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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+ - #992

Gett: 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 - #2590
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 - #4289
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2019–2023 · Series · 3 seasonsBiography · Drama
The show tracks the Wu Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, who strives to unite a dozen young Black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
Hulu - #6587
Jinny's Kitchen
2023– · Series · Korean · 2 seasonsReality
Succeeding 'Youn's Kitchen', Lee Seo Jin will be running a new franchise restaurant abroad that specializes in Korean street food. The show features fellow actors Lee, Jung Yu-mi, Park Seo-joon, Choi Woo-shik and world star BTS V.
Prime Video - #7885

El 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 - #8185
Culinary Class Wars
2024– · Series · Korean · 2 seasonsReality
Pits 100 renowned chefs and undiscovered talents against each other in a culinary battle. Judged by the esteemed Paik Jong-won and Chef Anh Sung-jae, the show promises to showcase the ultimate clash of culinary skills and creativity.
Netflix - #9384
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 - #10484
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 - #12183
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 - #13382
Couples Therapy
2019–2025 · Series · 4 seasonsReality
COUPLES THERAPY unlocks a hidden world: other people's relationships. Far from reality-show caricatures, this is true documentary filmmaking that brings viewers into authentic and visceral experience of weekly therapy with four co...
Paramount+Prime Video - #14082
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 - #16481
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 - #17980
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 - #19579
Roofman
2025 · Movie · 2h 6mBiography · Crime · Drama
A charismatic criminal, while on the run from the police, hides in a hidden space of a toy store. There, he adopts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee, beginning a relationship as unlikely as it is risky.
Paramount+Prime Video - #22178
The Last Alaskans
2015– · Series · 4 seasonsReality
An eight-part special event that documents the lives of some of the most isolated people in America - the last of their kind - as they struggle and thrive in Alaska's untouched wilderness located hundreds of miles from roads, civi...
Disney+MAXHulu - #22478
The Whole Wide World
1996 · Movie · 1h 51mBiography · Drama · Romance
In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Prime Video - #22678

Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
2014 · Movie · 1h 58mBiography · Comedy · Drama
Billy Crystal tells the stories of his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years, and finally adulthood. The Tony Award-winning show is a funny and poignant exploration of family and fate, loving and loss.
MAX - #23978
The King's Choice
2016 · Movie · Norwegian · 2h 13mBiography · Drama · History
April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...
Prime Video - #24278
The Apprentice
2024 · Movie · 2h 2mBiography · Drama · History
A young man took over his father's real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York, and got the helping hand of an infamous closeted gay lawyer who helped him turn this young man into a notorious legend. Based on true events.
Prime Video - #24478
Apple Cider Vinegar
2025– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
The life of wellness guru Belle Gibson, who had a large social media following, where she pretended to be suffering from cancer but keeping the disease under control using self-care therapies. She confessed that none of it was true.
Netflix - #24578
The Shrink Next Door
2021– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Comedy · Drama
The story of Marty and the therapist who turned his life around - then took it over. When he meets Dr. Ike, Marty just wants to get better at boundaries. Over 30 years, he'll learn all about them - and what happens when they get c...
Apple TV+ - #24778
Moon Manor
2022 · Movie · 1h 43mBiography · Comedy · Drama
Jimmy throws himself a fabulous FUNeral before his curated death, proving the art of living is the art of dying. A comedy with a star-studded cast and the debut feature from female filmmakers KnifeRock. Score by The Dream Team (Co...
Prime Video - #25278
Dumb Money
2023 · Movie · 1h 45mBiography · Comedy · Drama
A regular guy sinks his life savings into the stock of videogame store GameStop and starts posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up and a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich, until the billionaires fig...
Hulu - #26177
Amistad
1997 · Movie · 2h 35mBiography · Drama · History
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legal...
Paramount+ - #27077
Srikanth
2024 · Movie · Hindi · 2h 14mBiography · Drama
Blind Srikanth gets into MIT, founds Bollant Industries. Pursues goals for visually impaired while facing entrepreneurial challenges, navigating personal sacrifices. Highlights obstacles overcome by the blind in academics and busi...
Netflix - #27777

Aquarius
2015–2016 · Series · 2 seasonsBiography · Crime · Drama
A gritty 1960s cop drama about LAPD detective Sam Hodiak and his trainee, who must deal with gangs, brutal crimes, changing times, family crises and unhinged manipulative small-time crook Charles Manson, who's slowly building his ...
Netflix - #28676

Project Runway
2004– · Series · 21 seasonsReality
2 EmmysAspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to break into the industry in this reality competition. Each week, a designer is eliminated from the competition after exhibiting their work in front of a judges' panel.
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