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White Bird (2023)
Directed By: Marc Forster
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Olivia Ross
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian is visited by his grandmother and is transformed by the story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Mid90s (2018)
Directed By: Jonah Hill
Starring: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! (2024-)
Storyline: During treasure hunting's golden age, Krai and friends aspired to be great adventurers. As they pursued this dream, Krai, realizing it wasn't for him, wished to retire from the perilous life of a treasure hunter.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (2015-2024)
Created By: Fujino Omori
Starring: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Maaya Uchida, Bryson Baugus
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: A fateful encounter - what adventuring is all about. But for Bell Cranel, meeting a girl doesn't go quite as planned.
GTMax (2024)
Storyline: Soélie, a young motocross prodigy, sees her dreams of success shattered by an accident. She now devotes herself to training her brother, Michael. When he is recruited by TMAX scooter racers for a high-profile heist in Paris, Soéli...
The Grinch (2018)
Directed By: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Directed By: Mel Gibson
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey
MPAA Rate: R
IMDb Top Movies: #190 Top 250
Storyline: World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
MacGyver (2016-2021)
Created By: Lee David Zlotoff, Peter M. Lenkov, Paul Downs Colaizzo
Starring: Lucas Till, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Young Angus "Mac" MacGyver works for a clandestine organization within the U.S. government, relying on his unconventional problem-solving skills to save lives.
The Talk (2010-2024)
Created By: Sara Gilbert
Directed By: Joe Penna
Starring: Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen Moonves, Sheryl Underwood
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: A weekday gabfest offering a female perspective on the day's headlines.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
MPAA Rate: PG-13
IMDb Top Movies: #12 Top 250
Storyline: While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003-)
Created By: Jimmy Kimmel
Directed By: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Jimmy Kimmel, Cleto and the Cletones, Guillermo Rodriguez
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Jimmy Kimmel interviews celebrities.
La mente del poder (2024-)
Storyline: Follows the president-elect's psychologist, who is extorted by a mysterious organization that threatens to reveal his darkest secret unless he gets the newly elected chief executive to resign.
Jack the Ripper (1988-)
Directed By: David Wickes
Starring: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: In Victorian-era London, Scotland Yard Police Inspector Frederick Abberline battles his drinking problem while he investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
Storyline: Follows fresh interviews, archival footage, and various animation techniques like marionation to recreate one of the world's leading actors on screen, bringing them back to life through innovative methods.
Big Brother (2000-)
Created By: John de Mol, Ron Diesel
Directed By: Curnal Achilles Aulisio, Adam Christian Clark
Starring: Julie Chen Moonves, Clayton Halsey, Phil Proctor
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: Contestants must compete against each other for a chance to win $500,000 in a house wired with cameras and microphones, capturing their every move for a TV and Internet audience.
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (2024-)
Storyline: Sheltered Osaka yakuza princess reluctantly weds charming but sadistic Tokyo crime heir to unite feuding families, braving his dark proclivities for the sake of peace.
Agatha All Along (2024-)
Created By: Jac Schaeffer
Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: A spell-bound Agatha Harkness regains freedom thanks to a teen's help. Intrigued by his plea, she embarks on the Witches' Road trials to reclaim her powers and discover the teen's motivations.
Speak No Evil (2024)
Directed By: James Watkins
Starring: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A family is invited to spend a whole weekend in a lonely home in the countryside, but as the weekend progresses, they realize that a dark side lies within the family who invited them.
TRILLION GAME (2024-)
Storyline: What would you do if you had a billion dollars? Witness Haru and Gaku as they enter the billionaire's club!.
Pachinko (2022-)
Created By: Soo Hugh
Starring: Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Minha Kim
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
Greedy People (2024)
Directed By: Potsy Ponciroli
Starring: Himesh Patel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Follows the residents of a small island town who must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars; a series of increasingly bad decisions upend the once peaceful community.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Storyline: A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.
The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians (2024-)
Storyline: Kurumi Mirai is in the first year of high school. She has enrolled in junior high section of the Redrun Magic School, the world's only facility for mages that approved by International Mage League and able to work under royal fami...
Stranger Things (2016-2025)
Created By: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Directed By: Edward Zwick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Storyline: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
MPAA Rate: PG-13
IMDb Top Movies: #38 Top 250
Storyline: Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Land of Mine (2015)
Directed By: Martin Zandvliet
Starring: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Kiss of Death (1947)
Directed By: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
MPAA Rate: Approved
Storyline: A thief arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind after his wife dies under mysterious circumstances.
Manhattan (1979)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
20/20 (1978-)
Created By: Roone Arledge
Starring: David Muir, Amy Robach, Elizabeth Vargas
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: ABC's original hour-long news magazine.
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints (2024-2025)
Storyline: Explores the lives and sacrifices of historical saints like Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximillian Kolbe, highlighting their acts.
The Gone (2023-)
Storyline: An Irish detective teams up with a Kiwi cop to find an Irish couple who have vanished from a rural New Zealand town. The pair have to contend with a community's growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of...
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Directed By: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.
Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking (2024-)
Storyline: Pairs of professional bakers compete to create spellbinding edible showpieces on the actual sets where the Harry Potter films were made.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Storyline: The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain, their homeland, from the dragon Smaug.
Reasonable Doubt (2022-)
Created By: Raamla Mohamed
Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi, McKinley Freeman, Tim Jo
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: Jax Stewart juggles work, family, friends, and a complicated personal life as a brilliant and fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks the justice system every chance she gets.
My Brilliant Friend (2018-2024)
Created By: Saverio Costanzo
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Annarita Vitolo, Margherita Mazzucco
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
Criminal Minds (2005-)
Created By: Jeff Davis
Starring: Kirsten Vangsness, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: A group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) using behavioral analysis and profiling to help investigate crimes and find the suspect known as the unsub.
Ellis (2024-)
Storyline: Inspector Ellis and DS Harper, her partner, arrive at police stations to solve murder cases. Despite being overlooked as a Black woman, Ellis is a determined detective driven by a quest for justice and compassion.
Mayor of Kingstown (2021-)
Created By: Hugh Dillon, Taylor Sheridan
Directed By: Edward Yang
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
Maudie (2016)
Directed By: Aisling Walsh
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
Where's Wanda? (2024-)
Created By: Oliver Lansley, Zoltan Spirandelli
Starring: Heike Makatsch, Axel Stein, Lea Drinda
Storyline: Desperate parents Dedo and Carlotta Klatt search for their missing daughter months after her disappearance. Frustrated by the police's inability to find her, they investigate their neighbors, uncovering dark secrets behind closed ...
Taskmaster (2015-)
Directed By: Gero Priemel
Starring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Kerry Godliman
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Five comedians are set tasks challenging their creativity and wit. The tasks are supervised by Alex Horne but the Taskmaster, Greg Davies, always has the final word.
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Directed By: Takashi Yamazaki
Starring: Minami Hamabe, Munetaka Aoki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Let's Make a Deal (2009-)
Directed By: Zdenek Zelenka
Starring: Wayne Brady, Jonathan Mangum, Tiffany Coyne
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: Hosted by Wayne Brady, this reboot of the classic game show features costumed contestants who are offered deals and must choose to keep what they have or trade for the possibility of winning big.
Switched at Birth (2011-)
Created By: Lizzy Weiss
Starring: Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie
Tyler Perry's Assisted Living (2020-)
Created By: Tyler Perry
Starring: J. Anthony Brown, Na'im Lynn, Courtney Nichole
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: After losing his job, Jeremy, a patriarch of a young family with teenage children, decides to move to the backwoods of Georgia to help his crazy grandfather.
Macunaima (1969)
Directed By: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Starring: Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and followers on a journey to the Big City. More mira...
Tsunami: Race Against Time (2024-)
Storyline: A documentary series exploring the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that affected 14 countries, offering a comprehensive look at the heart-stopping events.
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