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Houdini & Doyle

2016

Houdini & Doyle

2016
6.5
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
Magic Funhouse

2016

Magic Funhouse

2016
8
A series that peeks behind the curtain of a public access children's TV show to reveal the offensive lives of the cast and crew when the cameras are off.
Angry Boys

2011

Angry Boys

2011
7
Angry Boys is an Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. Continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series, the show explores the issues faced by young males in the 21st century – their influences, their pressures, their dreams and ambitions. In Angry Boys, Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, an American rapper; Jen, a manipulative Japanese mother; Blake Oakfield, a champion surfer; Ruth "Gran" Sims, a guard at a juvenile detention facility; and her grandchildren, South Australian twins Daniel and Nathan Sims. The series is a co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and US cable channel HBO, with a pre-sale to BBC Three in the United Kingdom. Filmed in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Tokyo, Angry Boys premièred on 11 May 2011 at 9:00 pm on ABC1.
Yonder

2022

Yonder

2022
6.6
Ja-hyun receives a message from his deceased wife inviting him to reunite with her in a place called 'Yonder'.
Before We Die

2021

Before We Die

2021
5.2
Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation.
Hatfields & McCoys

2012

Hatfields & McCoys

2012
7.4
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.
Gunpowder

2017

Gunpowder

2017
6.8
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Promised Land

2022

Promised Land

2022
5.4
An epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.
False Face and True Feelings

2024

False Face and True Feelings

2024
Ye Yifan, once an innocent youth, swears revenge after his family is slaughtered, transforming into the ruthless and enigmatic crime boss known as "Mr. Mo." It is in this guise that he encounters Xia Zhiqiu, a dancer. Thus begins a love game between hunter and prey. Ye Yifan gradually falls in love with Xia Zhiqiu due to her seduction, but he discovers that her true identity is Gu Qingyan, the daughter of his enemy. Meanwhile, to avenge her father, Gu Qingyan lays traps that Ye Yifan willingly falls into for the sake of love. As the two adversaries are entangled in a web of love and hate, genuine emotions surge beneath their masks. What fate awaits them, deeply in love yet torn apart by enmity?
Real Detective

2016

Real Detective

2016
7.7
With narrative driven exclusively by the detectives themselves, each episode ventures deep into the mind of a homicide detective as they describe in vivid detail the one case forever ingrained in their memory.
Dunkirk

2004

Dunkirk

2004
6.3
Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in May and June 1940.
The Chicken Sisters

2024

The Chicken Sisters

2024
5
Set in the fictional town of Merinac, a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants — Mimi’s and Frannie’s — has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides. When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.
Ambitions

2019

Ambitions

2019
7.8
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
True Tori

2014

True Tori

2014
2
With her marriage in crisis, tabloids and gossip sites have been speculating for months about Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. Now, the real story will be told as it should be, by Tori Spelling herself, in the new Lifetime docu-series, True Tori. The show will document the couple in almost real-time as they navigate the unknown road ahead, beginning when Dean leaves treatment.
Killing Time

2011

Killing Time

2011
5.2
Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zealand it screens on Prime Television. The ten part series is written by Ian David, Mac Gudgeon, Katherine Thompson and Shaun Grant. The executive producer is Jason Stephens. The series was initially due to screen in 2010 but was deferred due to strong violence and horror content scenes of the mini-series, which jeopardised a series of gangland trials that were in progress.
Winter

2015

Winter

2015
6.5
Eve Winter and her task force must solve the chilling murder of 23-year old mother Karly at a hauntingly beautiful fishing town south of Sydney.
Craig Ross Jr.'s Monogamy

2018

Craig Ross Jr.'s Monogamy

2018
5.5
Four couples from all over the country travel to Los Angeles to undergo a new type of treatment called Swap Therapy to repair their broken marriages.
Devil's Peak

2023

Devil's Peak

2023
4.7
Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.
Guerrilla

2017

Guerrilla

2017
5
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Des

2020

Des

2020
7.1
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.