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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this Oscar-winning character study, a startling discovery comes to light for a retired criminal investigator as he pens a biographical novel about the unsolved case of a young newlywed's brutal rape and murder years earlier.
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The Shield: Season 1
2002 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsDetective Vic Mackey leads a posse of Los Angeles rogue cops with a great track record of fighting crime. Vic calls the shots with the team, but trouble brews when a new captain who can't abide by Vic's renegade tactics is assigned to the precinct.
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The Shield: Season 2
2003 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsDet. Vic Mackey returns as the hard-hitting leader of the Strike Team -- a experimental group of rogue cops that are working to clean up the gritty streets of Los Angeles by bringing down Armadillo, a sadistic drug lord, and the Armenian mob.
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The Shield: Season 3
2004 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSeason 3 begins with gang warfare causing chaos in Los Angeles. The crime wave forces the Strike Team to abandon its efforts to play by the rules. Meanwhile, Vic must adjust to a new supervisor while he navigates the perilous waters of urban crime.
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The Shield: Season 4
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWith Capt. David Aceveda elected to a position on the city council, Glenn Close joins the cast as Capt. Monica Rawling, overseeing Det. Mackey's drug-fighting unit after the elite Strike Team's dissolution.
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The Shield: Season 5
2006 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTaking down assorted scumbags, Vic Mackey continues to fight the good fight his way -- which means no rules. But not if Lt. Kavanaugh -- who's leading the Internal Affairs investigation into the Strike Team's questionable tactics -- can help it.
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The Shield: Season 6
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSeason 6 takes place in the wake of Lt. Jon Kavanaugh's investigation of the Strike Team -- a tumultuous time resulting in the murder Det. Lemansky at the hands of one of their own. Meanwhile, Vic learns of a plan to force him out of the unit.
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The Source
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn a remote village in northern Africa, women have traditionally fetched water from a mountaintop well in the blistering sun. But Leila doesn't see why the men can't do their fair share, and unites the local women in a sex strike until they do.
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The Terminator
1984 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn the post-apocalyptic future, tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin back to 1984 to snuff Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead the human insurgents. Meanwhile, the rebels dispatch a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah.
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The True Story of WrestleMania: Vol. 1
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTelling the "true story" of how WrestleMania mushroomed from a humble event into a full-blown, weeklong extravaganza, the first volume of this three-part documentary focuses on WrestleMania's birth and eventual influence over a generation of fans. Segments cover the event's spread to major cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and then onto the masses with the help of the Hulkamania phenomenon.
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The Warriors
1979 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAfter being wrongly accused of killing a charismatic gang leader, a Coney Island street gang known as the Warriors must battle their way across miles of enemy turf to get home, pursued by the cops and every bloodthirsty hood in town.
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The Way Back
2010 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAfter narrowly escaping from a wretched World War II Siberian labor camp, a small band of multinational soldiers desperately undertakes a harrowing journey to traverse Siberia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas on foot.
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The World's Fastest Indian
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis fact-based drama stars Anthony Hopkins as quirky New Zealander Burt Munro, a 67-year-old grandfather who flies across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats and attempts to break into the record books on his customized Indian Scout motorcycle.
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These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsFeaturing exclusive interviews and dazzling archival footage, this insightful documentary shines a light on the work of the National Film Registry and the art of preserving aesthetically, culturally and historically significant cinema.
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Tom Papa Live in New York City
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsComedian Tom Papa's family-oriented standup special follows in the footsteps of Bill Cosby and Ray Romano as he riffs on the trials of married life. He jokes about fatherhood in the 21st century, family pets, boundaries for technology and more.
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Torchwood: Children of Earth
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCapt. Jack Harkness, officer Gwen Cooper and the rest of the secret organization known as Torchwood return, continuing their efforts to monitor extraterrestrial activity, collect alien technology and head off supernatural threats.
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Torchwood: Miracle Day
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe sci-fi hit "Torchwood" -- spun off from the venerable "Dr. Who" series -- spins out another spacey epic, featuring familiar characters and a bizarre metaphysical proposition, as well as romantic troubles for Captain Jack Harkness.
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Torchwood: Season 1
2006 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this series spin-off from "Doctor Who," policewoman Gwen Cooper learns of a secret organization known as Torchwood, a clandestine group that monitors alien activity on Earth. Cooper soon joins the team in a quest to protect Earth from invasion.
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Torchwood: Season 2
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn the second season of this award-winning drama, Capt. Jack Harkness reteams with Gwen, Owen, Toshiko and Ianto to investigate the oddities of Cardiff's alien underworld. An old acquaintance of Jack's shows up with a side order of danger.
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Touchback
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsFifteen years after suffering a career-ending injury in the state football championship, Scott gets a chance to go back in time and change the outcome. Eventually, he turns to the team's coach to help determine whether he should mess with fate.
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Trailer Park Boys: Season 1
2001 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis innovative Showcase mockumentary series opens in a blaze of glory as it introduces pals Ricky (Robb Wells) and Julian (John Paul Tremblay), who are just out of jail and back in their trailer-park neighborhood in Nova Scotia.
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Trailer Park Boys: Season 2
2002 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsReleased from another stint in jail, Ricky and Julian return to their trailer park and hatch more get-rich quick schemes, which include growing and selling weed to prison guards, and opening an illegal disco in one of the trailers.
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Trailer Park Boys: Season 3
2003 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAs Ricky and Julian, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay are back on the streets again after yet another prison stint -- and as usual, their attempts to follow the straight and narrow fall completely flat. Watch as the pair and the rest of their friends vie for the job of Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor, hatch a plan to resell barbecues, and dip their toes into petty crimes, like selling pirated CDs.
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Trailer Park Boys: Season 4
2004 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsJulian (John Paul Tremblay), Ricky (Robb Wells), Bubbles (Mike Smith) and the rest of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park gang continue their crazy -- and often illegal -- adventures in Season 4 of this comic mockumentary series set in Nova Scotia. This time around, Ricky becomes the park's unscrupulous supervisor, Bubbles wrestles as "the Green Bastard," and the boys scramble to harvest their plants before Mr. Lahey gets wind of their activities.
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Trailer Park Boys: Season 5
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsBored stiff in prison, Julian (John Paul Tremblay), Bubbles (Mike Smith) and Ricky (Robb Wells) dive into more unlawful activities as soon as they're released. This season, the Sunnyvale Trailer Park boys pave the driveway with illegal tar, Ray's trailer burns down and the final episode explodes into a huge gunfight. The offbeat comedy series also stars John Dunsworth, Lucy Decoutere and Jonathan Torrens.
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