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169. Cruel Summer

Apr 20, 2021  •  Rated TV-14
In 1993, popular teenager Kate (Olivia Holt) disappears from her small Texas town. Nerdy Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia) transforms into the new popular girl and by 1995, the prime suspect in this thriller created by Bert V. Royal and executive produced by Jessica Biel.
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170. Invasion

Sep 21, 2005  •  Rated TV-14
Man has searched the skies for centuries and has never come up with conclusive evidence to prove the existence of other forms of intelligent life. What if we have been looking in the wrong place? What if there were other forms of intelligent life already living among us? What if perceived natural disasters were really diversions created to conceal clandestine alien activities? What if is no longer an if. When a small town at the edge of the Florida Everglades is threatened by a raging hurricane, U.S. Park Ranger Russell Varon must go to great lengths to protect the small community and his family safe. During the storm his young daughter claims to have seen mysterious lights, seemingly unaffected by the gale-force winds, floating near the water. Varon dismisses the sighting, but begins to wonder if there really was some truth to the story after his missing ex-wife turns up naked and her memory of the storm is completely gone. While the community begins to clean up after the storm and piece their lives back together, Varon begins to investigate the strange happenings as he tries to make sense of what is happening. Something is happening something that will change the fate everyone.
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171. The Killing

Apr 3, 2011  •  Rated TV-14
Based on a popular Danish series called Forbrydelsen, this AMC crime drama project follows three different subplots all linked to a single murder.
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172. Primeval

Aug 9, 2008  •  Rated TV-14
Primeval, a high-budget series, follows Professor Nick Cutter and his team as they investigate anomalies in time found in the Forest of Dean. An unfortunate side-effect of the anomalies is that dinosaurs are moving through them and into the present time, making the team's investigations that much more stressful. Cutter's wife also disappears while investigating the anomalies and he makes it his mission to find and save her. This series originally aired on ITV and begins on BBC America on August 9, 2008.
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173. The Old Man

Jun 16, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
Ex-CIA officer Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) has been living off-grid for years when an assassin tries to kill him in this series based on Thomas Perry's novel of the same name.
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174. Fringe

Sep 9, 2008  •  Rated TV-14
FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his estranged father Walter Bishop (John Noble) are entangled in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi drama about a conspiracy that begins with mysterious deaths on an airplane.
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175. Spy City

Apr 15, 2021  •  Rated Not Rated
Set in Berlin 1961, British spy Fielding Scott (Dominic Cooper) seeks to uncover a traitor in this limited series created by William Boyd.
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176. Tehran

Sep 25, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) goes undercover in Tehran in this series created by Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden, and Maor Kohn. [Premiered originally in Israel on Kan 11 on 22 Jun 2020]
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177. Ripper Street

Jan 19, 2013  •  Rated TV-MA
Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) heads up Whitechapel's H Division in London's East End where the police try to solve cases with the murderer, Jack the Ripper still at large.
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178. FlashForward

Sep 24, 2009  •  Rated TV-14
Dubbed ABC's companion series to Lost, FlashForward is based on Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel of the same name. The plot centers around an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes everyone on Earth lose consciousness. Later, as people start waking up, the world starts changing because people know their future. Starring Joseph Fiennes and John Cho as Mark Benford and Demetri Noh, two FBI agents assigned to investigating the unknown cause of the two minute blackout.
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179. Thief

Mar 28, 2006  •  Rated TV-MA
When it comes to pulling heists, Nick Atwater is a master. But when it comes to his family life he is not as successful. But there are far bigger problems ahead, will he and his team be able to make a clean getaway?
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180. Dr. Brain

Nov 4, 2021  •  Rated TV-MA
Brain scientist Sewon (LEE Sun-kyun) seeks for clues on the mysterious accident that took his family by accessing the memories of the dead in this Korean language thriller from Kim Jee-woon.
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181. The Escape Artist

Oct 29, 2013
Barrister Will Burton (David Tennant) defends accused murder Liam Foyle (Toby Kebbell) but soon finds his client more dangerous than he thought.
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182. Bloodline

Mar 20, 2015  •  Rated TV-MA
The return of eldest son Danny Rayburn (Ben Mendelsohn) to his Florida keys hometown for the anniversary of his parents' (Sissy Spacek and Sam Shephard) hotel causes tension and secrets to spill out amongst his family including his three siblings: John (Kyle Chandler), Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz), and Meg (Linda Cardellini).
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183. Ordeal By Innocence

Aug 10, 2018  •  Rated TV-MA
Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor) is murdered and her adopted son Jack (Anthony Boyle) is sent to prison for the crime. 18 months later, just as Rachel's husband Leo Argyll (Bill Nighy) is about to marry his secretary, Gwenda Vaughan (Alice Eve), a man (Luke Treadaway) arrives saying he has an alibi for Jack in this latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1958 novel.
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184. Designated Survivor

Sep 21, 2016  •  Rated TV-14
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) is left as the Commander in Chief after an explosion during the State of the Union address kills the President and those in line of succession.
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185. Under the Banner of Heaven

Apr 28, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
Detective Jeb Pyre (Andrew Garfield) finds his faith tested while investigating a double murder that may be connected to an LDS family in this limited series from Dustin Lance Black and inspired by the true crime book by Jon Krakauer.
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186. Manhunt (2017)

Aug 1, 2017  •  Rated TV-14
The anthology series features a season-long dramatization of FBI investigations including the Unabomber and the bombing during the 1996 Olympic Games.
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187. Devs

Mar 5, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), a young computer engineer, thinks a division of the San Francisco tech company she works for may be behind the disappearance of her boyfriend in this miniseries from Alex Garland. [FX on Hulu]
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188. Wedding Season

Sep 8, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
At Katie's (Rosa Salazar) wedding, her husband and seven guests are murdered. The police suspect her lover (Gavin Drea) of two months, but he thinks she did it in this comedic series written by Oliver Lyttelton.
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189. Ridley Road

May 1, 2022  •  Rated Not Rated
Vivien Epstein (Agnes O'Casey) moves to London in 1962 to find her ex-boyfriend Jack Morris (Tom Varey) and soon finds herself involved in spying on the National Socialist Movement in this four-part drama series based on the novel by Jo Bloom. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 3 Oct 2021 and in the US on PBS on 1 May 2022]
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190. Looney Tunes Cartoons

May 27, 2020  •  Rated TV-Y7
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé le Pew, Sylvester, Porky Pig, Taz, Tweety Bird, and Yosemite Sam are just some of the Warner Bros. characters who return with new stories.
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191. Patriot

Nov 5, 2015  •  Rated TV-MA
Intelligence officer John Tavner (Michael Dorman) is given an assignment to stop Iran from getting nuclear armaments while working at Milwaukee's McMillan Industrial Piping in this dark comedy from Steven Conrad.
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192. You, Me and the Apocalypse

Jan 28, 2016  •  Rated TV-PG
After the announcement of a comet hitting Earth, British bank manager Jamie Winton (Mathew Baynton) seeks his missing wife and biological mother, Rhonda MacNeil (Jenna Fischer) meets a white supremacist named Leanne (Megan Mullally) in jail, Rhonda's brother, Scotty (Kyle Soller), and his boyfriend, U.S. General Arnold Gaines (Paterson Joseph) try to find a way to stop the comet and Father Jude Sutton (Rob Lowe) with Sister Celine (Gaia Scodellaro), are trying to locate The Messiah.
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