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Fox and His Friends (1975)
Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
The Wrong Girl (2016-2017)
Created By: Judi McCrossin
Directed By: Anoop Sathyan
Starring: Jessica Marais, Ian Meadows, Rob Collins
Storyline: A contemporary drama that centers on the adventures of 29-year-old Lily Woodward as she navigates her life and all that entails.
Hair (1979)
Directed By: Milos Forman
Starring: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich gir...
Fargo (1996)
Directed By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
MPAA Rate: R
IMDb Top Movies: #175 Top 250
Storyline: Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
Storyline: The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Wonderful Precure! (2024-2025)
Starring: Atsumi Tanezaki, Maria Naganawa, Reina Ueda
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: Join Komugi in Animal Town, where people and animals live together, and help them face off against all those who dare disturb the peace by transforming into one of the 21st Precure!.
Blue Lock (2022-)
Starring: Ricco Fajardo, Aaron Dismuke, Drew Breedlove
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best and most egoistic striker in the world.
Maigret Sets a Trap (2016)
Directed By: Ashley Pearce
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Leo Staar, Shaun Dingwall
Storyline: Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Directed By: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: Harry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of...
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Directed By: Ron Howard
Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Black Thunder (1998)
Directed By: Rick Jacobson
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Richard Norton, Michael Cavanaugh
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A top secret stealth fighter is stolen. Only Navy Test Pilot Vince Connors can recover the plane and bring it back in one piece. Battling terrorists, and flying with deadly nerve gas, he has to evade his mentor, now the enemy's to...
Citadel: Diana (2024-)
Created By: Alessandro Fabbri
Starring: Matilda De Angelis, Lorenzo Cervasio, Maurizio Lombardi
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: In 2030 Milan, an undercover agent for the global spy agency Citadel is trapped behind enemy lines as a mole in the powerful enemy syndicate Manticore.
Love Live! Superstar!! (2021-)
Created By: Hajime Yatate
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Sayuri Date, Liyuu, Nako Misaki
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Five girls at a newly established private academy discover their passion for becoming "school idols" and pursue their dreams through singing and dancing.
Evil (2019-2024)
Created By: Michelle King, Robert King
Directed By: Ali Abbas Zafar
Starring: Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: A skeptical psychologist and scientist join a Catholic priest-in-training to investigate the church's backlog of unexplained mysteries, miracles, and demonic possessions.
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (2006-)
Directed By: Jesper Ganslandt
Starring: Guy Fieri, Hunter Fieri, Ryder Fieri
MPAA Rate: TV-G
Storyline: Food Network's Guy Fieri rolls out to visit America's favorite diners, drive-ins and dives, interviewing the owners of the food establishments and samples the items on their menus.
The Real Housewives of Potomac (2016-)
Created By: Scott Dunlop, Tom Ciaccio
Directed By: Hwang Dong-hyuk
Starring: Gizelle Bryant, Karen Huger, Ashley Darby
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: We follow the lives of 6 women residents of Potomac, Maryland, each in various stages of life and affluence, shaping their community and their lives.
TsumaSho: If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student. (2024-)
Storyline: The story follows Keisuke Niijima-who lost his beloved wife, Takae, ten years ago-and their daughter, Mai. They have been in a state of despair since Takae's death. One evening, an elementary school girl visits the Niijima family ...
Genie (2023)
Directed By: Sam Boyd
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Alan Cumming, Luis Guzmán
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: The film is a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas.
Moonshiners (2011-)
Created By: Stephen M. Irwin, Leigh McGrath
Starring: Jeremy Schwartz, Josh Owens, Eric 'Digger' Manes
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Follows a diverse group of people living in Appalachia who carry on a 200-year-old tradition passed down from their forefathers, making moonshine.
The Proud and Profane (1956)
Storyline: In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.
Borderlands (2024)
Directed By: Eli Roth
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Haley Bennett, Gina Gershon
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: An infamous bounty hunter returns to her childhood home, the chaotic planet Pandora, and forms an unlikely alliance with a team of misfits to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.
KamiErabi God.app (2023-2024)
Storyline: Gorou was chosen by a dying god he and other god candidates will kill each other for the title of God and the right to have a wish granted.
Loot (2022-)
Created By: Matt Hubbard, Alan Yang
Starring: Maya Rudolph, Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: After divorcing her husband of 20 years, Molly Novak must figure out what to do with her $87 billion settlement. She decides to reengage with her charitable foundation and reconnect with the real world--and finds herself along the...
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.
Gandhi (1982)
Storyline: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Loner Life in Another World (2024-)
Storyline: Isekai'd into another world, Haruka makes use of seemingly underpowered skills to live as a lone wolf.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (2024-)
Storyline: Following his return to boxing after dodging the draft, Ali beats Jerry Quarry. Later that night, hundreds are robbed at his after-party in a massive armed robbery.
Parallel (2024)
Directed By: Kourosh Ahari
Starring: Aldis Hodge, Edwin Hodge, Danielle Deadwyler
Storyline: Follows the journey of Vanessa, a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces.
Fist of the North Star (1986)
Directed By: Toyoo Ashida
Starring: Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
Snowpiercer (2020-2024)
Created By: Josh Friedman, Graeme Manson
Starring: Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
Fighting with My Family (2019)
Directed By: Stephen Merchant
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A flamboyant law firm secretary works tirelessly to gain justice for a small town wrecked by a utility company's pollution.
Dateline NBC (1992-)
Starring: Lester Holt, Keith Morrison, Andrea Canning
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: Long-running news-magazine/investigation series.
Ottoman Empire by Train (2024-)
Storyline: Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride covering 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Starting in south east Turkey going to through to Budapest. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th ...
The Twisters (2024)
Directed By: Michael Su
Starring: Tiffany, Mark Justice, Kayla Fields
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: Dozens of deadly tornadoes converge in the Midwest, merging into a mega twister set to obliterate everything for hundreds of miles.
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...
Bad Monkey (2024-)
Created By: Bill Lawrence
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat
MPAA Rate: TV-MA
Storyline: A detective turned restaurant inspector in Key West is pulled into a world of greed and corruption after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing. And yes, there's a monkey.
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.
First Man (2018)
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Fallen Angel (1945)
Directed By: Otto Preminger
Starring: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
MPAA Rate: Approved
Storyline: A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.
Fat City (1972)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
EastEnders (1985-)
Created By: Tony Holland, Julia Smith, Tony Jordan
Directed By: Carlo Carlei
Starring: Adam Woodyatt, Steve McFadden, Letitia Dean
MPAA Rate: TV-PG
Storyline: The everyday lives of working-class inhabitants of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. The square includes the Queen Vic pub and a street ...
Cops (1989-2024)
Created By: John Langley, Malcolm Barbour
Starring: Ruben Barela, Andrew Fincher, Alex Cox
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: Camera crews follow police officers while they work.
Meet Me Next Christmas (2024)
Storyline: In pursuit of a fairytale romance with the man of her dreams, Layla must race through New York City to get her hands on the hottest ticket in town: the sold out Pentatonix Christmas Eve Concert.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019-)
Starring: RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr
MPAA Rate: TV-14
Storyline: UK version of RuPaul's hit reality competition show where RuPaul searches for the country's next drag superstar.
Shadow Billionaire (2009)
Directed By: Alexis Spraic
Starring: Bob O'Connor, Jon Anderson, Peter Manso
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: After Larry Hillblom, founder of DHL, disappeared following a 1995 plane crash off his Micronesian island home, dozens of would be heirs came out of the woodwork to lay claim to his mega fortune.
Red One (2024)
Storyline: After Santa Claus (code name: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world's most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Chr...
Your Monster (2024)
Directed By: Caroline Lindy
Starring: Meghann Fahy, Melissa Barrera, Edmund Donovan
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner...
Graduation (2016)
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
Evil Dead II (1987)
Storyline: Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
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