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Reply 1988 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1988 at a neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. Five families live on the same alley road
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 9.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: friendship, school, fall in love, love, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, husband wife relationship, friends to lovers, lifestyle, drinking alcohol, storytelling, drinking, rich and poor, faith, asian, lovesick, buddy, best friends in love, love triangle, mother son relationship, nostalgia, coming of age, bromance, family relations
Better Call Saul (2015)
Plot Summary:
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Erhmantraut. The series will track Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer"
Duration: 3154 min
IMDB Rating: 9.0/10
IMDB Votes: 620000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: lawyer, workplace situations, legal, hotshot lawyer, criminal lawyer, family relations, dishonesty, dark humor, moral dilemma, anti hero, lawyer client relationship, cons and scams, organized crime, private investigator, drug cartel, psychosomatic illness, brother brother relationship, ambition, employer employee relationship, mental illness, drug trade, dysfunctional family, criminal underworld, foreshadowing, tragic hero
Narcos (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels
Duration: 49 min
IMDB Rating: 8.8/10
IMDB Votes: 458000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Plot tags: drug cartel, gangster, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, dea, master criminal, ambition, hitman, criminal heroes, drug, organized crime, smuggling, politics, mafia, terrorism, cocaine, kidnapping, cold war, president, hidden money
The Bureau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system
Duration: 52 min
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: spy, espionage, undercover agent, terrorism, secret service, investigation, danger, national security, characters in danger, twists and turns, secret identity, mission, obsession, cia, military, mentally unstable, pow, paranoia, uncover truth, middle east conflict, intelligence, parents, reconnaissance, female nudity, hostage
Skam (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Plot tags: lgbt, gay, teenage sexuality, friendship, gay relationship, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, teenager, high school student, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between girls, teenage girl, gay teenager, teenage sex, high school hunk, homosexual, friendship between boys, interracial relations, teen angst, muslim, parent child relationship, muslim girl, family relations, dating
Daredevil (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil
Duration: 54 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, heroes, secret identity, vigilante, heroic mission, one against many, lawyer, blind man, hand to hand combat, daredevil, ninja, male protagonist, one man army, good versus evil, blood, vigilantism, danger, corruption, fighting crime, super powers, superhuman powers, crime boss, blind character, fistfight, prison fight
Merli (2015)
Plot Summary:
TV series about a high school philosophy teacher, Merlí, who teaches in an original way, and about the students of his class, including his own son, and the relationship, friendship, love, and problems between the students of the class
Duration: 58 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Plot tags: philosophy, coming of age, high school, teacher, gay, bisexual man, teenage love, teenage life, lgbt, gay lead character, jealousy, society, intergenerational friendship, coworker relationship, teenage sexuality, gay couple, parents and children, lgbtq, unrequited love, troubled teen, lgbt teen, teacher student relationship, relationships, prodigy, child prodigy
The Expanse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, spaceship, space wars, conspiracy, space exploration, society, space and aliens, rivalry, galaxy, space, space battle, alien technology, survival, transformation, danger, solar system, uncover truth
The Last Kingdom (2015)
Plot Summary:
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
Plot tags: viking, king, battles, danger, medieval, escapades, kingdom, castle, war, heroes, kidnapping, rivalry, political unrest, sword, vengeance, british, orphan, female nudity, warrior, royalty, ancient rome, monarch, revenge, fight, murder
Mr. Robot (2015)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America
Duration: 49 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 410000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computers and web, fighting the system, conspiracy, psychotherapy, split personality, paranoia, conspiracy theory, secret society, introvert, society, hallucination, schizophrenia, drug addict, social anxiety disorder, rebellion, friendship, childhood trauma, psychotherapist, revolution, brother sister relationship, murder, multiple personality disorder
Unforgotten (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the secrets will also affect the personal lives of both Sunny and Cassie
Duration: 45 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Plot tags: murder investigation, murder, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, sleuth, police procedural, crime investigation, forensics, mysterious disappearance, unsolved crime, fighting crime, secret, partner, homicide detective, police detective, detective inspector
Call My Agent! (2015)
Plot Summary:
TV mini-series about a French talent agency
Duration: 52 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Plot tags: showbiz, actor's life, female protagonist, workplace, celebrity culture, lesbian, satire, disorder, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, life turned upside down, strong female lead, rivalry, lgbtq, pop music, friendship, society, serial killer, women, coming of age, lgbtqi, office, family relations, lgbt, bare breasts
Poldark (2015)
Plot Summary:
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Plot tags: countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, social differences, master and servant, couple relations, family relations, english countryside, village life, gentleman, love triangle, mine, british, mining, wedding planning, village, ship, ancient rome, world war one, rich man, ancient
Fauda (2015)
Plot Summary:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Plot tags: espionage, israeli palestinian conflict, terror, terrorist, war on terror, israeli, disguise, murder, danger, assassination, chase, mossad, israeli army, spy, terrorism, conflict, government agency, stephen king, islam, murder mystery, revolution, political conspiracy, propaganda, covert operation, religious
Sense8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: lgbt, supernatural, supernatural ability, gay, telepathy, danger, lesbian, love affair, secret organization, conspiracy, sex scene, transsexual, homosexuality, chases and races, imaginary, survival, lgbtq, transgender, mind control, gay erotica, escapades, sex, social issues, police officer, interracial couple
For My Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A defamed ex-cop, who is struggling to get back his son, is put on undercover duty within the biggest mafia in Istanbul
Duration: 120 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Plot tags: revenge, conspiracy, love, mafia, escape, friendship, doctor, family relations, father son relationship, ex cop, working undercover, bandit, gang, criminal, mafioso, undercover agent, double agent, fighting crime, gang member, outlaw gang, criminal gang, special agent, prison, lawyer, death
Master of None (2015)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: satire, thirty something, children, self discovery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, dark humor, friendship, actor, everyday life, lifestyle, actor's life, silly humor, dating, lesbian, intrigue, mature, humour, black, pop culture, lgbtq, social realism, lgbtqi, male female relationship, male female friendship
Wolf Hall (2015)
Plot Summary:
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impass steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Duration: 360 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Plot tags: royal family, tudors, rise to the top, political intrigue, royalty, british monarchy, monarch, manipulation, ambition, state affairs, medieval, politics, betrayal, society, dishonesty, blind ambition, british royal family, monarchy, queen, aristocrat, clergy, british history, knight, ancient rome, world war one
Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?
Duration: 24 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: food, cooking, contests and competitions, rivalry, chef, friends, twists and turns, school, recipe, adaptation, direction and purpose, ambition, longing, tournament, aspiration, father son relationship, competition, propaganda, slice of life, comic book, mentor, dishonesty, female nudity, male nudity, gourmet
Locked Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller
Duration: 53 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Plot tags: lesbian, prison guard, female prisoner, women's prison, jail, prison, women in prison, female homosexuality, corruption, life is a bitch, false accusation, brutality, prisoner, dishonesty, female protagonist, prison life, confined, hidden money, lgbtq, accusation, guilty verdict, framed for a crime, fraud, sapphic, con artists
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Plot tags: cold war, stasi, espionage, spy, secret police, double agent, political intrigue, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, german soldier, military, love and romance, danger, society, world war two, voodoo, communism, berlin wall, resistance, political conspiracy, german history, exodus, female nudity, smoking
Shahrzad (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a windstorm happens in life, love is the first victim. In Iran, Tehran, 1953
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Iran
Plot tags: love, mafia, love and romance, revenge, violence, youth, death, betrayal, murder, crime boss, family relations, parents and children, brutality, chase, organized crime, couples, vengeance, rivalry, society, mob boss, family business, gang war, family tradition, crime family, criminal heroes
Show Me a Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics
Duration: 358 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Plot tags: politics, racism, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, hunting, white house, corporation, real life, secrets, mayor, pop culture, true crime, urbanization, interracial relations, murder, urban, family relations, african american, best friend, racial segregation, workplace romance, class differences, american history, diner
F is for Family (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Murphy's, a lower middle class family living in the 1970s — a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport. “F Is For Family”, is a six-episode animated series based on the comedy of Bill Burr
Duration: 30 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Plot tags: dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, couple relations, satire, teenage life, gross out humor, family relations, teenager, betrayal, middle class, identity crisis, family man, drug use, working class, mature, emotional abuse, love, sex scene, stoner, exodus, family affairs, suburbs, arrogance, drowning
River (2015)
Plot Summary:
John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Plot tags: twists and turns, police detective, police, police investigation, hallucination, haunted by the past, murder investigation, loneliness, police procedural, able to see the dead, investigation, partner, nordic, murder, law enforcement, police officer, psychology, criminal, illness, afterlife, mental illness, forensic, forensics, grief, cat and mouse
Trapped (2015)
Plot Summary:
As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The local police chief, Andri Olafssun, whose personal life is in shatters, realizes a killer has descended into his town. As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferry’s passengers and the town’s residents realize they are all possible suspects and that a killer is trapped among them
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, UK
Plot tags: murder investigation, police, murder, small town, police officer, coastal town, winter, nordic, investigation, ex wife, danger, voodoo, forensic, serial killer, forest, supernatural, criminal, human trafficking, murder mystery, forensics, judiciary, police investigation, police procedural, thrill ride, instinct
Code Black (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most
Duration: 42 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: hospital, medical, doctor, emergency room, medical profession, reanimation, medicine, saving a life, nurse, coping, team, surgery, nursing, physician, clinic, coworker relationship, workplace situations, teamwork, treatment, medical clinic, coworker, medical examination, cure, workplace, women
Bloodline (2015)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty
Duration: 60 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: dysfunctional family, family relations, wealthy family, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, family life, homecoming, secret, dark secret, police detective, murder investigation, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, family business, police investigation, brother brother relationship, whodunit, supernatural, criminal, house, child abuse, legal, judiciary, brother murders brother
Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City
Duration: 56 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 224000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: female protagonist, superhero, investigation, private detective, strong female character, imaginary, lawyer, strong female lead, super powers, violence, good versus evil, supernatural power, lesbian, danger, heroes, mind control, escapades, superheroine, death, orphan, support group, car accident, manipulation, guilt, abuse
Versailles (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality
Duration: 52 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Canada
Plot tags: royal family, intrigue, royal court, king, betrayal, ambition, rivalry, political intrigue, state affairs, rise to the top, dishonesty, infidelity, french history, graphic violence, king of france, royalty, violent content, medieval, nobility, lgbt, monarch, monarchy, lgbtq, haunted by the past, twists and turns