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List: New Movies & TV - June 2024
The American Society of Magical Negroes
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier.
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Arthur the king
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Based on an incredible true story, ARTHUR THE KING follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.
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Betty's bad luck in love
Cursed from childhood to fail at romance, Betty's relationships have always ended in disaster. But when she meets Alex, she's tempted to try once more. Can true love prevail over a curse?
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Bob Marley, one love
Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob's powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
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Dune. Part two
"Explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee" --Container.
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Imaginary
From Blumhouse comes a chilling tale of childhood and repressed memories of the past. After Jessica moves back into her childhood home in Louisiana with her family, the reappearance of an imaginary friend from her youth sets in motion a threatening scavenger hunt with Jessica's stepdaughter, Alice. As Jessica's memories begin to surface, aided by cryptic stories from an elderly neighbor about a portal to the spirit world, she realizes the imaginary friend she left behind is very real, and very unhappy she left.
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Love in the Great Smoky Mountains ; 3 bed, 2 bath, 1 ghost / Hallmark Channel.
3 Bed, 2 bath, 1 ghost: A 1920's ghost refuses to leave estate agent Anna's newly listed home. Worse, the spirit is convinced she cannot 'pass over' until she gets Anna back together with her ex.
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Ordinary angels
Based on a remarkable true story, the film centers on Sharon Steves, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels.
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Sasquatch sunset
In the North American wilderness, a family of Sasquatches embark on an epic, hilarious and poignant journey over the course of a year.
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Sleeping dogs
In this gripping crime thriller, Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth: sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
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Alice & Jack
Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?
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Father Brown. Complete season eleven
It's now 1955 and Chief Inspector Sullivan and Mrs. Devine have grown closer since we saw them last, something that hasn't escaped the notice of Father Brown and Brenda. With a food fayre to die for, a real-life crime at a crime writing festival and a village rivalry that turns deadly, there's plenty for the gang to be busy with. And when his old friend Sister Boniface is implicated in a murder at an arts and craft fair, Father Brown must prove her innocence, before it's too late.
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Guilt. Season 3
New secrets are revealed from Max and Jake's murky past, threatening to derail their plans to live a 'normal' life, free of each other. Unfortunately, Scotland does not provide as warm a welcome as they hoped, and enemies make them seek incredibly desperate solutions.
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MaryLand
Emotionally-distant sisters Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary. Trapped on the Isle of Man as they settle her affairs, their mother's quirky friend Cathy seems to know more about their mother than they do, and the woman's secrets are slowly revealed, reshaping her daughters' identities and relationships.
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Mr. Bates vs the post office
After a computer system upgrade, money started to seemingly disappear from British post office branches, and the managers were blamed -- accused of theft, fired, and many charged and sent to prison -- leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept the blame, instead bringing together a group of other wrongly-accused sub-postmasters to form an alliance to fight one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
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Star trek. Lower decks. Season 4
In season four, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos isn't important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and Provisional Ensign T'Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers and getting stuck in a couple of caves all while encountering new and classic aliens!
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Amanda
[Italian] Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old combative Amanda searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for connection but has never had a friend of her own, until she discovers a long lost childhood bond, spurring a mission to convince another recluse that they are still best friends.
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Anatomie d'une chute = Anatomy of a fall
[French] A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
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Joyland
[Urdu] The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes smitten with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
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Aus meiner Haut = Skin deep
[German] Seeking a retreat where they can salvage their struggling relationship, young couple Leyla and Tristan travel to a remote island at the invitation of Leyla's childhood friend Stella, where it soon becomes clear that what the island offers is more mysterious than a simple vacation. Leyla and Tristan join another couple in a ritual to exchange bodies and see the world through the eyes of someone else -- a chance to find themselves or, for some of them, a chance to escape. Free from the constraints of her former body, Leyla quickly finds she has never been happier, with a fresh outlook on life and a new sense of release and fulfillment. But when she refuses to return to her old self, the situation threatens to spiral out of control. Subverting genre and gender as it toggles from body swap thriller to intimate relationship drama, Skin Deep tells a story that transcends bodies, embracing the endless fluid possibilities in the question of what it means to truly love someone. Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival and directed by Student Academy Award winner Alex Schaad.
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The taste of things
[French] "Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love, but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her."--Container.
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Trenque Lauquen
[Spanish] The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But to uncover the truth of Laura's disappearance, a profusion of mysteries must be explored. There's the question of love letters hidden in books in the local library, the discovery of a new species of flower, and then there's the mysterious being, rumored to be haunting the lake at the center of town.
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The Promised Land
[Danish] Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to tame an uninhabitable land and build a colony in the name of the King. While braving the elements, he is joined by some indentured serfs who have fled their tyrannical magistrate, which makes them all targets of a deadly conflict.
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