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Plot: A multi-racial family consisting of the parents, three adopted children and one biological child have their ties tested when one child starts seeing things the others can not.
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Plot: Eric Neill is sent to jail after the judge finds him guilty of killing author Olivia Lake. His sister, however, denies the allegations and decides to reinvestigate the case herself.
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Plot: Lorena Bobbitt became a household name in 1993 when she cut off her husband's penis. She became the butt of jokes as her story became a fixture on cable news. Twenty-five years after the case of Lorena and John Bobbitt, executive producer Jordan Peele reinvestigates the story that made headlines around...
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Plot: Best friends Issa and Molly belong to the same social background and face similar experiences. They always strive to find solutions to their problems by facing them together.
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Plot: Written by and featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this comedy follows the lives of six characters in their 20s. A motley crew become housemates during a time where property prices and high-rent costs are difficult to afford. Using a Property Guardian scheme, the group is banded together in a disused hospital...
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Plot: Based on Sarai Walker's best-selling novel of the same name, "Dietland" offers a darkly comedic look at the war of the sexes. The series explores a multitude of issues women face today -- including patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture and unrealistic beauty standards -- by following Plum Kettle's journey...
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Plot: Holly attends university with her childhood best friend. But when her friend becomes embroiled with an exclusive group of people and her behavior changes, Holly becomes concerned for her and decides to investigate. Now, a new term has started and Holly lives with some younger student activists. A new...
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Plot: Competing in the Tour de France is grueling for cyclists, who must travel more than 2,000 miles in 21 stages over the course of 23 days. That means proper nourishment is critical for participants in the race, who rely on chefs to give them the food they need to perform at the top of their games. For...
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Plot: Just months after a tragic loss, detective Sofia Karppi investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a Helsinki construction company.
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Plot: Freddy and Baba are a deadly duo, drawn together by violence and the dark past that haunts each of them. DS Lola Franks and DI Jackson Mendy are new partners thrown together to catch the killers before they strike again.
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Plot: This Netflix original series follows college football teams that aren't major programs and don't get much national attention. After a couple seasons of profiling recruits at East Mississippi Community College, which has won several NJCAA national titles, the reality series shifts its focus to Independence...
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Plot: Larry David, a famous television writer and producer, gets into various misadventures with his friends and celebrity colleagues in Los Angeles.
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Plot: Ted Bundy was one of America's most notorious serial killers. He was convicted in the deaths of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. Thirty years after Bundy's 1989 execution, this docuseries brings viewers into the mind of the criminal known as the "Jack Ripper of the United States." Oscar...
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Plot: Barry, who kills to earn a living, discovers the joy of acting while he is looking for his target. Surprisingly, he loves it so much that he is ready to leave his old life behind.
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Plot: Looking for any semblance of the idyllic middle-class existence he knew before his father's death and the family business collapsing, a charming, eternally optimistic ex-surfer named Dud stumbles into his life's new path. He finds himself on the doorstep of a rundown fraternal lodge, where a "Luminous...
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Plot: When is a confession not a confession? When it's involuntary, coerced or downright false. Those are the claims made by the subjects featured in this true-crime series. Each episode goes inside a case in which a murder suspect made a confession but later backtracked. Episodes include interviews with...
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Plot: Through interviews with friends, players and insiders, this docuseries examines how Aaron Hernandez went from an NFL star to a convicted killer.
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Plot: Two murders that shook the small town of Ada, Okla., in the 1980s gained national attention and even led to renowned author John Grisham writing a nonfiction book about the crimes. Now Grisham serves as an executive producer for this six-part docuseries -- which shares its name with his 2006 book --...
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Plot: Mac Conway, a Marine who fought in the Vietnam War, returns home in the year 1972. However, he is not well-received by his loved ones.
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Plot: Follows three star high school quarterbacks as they play their final season before moving on to Division I college football.
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Plot: The English city of Sunderland has seen its main industries of shipbuilding and mining fall by the wayside, which means the Sunderland Association Football Club -- SAFC -- has become an increasingly more important part of the lifeblood of the unique city. The club's fans are some of the most passionate...
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Plot: Attorney and author Marcia Clark co-writes and executive produces a new legal drama about Maya Travis, a Los Angeles district attorney who suffers a devastating defeat when prosecuting an A-list actor for double murder. With her high-profile career derailed, she decides she needs a change and flees...
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Plot: Trials are examined with a focus on how the media may have impacted the verdicts.
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Plot: In the 1980s, Henry Lee Lucas confessed to hundreds of murders, which allowed grieving families to get closure for the unsolved cases. There was no direct evidence linking Lucas to the crime scenes, but he convinced authorities of his involvement by being able to sketch victims' portraits and cite brutal...
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Plot: `Rellik' unravels the obsessive hunt of DCI Gabriel Markham to find the serial killer who left the detective both physically and mentally scarred. Telling the tale backwards from the end, the story begins with the capture of the killer, and reverses from kill to kill to the very beginning of the murderer...
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Plot: Netflix's latest docuseries tackles the unsolved murder of Cathy Cesnik, a beloved nun and Catholic high school teacher in Baltimore. After disappearing on Nov. 7, 1969, Cesnik's body was found nearly two months later -- but to this day, the killer remains unnamed. In the '90s, the case returned to...
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Plot: Based on Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, "The Outsider" begins by following an investigation which at first seems like it will be simple and straightforward but things change as it leads into the gruesome murder of a young boy by a seasoned cop. When an insidious supernatural force...
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Plot: `Collateral' is a four-part thriller set in London that takes place over four days. When a pizza delivery driver is shot down in South London, Detective Inspector Kip Glaspie, played by `Great Gatsby' star Carey Mulligan, is left in charge of the investigation and refuses to accept the murder as just...
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Plot: A woman whose humdrum life gets turned upside down when she receives a text from her college sweetheart inviting her to drop everything and meet him in New York to fulfil the pact they made 17 years earlier.
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Plot: An alternate American history during World War II is told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they endure the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, who captures the presidency and turns the nation toward fascism.
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Plot: Alex, a legitimate businessman, tries to evade his family's dark past. However, a murder exposes his family's mafia ties and he has to enter the world of crime to protect his loved ones.
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Plot: In the blink of an eye, Diane Lockhart, a lawyer, loses her entire life savings due to a scam. She is then forced to find a job and start afresh.
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Plot: Nasir Khan gives a lift to a mysterious woman and takes her to a party hosted by his friend. However, he is charged with murder when she is found dead and must prove his innocence.
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Plot: Howard Silk, a low-level bureaucrat in an agency, is not in a good place in life. He discovers that the agency that employs him is a gateway to a new dimension.
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Plot: Individuals from all walks of life who check into Room 104 of a popular American motel experience various incidents during their stay there.
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Plot: The Logan family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.
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Plot: This documentary series reveals young women emerging from the shadows and uniting their voices against singer R. Kelly. Celebrated as one of the greatest R&B singers of all time, R. Kelly's career has been plagued with rumours of abuse, paedophilia, and predatory behaviour toward women. Now, survivors...
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Plot: Five Mafia families controlled New York in the 1970s and '80s, until a group of federal agents work to take them down.
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Plot: "The Looming Tower" traces the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in the late '90s and how a rivalry between the FBI and CIA during the time period may have inadvertently set the path for the attacks of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington...
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Plot: Olivia Pope, a former media consultant to the President of the United States, starts her own crisis management firm. However, she soon realises that her employees might be hiding darker secrets.
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Plot: Tony Soprano, an Italian-American mafia head based in New Jersey, struggles to manage his family and criminal life and confides his affairs to his psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi.
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Plot: Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, who also collaborated on HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," the semifictional drama series "The Deuce" tells of the germination of the sex-trade industry in the heart of New York's Times Square. It's the early 1970s, and the porn business begins a shift from...
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Plot: The disappearance of former college acquaintance Chantal leads several 20-somethings to get entangled in the mystery of how she went missing. Leading the search party is Dory, a lifelong doormat who works as a rich housewife's assistant. Dory makes it her personal mission to find Chantal -- and she'...
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Plot: Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Five novels in the series have so far been published. Wikipedia...
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Plot: After being sexually assaulted in a nightclub, Arabella's life changes irreversibly and she is forced to reassess everything, including her career, friends and family.
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Plot: After treating her mental illness, crime reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown to solve the murder of two young girls. However, she is forced to face and deal with her own demons too.
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Plot: Spencer James is a rising football player who makes the shift to an affluent Beverly Hills school on his coach's advice. He struggles to find his footing as the new team is threatened by his arrival.
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Plot: The second season of the anthology series based on the works of Stephen King sets its sights on budding psychopath Annie Wilkes. A feud between warring clans reaches a boil when Wilkes, King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock while traversing the country with daughter Joy. A car accident...
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Plot: The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York -- also known as the Mother Court -- is the oldest district court in the nation, and the setting for the newest drama from the minds of Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. Focusing on the lives and careers of the brand-new lawyers working...
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Plot: Eric Neill is sent to jail after the judge finds him guilty of killing author Olivia Lake. His sister, however, denies the allegations and decides to reinvestigate the case herself.