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Producer: Netflix Original Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Country: United States Time: 60 min. Keywords: fbi, fbi-agent, psychology, psychological-study, psychopath Cast: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Hannah Gross, Sonny Valicenti, Anna Torv, Cotter Smith, Joe Tuttle, Alex Morf, Stacey Roca, Cameron Britton Plot: Two FBI agents, fighting the departmental stigma of backroom boys - those who try to complicate the status quo of simple Means, Motive, Opportunity (MMO) of crime-solving with academics - work to develop an innovative investigative field incorporating psychology, anthropology and sociology as a method to reveal the motive. They acknowledge classic crime-solving - MMO - as no longer sufficient because criminality is becoming more complicated as Motive graduates from need and greed to inexplicable and irrational reasons. They theorize applying deeper psychological evaluation will posit new questions. Simply, asking Why will lead to the Who. This series focuses on the development by two men, two agents, of a new criminal field and does so through story lines of visiting the sociopathic mind. IMDB rating: 8.6 / 10 My rating: 8 / 10
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Producer: Netflix Original Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Country: Canada, United States Time: 45 min. Keywords: police-detective, keeping-up-appearances, undercover, personal-life, cover-identity Cast: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, Leah Cairns, Patrick Gilmore, J. Alex Brinson, Arnold Pinnock, Jennifer Spence Plot: Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to save humanity from a terrible future. IMDB rating: 8 / 10 My rating: 8 / 10
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Producer: Netflix Original Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Country: United States Time: 60 min. Keywords: two-word-series-title, male-frontal-nudity, female-full-frontal-nudity, future-noir, set-in-future Cast: Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Martha Higareda, Chris Conner, Dichen Lachman, Ato Essandoh, Kristin Lehman, Trieu Tran, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Hiro Kanagawa Plot: ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies. The story follows specially trained "Envoy" soldier Takeshi Kovacs, who is downloaded from an off-world prison and into the body of a disgraced cop at the behest of Laurens Bancroft, a highly influential aristocrat. Bancroft was killed, and the last automatic backup of his stack was made hours before his death, leaving him with no memory of who killed him and why. While police ruled it a suicide, Bancroft is convinced he was murdered and wants Kovacs to find out the truth. IMDB rating: 7.9 / 10 My rating: 7 / 10
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Young Justice (2010) Producer: Brandon Vietti, Greg Weisman Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi Country: United States Time: 23 min. Keywords: female-green-skinned-humanoid-alien, teenage-superheroine, female-martian, superheroine, martian Cast: Danica McKellar, Jesse McCartney, Nolan North Plot: Within the Justice League, its members' teen sidekicks push for full membership, but it's only after they successfully investigate Cadmus in which find and free its secret young clone of Superman, Kon-El, is the League convinced. In response, the League organizes the teenagers into an apprentice team to both be trained and act on behalf of the League at their own pace. Now these teen superheroes, soon strengthened by more members, must battle the forces of evil in their own way, even as the mysterious cabal known only as The Light has a sinister agenda of their own. IMDB rating: 8.6 / 10 My rating: 9 / 10
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Producer: Álex Pina Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Country: Spain Time: 70 min. Keywords: heist-movie, heist, royal-mint, mint, professor Cast: Úrsula Corberó, Itziar Ituño, Álvaro Morte, Paco Tous, Pedro Alonso, Alba Flores, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente, Esther Acebo, Enrique Arce, María Pedraza Plot: A group of very peculiar robbers assault the Factory of Moneda and Timbre to carry out the most perfect robbery in the history of Spain and take home 2,400 million euros. IMDB rating: 8.2 / 10 My rating: 6 / 10
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Producer: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi Country: United States Time: 42 min. Keywords: male-objectification, hooded-sweatshirt, billionaire, vigilante, presumed-dead Cast: Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Paul Blackthorne, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards, Katie Cassidy, Colton Haynes, John Barrowman, Echo Kellum, Susanna Thompson Plot: Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow. IMDB rating: 7.5 / 10 My rating: 8 / 10
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