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In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adrien Brody

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Damon

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Robert Redford

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winona Ryder

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cailee Spaeny

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Hanks

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saoirse Ronan

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Oliver Reed

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Redmayne

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John David Washington

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Brad Pitt

Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chrissy Metz

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucas Hedges

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Harris

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Redford

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a...

Genre: Western

Cast: Melissa Gilbert

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynda Bellingham

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Qualley

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keeley Hawes

The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Whishaw

Sophia is a rebellious, broke anarchist who refuses to grow up. She stumbles upon her passion of selling vintage clothes online and becomes an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Britt Robertson

Inspired by a true-life story, Happy Face tells the story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annaleigh Ashford

Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Thaw

Sword of Honour is a two-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semi-autobiographical World War II trilogy that aired Channel 4 in 2001. It centers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Craig

Javier Giner, a thirty-year-old audiovisual professional, voluntarily checks himself into a rehabilitation center due to his alcohol and cocaine use....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oriol Pla

Young Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Darren Redmayne

Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brad Davis

One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987. The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Ellis

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cheryl Campbell

Based on August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel about his marriage to Siri von Essen. She was married when she met him, but abandoned her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bibi Andersson

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luke Ward-Wilkinson

Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Faye Marsay

Genre: Drama

Cast: Óscar Casas

Historical drama adapted from the diary of the famous British travel-writer Maria Graham who arrived in Chile in 1822 just as the country was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Heard

In 1930s England, an orphaned girl and her lovely aunt raise an abandoned seal pup.

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Cast: Jane Lapotaire