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• Broadchurch

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  Two strong yet compassionate detectives are brought together to solve the murder of an eleven year-old boy in a small coastal town. Under the glare of the media spotlight, the two race to find the killer.

• 10 Cloverfield Lane

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  A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flightplan

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  Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace.

• Fracture

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  Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession, represents himself, and proves this isn't an open and shut…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shield

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  Story of a Los Angeles police precinct where the actions of the elite strike team's leader, Detective Vic Mackey and his officers, teeter on the brink of legal and illegal.

• Bruno, Chief of Police

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  Bruno is the chief of police in a small village in the South of France where the rituals of the café still rule. But the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army galvanizes his attention and when a visiting scholar helps…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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