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Just in Time

2024

Just in Time

2024
8.5
When middle-aged Xu Mengan is hit by career setbacks, family troubles, and an unexpected second pregnancy, her once-stable life unravels. As she fights to regain balance and rediscover her own strength, her best friend Chen Wanzhen and sister Xu Mengxin face their own crises—from returning to the workforce after years as a housewife to navigating the emotional strain of pregnancy. Together, these women confront life’s pressures and find a path toward renewal, resilience, and second growth.
Elkhorn

2024

Elkhorn

2024
6
Theodore Roosevelt is bound for greatness—he's a Harvard graduate from a prominent family, a rising politician, and his wife, Alice, is pregnant. Then his promising future turns tragic. His mother succumbs to typhoid, and Alice dies in childbirth on the same day. Devastated, Teddy leaves his urban world of high rises and high society for the desolate Dakota Territory, where, by facing the harsh reality of surviving life on America’s frontier, he intends to remake himself into something greater.
Lioness

2021

Lioness

2021
8
A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.
About Sunday Night...

2023

About Sunday Night...

2023
8
Old apartment complexes, rented houses in the suburbs, and cabs running through the cities. These scenes may look ordinary but each has a different story to tell. A daughter who works part-time to support her disabled mother; a woman who has been cut off from her family and continues to work as a cab driver; a granddaughter who lives in a rented house and works at a factory with her grandmother. This is the story of three women, who live far apart from each other and do not know each other's existence until a fateful encounter through a radio program.
The Ave

2015

The Ave

2015
4
Young entrepreneurs try to rise above the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY, and fund their dream by running a clandestine check fraudulent conspiracy.
Modern Dynasty

2022

Modern Dynasty

2022
5.5
About sisters who married into the century-old chaebol Ma family on the same day as the "century wedding" as a clue, telling the ups and downs of the Ma family's three generations of ups and downs.
A Good Cop

2021

A Good Cop

2021
8.5
Inspired by true events. It revolves around the lives of three NYPD officers during the "defund the police" movement. Each officer is at a different stage of their career, each one with a different perspective on policing.
BoysTown

2013

BoysTown

2013
1
Welcome to BoysTown! A modern gay episodic drama about friendship, sex and relationships exploring the everyday lives of 8 friends and lovers. A cross between a gay Desperate Housewives and Sex & the City, these guys are always getting themselves into situations they can't get out of.
Miyako Has Arrived in Kyoto!

2021

Miyako Has Arrived in Kyoto!

2021
6.5
Kakinoki Kukichi is a doctor who runs a small clinic in Kyoto. He specializes in making house calls and even helps his patients with shopping and taking care of their bonsais.
The Yagyu Conspiracy

1978

The Yagyu Conspiracy

1978
7
It takes place at the time of the Shogunate rule with Shogun Hidetada and who will succeed Hidetada. A struggle for power between the family and the daimyos. Historically the Yagyu's have always been close to the Shogunate, and helped...
Olvidarte Jamás

2006

Olvidarte Jamás

2006
5.5
At that time her name was Luisa, she was a humble and naive peasant who worked with her grandmother on the ranch of the powerful Montero. Also at that time she was outraged by Gonzalo, the son of the ruthless hacienda owner, Don Gregorio. She became pregnant, Gladis, Gonzalo's wife, had the girl be beaten to make her lose the baby, which she achieved. Gregorio had the little house where he lived with his grandmother burned, the latter dying in the horrible fire. She was expelled like a dog from the ranch, she left town like a common criminal, but the years have passed, Luisa who now calls herself Victoria has returned to town with an adopted daughter and turned into a sophisticated, rich and powerful woman, with a single goal in mind: revenge on everyone who hurt him so much.
Stalkers Who Kill

2016

Stalkers Who Kill

2016
3
When relationships go bad and one partner becomes obsessive, the gruesome fact is that, sometimes, the victim can pay the ultimate price.
Zatoichi Monogatari

1974

Zatoichi Monogatari

1974
6.5
Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.
Colour Blind

1998

Colour Blind

1998
6
A gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.
Tilly Trotter

1999

Tilly Trotter

1999
6.5
In 1830s rural England, a courageous young girl envied by women for her beauty, lusted after by men, is accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the prejudice of many people in the community in which she lives.
Long Lost Family

2016

Long Lost Family

2016
7.5
Follow the touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago.
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.
Our Little Family

2015

Our Little Family

2015
7
The adventures of a little family in a big world.
The Wingless Bird

1997

The Wingless Bird

1997
4.5
On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong enough to break them again when Charles Farrier, a gentleman, courts her over his parents' opposition? Agnes faces an added dilemma when she finds her heart divided between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
The Gambling Man

1995

The Gambling Man

1995
5.5
The Gambling Man is a three-part British television drama based on Catherine Cookson's 1975 novel of the same name. Produced by Tyne Tees Television for ITV, the serial stars Robson Green, Stephanie Putson, Ian Cullen, and David Nellist. Dissatisfied with his life, Tyneside rent collector Rory Connor decides to use his talents as a card player to improve his situation. He's soon able to purchase a boatyard and marry his childhood sweetheart Janie Waggett, but his success is built on a tangle of lies and deceit. Never one to shy away from high stakes, Rory is in the game of his life when he's asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother.