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Dec. 23, 2023

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A crime mystery about a beautiful garden near an isolated mansion, where there lives a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes.

Thriller Crime

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Chronically-ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a "nice Jewish girl" with a secret, loves Christmas. As the best-selling author of over twenty Christmas romance novels, and four made-for-TV movie spin-offs, she's kept her stellar career secret from her observant Jewish family for over a decade. But when Rachel's publishing house tells her they won't renew her contract unless she writes them a Hanukkah romance, she's desperate for inspiration. She finds it in the form of the Matzah Ball, a high-end Jewish music celebration scheduled for the last night of Hanukkah. There is only one problem: tickets are sold out and the only way to get one is direct from the ball's creator, who just happens to be Jacob Greenberg, her summer camp arch enemy.

Drama Romance

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A thriller that centers on Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the American wife of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi, who disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. Isabella desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the man's unorthodox interrogation.

R Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 2 mins

  • 2.5

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The official pitch: Narnia. Hogwarts. Neverland. All magical places that mortals can travel to and marvel at the strange creatures and wonders not seen in our world.

What if a door to a magical land was discovered and instead of pure hearted adventures, a man saw an opportunity to charge a fortune for an exclusive private game reserve where you can “bag” a magical creature.

Multi-millionaire Tip Fallows is a recreational hunter looking for more interesting challenges. Another wealthy hunter, Stockton, has a secret to share and a journey to offer. All they need to do is pay a quarter of a million dollars to go through a little door in an old house in rural Maine.

Adventure Adaptation

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When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. The charming — and very well-dressed — founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen's predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world's corrupt financial system.

NR Drama True Story

  • 3.6

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The story of Dr. Sherman Hershfield, a respected neurologist from Beverly Hills who practiced medicine in the San Fernando Valley. When Hershfield suffered a stroke, an unusual side effect changed his life forever: He couldn’t stop speaking in rhyme. Hershfield then emerged in South Central as a freestyle performer, Dr. Rapp.

Drama Adaptation

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The tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson (Krasinski) can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil tycoon, heads of state and hungry journalists descending upon the frigid outpost, the one who worries Adam the most is Rachel Kramer (Barrymore). Not only is she an outspoken environmentalist, she’s also his ex-girlfriend. With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to a momentary thaw in the Cold War.

PG Drama Romance 1 hr, 47 mins

  • 4

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When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 34 mins

  • 4

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Ten students form an a capella group long before the current craze of high school choral groups. The group plays venues such as Wrigley Field and Carnegie Hall, but the members disband three years later (though the group continued on the university level with new singers). But a few years later, the original group not only gets back together but signs a five-album deal.

Drama Music

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An American civilian turned self-taught spy works with the FBI to bring down a Russian intelligence agent on American soil.

Drama Spy

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Imaginary friends of children are actually very real and an organization titled I.M.A.G.I.N.E., handles things when these figments get out of control. A jaded 20-year veteran agent must mentor a young archivist, with a routine day becoming something much larger.

Adventure Fantasy

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Instead of waiting for a prince to save her, Princess Adrienne Ashe, a young black princess, takes matters into her own hands. She breaks out of her tower, befriends the dragon guarding her, and sets off on a quest to rescue her six older sisters who are also locked in towers and guarded by assassins.

Adventure Fantasy

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Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large.

R Drama True Story

  • 2.9

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Two friends date each other exclusively for 40 days to try and overcome their relationship issues. The couple is bound by a set of rules that include the requirement they see each other every day and go on dates three times a week and take one weekend trip together; they also see a couples therapist each week and agree to a "no outside booty call" regimen during the 40 days.

Comedy Romance

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Jazz age entertainer Josephine Baker becomes a spy for the French Resistance.

Drama War

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French aristocrat-turned-anti-Nazi-Saboteur Robert de la Rochefoucauld joins the British Special Operations Executive and is trained in every manner of dark arts before being sent back to France to help organize the resistance, blowing up train stations and munitions factories, enduring months of torture and escaping his own execution.

Action War

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