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The Returned - Season 1
Several people come back to their home town in the same week after they've been dead for years in this eerie dramatic series. When you've been dead for some years, showing up in your hometown alive and well can be really disturbing for everyone.
2015
| TV Shows | TV Thrillers | US TV Shows |
Keep on Keepin' On
This documentary follows aging jazz legend Clark Terry as he guides young jazz pianist Justin Kauflin through preparations for a big competition. Clark Terry's trumpet and flugelhorn riffs were legendary. Mentoring an aspiring jazz pianist is as moving as his music.
2014
| Documentaries |
Little Nicky
The devil sends his sweet, dim-bulb son Nicky to Earth to bring back his scheming siblings, who have plans to oust dear old dad from power. Satan's two evil sons have taken over Manhattan. His angelic third son is a mess. Dad's really falling apart over this.
2000
| Slapstick Comedies | Comedies |
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor. Two little hobbits risk life and limb to protect a powerful and dangerous ring. A fiery volcano awaits.
2003
| Fantasy Movies | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Adventures | Action & Adventure |
Man of Steel
Reporter Clark Kent must keep his powers hidden from the world, but when an evil general plans to destroy Earth, the Man of Steel springs into action. A hero from the stars has a huge challenge. Saving all of humanity? Nope. Keeping his superpowers a secret.
2013
| Sci-Fi Adventure | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Action & Adventure | Adventures | Fantasy Movies | Comic Book and Superhero Movies | Action Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Virunga
The Oscar-nominated true story of the rangers risking their lives to save Africa's most precious national park and its endangered gorillas. Rebels. Poachers. Oil companies. The endangered mountain gorilla has many enemies, and one friend: local park rangers.
2014
| Social & Cultural Documentaries | Science & Nature Documentaries | Documentaries |
Street Kings
Still reeling from the death of his wife, Los Angeles detective Tom Ludlow is devastated when he's named as a suspect in the murder of his partner. Conspiracy, murder and frame-up: The world wants to bring one cop down hard. So he does what the best do: He hits back.
2008
| Action | Action & Adventure | Action Thrillers |
The Kill Team
This jarring documentary spotlights the 2010 killings of Afghani civilians by U.S. troops, and the fate of one GI who tried to expose the crimes. An American soldier abroad finds out the hard way that war criminals don't care for whistleblowers.
2013
| Critically-acclaimed Movies | Military & War Movies | Military & War Documentaries |
Sid the Science Kid: The Movie
When a robot tour guide goes berserk in a museum, it's up to inquisitive Sid and his young scientist pals to track down the wayward android. The whiz kid wins a visit to a new science museum. He didn't expect a futuristic robot to be running amok!
2012
| Children & Family Movies | Movies for ages 2 to 4 | Movies for ages 5 to 7 |
The Ridiculous 6
When his outlaw dad is kidnapped, Tommy “White Knife” Stockburn sets off across the West on a rescue mission with five brothers he never knew he had. They're brothers from a bunch of mothers. And they have some questions for their dad. But first they have to save him.
2015
| Adventures | Action & Adventure | Westerns |
Sense8 - Season 1
From the creators of "The Matrix" and "Babylon 5" comes this tense series in which eight people can telepathically experience each other's lives. Their gift of telepathic communication made them targets for extermination. But it's the one thing keeping them alive.
2015
| TV Shows | TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy | US TV Shows |
Sid the Science Kid - Season 1
Armed with a healthy sense of humor and the help of his teacher, friends and family, curious kid Sid tackles questions youngsters have about science. Ever wonder about mushy bananas -- or spider webs? Science is the best thing ever! And this kid will show you why.
2008
| Kids' TV | TV Cartoons | Education for Kids | Kids Music | TV Shows |
We're the Millers
When a small-time pot dealer in debt to his supplier agrees to smuggle in a major stash from Mexico, he rounds up a fake family to act as a cover. Here's his to-do list: rent an RV; get a phony family; outsmart the DEA, ICE and lunatic drug lords. Seems doable.
2013
| Comedies |
Knuckle
Two Irish families settle their differences with bare-knuckle boxing in this documentary directed by Ian Palmer. Rival boys from an ethnic Irish group compete in brutal fist fights. Is protecting the family name worth the price?
2011
| International Movies | British Movies | Documentaries | Social & Cultural Documentaries | Biographical Documentaries |
The Nightmare
This documentary explores the horror of sleep paralysis, a temporary disorder in which the sufferer, trapped between waking and sleeping, cannot move. Not asleep but not quite awake and completely unable to move: Sleep paralysis is the true-life stuff of nightmares.
2015
| International Movies | International Documentaries | International Thrillers |
Spy Kids
The tables are turned when pint-sized kids Carmen and Juni must rescue their secret-agent parents from the diabolical clutches of Alexander Minion. Boring parents? So they thought. But when the kids learn the truth, they go from ordinary to extraordinary to save them.
2001
| Action Comedies | Comedies | Children & Family Movies | Movies for ages 8 to 10 | Family Features | Movies for ages 11 to 12 | Family Adventures | Family Comedies |