Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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English
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For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
3) Fatman
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English
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Santa's workshop is in financial peril and to make matters worse, a disgruntled boy puts a sizable hit on the fatman's head after receiving a lump of coal for Christmas.
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English
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A vast international plot explodes when a mysterious Jane Doe is discovered in Times Square, covered in cryptic tattoos with no memory of who she is. But there's one tattoo that's impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, on her back. Soon, Weller and his FBI team realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity.
5) Spy game
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English
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CIA leader Nathan Muir is ready to retire when his protege is arrested for espionage in China. Believing his student is innocent, Muir takes it upon himself to free Bishop. His mission takes him back to the beginning of their partnership.
8) Fatman
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Santa's workshop is in financial peril and to make matters worse, a disgruntled boy puts a sizable hit on the fatman's head after receiving a lump of coal for Christmas.
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English
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Season four of this procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad, a unique New York based FBI task force, finds Martin gravely injured in the line of fire and going through rehabilitation. Jack, Samantha, and Danny try not to let their concern for Martin hinder their efforts. Vivian's heart surgery appears to have been a success. Rookie, Elena Delgado, formerly of the NYPD, has joined the squad after Jack realizes the crisis plagued team needs...
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English
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Golden Globe® nominee Aaron Eckhart (THE DARK KNIGHT) stars as a desperate, bare-knuckle cage fighter battling for the only thing he has left in RUMBLE THROUGH THE DARK, a riveting action-thriller based on Michael Farris Smith's celebrated novel THE FIGHTER. Bella Thorne shines alongside Eckhart in this gripping film about one man's last-ditch effort to save his family home against the strongest of foes and the longest of odds.
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English
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The story of one man's struggle with his responsibilities as a lawyer and with the appetite of his ego. Prominent New Orleans attorney Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) puts his name on a best seller he didn't write. However, the novel he stole was a factual account of a series of murders. Haunted by detective Clifford Dubose (Tom Berenger) and the FBI, Lawson Russell must discover who framed him and why.
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English
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FBI agent Jack Malone and his dedicated team of The Missing Persons Unit are on the case. These investigators track down missing persons by using advanced profiling techniques. Victims include a self-help guru, a soldier home from war, a college coach, a billionaire's family and children on a hijacked school bus.
13) Violet & Daisy
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English
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A brutal fable about a pair of teenage assassins who believe they've landed a straightforward assignment but soon find themselves thrown off their game when their latest target isn't who they expected.
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English
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About the fast-paced Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of this special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques. The team reconstructs a "Day of Disappearance" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack...
15) In fabric
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English
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A lonely woman recently separated from her husband, who visits a bewitching London department store for a dress that will transform her life. She is fitted with a flattering, blood-red gown -- which, in time, will unleash a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone in its path.
16) Secrets & lies
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English
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After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn her daughter she gave up for adoption is black, Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family, the resulting chaos leads to a series of secrets and lies being revealed at last.
17) Secrets & lies
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Criterion collection volume 1070
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English
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"When Hortense, a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia, a lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family"--Container.
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English
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Tough, restless Jack Malone heads the Missing Persons unit of the FBI. And this season, the dedicated investigators of the MPU have a particularly important person to locate: Jack Malone, who disappears after going solo on a perilous case. The search for Malone is only one of many high-impact cases involving the mysteriously vanished, from a waitress who won 32 million in the lottery to an extreme fighter to a mall Santa Claus.
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English
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Despite their best efforts, the team members are only human. As the agents work on varied and complicated cases, details about their personal lives continue to unfold. This season, Samantha Spade deals with being a single mom and resourceful agent Elena Delgado recovers from a recent and unpleasant custody battle with her ex.
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English
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The search begins. For the mistress and the son of a mob boss. For Barry 'Bottomless Pit' Rosen, missing soon after he won a competitive chili-eating contest. For an air traffic controller who reported possible terrorist activity. For a basketball star, a stripper, a victim of Hurricane Katrina. Some of them are reunited with loved ones. Some remain forever missing. All are part of the investigations involving the Missing Persons Unit headed by FBI...