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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974–1975 · Series · 1 seasonHorror · Mystery · Thriller
Carl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
Peacock - #1595
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+ - #2992

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 - #5390
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 - #8189
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 - #14385

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 - #15885
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 - #16984
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 - #17684
The 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 - #18984
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 - #21983
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 - #22382
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 - #23882

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 - #24382
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 - #25781
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 - #26081
Alligator
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 - #27281
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 - #27780
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 - #29380
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 - #29780
Phantasm
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 - #30379
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 - #31879
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 - #32779
Hell House LLC
2015 · Movie · 1h 33mHorror · Mystery
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really ha...
Prime Video - #33979
The Great Train Robbery
2013– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
Prime Video - #35478
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 - #35678

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 - #36678
Ash and Bone
2022 · Movie · 1h 37mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
Cassie is a rebelling teen and with a new stepmom it escalates and her father Lucas decides to take her and his new wife Sarah out of the city for some bonding and quality time together. What they find instead is the McKinley's an...
Prime Video - #36778
Diés Iraé
2025 · Movie · MalayalamHorror · Thriller
Rohan's affluent lifestyle spirals out of control as he becomes convinced there is a supernatural entity in his home. As he starts to uncover the mystery, he is drawn into unexpected worlds and alliances, along with the horrors that lie ahead.
Hulu - #37378
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 - #37878
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 - #38278

From Beyond
1986 · Movie · 1h 25mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Prime Video - #38378
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 - #38478
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+ - #38678
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 - #38878
The Portrait
2023 · Movie · 1h 26mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her m...
Prime Video - #39078
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 - #39577
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 - #40077
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+ - #40977
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 - #41177
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 - #41877

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 - #41976
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 - #42076
Annabelle: Creation
2017 · Movie · 1h 49mHorror · Mystery · Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, A...
MAX - #42976
13 Nights of Elvira
2014– · Series · 1 seasonHorror
Break out the crucifix, get some garlic, and say your prayers cause Elvira's coming for a visit. This October the Mistress of the Dark, herself, is digging up some awful-er-awesome movies for 13 Nights of Elvira! Elvira takes on s...
PeacockPrime Video - #43176
See You in Another Life
2024– · Series · Spanish · 1 seasonBiography · Crime · Drama
On March 11, 2004, Madrid bombings occurred. A 16-year-old named Baby and Emilio Trashorras were involved in transporting explosives. Baby's testimony was vital in the 2007 trial related to the attacks.
Disney+Hulu - #44376
Bed of the Dead
2016 · Movie · 1h 28mHorror · Mystery
Four people find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one b...
Prime Video - #45876
28 Years Later
2025 · Movie · 1h 55mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other su...
Netflix - #46676

Kennedy
1983– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Drama · History
Biography of the 1961-1963 Presidency of John F. Kennedy with Martin Sheen and Blair Brown. Covers the momentous presidential years and the lives, loves, and triumphs of one of the most controversial families of the twentieth-cent...
Peacock - #47375
The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie · 2h 4mBiography · Drama · History
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Chest...
Prime Video - #47775
The End of the Tour
2015 · Movie · 1h 46mBiography · Drama
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Netflix - #48275
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
2018 · Movie · 1h 27mBiography · Crime · Drama
On the night she plans to take her own life, a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive. She is released, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective.
Hulu - #48475
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Movie · 1h 54mBiography · Comedy · Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Prime Video - #48675
Things Will Be Different
2024 · Movie · 1h 42mHorror · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lie low in a farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking po...
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