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Scottsdale

2023

Scottsdale

2023
When a wealthy desert family finds themselves in a scandal that can not run from.
St. Peter

2005

St. Peter

2005
The life of Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own.
The Studio

2024

The Studio

2024
10
Paul, an underdog music producer, juggles family life and artistic dreams by working out of his home studio with a rotating cast of eccentric clients, creating original music and navigating hilarious family drama along the way.
Fidel

2002

Fidel

2002
10
Centered on the six years before the fall of Batista's dictatorship and the subsequent 40 years of the Cuban Revolution.
The Body Collector

2016

The Body Collector

2016
7.4
The story of Dutch journalist Hans Knoop's 1970s struggle to uncover the truth about World War II war criminal Pieter Menten.
The Royal

2003

The Royal

2003
7.8
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Heat of the Sun

1998

Heat of the Sun

1998
6.2
Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya. It began airing in January 1998 in the UK and was broadcast in the United States in 1999 as part of Mystery!.
Amnesia

2004

Amnesia

2004
5.9
An amnesiac might be a key figure in Detective Mackenzie Stone's search for his own wife, who disappeared five years ago.
Without Motive

2000

Without Motive

2000
6
Detective Constable Jack Mowbray has seen a lot of disturbing things on the job. But somehow the family man has never taken it home with him—until now. The brutal murder of a young woman in Bristol sets off a chain of events that may change Mowbray forever and tear his family apart. When the Bristol murder is linked to a series of recent killings, the investigating team grows to more than a dozen detectives and just as many petty jealousies and full-blown rivalries. Mowbray’s boss, DCS Henderson keeps the pressure on as it becomes clear that the latest killing will not be the last. Mowbray and his colleagues race to find a predator who will strike again—without apparent motive.
Midnight Man

2008

Midnight Man

2008
5.2
Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?
Answered by Fire

2006

Answered by Fire

2006
2
A two-part television film based on the 1999 East Timor conflicts that led to East Timor's independence.
On The Ropes

2018

On The Ropes

2018
3.5
Follow aspiring Iraqi-Australian boxing trainer Amirah Al-Amir who has idolised her world champion father Sami her entire life. While working in the family gym in Sydney's west alongside her two brothers, Amirah negotiates a professional debut match for her hardnosed fighter Jess O'Connor with Sami's long-time promoter Strick. Furious that she has done this behind his back, her father threatens to cut her off. Desperate to chase her dream of transforming women's boxing, will Amirah choose her fighter or her family?
Metropia

0000

Metropia

0000
Metropia is a Canadian television drama, which currently airs on Omni Television. The show originally aired every weeknight at 10:30 p.m. on OMNI.2, and all the episodes of the week were repeated on Sunday nights on OMNI.1 starting at 9 p.m. Metropia was later nationally broadcast beginning in 2007 on Super Channel. The show is still available Sunday - Friday nights, on OMNI.1.
Moses the Lawgiver

1975

Moses the Lawgiver

1975
7
The Story of the Exodus or freedom of Hebrews from Egypt is told from a perspective that highlights Moses' efforts to persuade first the stubborn Pharaoh Merneptah, who was his adopted cousin, to release his workforce of slaves. Then, once free and in the wilderness en route to the Promised Land, Moses must prove to be a pious and patient leader or lawgiver to a people who still think they want more out of him or God. For 40 years, Moses must carry on this load and challenge for God and Israel. With the help of his brother Aaron and Joshua, the people of Israel are officially born or created centuries ago when God promised and vowed to Jacob that he would be the father of a mighty nation.
Brewster Place

1990

Brewster Place

1990
4
Brewster Place is a short lived American drama series which aired on ABC in May 1990. The series was a spinoff of the 1989 miniseries The Women of Brewster Place, which was based upon Gloria Naylor's novel of the same name. The series starred talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who also served as co-executive producer.
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

2000

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

2000
7.4
Dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons

2016

Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons

2016
7
These are some of the toughest prisons in the world. Prisons so tough, even gang bosses and killers learn the meaning of fear. Across four continents, six different prisons, the series takes us beyond the gates, walls, barred windows and cells into an unknown world, a world we know exists, but a world nobody wants to think about.
Francisco, El Jesuita

2015

Francisco, El Jesuita

2015
7
Narrates the early days, from childhood until becoming Pope, of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, along with his endeavours and difficulties of his first years as Rome's Bishop.
When We Go to War

2015

When We Go to War

2015
8
A historical saga, it tells the story of six young men and women who, in 1914, are full of plans and dreams for the future. Cutting between life at home, Gallipoli and Egypt, this spectacular drama begins in a time of optimism and hope, on the eve of war.
Kidnapped

2005

Kidnapped

2005
6.8
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, with them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.