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Based on the infamous true story End of the Rope follows Sheriff CA Jacobson and States Attorney Sam Taylor as they try to find out what happened to the Haven Family. When accusations turn to the Haven’s troubled farmhand, Charles Bannon, the two not only have to solve a potential murder but try to hold a whole town together that seems dangerously set on vengeance.

Thriller Western

  • 4.1 / 5

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Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's vice president, runs a bribery and extortion ring in office for years. At the height of Watergate, three young federal prosecutors discover his crimes and launch a mission to take him down.

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Woman of the Hour is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw and Rodney Alcala. Bradshaw was a bachelorette on the hit 70s TV matchmaking show The Dating Game and chose handsome and funny bachelor number three, Rodney Alcala. But behind Alcala’s charming facade was a deadly secret: he was a psychopathic serial killer.

Thriller Crime

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Under the Bridge is based on acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of 14-year old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey (Riley Keough) and a local police officer (Lily Gladstone), the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

Drama Crime

  • 5 / 5

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Bob Rowe, a New York lawyer and model husband, kills his wife and three children in 1978 — leading to his subsequent search for redemption after avoiding a prison sentence by pleading the insanity defense at trial.

Drama Crime

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A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

Drama Crime

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The true story about eight women who were prisoners at the Texas' Goree Prison in the 1940s. They formed an all-female country and western act and ended up building a fanbase of millions. The women were eventually pardoned.

Drama Crime

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Based on the incredible true story of the notorious mafia hitman who was hired by Hoover’s FBI off-the-books and partnered with a young Black special agent to hunt down those responsible for the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi in 1966.

Drama Crime

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The true story of Michael Cox, an African American plainclothes officer who is mistakenly beaten during a police chase and then finds himself on the other side of the “blue wall of silence” as the Boston Police Department covers it up.

Crime Adaptation

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A fictionalized account of a real battle between the hacktivist organization Anonymous and the Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas.

Drama Crime

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Albrect Muth, an eccentric social climber, is seduced and married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. Muth and Drath threw lavish events in their home as Muth lied about his background — which came under scrutiny after Drath was found murdered.

Drama Crime

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Two brothers murder the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother. The killers claimed they were acting on orders from God, consistent with their interpretation of a fundamentalist interpretation that goes back to the formation of Mormonism.

Drama Crime

  • 2.5 / 5

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A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY is based on the harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by a charismatic, obsessed family “friend.” The Brobergs — devoted to their faith, family, and community — were utterly unprepared for the sophisticated tactics their neighbor used to exploit their vulnerabilities, drive them apart, and turn their daughter against them. This is the story of how their lives were permanently altered — and how they survived.

Drama Thriller

  • 3 / 5

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Recounts the harrowing true story of the 1971 Korean Air Lines Flight F27 hijacking, which involved 55 passengers and 5 flight attendants.

Action Thriller

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Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

Drama Crime

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A true-crime story about boxing, murder and money in the U.S. in the 1990s.

Crime Adaptation

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In 22 July, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93) tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack. On 22 July 2011, 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 22 July uses the lens of a survivor’s physical and emotional journey to portray the country's path to healing and reconciliation.

Action Crime 2 hrs, 23 mins

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A taut thriller telling the incredible true story of terror after six heavily-armed gunmen invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians and the military wrestle over the correct response, all observed by some the world’s first live TV news coverage.​

Thriller Crime

  • 4.2 / 5

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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

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