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2022 Movie 125 min

HD NR

2022 7.1 125 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama

Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. Manuel, a young accountant, imprisoned and awaiting trial for embezzlement, faces a sentence of 6 to 8 years, a disproportionate punishment for the crime ...

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1991 Movie 237 min

A Brighter Summer Day

HD NR

1991 8.2 237 min

Country: Taiwan

Genre: Crime, Drama

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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2015 Movie 99 min

True Story

HD PG-13

2015 6.2 99 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

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2017 Movie 95 min

6 Days

HD R

2017 6 95 min

Country: New Zealand

Genre: Action, Drama

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military ...

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1984 Movie 102 min

The Philadelphia Experiment

HD PG

1984 6.1 102 min

Country: USA

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

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2005 Movie 122 min

Two for the Money

HD R

2005 6.0 122 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Crime

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

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2014 Movie 85 min

A Wife’s Nightmare

HD NR

2014 6.3 85 min

Country: Canada

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.

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1986 Movie 129 min

The Delta Force

HD R

1986 5.8 129 min

Country: Israel

Genre: Action, Adventure

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists ...

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2013 Movie 114 min

Devil’s Knot

HD NR

2013 6.1 114 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

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2019 Movie 148 min

The Endless Trench

HD NR

2019 6.9 148 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama, History

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals ...

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2020 Movie 122 min

Fukushima 50

HD NR

2020 6.4 122 min

Country: Japan

Genre: Action, Drama

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and ...

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2002 Movie 107 min

Bloody Sunday

HD R

2002 7.3 107 min

Country: Ireland

Genre: Drama, History

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

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1988 Movie 120 min

Evil Angels

HD PG-13

1988 6.7 120 min

Country: Australia

Genre: Drama

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from ...

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2024 Movie 113 min

Unsung Hero

HD PG

2024 8.5 113 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Music

When David Smallbone's successful music company collapses, he moves his family from Australia to the United States in search of a brighter future. With nothing more than their six ...

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2019 Movie 104 min

Above Suspicion

HD R

2019 5.9 104 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Crime

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman ...

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1989 Movie 108 min

Lean On Me

HD PG-13

1989 7.3 108 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the ...

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2024 Movie 96 min

1992

HD R

2024 N/A 96 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, ...

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2023 Movie 109 min

True Spirit

HD PG

2023 6.9 109 min

Country: Australia

Genre: Adventure, Drama

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her ...

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2020 Movie 89 min

Centigrade

HD NR

2020 5.8 89 min

Country: USA

Genre: Thriller

A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.

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2019 Movie 104 min

Battle of Jangsari

HD NR

2019 6.9 104 min

Country: South Korea

Genre: Drama, History

Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying ...

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2020 Movie 128 min

Wasp Network

HD R

2020 6.1 128 min

Country: Belgium

Genre: Drama, History

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he ...

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2021 Movie 132 min

Being the Ricardos

HD R

2021 6.5 132 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.

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2020 Movie 107 min

Misbehaviour

HD NR

2020 6.4 107 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in ...

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2019 Movie 92 min

Stockholm

HD NR

2019 5.8 92 min

Country: Canada

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The ...

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2016 Movie 90 min

Nina

HD NR

2016 5.3 90 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Music

The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

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2013 Movie 90 min

The Bling Ring

HD R

2013 5.4 90 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

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2013 Movie 105 min

The Frozen Ground

HD R

2013 6.2 105 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Crime, Thriller

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

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2014 Movie 126 min

The Admiral: Roaring Currents

HD NR

2014 7 126 min

Country: South Korea

Genre: Action, Drama

The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598, where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of ...

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