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1) Whitechapel
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The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
2) Nuts
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The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
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When Ruth Blacksmith's new partner, Aidan, reveals that he once hurt a woman called Mary Trelease, Ruth is deeply worried. She raises her concerns with Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer who is intrigued. But when Charlie decides to call in at Ruth's house, she finds a disturbing scene. Ruth's ex-husband, Jason Blacksmith, has been murdered. Charlie and Detective Simon Waterhouse investigate the case and find themselves divided over motives and suspects....
4) The veil
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A ten complete episodes of horror stories hosted by legendary horror actor Boris Karloff, made in 1958.
5) Prey
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BAFTA nominated John Simm stars as Detective Constable Marcus Farrow in this fast-paced thriller. Farrow is a well-liked copper with an ex-wife and two kids. But when Farrow is found at the scene of a brutal crime, with all the evidence pointing towards him, his world collapses. Arrested and charged, it seems his fate is sealed. So when he gets the opportunity to escape, he seizes it with both hands. Now on the run, Farrow is not just trying to evade...
7) Torn curtain
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"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
8) Bang
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An unsuccessful actress learns what it's like to be on the other side of power when, after a policeman tries to rape her, she steals his gun, clothes, and motorcycle. She then dons his uniform and spends a few hours as an L.A.P.D. motorcycle cop, discovering how people feel about her in her new identity -- and how she feels about herself.
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Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
10) The prestige
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Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
11) Last seen alive
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When Will Spann’s (Gerard Butler) soon-to-be ex-wife Lisa (Jaimie Alexander) mysteriously disappears during a stop at a gas station, a frantic Will engages the local Sheriff (Russell Hornsby) in an increasingly desperate attempt to find her.
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Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
13) Piranha
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"While searching for missing teenagers. novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown and local town boozer Paul Grogan stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidentally released from the compound, they're soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the...
14) Wet asphalt
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A Nazi buried in a bunker for 6 years somehow escapes and survives, left without sight. A sensationalistic reporter stuns the world with the story of the WWII survivor, only to have his assistant find out the story was made up to sell more papers.
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Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen , in order to rescue Lindsey, one of his trainees, who was kidnapped...
16) Never Here
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Disturbing events lead an artist who photographs strangers to suspect that someone out there is watching HER. Boundaries blur between real and imaginary, crime and art, the watcher and the watched.
18) Trafficked
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Inspired by real characters, three girls attempt a daring escape from an elaborate human trafficking network.
19) The Perfect Host
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Warwick is the consummate host. John is a career criminal. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend. We become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**
20) I Blame Society
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A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film….and committing the perfect murder.
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