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Circle of Deception

2021

Circle of Deception

2021
6.3
Based on Ann Rule's true crime book Practice to Deceive. In this New York Times Best Seller, a small, island community is turned upside down when Russel Douglas, a local businessman, is found dead the day after Christmas.
Black Girl Missing

2023

Black Girl Missing

2023
7.3
Cheryl's daughter goes missing and is nowhere to be found. The authorities and the media dismiss her as a runaway while focusing on another missing girl, who is white.
Secret Life of the Pastor's Wife

2024

Secret Life of the Pastor's Wife

2024
5.2
Angie, the wife of a charismatic pastor who extols family values yet maintains an icy demeanor toward his own, seeks solace from her marital woes in the arms of her recently hired pool boy, a fling which quickly upsets the idyllic facade of the community, reigniting old jealousies, and leaving no one's secrets safe.
Narcotic

1933

Narcotic

1933
3.4
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
Betrayal

2013

Betrayal

2013
2.8
Vazgen "Vaz", a Mobster turned businessman, is pulled back into his past life, when his eldest son is accused of killing a Russian gangster. Now he must find a way to save his family and all that he's built.
Cheer for Your Life

2021

Cheer for Your Life

2021
5.8
A high school girl’s spirits are crushed as she suffers through a humiliating “Cheerleader Initiation Week,” but her dreams aren’t the only thing in danger when another girl on the squad turns up dead, and when she disappears herself, her mom will have to rush to save her.
Winterset

1936

Winterset

1936
5.7
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
The Dead Mother

1993

The Dead Mother

1993
5.9
Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…
The Thief Collector

2022

The Thief Collector

2022
6.9
In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, vanished into the Arizona desert after being cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the $160 million painting was found hanging in the home of Jerry and Rita Alter in rural New Mexico.
Holiday Monday

2021

Holiday Monday

2021
6
Two men are hired to protect a man who is fleeing a drug syndicate. The initial meeting turns into chaos and with a dead body, briefcase of stolen money and an assassin on their tail, Nick and Derek are going to have to do more than just protect - they are going to have to kill.
Mister Mayfair: The Spyce of Life

2021

Mister Mayfair: The Spyce of Life

2021
Max Mayfair is living the 'good life'. Having left his past as a gangster in NY, he now runs the most glamorous club in London: Rat pack style. London though is just as dangerous as Manhattan, only this time he has everything to lose.
The Collectors

1999

The Collectors

1999
3.5
The head of the Louisiana Mafia sends two mobsters (Casper Van Dien, Rick Fox) to New York on a dangerous assignment to collect money.
Who Bombed Judi Bari?

2012

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

2012
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.
Naqaab

2007

Naqaab

2007
4.5
The story revolves around the life of Sophia (Urvashi Sharma) who lives in Goa. When she is stalked and then attacked by a rapist named Rakesh, Sophia re-locates to Dubai. Here she rents a room in a villa near Jumeirah Beach, owned by wealthy star Karan Oberoi (Bobby Deol). Six months later he proposes to her, and she accepts. Shortly before the marriage, she meets with an unemployed actor, Vicky Malhotra (Akshay Khanna), and is attracted to him, but decides to go ahead and marry Karan. At the altar, she changes her mind, ditches him and decides to move in with Vicky. But things take a turn for the worse.
Mia and the Dragon Princess

2023

Mia and the Dragon Princess

2023
6.5
Mia, a plucky barmaid, has her life thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
American Nightmare

2002

American Nightmare

2002
4.9
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez

2022

Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez

2022
6.8
The true story of 14-year-old freshman Abby Hernandez who vanished while walking home from school in North Conway, New Hampshire. Kicking off the state’s largest search, Abby’s disappearance left her family, especially her mother Zenya , investigators and the community mystified of her whereabouts. Taken by Nathaniel Kibby, Abby was kept is a soundproof container and forced to wear a shock collar while enduring psychological, sexual and emotional abuse. Despite suffering daily torture, Abby kept hope alive that she would one day be able to see her family again.
Bundy and the Green River Killer

2019

Bundy and the Green River Killer

2019
4.7
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
Cash Calls Hell

1966

Cash Calls Hell

1966
7.6
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
Walking Tall: The Payback

2007

Walking Tall: The Payback

2007
5.7
A man goes back to his hometown that is now overrun with crime and single-handedly takes justice into his own hands.