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Big Bet (2022)

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Cha Moosik runs a casino bar, only to flee to the Philippines due to a crackdown by the National Tax Service. He launches a full-fledged casino business, and strategizes winning over the political and business circles in the Philippines. However, he is suddenly framed as a suspect in Min Seokjun's death, and is tracked by Oh Seunghoon of the Korean Desk. Betrayal is rampant in the presence of money.

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Fish Upon the Sky (2021)

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Pi has a crush on Mueang Nan, one of the hottest students in the Allied Health Sciences Department, but since he is not confident enough about his looks, he is helpless. That is, until Duen and his friends help him get a makeover to boost his confidence. When Pi finally has the guts to approach his crush, he meets his love rival, Mork. Pi has tried to surpass Mork in everything to get Nan's attention but he is not lucky enough to beat him. However, everything changes when Pi starts to feel a different set of feelings towards Mork, making things more complicated.

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Happy Ending Romance (2022)

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As a result of a troubling incident in his past, Jung Woo, a gifted writer, gives up his literary dreams to begin a life of anonymity, working a number of part time jobs. Throughout his hardships, Jung Woo is aided by his closest friend, Jung Hyun, a best-selling author who seems to have it all. One day, Jung Woo suddenly finds himself being approached by one of the country's most notable publishers, an offer Jung Woo outrightly declines. However, Tae Young, the young and tenacious CEO of the publishing firm, is not the one let go easily and becomes adamant about bringing Jung Woo and his talents back to the literary world. In an instant, the fate of the three young souls become intertwined and they begin penning their own love story.

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Never Let Me Go (2022)

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Nueng, the son of a mafia leader, has been lonely all his life due to his father's position. However, one day his father is killed and Nueng is forced to take the reins in his place. His mother appoints Palm, an elderly country guy, to be his bodyguard and protect him from dangers in and out of school. However, one person would like to see Nueng dead: his uncle who aims to become the next Mafia leader. Will Palm successfully protect Nueng from the dangers balanced by his uncle, as the two begin to fall in love?.

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The Ignorant Angels (2022)

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Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having a homosexual affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities.

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SOTUS (2016)

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The "Gear" is one of the engineering mechanical devices in the cogwheel system (as in a clock). Having one signifies that one is a student of the Faculty of Engineering. However, to get one, all engineering freshmen must first undergo the SOTUS (acronym for Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity, and Spirit) system. Arthit (Perawat Sangpotirat), one of the third year seniors, often abuses his power over the freshmen by making them do things against the rules. Freshmen students are practically powerless to complain or resist any orders given by their seniors. Arthit was seemingly unstoppable, until Kongpob (Prachaya Ruangroj) stood up against the abuses by the former. Continual encounters between the two developed from animosity to something much more affectionate.

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Straight (2007)

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Straight is the story of a messy love triangle between two men and a woman. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is a hot young Turkish guy involved in petty crime. He goes out each night with his buddies, cruising for girls and dealing drugs in a seedy city square populated with hookers. None of his buddies suspect that on many of those nights he ends up in the arms of men. Since he met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street, his hetero façade is rapidly crumbling. His friends seem to pick up on the new vibe and wonder what’s up. David is from a bourgeois Jewish family and slumming it. He hangs out on the street pretending to look for drugs, but what he really wants is Nazim. Their first hookup is alternately hot, tender and filled with guilt. Nevertheless, their affair develops in secret against all odds. Further entangling things is David’s Polish-German girlfriend (Beba Ebner), who is revolting against her strict Catholic upbringing by going out with this punkish Jewish boyfriend.

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Sins... (2013)

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The 70's. A new scenario has changed the face of the city's nightlife by combining light, radiance and music: the disco clubs. It is in this context that we follow the life of the Vêneto family. When Michele Vêneto came to Brazil running away from problems with the police and financial difficulties in war-torn Europe, the Bankers (owners and gamblers of The Animal Game) were still the masters in needy sectors of society. It was a patriarchal power in which the Bankers were at the same time benefactors of the community, owners of samba schools and arbiters of social justice. There was fear and respect for the figure of the Banker, but the atmosphere of terror imposed by the upcoming drug traffickers' domain was still absent. His wife Ana, a woman determined to get whatever she wants, whatever the cost. Donana, as Ana became known, never counted on luck. But when she loses the son Michele's been waiting for, she realizes her marriage is hanging by a thread. She finds out that her husband has a lover, Stella, and that this woman is also pregnant with his son. Actually, not even Michele knew that he was about to have another baby with Stella. Fearing for her life and for her children's lives, Stella gives Otávio and Marco Antônio away to be raised by Donana. Donana ran away to the countryside with the excuse of giving birth to her own child in her relatives' house. When she comes back, she tricks Michele into believing that Marco Antônio is their legitimate son and that Otávio is an abandoned boy from the favela who she's adopted.

IMDB Rating: 6.6

IMDB Votes: 28

Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil

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Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing