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83
7.5
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3.7
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cc age 17+

Traffic (2000)
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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80
7.3
/4812/
72
/97/
74
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3.7
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79
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88
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cc age 17+

My Family (1995)
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
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77
7.4
/134873/
76
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71
/1932/
3.8
/82914/
89
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84
/1936/
66
/20/
cc age 17+

Crimson Tide (1995)
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
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75
7.1
/11399/
76
/530/
73
/388/
3.5
/7740/
73
/11/
90
/450/
66
/11/
cc age 17+

American Me (1992)
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
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MGM Plus
74
6.9
/96616/
69
/2725/
64
/1174/
3.5
/66092/
89
/57/
70
/1408/
81
/22/
cc age 17+

Get Shorty (1995)
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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Hulu
73
6.7
/5344/
67
/463/
61
/100/
3.5
/33390/
96
/57/
81
/49/
74
/16/
cc age 16+

Plan B (2021)
After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
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73
6.9
/33856/
74
/1191/
76
/1291/
3.6
/54604/
67
/84/
78
/4969/
67
/17/
cc age 10+

Selena (1997)
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
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72
6.5
/2614/
70
/61/
66
/35/
3.6
/4127/
73
/22/
87
/165/

Mi Vida Loca (1994)
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
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68
7.0
/222992/
70
/5765/
66
/3100/
3.6
/262566/
60
/196/
68
/13150/
58
/40/
cc age 16+

Jarhead (2005)
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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67
6.4
/57400/
66
/1428/
62
/570/
3.5
/118385/
75
/65/
66
/4054/
60
/18/
cc age 15+

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
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65
6.4
/691/
70
/20/
60
/16/
3.4
/472/
73
/56/
54
/14/
59
/23/

Go for Sisters (2013)
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
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The Roku Channel
71
65
6.6
/4763/
66
/115/
63
/68/
3.5
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82
/17/
74
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78
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Gas Food Lodging (1992)
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
7.0
/43815/
67
/542/
64
/416/
3.2
/8464/
47
/173/
72
/4346/
54
/31/
cc age 16+

Bobby (2006)
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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fuboTV
62
6.1
/10819/
73
/1470/
69
/451/
2.9
/30430/
65
/43/
59
/249/
51
/13/
cc age 9+

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
62
6.9
/41505/
71
/2791/
63
/972/
3.1
/15991/
49
/153/
59
/321/
55
/31/
cc age 12+

The 33 (2015)
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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The Roku Channel
60
5.8
/1722/
60
/135/
58
/35/
3.0
/4984/
89
/38/
51
/17/
56
/6/

Satanic Hispanics (2022)
When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
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59
6.7
/4822/
68
/263/
65
/85/
3.1
/3369/
65
/96/
39
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46
/18/
cc age 13+

The Public (2019)
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
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60
57
6.0
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64
/210/
58
/129/
3.0
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73
/33/
51
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59
/7/

Sleep Dealer (2008)
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
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57
6.1
/4728/
63
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60
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3.2
/960/
54
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48
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The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
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Netflix
57
5.9
/30011/
68
/1421/
68
/864/
2.5
/14544/
52
/87/
66
/1547/
47
/27/
cc age 9+

Heaven Is for Real (2014)
After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
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56
6.2
/47140/
68
/2081/
64
/627/
3.0
/35266/
22
/64/
76
/3020/
41
/25/
cc age 18+

Next Friday (2000)
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.
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Amazon Prime Video
55
5.8
/15952/
62
/519/
61
/394/
2.6
/3304/
42
/411/

The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
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55
6.3
/12669/
69
/411/
64
/299/
3.0
/4753/
44
/9/
51
/160/
37
/8/

The Principal (1987)
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
6.4
/3816/
57
/167/
62
/66/
3.1
/2318/
38
/71/
60
/197/
51
/26/
cc age 13+

Cesar Chavez (2014)
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
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53
6.3
/165078/
63
/5263/
60
/3037/
2.7
/120345/
49
/98/
43
/5856/
44
/14/
cc age 15+

Devil (2010)
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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52
5.9
/6354/
61
/144/
61
/115/
2.9
/4247/
53
/15/
44
/80/
50
/11/

Little Nikita (1988)
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
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52
5.5
/13244/
63
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52
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2.9
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62
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51
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24
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Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
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Amazon Prime Video
52
5.3
/24876/
62
/4140/
52
/1081/
2.5
/12215/
70
/20/
37
/155/
46
/8/

Beyond Skyline (2017)
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
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52
51
6.3
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59
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3.0
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31
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60
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28
/17/

Airborne (1993)
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
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51
6.1
/58653/
65
/1408/
59
/913/
2.9
/14423/
30
/117/
40
/1456/
47
/28/
cc age 14+

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
poster
50
6.4
/227276/
65
/6857/
62
/4028/
2.8
/74259/
41
/155/
60
/9436/
43
/24/
cc age 18+

Death Race (2008)
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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Hulu
49
4.8
/49624/
56
/2389/
53
/1732/
2.3
/36887/
41
/106/
26
/4668/
49
/28/
cc age 8+

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
poster
49
6.1
/41350/
66
/1135/
65
/909/
2.9
/12224/
7
/123/
62
/1289/
25
/33/
cc age 15+

Dragonfly (2002)
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
42
6.5
/639/
71
/44/
58
/13/
3.4
/269/
88
/16/
94
/34/
cc age 14+

Princess of the Row (2020)
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
41
5.5
/6265/
57
/113/
50
/75/
2.8
/1250/
40
/42/
40
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44
/15/
cc age 14+

The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
poster
41
5.1
/70897/
55
/1757/
55
/1570/
2.2
/38009/
13
/64/
40
/12348/
32
/18/
cc age 18+

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
poster
Starz
40
38
4.4
/23812/
57
/988/
58
/669/
2.3
/32267/
7
/90/
32
/24/
36
/21/
cc age 8+

Are We Done Yet? (2007)
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
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Amazon Prime Video
33
4.1
/837/
39
/32/
33
/18/
2.5
/806/
15
/12/
33
/6/

Last Resort (1986)
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
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Amazon Prime Video
52
28
5.6
/2464/
53
/32/
61
/41/
3.0
/219/
32
/156/

Love Lies Bleeding (2008)
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.
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62
26
6.1
/1195/
60
/87/
64
/47/
3.3
/571/
62
/3/
cc age 16+

Peel (2019)
After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.
poster
40
20
4.1
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50
/175/
44
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2.8
/225/
11
/7/

Red Sky (2014)
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
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59
17
6.0
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57
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67
/18/
53
/9/

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
poster
Amazon Prime Video
38
17
3.2
/1251/
36
/28/
42
/25/
2.6
/405/
32
/116/

National Lampoon's TV: The Movie (2006)
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
11
4.6
/460/
44
/9/
64
/7/
40
/23/

The Virgin of Juarez (2006)
When a reporter travels to Juarez to cover the ongoing story of the mass murder of local working women, she uncovers the amazing story of "The Virgin Of Juarez," a survivor of an attack who has developed stigmata, a sign of holiness, and whose followers will do whatever she asks.
poster
?
8.2
/55/

Come and Take It Day (2001)
"Come and Take it Day" uses Texas history to tell a story of friendship, envy, betrayal, and greed. The fictional story centers around the hunt for the lost treasure in gold coins that had been given to the person who captured the legendary Gregory Cortez.
poster
?
6.6
/22/
70
/1/

The Odds (2010)
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
8.7
/50/
40
/1/
62
/5/
75
/4/

The Journey of a Female Comic (2014)
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
?
6.3
/42798/
Trakt
62
/961/
3.1
/145203/
cc age None+

Kimi (2022)
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.


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