: Polite Society ( 2023 )
Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends' help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
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Movie: The Eight Mountains ( 2022 )
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
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Movie: R.M.N. ( 2023 )
A non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future.
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Movie: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. ( 2023 )
When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
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Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ( 2023 )
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
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Movie: Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two ( 2023 )
Arulmozhi Varman continues on his journey to become Rajaraja I, the greatest ruler of the historic Chola empire of south India.
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TV Show: A Small Light ( 2023 )
A Small Light follows twenty-something Miep Gies who, when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II, didn't hesitate. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls (Otto Frank, his wife Edith and daughters Anne and Margot as well as four others) in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne's Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
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Movie: What's Love Got to Do with It? ( 2023 )
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.
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Movie: You Can Live Forever ( 2023 )
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
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Movie: Monica ( 2022 )
The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.
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Movie: It Ain't Over ( 2022 )
The illustrious life and career of the baseball great, Yogi Berra.
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Movie: Crater ( 2023 )
After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to permanently leaving the Moon and relocated to another planet.
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Movie: Air ( 2023 )
Follows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan.
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Movie: The Starling Girl ( 2023 )
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
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Movie: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie ( 2023 )
Follows the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails, and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease.
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Movie: BlackBerry ( 2023 )
The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
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TV Show: The Secrets of Hillsong ( 2023 )
The Secrets of Hillsong is based on the explosive original reporting on the megachurch's scandals by Vanity Fair journalists Alex French and Dan Adler. Directed by Stacey Lee, The Secrets of Hillsong features the first interviews with former pastors Carl and Laura Lentz since their public ouster from the church, which for years counted musicians, actors, athletes and other celebrities among its flock.
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Movie: Sanctuary ( 2023 )
Follows a dominatrix and Hal, her wealthy client, and the disaster that ensues when Hal tries to end their relationship.
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Movie: Master Gardener ( 2023 )
A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
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Movie: The Night of the 12th ( 2022 )
It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
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Movie: Stay Awake ( 2023 )
Confronting a serious and common problem of rural families across the country with human mix of humor and levity.
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Movie: Moon Garden ( 2023 )
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness.
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Movie: The Little Mermaid ( 2023 )
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
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Movie: Four Quartets ( 2023 )
In the shadow of the Second World War, performance of a poem is a searching examination of who and what - we are. A journey into the imagination, bound by experience, memory and time.
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Movie: Influencer ( 2022 )
While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living, but CW's interest in her takes a darker turn.
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Movie: Being Mary Tyler Moore ( 2023 )
Explores the vanguard career of Mary, who, as an actor, performer, and advocate, revolutionized the portrayal of women in media, redefined their roles in show business, and inspired generations to dream big and make it on their own.
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Movie: Reality ( 2023 )
A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.
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Movie: You Hurt My Feelings ( 2023 )
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
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Movie: Rise ( 2022 )
Elise, a very promising classical dancer, is injured during a performance at 26 years old. Although she's told she will no longer be able to dance, she will try to find a new direction in contemporary dance.
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TV Show: Burden of Proof ( 2023 )
When 15-year-old Jennifer Pandos went missing in 1987, her parents told everyone she ran away. Decades later, her brother Stephen begins a relentless odyssey in search of the truth. His investigation into the case threatens to destroy his family as he becomes strongly convinced that his parents are both implicated in the crime. As time passes, more threads unravel and new evidence comes to light, Stephen starts to question everything he has come to believe.
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Movie: Lynch/Oz ( 2023 )
Victor Fleming's film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work.
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Movie: Past Lives ( 2023 )
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
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Movie: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ( 2023 )
Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
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Movie: Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis ( 2022 )
The story of the album art design studio, Hipgnosis, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time.
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Movie: Aloners ( 2021 )
A solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.
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Movie: Shooting Stars ( 2023 )
A look at the young life of basketball star LeBron James. Feature film adaptation of LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger's book 'Shooting Stars'.
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Movie: Scarlet ( 2023 )
The emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams.
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Movie: Daliland ( 2023 )
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
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Movie: Shin Kamen Rider ( 2023 )
Hongo Takeshi awakens to discover he has been transformed into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg. Becoming the Masked Rider, he must fight the mysterious evil organization SHOCKER to protect all of mankind.
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Movie: Brooklyn 45 ( 2023 )
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
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Movie: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ( 2023 )
During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
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Movie: Blue Jean ( 2023 )
In 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
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Movie: Asteroid City ( 2023 )
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
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Movie: Stan Lee ( 2023 )
100 years of dreaming. 100 years of creating. 100 years of Stan Lee.
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TV Show: Extraction ( 2020 )
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
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Movie: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster ( 2023 )
It tells the story of teenage anti-hero, Vicaria, who is on a desperate quest to cure death.
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Movie: The Blackening ( 2023 )
Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
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Movie: The Stroll ( 2023 )
The history of New York's Meatpacking District told from the point of view of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. They recount the violence, policing, and gentrification that lead to a movement for transgender rights.
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Movie: The Last Rider ( 2022 )
The incredible story of the greatest cycling race in history, the 1989 Tour de France, and how American Greg LeMond faced down betrayal, childhood sexual abuse and death completing one of the most inspiring comebacks in history.
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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: Revoir Paris ( 2023 )
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
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Movie: Run Rabbit Run ( 2023 )
Sarah Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, she must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.
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Movie: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken ( 2023 )
A shy adolescent learns that she comes from a fabled royal family of legendary sea krakens and that her destiny lies in the depths of the waters, which is bigger than she could have ever imagined.
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Movie: Umberto Eco: A Library of the World ( 2023 )
Wandering these rooms, hallways, salons is a lover, a collector and above all a reader of books: Umberto Eco in his private library.
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Movie: The Passengers of the Night ( 2023 )
Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.
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Movie: Every Body ( 2023 )
Focuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods. Choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
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Movie: Wham! ( 2023 )
Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham career, from '70s best buds to '80s pop icons.
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Movie: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ( 2023 )
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Movie: Once Upon a Time in Uganda ( 2023 )
A brick maker in Uganda becomes an Internet sensation when he tries his hand at making action movies.
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Movie: Amanda ( 2024 )
Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses as her new mission to convince her childhood friend that they are still best friends.
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TV Show: Full Circle ( 2023 )
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
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Movie: Two Tickets to Greece ( 2023 )
When childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece.
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Movie: Black Ice ( 2023 )
Black Ice exposes a history of racism in hockey through the untold stories of Black hockey players, both past and present, in a predominantly white sport.
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Movie: Afire ( 2023 )
A group of friends in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
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Movie: 20 Days in Mariupol ( 2023 )
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
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Movie: Barbie ( 2023 )
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
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Movie: The Deepest Breath ( 2023 )
A champion and expert safety diver seemed destined for one another. Despite different paths taken, they meet at the pinnacle of the free-diving world, experiencing the thrilling rewards and inescapable risks of chasing dreams through the depths of the ocean.
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Movie: Oppenheimer ( 2023 )
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Movie: Return to Dust ( 2022 )
The humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. To survive, they have to come together and build a home for themselves.
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Movie: Streetwise
Set in Hartford CT, 1980's, a local man's dispute with a gangster leads to the downfall of many mobsters in New England. A powerful story of crime, murder and mayhem on the streets of Little Italy, Hartford. Based on a true story.
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Movie: They Cloned Tyrone ( 2023 )
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
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Movie: Bobi Wine: The People's President ( 2023 )
Follows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
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Movie: The Beasts ( 2022 )
An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside but clash with villagers.
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Movie: The Unknown Country ( 2023 )
An unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.
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Movie: Talk to Me ( 2023 )
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
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Movie: Kokomo City ( 2023 )
A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
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Movie: Passages ( 2023 )
A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
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Movie: Klondike ( 2022 )
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
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Movie: The Passenger ( 2023 )
A man is forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past. He must find a way to survive when his co-worker snaps and goes on a violent killing spree.
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Movie: Dreamin' Wild ( 2023 )
Musical duo Donnie and Joe Emerson spend everything they have to produce a record in the 1970s.
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Movie: Our Body ( 2023 )
Follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.
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Movie: Shortcomings ( 2023 )
Follows a trio of young, Bay Area urbanites--Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim--as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships while traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.
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TV Show: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart ( 2023 )
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family's past. Set against Australia's breathtaking, natural landscape, and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, this enthralling family drama spans decades, as Alice grows from a child into a woman. Her journey is epic and visceral, building to an emotional climax as Alice finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves.
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Movie: Brother ( 2023 )
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene.
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Movie: The Eternal Memory ( 2023 )
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
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Movie: Jailer ( 2023 )
A retired jailer goes on a manhunt to find his son's killers. But the road leads him to a familiar, albeit a bit darker place. Can he emerge from this complex situation successfully?
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Movie: King Coal ( 2023 )
The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner's daughter exploring the region's dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty.
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Movie: Red, White & Royal Blue ( 2023 )
When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.
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Movie: Love Life ( 2022 )
Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with son, Keita. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life. Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man to cope with pain and guilt.
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Movie: Aurora's Sunrise ( 2023 )
A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.