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1883
2021–2022 · Series · 1 seasonWestern · Drama
The post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon, before settling in Montana to establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.
Paramount+ - #1197#1197
NetflixGodless
2017– · Series · 1 seasonWestern · Action · Drama
3 EmmysIn the 1880s American West, murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico--a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.
Netflix - #1495#1495Apple TV+
Black Bird
2022– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
2 EmmysJimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a deal with the FBI to befriend a suspected serial killer. Keene has to elicit a confession from Larry Hall to find the bodies of as many as eighteen wo...
Apple TV+ - #2394#2394PeacockPrime Video
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Movie · 1h 23mHorror
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
PeacockPrime Video - #2792#2792
Prime VideoGett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
2014 · Movie · Hebrew · 1h 55mBiography · Drama
After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
Prime Video - #4791#4791
NetflixPrime VideoCreep 2
2017 · Movie · 1h 18mHorror · Thriller
A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.
NetflixPrime Video - #4990#4990Netflix
This Is Going to Hurt
2022– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Comedy · Drama
Set on Labour Ward with all its hilarity and heart-lifting highs but also its gut-wrenching lows, the show delivers a brutally honest depiction of life as a junior doctor on the wards, and the toll the job can take back home.
Netflix - #6190#6190
Prime VideoBlack Sunday
1960 · Movie · Italian · 1h 27mHorror
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.
Prime Video - #10087#10087Peacock
Hamnet
2025 · Movie · 2h 5mBiography · Drama · History
1 OscarIn late 16th-century England, Agnes, a healer sensitive to the world around her, builds a home with William, a local tutor and aspiring playwright. As their lives fracture, they are tested by distance, silence, and grief.
Peacock - #12485#12485MAX
Bad Education
2019 · Movie · 1h 48mBiography · Comedy · Crime
1 EmmyThe beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
MAX - #12585#12585
Disney+Queen of Katwe
2016 · Movie · 2h 4mBiography · Drama · Sport
Living in the slum of Katwe in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona and her family. Her world changes one day when she meets Robert Katende, a missionary who teaches children how to play chess.
Disney+ - #12885#12885
Prime VideoMedici: Masters of Florence
2016–2019 · Series · Italian · 3 seasonsBiography · Drama · History
A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.
Prime Video - #12985#12985
NetflixEl Chapo
2017–2018 · Series · Spanish · 3 seasonsBiography · Crime · Drama
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power during the '90s as the head of the Sinaloa Cartel and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
Netflix - #14185#14185
NetflixHacksaw Ridge
2016 · Movie · 2h 19mBiography · Drama · History
2 OscarsWorld 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.
Netflix - #14585#14585Paramount+Prime Video
Smile 2
2024 · Movie · 2h 7mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.
Paramount+Prime Video - #15384#15384Prime Video
The Bohemian
2022 · Movie · Czech · 2h 10mBiography · Drama · History
Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Ca...
Prime Video - #15984#15984
Prime VideoThe House of the Devil
2009 · Movie · 1h 35mHorror · Mystery
In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Prime Video - #16484#16484Prime Video
Good Boy
2022 · Movie · Norwegian · 1h 16mHorror · Thriller
Christian - a millionaire heir, meets Sigrid - a young student, on a dating app. They hit it off quickly, but there's only one problem: Christian lives with Frank, a man who dresses up and constantly acts like a dog.
Prime Video - #17184#17184Prime Video
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Movie · 2h 12mBiography · Musical
Songwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.
Prime Video - #17783#17783MAX
Walk the Line
2005 · Movie · 2h 16mBiography · Drama
1 OscarA chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
MAX - #18283#18283Prime Video
Deep Fear
2022 · Movie · French · 1h 20mHorror
Paris, the early 90s. Three students decide to celebrate their graduation with a visit of the Paris catacombs. When they discover the legendary 717 Bunker. Little do they know it's not the only thing Nazi soldiers have left behind...
Prime Video - #19283#19283
Prime VideoPrick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie · 1h 45mBiography · Drama
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
Prime Video - #20083#20083
Prime VideoDeath Valley Days
1952–1970 · Series · 18 seasonsWestern
Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product former...
Prime Video - #20283#20283Hulu
Benediction
2021 · Movie · 2h 17mBiography · Drama · History
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Hulu - #20782#20782Hulu
Color Out of Space
2020 · Movie · 1h 51mHorror · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
Hulu - #21682#21682
Prime VideoDeath Line
1972 · Movie · 1h 27mHorror · Mystery
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Prime Video - #22782#22782Netflix
The Law According to Lidia Poët
2023– · Series · Italian · 2 seasonsBiography · Crime · Drama
In late 19th-century Turin, Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. Nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in...
Netflix - #23981#23981
Prime VideoThe Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 · Movie · Italian · 1h 52mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
A reporter and a blind puzzle writer investigate a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company conducting secret genetic experiments, finding themselves targeted by the killer.
Prime Video - #24481#24481
PeacockPrime VideoAlligator
1980 · Movie · 1h 31mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered ...
PeacockPrime Video - #25981#25981PeacockPrime Video
Girl You Know It's True
2023 · Movie · German · 2h 4mBiography · Drama
Dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's as Milli Vanilli. The duo never sang a word in their songs nor their debut album and, when the truth was finally revealed, they started one of the biggest scandals i...
PeacockPrime Video - #26380#26380Netflix
If Wishes Could Kill
2026– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonHorror · Thriller
Follows five friends in high school who receive a death warning from a mysterious wish-granting app. As they struggle to escape their fates, they uncover chilling truths that connect the app to the sudden death of a classmate.
Netflix - #26780#26780
Prime VideoEden Lake
2008 · Movie · 1h 31mHorror · Thriller
When a couple goes to a remote lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize them, and a weekend outing becomes a battle for su...
Prime Video - #27180#27180Prime Video
Twins of Evil
1971 · Movie · 1h 27mHorror
A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the r...
Prime Video - #27480#27480
Prime VideoProfessor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017 · Movie · 1h 48mBiography · Drama · History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Prime Video - #27680#27680Netflix
The Platform
2019 · Movie · Spanish · 1h 34mHorror · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In a prison where inmates are fed on a descending platform, those on the upper levels take more than their fair share while those below are left to starve on scraps and one man decides to change the system.
Netflix - #28080#28080MAX
Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose
2025– · Series · Spanish · 1 seasonBiography · Drama
Chronicles the personal and professional journey of the creative genius behind El Chavo del 8, El Chapulín Colorado, and Dr. Chapatín, from childhood through his rise as a TV icon in the 70s and 80s.
MAX - #28280#28280Hulu
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025 · Movie · 2h 16mBiography · Drama · History
Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, is proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.
Hulu - #28780#28780
PeacockPrime VideoPhantasm
1979 · Movie · 1h 29mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Newly orphaned teenager Mike Pearson, his older brother Jody, and their friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons in their southern California town.
PeacockPrime Video - #29080#29080Netflix
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Drama · History
The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America's first female self-made millionaire.
Netflix - #30079#30079Peacock
Hysteria!
2024– · Series · 1 seasonHorror · Thriller
Follows a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts who use the town's sudden interest in the occult to start a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a strange series of events triggers a witch hunt that leads back t...
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