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Kalopsia — (f.) La ilusión de creer que algo es más lindo de lo que en realidad es.
Dicen que nunca sabes lo que pasa detrás las puertas cerradas, ¿pero también sabes lo que de verdad pasa fuera de tu puerta principal?
Kate es una veinteañera, una mujer exitosa. Divertida, atractiva e independiente, al parecer todo le va bien. Pero cuando se trata de amor, Kate no reconocería una buena idea incluso si se detiene en un cruce peatonal y la...
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Morry Sonen es un psicoterapeuta de Portland, Maine. Luego de una aterradora sesión con un paciente psicopático, la personalidad impulsiva de Morry lo lleva a una extraña odisea que lo deja en el oscuro bajo mundo del Manhattan de los '90. En este periplo se deja llevar por sus adicciones -comida, amor y sexo- y, por supuesto, Manhattan misma. Al inicio sabe muy poco sobre su propio lado oscuro, pero pronto lo acepta completamente. Acercándose...
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Alicia Collinson plantea una pregunta sorpresa a sus invitados a la cena: "¿Creen que mentir es endémico en la sociedad actual?" Todos tienen diferentes respuestas basadas en sus experiencias, pero, ¿cuál fue el propósito de la pregunta de Alicia?
Fue separada de su hermano gemelo, Tom, cuando tenían ocho años. Tom se graduó en una vida de violencia, mientras que Alice encontró una vida de fortuna y riqueza en su amiga, Mary. Pero cuando...
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When the first hate letter arrives in the aftermath of her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article from the court's verdict: not guilty. Hate mail continues to trickle in, but one stands out from the others: a cryptic message with a tiny marble stone, its origins in Kos, Greece, the birthplace of Hippocrates. Dana had once proudly sworn his oath, 'I will give not...
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Among a family picnic in Presley Park strides a man with the worst intentions. In the center of a leafy suburb, everyone is having fun until the unthinkable happens. The man walks into the middle of the picnic ground seemingly unnoticed and, without warning, opens fire into the startled crowd. People collapse, wounded and dying. Those who can, flee for their lives. Who is this madman and why is he here? And when stakes are high, who will become a...
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The temptation of wealth and lust can be a persuasive lure into a dangerous game. When gambler Adam Mason begins to embezzle from his legal clients and his adulterous wife Christine becomes tangled in blackmail and murder, they both find themselves targeted from all sides. Adam's finances are spiraling out of control and a mistake embroils Christine in a deadly twist, the walls closing in on them both. The threat of exposure looms as a mysterious...
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Southern Australia, 1983. While Middle-aged stalwart Miriam rolls into town in her broken down car, Frankie - a deer hunter - is up in the forested hinterland with her gun. Meanwhile, fisherwoman Old Pearl sits on her front deck with her dog, a glass of whiskey in her hand, and Emily, the English backpacker, scrubs out the pie-encrusted kitchen at the roadhouse. But all is not well. Gran Parks is stirring. Four troubled women. One restless spirit....
8) Wolf Man
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One beautiful woman. One underworld conspiracy. One silver bullet.
Photojournalist Steve Lurgan returns from the War in Kosovo, and falls in love with a Serbian national in modern-day NYC.
Meanwhile, Jana Dragana's career is being compromised by her drug addiction, but her exploiters end up as victims of a mysterious attack.
NYPD detective Darko Lucic suspects the murders are part of a larger conspiracy. But is it an underground network of criminals...
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On the table of psychiatrist Robert Cavendish lay a strange set of papers, claimed to be the journal of the infamous Whitechapel murderer whose crimes instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.Delving deeper into the journal, Robert is convinced of its authenticity, and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside, he is drawn into the dark, sinister world of Jack The Ripper....
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Angela Murphy has just started as a detective on the mean streets of Glasgow, when the mutilated corpse of a young prostitute is discovered in a squalid apartment. Called to investigate the grisly murder, Angela is both shocked and surprised. To her boss, Frank Martin, there's something horribly familiar about the scene. He has seen it before. With limited resources and lacking experience, Angela is desperate to prove herself. But is it really the...
11) Ashes to Ashes
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The world as we know it is about to end. Terrifying side effects of the mysterious drug only known as "Ash" are turning its users into the living dead. The plague is quickly infecting the entire world, leaving Todd and his estranged brother, Mitch, to band together. But even after the two learn that the world is on the brink of destruction, can they set aside their differences and survive the impending apocalypse?
12) Unknown
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It happens every year. A select few disappear, never to return.From The Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England – people are vanishing without trace or explanation. A young man who's lost everything stumbles across an ancient secret.Can he unlock the mystery? Will he find those who need him?...can he escape the Unknown?
13) Chameleon
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An unorthodox family living in an unorthodox place, the Barretts are exceptional in many ways.
Making their life out on the water of Tricker Lake, TN, they bridge the gap between old mountain magic and the American dream, while each of them is struggling to come to terms with what makes them happy - and the powers that could tear them apart.
Hank, a navy vet who escaped his war and Hennie, the mysterious girl he stumbled upon, have now found...
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After cardiologist John Brown is incarcerated in a private prison in Miami, he and his cellmates learn firsthand how the private prison system works in Florida. Meanwhile, Nicole Rodriguez and her team at the Miami Post start digging into the prison industry, and the leadership of Homestead Correctional Facility. Soon, they discover a complex web of corruption that runs deeper than they could have ever expected. As John and Nicole's paths cross, the...
15) Falling
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Hank Bellakoff is an above-average fighter in the mob-ridden 1990's Boston boxing scene. When a series of unfortunate events brings danger and fear into his life, he escapes, leaving behind people he cares deeply about, and several women who have broken his heart. What begins as a cross-country odyssey turns into a painful road of self-reflection and coming to terms with his painful childhood. But when misfortune derails his journey, can he reach...
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Eighteen-year-old Peyton is a typical Midwest girl - until the Shadow helps her escape the most gruesome murder that the small town of Jenks, Oklahoma has ever seen. Soon after, she returns home only to find the rest of her family dead. Haunted by the Shadow ever since, Peyton is not the only one this supernatural being has chosen - and now, no one is safe from its wrath. Escaping to live with her only living relative, Peyton discovers that they both...
17) Alejandro's Lie
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Terreno, 1983, Latin America. After a dictatorship of ten years, the brutal junta, lead by general Pelarón, seems to waver.Alejandro Juron, guitarist of the famous poet and folk singer Victor Pérez who's been executed by the junta, is released from the infamous prison "The Last Supper." The underground resistance wants Alejandro to participate in its fight again. But Alejandro has changed.Consumed with guilt by the death of his friend Victor, whom...
18) Chasing Georgia
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Five years after surviving a cruel winter, delivering a daughter, and experiencing whirlwind celebrity, Georgia Charles' ex-husband passes of a sudden heart attack.
While attempting to settle into a quiet life with her child and new boyfriend, an unexpected visit from her ex-husband's widow turns Georgia's world upside down.
As Georgia's happy new beginning hangs in the balance, her resilience is challenged. After a mysterious stalker surfaces,...
19) The Pawnbroker
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Amid the danger and death of a decaying 19th century city, the Pawnbroker plies his trade. A man of evil temper, he craves the one thing that will bring him the fulfillment he covets. In the present day, two teenage boys explore an abandoned Tudor-style house. An eerie atmosphere fills the boys with a sense of dread, and they realize that something sinister is in the air. As the past reaches the present, the boys must uncover the mystery of the house......
20) The Playground
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Struggling for survival after the death of her husband, a woman leaves her hometown to make a fresh start. Arriving to the small town of Willows Grove, she and her two daughters take shelter in an old church next to a playground. Seventeen years later, Jillian and her friends set out to disprove local folk tales of evil spirits that allegedly inhabit the burnt-out church and the playground next to it. Arriving at the dilapidated playground, they wait...
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