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A FBI traitor who sold government secrets to the Soviet Union is brought down by his young assistant.

Drama

True story of the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth.

Drama Biography

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True story of football great Ernie Davis, the man who broke college football records and racial barriers in the early 1960s, becoming the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. The running back was drafted into the NFL, but his career was cut short when he was diagnosed with leukemia.

PG Drama Sports

  • 4.8 / 5
67% 33%

"The Black Dahlia" weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia"—an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public.

While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families—'who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim.

R Thriller Suspense

  • 2.5 / 5
18% 82%
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A tightly-knit forest service engine crew perishes battling "the perfect storm" of wildland fires in 2006 near Cabazon, California. The blaze and resulting deaths results in the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler is given the death penalty.

Drama

89% 11%

In 1858, an Italian Jew beomes the center of an international controversy when he is removed from his parents at the age of seven by authorities of the Papal States and is raised as a Catholic. He goes on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.

Drama Period

83% 17%
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Based on the true story of a rookie gang-banger trying to make it out of his gang lifestyle and hot head F.B.I. Agent who team up to infiltrate the organization of a Los Angeles gang leader.

Drama Crime

55% 45%

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