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Described as having the world building elements of films such as Highlander and Interview With The Vampire.
Casey Pendergast is a "praise-seeking missile who navigates a tricky Twenty First Century career and the even trickier question of who she wants to be”.
Described as a story of manners and murder; a Knives Out meets The Favourite.
Takes place in 1909 Wisconsin where successful businessman Ralph Truitt waits on a train platform for the woman who answered his newspaper ad for “a reliable wife.” His Chicago-born bride to be is actually a scheming gal with a dark past who plans to seduce and poison him, leaving town a rich widow. Turns out that Truitt has dark secrets of his own and their destinies intertwine in a remote estate where they are snowbound and a love triangle develops with Truitt’s adult son
Patrice Émery Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader, becomes the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helps win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba's government is deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.
A tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates his chronic infidelity, pressure from her family and community, and the alternating joys and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s rosy illusions about her privileged world are slowly stripped away.
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Italian police inspector Guido Brunetti investigates the beating of an American art historian living on the Venetian lagoon with her lesbian lover, the reigning diva of La Scala.
A intergalactic peace-keeping force takes in species without asking too many questions about their pasts or intentions.
Set in the near-future, a young woman must travel back in time to kill her first love before he destroys her present-day world.
A modern 12-year-old boy realizes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ who has returned to Earth in the present day in a final effort to save mankind.
Set in the near future, nanotech-enhanced people and ordinary humans are at war with one another.
The daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom.
The story is set in a world plunged into chaos as newly intelligent animals gain the power of speech and fight humanity and one other. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and acts as her protection.
The story is set in 1920s Tampa, then the seat of cigar-making industry and featured an imported Cuban tradition of lectors reading to workers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Anna in the Tropics centers on a family of cigar rollers whose lives are changed by the power of literature.
Set in the distant future, a disgraced Conglomerate Enforcer gets a shot at redemption by leading a rag tag group of explorers on a first contact mission to a newly discovered planet. The mission turns out to be a deadly trap and the leader and crew are stranded with all their technology destroyed. Their only chance is to rely on their wits and earn the trust of the warring hostile inhabitants if they have any chance to return home to earth.
Using his homemade time machine, a brilliant reclusive scientist gathers a roundtable of the greatest minds in history (Shakespeare, George Washington, Aristotle, etc.) to solve all of humanity's problems.
Anya is a less than popular 16-year-old who gets stranded in an underground cave. There, she meets and rescues Emily, the apparent ghost of a teen who died a century earlier. While Anya thinks her new “friend” is the best thing to ever happen to her, the alliance has unforeseen consequences for Anya, her friends and her family.
The true story centers on a racial incident in 1925 Detroit that put African American doctor Ossian Sweet (Oyelowo) on the stand for murder. His defense was funded by the nascent National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and led by Darrow (Crowe).
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the remnants of humanity are hunkered down in an outpost protected by a wall of light named Arclight. They hide from creatures known as the Fade. A lone teenage girl with no memory of who she is or how she survived in what is called the Dark enters the enclave. She ultimately holds the key to its survival.
A contained action thriller set in outer space.