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When the Morels' seventeen-year-old daughter Léa fails to return home after a night out celebrating her birthday, the family is unexpectedly thrown into their worst nightmare. Mother Florence tries to remain strong for her other children, while father Julien begins an investigation of his own.
22) Mood
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"Sasha [is] a fierce and funny young woman trying to find her place in the world. Sasha dreams of a successful career as a famous recording artist, but spends her time smoking weed in her bedroom and stalking her ex on Instagram. Kicked out of the family home after another row, Sasha meets the enigmatic Carly, who introduces her to social media influencing, online sex work and escorting. Soon she's earning money, gaining online followers and has a...
25) Revelations
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Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey and Sister Josepha Montafiore are unlikely partners drawn into a deepening mystery when they discover evidence that the world, as predicted by The Book of Revelations, has reached The End of Days.
26) Mildred Pierce
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This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce. Includes...
27) Dinotopia
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Two brothers find themselves castaways on Dinotopia, a secret world where dinosaurs and humans coexist in harmony until their sources of power begin to fail. The boys must find a way to return harmony to their new home.
28) Baseball
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It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
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Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
30) Band of brothers
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Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.
31) Catch-22
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Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
32) Anne of Avonlea
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Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
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"Based on Wally Lamb's 1998 best-selling novel, [it] explores themes of family, mental illness and identity as [it] follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers. Opening in the present day in 1990, with both brothers approaching middle-age, the story chronicles Dominick and Thomas Birdsey at different stages in their lives through flashbacks to their formative years, creating an epic saga of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness"--Container....
34) North & south
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When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.
35) Defending Jacob
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"Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son"--Container.
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"Following one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, "Mr. Bates vs The Post Office" was created with direct input from the innocent, and indomitable, people caught up in it. When money started to seemingly disappear from its local branches, the government-owned Post Office wrongly blamed their own managers for theft and fraud, and many were even sent to prison -- leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. But the...
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In the gripping thriller from Jed Mercurio, veteran detective Tom Brannick connects a criminal's car pulled from the sea to a notorious series of disappearances, including his own wife's twenty years earlier. Brannick begins an obsessive campaign to unmask a possible assassin, code-named Goliath, in a case that evokes Northern Ireland's dark past.
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In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
39) Us
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"Connie and Douglas Petersen are set for a grand tour of Europe. It's one last family holiday before their only son Albie leaves for university. But just days before their departure, Connie announces she wants a divorce. They decide to continue with the trip to some of the world's most beautiful cities, from Paris and Amsterdam to Venice and Barcelona. Douglas sees this as his make-or-break chance to win Connie back, and restore his troubled relationship...
40) Love for Lydia
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The classic Masterpiece Theatre tale of the final years of Britain's hig-spirited "Careless '20s." The story of the beautiful, tempestuous Lydia Aspen captures not only the soul of a vangished age, but the timeless joys and sorrows of young love.
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