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Stranger Things
2016–2025 · Series · 5 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama · Horror
12 EmmysBest Sci-Fi & Fantasy SeriesIn 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.
Netflix - #3986
High School Return of a Gangster
2024– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
A middle-aged gangster finds himself body-swapped into the body of a bullied teen. Now inhabited by a tough-as-nails gangster, the teen starts to fight back against the power structure at his school and change his miserable existe...
Hulu - #4782

Sometimes in April
2005 · Movie · 2h 20mWar · Drama · History
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...
MAX - #4882
Pit Babe
2023– · Series · Thai · 2 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy · Romance · Sport
Babe, the number 1 driver, is Charlie's idol. Charlie wants to be like Babe, but he does not have a race car. He plucks up courage and approaches Babe to ask to borrow one. Babe agrees and the two make an interesting deal.
Netflix - #5281
Number 24
2024 · Movie · Norwegian · 1h 51mWar · Biography · Drama
Young apprentice Gunnar Sønsteby from Rjukan decides to resist Nazi-Germany on the day of the invasion to later become the leader of the "Oslo-gang" carrying out countless daring acts of sabotage making him Norway's greatest war h...
Netflix - #5479
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie · 2h 4mWar · Drama · Romance
In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.
Netflix - #5878
Medusa
2021 · Movie · Portuguese · 2h 12mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
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.
Prime Video - #6177
Enys Men
2023 · Movie · 1h 36mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is a n...
Hulu - #6477
Padmaavat
2018 · Movie · Hindi · 2h 43mWar · Drama · History
Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Me...
Netflix - #6777
Reunited Worlds
2017– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy · Romance
Sung Hae Sung reappears 12 years after a fatal accident, unchanged and seeking answers about his resurrection. Aided by friends and Jong Won, he strives to right wrongs and unravel the enigma surrounding his death.
Netflix - #6877
Riphagen the Untouchable
2016 · Movie · Dutch · 2h 11mWar · Biography · Drama
The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
Netflix - #7076
Women at War
2022– · Series · French · 1 seasonWar · Drama · History
France, 1914. The destinies of four women intersect: Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute; Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory; Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent; and Suzanne, a feminist n...
Netflix - #8174
Alice in Wonderland
1986– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
One of the most well-known stories begins one golden summer afternoon. Alice is sitting on a riverbank with her sister when a fully-dressed, talking rabbit runs past her. She follows the rabbit down the hole and enters a nonsensic...
Prime Video - #8674
The Heretics
2017 · Movie · 1h 27mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
Prime Video - #9173
The Six Triple Eight
2024 · Movie · 2h 7mWar · Drama · History
During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
Netflix - #9473
From Tomorrow
2024– · Series · Spanish · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
Gabriela moves into a new home where she discovers a mysterious mineral that allows her to see visions of the future, including her daughter's death. Convinced they're real, she teams up with an inspector to try to change Emma's f...
Hulu - #9573
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025 · Movie · 1h 39mWar · Drama
Depicts 8-year-old Bobo's life on her family's Rhodesian farm during the Bush War's final stages. It explores the family's bond with Africa's land and the war's impact on the region and individuals through Bobo's perspective.
Netflix - #9973
Chronofilm
2020– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
Chronofilm, one of the hottest reality shows on television showing off your history books like it's never been taught. Follow a group of historians as they travel back in time to film recreations with the sole mission of just reco...
Prime Video - #10872
Amrapali
1966 · Movie · Hindi · 1h 59mSci-Fi & Fantasy · History
A victory over neighboring state Vaishai has always eluded Magadh Samrat Ajaatshatru despite being winning and taking control over all neighboring states. He attacks Vaishali only get defeated again. Wounded, lost and on the run, ...
Netflix - #12070
The End Will Be Spectacular
2019 · Movie · Kurdish · 2h 15mWar
After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression. In the fight for her people's freedom, she will not remain a passive witness.
Prime Video - #13569
Soul Reaper
2024 · Movie · Indonesian · 1h 52mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realizes that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.
Prime Video - #13868
Pilecki's Report
2023 · Movie · Polish · 1h 58mWar · Biography · Drama
Polish WWII resistance fighter Witold Pilecki infiltrates Auschwitz, is imprisoned and interrogated by communist officials post-war, depicting his wartime experiences, incarceration, torture, and 1948 execution for opposing Soviet...
Netflix - #16066
Kill Me Again
2025 · Movie · 1h 48mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
Charlie, a notorious serial killer known as the Midnight Mangler finds himself trapped, reliving the same violent night over and over. Initially embracing his grisly urges, Charlie soon becomes desperate to escape the endless nigh...
Prime Video - #16566
Battle for the Western Front
2022 · Movie · 1h 30mWar
Inspired by Canuck WWI flying ace Billy Bishop, two young soldiers crash the front lines in August 1918. With the Allies detained, their platoon must desperately hold out alongside legendary Anishinaabe sniper Francis "Peggy" Pega...
Prime Video - #16865

The Silent Planet
2024 · Movie · 1h 35mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
Follows two inmates in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
Paramount+Prime Video - #16965
The Advanced Guard
1998 · Movie · 1h 31mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
As a prelude to full-blown alien invasion, a team of four aliens telepathically linked with their lifelike human-looking android bodies abducts four random humans to test them to determine if humans can make good slaves.
Prime Video - #17864
Crown of Shadows
2025 · Movie · 2h 22mSci-Fi & Fantasy
The Kingdom of Aberon has fallen into darkness under Queen Ginnarra's reign since she murdered the King. Exiled and hunted, her brother Prince Elderon joins a rebellion, summoning a dragon to defeat the Queen and the Dark Gods she...
Prime Video - #17964
The Piper
2023 · Movie · 1h 45mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
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