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28 Days Later

Director: Danny Boyle

Runtime: 113 minutes

Overview: After a deadly virus escapes from a research facility, London becomes eerily empty and dangerously unpredictable. A small band of survivors tries to stay alive while the infection spreads fast through people and animals, forcing them to make hard choices about trust, safety, and what’s left of humanity.



Mission: Impossible

Director: Brian De Palma

Runtime: 111 minutes

Overview: After a covert mission collapses without warning, an elite agent finds himself blamed for the disaster and hunted from all sides. With trust in short supply, he goes on the run to uncover a hidden traitor inside the agency and stop sensitive intelligence from falling into the wrong hands.



The Notebook

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Runtime: 123 minutes

Overview: In a nursing home, an older man reads a love story from a worn notebook to a woman living with memory loss. The tale follows two young lovers kept apart by war and family pressures, then drawn back together years later after life has taken them in different directions.



Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Director: N/A

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: Louis Theroux which delves into the weirder fringes of American society.



Time

Director: Andrea Harkin

Runtime: 58 minutes

Overview: In a British prison, a first-time inmate and a prison officer face guilt, violence, and impossible choices as they try to get through each day. This tense, gritty drama explores survival, responsibility, and the emotional toll of life behind bars.



I May Destroy You

Director: Sam Miller

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: In modern-day London, a young writer with a busy social life is thrown off course after a night out leaves her shaken and searching for answers. As she tries to make sense of what happened, she rethinks relationships, consent, and the everyday choices that shape her future, leaning on friends while rebuilding her confidence and direction.



The Missing

Director: Tom Shankland, Ben Chanan

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: After a child vanishes during a family trip, the search stretches across years and borders, reopening old wounds and raising new questions. Told across two timelines, this tense anthology thriller follows the ripple effects on loved ones, investigators, and a community struggling with grief, suspicion, and the need for answers.



Bodies

Director: John Strickland, Iain B. MacDonald

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: This British medical drama follows staff on a busy NHS labour and gynaecology ward as they juggle relentless targets, workplace politics, and personal entanglements. It aims for a gritty, unvarnished look at hospital life, with intense procedures and hard choices that test professional ethics and relationships.



Luther

Director: Brian Kirk, Jamie Payne, Sam Miller, Stefan Schwartz, Farren Blackburn

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: A driven detective hunts brutal killers across London while battling his own inner turmoil and a growing reputation that puts him at odds with colleagues. Each case piles on fresh pressure, forcing him to make risky choices as his personal life and work crises collide.



Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned

Director: N/A

Runtime: 54 minutes

Overview: A woman begins to suspect her husband is having an affair and starts digging for the truth. As she follows one lead after another, the situation spirals beyond betrayal into a tense, emotionally charged unraveling that exposes darker behavior and a streak of violence beneath the surface.



Sherwood

Director: N/A

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: In a divided former mining community, a shocking killing reopens long-held grudges and sparks fresh rivalries. As the search for answers intensifies, families and neighbors are pulled into a tense spiral of suspicion, revenge, and painful history.



Normal People

Director: Hettie Macdonald

Runtime: 30 minutes

Overview: Two young people keep drifting in and out of each other’s lives, pulled together by attraction and pushed apart by insecurity, class pressures, and what they leave unsaid. As they move from school into early adulthood, their connection becomes a tender, painful study of intimacy, power, and the need to be loved.



This Is Going to Hurt

Director: Lucy Forbes, Tom Kingsley

Runtime: 45 minutes

Overview: A junior doctor in a busy obstetrics and gynaecology ward faces relentless shifts, limited resources, and constant pressure. The series mixes sharp humour with raw, emotional moments as work and personal life collide in an overstretched hospital system.



Line of Duty

Director: Daniel Nettheim, David Caffrey, Douglas Mackinnon, Jed Mercurio, John Strickland, Susan Tully, Gareth Bryn, Michael Keillor

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: A controversial police anti-corruption unit investigates wrongdoing from within the force, where every case tests loyalty, procedure, and trust. As inquiries intensify, tense interviews and courtroom moments push investigators to follow tiny details that could expose cover-ups or clear the innocent.



Peaky Blinders

Director: Steven Knight

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: In postwar 1919 Birmingham, a notorious gang builds its reputation with razor-bladed caps and ruthless ambition. As their sharp-minded leader pushes the family business to new heights, shifting alliances and mounting pressure test how far they’ll go to rise in a changing world.



Happy Valley

Director: Euros Lyn

Runtime: 59 minutes

Overview: A tough, experienced police officer juggles demanding cases with a complicated home life while raising a grandchild after a personal loss. Set in a close-knit Yorkshire community, the series blends dark humor with tense investigations and the everyday pressures that follow her on and off the job.



Bugonia

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Runtime: 119 minutes

Overview: Two conspiracy-obsessed young men abduct a powerful CEO, convinced she’s an alien with plans to destroy Earth. As they try to force answers out of her, the situation turns into a tense, darkly funny standoff that pokes at paranoia, power, and what people choose to believe.



F1

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Runtime: 156 minutes

Overview: A retired racing veteran returns to help a struggling Formula 1 team, taking on the pressure of elite competition while guiding a talented but inexperienced teammate. As the season heats up, the team must balance ambition, teamwork, and risk in pursuit of a long-awaited shot at glory.



Hamnet

Director: Chloé Zhao

Runtime: 126 minutes

Overview: In 16th-century England, a young couple builds a life between rural home and the pull of work in London. When illness and hardship strike their family, they’re forced to face grief in different ways, and creativity becomes a path toward meaning, memory, and connection.



Marty Supreme

Director: Josh Safdie

Runtime: 150 minutes

Overview: A driven young man chases an unlikely dream of greatness in competitive table tennis, pushing himself far beyond what anyone around him thinks is reasonable. As the pressure mounts, his ambition collides with money troubles, risky choices, and a whirlwind of conflicts that test how much he’s willing to sacrifice to get ahead.



One Battle After Another

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Runtime: 162 minutes

Overview: A former radical lives off-grid with his tough, independent teenage daughter, trying to stay out of trouble and out of sight. When an old enemy resurfaces and she disappears, he’s forced back into a frantic search that drags up past choices and puts their bond to the test.



Sentimental Value

Director: N/A

Runtime: 133 minutes

Overview: Two sisters reconnect with their estranged father when he returns with plans for a personal comeback film and asks one of them to star. After she refuses, he casts a rising Hollywood actor instead, stirring old resentments and forcing the family to face unresolved grief, ambition, and the cost of turning real life into art.



Sinners

Director: Ryan Coogler

Runtime: 138 minutes

Overview: Two twin brothers return to their hometown hoping for a clean start and a new venture, but old tensions and fresh temptations quickly surface. As the night unfolds, their plans collide with a sinister supernatural presence that threatens the whole community.



The Loch

Director: Brian Kelly, Cilla Ware

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: In a quiet lakeside community, a shocking death pulls a local detective into her first murder investigation. As more unsettling clues surface, outside help arrives and suspicion spreads through the town, turning a search for answers into a tense race to stop further violence.



The Damned

Director: Thordur Palsson

Runtime: 89 minutes

Overview: In a remote Icelandic fishing village during a brutal winter, a widow leading a small crew faces an impossible moral decision after a foreign shipwreck appears offshore. As isolation deepens and supplies grow scarce, fear and old folklore begin to seep into daily life, testing trust, sanity, and survival.



Inside No. 9

Director: Dan Zeff, Graeme Harper, Guillem Morales, Kieron J. Walsh, Louise Hooper, Reece Shearsmith, David Kerr, Jim O'Hanlon, George Kane, Barbara Wiltshire, Al Campbell, Matt Lipsey, Ian Bevitt

Runtime: 30 minutes

Overview: This darkly comic anthology delivers self-contained stories set in or around a place marked “number 9.” Each episode shifts tone between humor, thriller, horror, and drama, building everyday situations into strange, unsettling, and often surprising tales you can watch in any order.



Downton Abbey

Director: Andy Goddard, Ashley Pearce, Ben Bolt, Brian Kelly, Catherine Morshead, Minkie Spiro, Brian Percival, James Strong

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: Set in post-Edwardian Britain, this series follows life inside a grand country estate as an aristocratic household and its servants navigate shifting traditions, changing fortunes, and the pull of modern times. As major historical events ripple outward, relationships, duties, and social expectations are tested both upstairs and downstairs.



Barry

Director: Alec Berg, Minkie Spiro, Hiro Murai, Liza Johnson, Maggie Carey, Monnie Aleahmad

Runtime: 30 minutes

Overview: A hired killer relocates from the Midwest to Los Angeles and unexpectedly finds a new outlet in an amateur acting class. As he tries to build a more normal life, his violent work and the people tied to it keep pulling him back, mixing uneasy tension with sharp, offbeat humor.



A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Director: Owen Harris, Sarah Adina Smith

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: A century before the events of Game of Thrones, a young, idealistic knight and his sharp, diminutive squire travel across Westeros. In a time when the Targaryens still rule and dragons are only a recent memory, their journey draws them into dangerous encounters, powerful enemies, and choices that test their courage and honor.



Euphoria

Director: Jennifer Morrison, Augustine Frizzell, Pippa Bianco

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: A group of high school students juggle love, friendships, and identity while dealing with drugs, sex, trauma, and the constant pressure of social media. As their choices collide with everyday life, the series leans into raw emotions, risky behavior, and the messy search for connection.



The Sopranos

Director: Alan Taylor, Andy Wolk, Dan Attias, Danny Leiner, David Chase, David Nutter, Jack Bender, James Hayman, John Patterson, Lee Tamahori, Lorraine Senna, Matthew Penn, Mike Figgis, Nick Gomez, Peter Bogdanovich, Phil Abraham, Rodrigo García, Steve Buscemi, S

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: A New Jersey mob boss struggles to juggle the demands of family life with leading a criminal organization. As pressure mounts, regular sessions with a psychiatrist bring his stress, fears, and contradictions into sharper focus, while relatives and associates pull him in competing directions.



Succession

Director: Adam Arkin, Adam McKay, Andrij Parekh, Kevin Bray, Lorene Scafaria, Matt Shakman, Miguel Arteta, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, S.J. Clarkson, Cathy Yan, Becky Martin, Lorene Scafaria

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: An ultra-wealthy family faces uncertainty when their aging patriarch begins stepping back from the media and entertainment empire they control. As loyalties shift and ambitions collide, the relatives and insiders scramble for influence while trying to keep the company—and their relationships—from unraveling.



The White Lotus

Director: N/A

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: Over one week at an exclusive tropical resort, wealthy vacationers and the staff catering to them clash in small, awkward ways that steadily grow more tense. As the days pass, the picture-perfect getaway starts to feel increasingly uneasy, exposing messy behavior, entitlement, and simmering resentments beneath the surface.



The Rehearsal

Director: Nathan Fielder

Runtime: 30 minutes

Overview: Using a huge crew, actors, and elaborate sets, a filmmaker helps everyday people practice difficult conversations and major life choices inside carefully built simulations. As the rehearsals grow more detailed, the line between planning and living starts to blur, raising uneasy questions about control, authenticity, and what preparation can really fix.



Band of Brothers

Director: David Frankel, David Leland, David Nutter, Mikael Salomon, Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Tom Hanks, Tony To

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: Built from survivor interviews, journals, and letters, this miniseries follows an elite paratrooper unit from grueling training in Georgia into major World War II battles across Europe. As they jump into Normandy and push toward the war’s end, they face fear, loss, and the bond that forms under extreme pressure.



The Pacific

Director: Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tim Van Patten, Tony To

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.



The Newsroom

Director: Alan Poul, Alex Graves, Anthony Hemingway, Carl Franklin, Daniel Minahan, Greg Mottola, Jason Ensler, Jeremy Podeswa, Joshua Marston, Julian Farino, Lesli Linka Glatter

Runtime: 60 minutes

Overview: A cable-news team tries to raise the bar on nightly reporting while juggling deadlines, workplace pressure, and messy personal relationships. As they chase honest, substantive coverage, they run into corporate demands, commercial competition, and constant internal friction that tests their ideals.



Never Let Go

Director: Alexandre Aja

Runtime: 101 minutes

Overview: A mother and her twin sons live in a remote house, convinced that a dangerous evil waits just beyond their doorstep. Their safety depends on strict rules and staying connected to home, but dwindling supplies and growing doubt begin to strain their bond and test what they believe is real.



Bicentennial Man

Director: Chris Columbus

Runtime: 131 minutes

Overview: A household robot is brought into a family as a helpful appliance, but over time it begins to show creativity, emotions, and a growing sense of self. As it learns from human relationships and changing times, it pushes beyond its programming and challenges what it means to be recognized as truly human.



I Swear

Director: Kirk Jones

Runtime: 121 minutes

Overview: A teenager develops Tourette Syndrome and is met with confusion, bullying, and misunderstanding at school and at home. As he grows into adulthood, unexpected support and everyday kindness help him find steadier footing, pursue independence, and turn hard-earned experience into a sense of purpose.



Man on Fire

Director: Tony Scott

Runtime: 146 minutes

Overview: A burned-out former intelligence operative takes a bodyguard job for a young girl in Mexico City. As their uneasy partnership turns into a genuine bond, a sudden kidnapping pushes him into a relentless, dangerous search that tests his limits and sense of purpose.



Care

Director: David Blair

Runtime: 90 minutes

Overview: Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.



Nanny McPhee

Director: Kirk Jones

Runtime: 97 minutes

Overview: A widowed father struggling to manage his seven unruly children hires a strict, mysterious nanny who uses a touch of magic to teach them better behavior. As pressure mounts from a wealthy relative who threatens the family’s future, the household must learn to work together and appreciate what they have.



Bridge to Terabithia

Director: Gábor Csupó

Runtime: 95 minutes

Overview: A lonely boy dreams of being the fastest runner at school, but a confident new classmate beats him and upends his routine. As they become close friends, they escape bullying and family pressures by inventing a shared fantasy kingdom filled with monsters and adventures where they can feel brave and understood.



Prisoners

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Runtime: 153 minutes

Overview: When two young girls vanish from a quiet neighborhood just before the holidays, panic spreads as hours pass with no answers. With only a suspicious RV as a lead, the search turns into a tense race between a determined investigation and a parent pushed toward extreme choices.



Ghost

Director: Jerry Zucker

Runtime: 127 minutes

Overview: After a young man is killed, he finds himself unable to move on and stays close to the woman he loves. With danger still looming, he turns to an unlikely go-between—a reluctant psychic—to get warnings through and uncover what’s really going on.



London Boulevard

Director: N/A

Runtime: 103 minutes

Overview: After leaving prison, a hardened ex-con tries to start over in South London but gets pulled back toward the underworld by a demanding crime boss. When he takes a job protecting a secluded celebrity who’s desperate for privacy, a fragile romance forms as pressure and violence close in from all sides.



Chef

Director: Jon Favreau

Runtime: 114 minutes

Overview: After walking away from a high-profile restaurant rather than compromise his creativity, a chef has to rebuild his career and confidence. With help from family and friends, he hits the road with a food truck, rediscovering the joy of cooking, connection, and a fresh start.



Doctor Who

Director: Donald Wilson, Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber

Runtime: N/A minutes

Overview: A brilliant time-traveling alien roams the universe, hopping across eras and worlds to help people in trouble. With quick wits, a big heart, and a knack for finding danger, this adventurer turns saving planets into an ongoing, unpredictable ride through space and time.