Category: Streaming
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Seeking Persephone, Greek myth meets Beauty and the Beast
Seeking Persephone is a beautifully filmed Regency romance set mostly in a lonely castle in 1805. It’s a slow burn romance between two unlikely people told in four episodes.
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The Marked Woman, a Spanish mystery
The Marked Woman (La desconocida) begins with a dramatic scene. A dock worker is led to a shipping container by his dog. Inside he finds a nearly dead woman who is tied and gagged.
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Alice and Steve, British comedy with Nicola Walker
Alice and Steve are best friends. They used to date years ago. Both married other people and have remained best friends. Then Steve sleeps with Alice’s 26 year old daughter and the whole situation explodes into madness.
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Little America, 16 story anthology series
Little America, seasons 1 and 2, tell 16 different stories of 16 different people and families. We see why they came to America, where they lived, what they did to survive, how they thrived, what they accomplished. They came from everywhere in the world, spoke many languages, and had many dreams.
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Office Romance, romcom with bonus characters
Office Romance fits the romcom mold perfectly. Cute couple, nice chemistry, upscale settings, happy ending. But this film offers more in the form of some quirky and fun secondary characters who add pizzaz to the proceedings.
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Lies We Tell, period Irish drama
Lies We Tell, an atmospheric Irish drama set in a remote castle, tells a tense story of young Maud (Agnes O’Casey) and her struggle to hang on to her inheritance while greedy relatives seek to steal it all.
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Midwinter Break, a marriage in crisis
Midwinter Break is a two-hander with Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville as a long time married couple who are struggling to get through a crisis in their relationship.
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A Foggy Tale, surviving oppression
A Foggy Tale follows a naive young Taiwanese girl who travels to Taipei on her own to retrieve the body of her beloved older brother. The film is set in 1953, a period of time known as White Terror under the rule of the Kuomintang government.
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Miss You, Love You and the anger of grief
Miss You, Love You puts two strangers together planning a funeral and watches as they work through grief, anger, resentment and loss by taking it out on each other.