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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes

2018

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes

2018
8
A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.
Flesh and Bone

2015

Flesh and Bone

2015
6.8
Claire, a talented but emotionally troubled dancer, joins a company in New York City, and soon finds herself immersed in the tough and often cutthroat world of professional ballet. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.
Killer Wave

2007

Killer Wave

2007
6
Two engineers try to save Boston after terrorists use nuclear missiles to create huge tidal waves.
Surviving Evil

2013

Surviving Evil

2013
4.7
Charisma Carpenter is the survivor of a real-life incident that she endured more than 20 years ago. The actress and two friends were swimming at San Diego's Torrey Pines State Beach in 1991 when they were violently attacked by an armed serial rapist. Carpenter fought for her survival after being held at gunpoint, but her two friends were both shot by the attacker. In the first episode of the series Charisma tells her story in raw emotional detail about what happened that night.
La Fortuna

2021

La Fortuna

2021
6.7
Young diplomat Álex Ventura teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Polen

2026

Polen

2026
7.5
Walking on Sunshine

2019

Walking on Sunshine

2019
6.4
Blackstone

2011

Blackstone

2011
7
The lives of Indians on the Blackstone Indian reserve, told from an Aboriginal point of view.
Cambridge Spies

2003

Cambridge Spies

2003
6.4
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

2001

Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

2001
4.8
The stories of three women who married into America's royal family, and lived in the glory and the glare of the political spotlight.
Bomb Girls

2012

Bomb Girls

2012
7.2
Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
Tumhari Pakhi

2013

Tumhari Pakhi

2013
Emily of New Moon

1998

Emily of New Moon

1998
8.8
Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels. The series, produced by Salter Street Films, was based on the Emily of New Moon series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The series consisted of three seasons of thirteen episodes and one season of seven episodes, for a total of forty-six. The executive producers were Micheline Charest, Michael Donovan, and Ronald Weinberg. The series starred Martha MacIsaac as the titular orphan Emily Starr. Susan Clark and Sheila McCarthy played Emily's aunts Elizabeth and Laura, who had taken on the responsibility of raising Emily following her father's death, and Stephen McHattie played her cousin Jimmy. Susan Clark left the series after the first season when her character, Elizabeth, was killed off. Recurring cast included Chip Ciupka as Mr. Carpenter, P
Desperate Romantics

2009

Desperate Romantics

2009
7.4
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
L.A. Macabre

2014

L.A. Macabre

2014
7
Three filmmakers interview a former member of the defunct cult "The New Family" leading them down a path of mystery, kidnapping, and murder.
The Legend of William Tell

1998

The Legend of William Tell

1998
5
The Legend of William Tell is a 16-part television fantasy/drama series produced in 1998 by Cloud 9 Productions in New Zealand. The basic premise of the series — a crossbow-wielding rebel defies a corrupt governor — and the name of the title character were adopted from the traditional story, but the series was set in a fantasy world and featured supernatural themes. Described by executive producer Raymond Thompson as "Star Wars on the planet Earth", this is a fantasy saga of bravery, magic, myth and romance. William Tell is the youthful leader of a band of young, ‘brat pack' outlaws, forever hunted by the forces of darkness, led by Xax and Kreel, who have usurped power in their homeland. The series of self-contained stories follows Will's quest to restore young Princess Vara to her rightful place on the royal throne and defeat Xax and Kreel's forces — and by doing so, bring back peace and order to the Kingdom of Kale. There is action and adventure along the way, magic, creatures, mystery,
Pegasus Market

2019

Pegasus Market

2019
8.3
Employees at a struggling mart embrace their roles as kings, defying the customer-centric norms. The manager strives to revive the store, battling against a ruthless boss determined to ruin it.
Pit Pony

1999

Pit Pony

1999
8.5
In 1904, on the Nova Scotia island of Cape Breton, 12-year-old Willie McLean, following the death of his father, joins the coal mines, where he bonds with the working horses underground. His family's mining legacy shapes their lives.
Witch's Love

2018

Witch's Love

2018
7.9
In plain sight in bustling Seoul, three generations of witches have been living below the radar of everyone around them. Kang Cho Hong operates a restaurant with her fellow witches, Maeng Ye Soon and Jo Aeng Doo. They try to keep a low profile, but Cho Hong’s youthful good looks attracts the attention of a neighborhood guy, Hwang Jae Wook, who is constantly trying to get close to her. Cho Hong and her fellow witches’ quiet lives become complicated when their building landlord, Ma Sung Tae, shows up one day. Sung Tae wants to face a traumatic incident that happened to him in that building when he was a little boy. With Sung Tae nosing around their business on a regular basis, can Cho Hong keep her true identity a secret from him?
Dreaming Of You

2018

Dreaming Of You

2018
6.8