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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Detective Benoit Blanc teams up with an earnest young priest to investigate a perfectly impossible crime at a small-town church with a dark history.
Fury (2014)
A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.
Ripley (2024–2024) | “II: SEVEN MERCIES” (Season 1, Episode 2)
Tom settles in Dickie's seaside villa, to the displeasure of Dickie's girlfriend Marge.
Stranger Things 3 | English | S3:E2 – Chapter Two: The Mall Rats
Nancy and Jonathan follow a lead, Steve and Robin sign on to a secret mission, and Max and Eleven go shopping. A rattled Billy has troubling visions.
Equalizer, The | By: Richard Wenk
A veteran covert operative seeking redemption for his dark deeds quits a CIA-like agency and devotes himself to helping others where injustice has been done.
Running Scared (1986)
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.
Black Phone, The (2021) Short Story
After being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims. This is Joe Hill's short story; upon which the screenplay is based.
Train Dreams (2025)
Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.
Stranger Things 2 | English | S2:E1 – Chapter One: MADMAX
As the town preps for Halloween, a high-scoring rival shakes things up at the arcade, and a skeptical Hopper inspects a field of rotting pumpkins.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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