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Rebus follows 40-year-old police detective John Rebus, who finds himself at a psychological crossroads following an altercation with an infamous Edinburgh gangster. At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter's life by his ex-wife's wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play - either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have meaning, or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn't Rebus do so too?

The Way taps into the social and political chaos of today's world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. Meet the Driscolls - an ordinary family, in an extraordinary story of life, death and survival. Caught in a chain of events and power struggles that ripple out unleashing civil unrest, they are forced to escape the country they've always called home and the certainties of their old lives. Will they be overwhelmed by their memories of the past, or will the Driscolls lay their ghosts to rest and take the risk of an unknown future?

The drama follows the story of a young, single mother Rachel and her young son Liam. They're on the poverty line, but she works all hours of the day as a cleaner to give him the best life she can.

Dark Blue and Moonlight is a beautifully crafted Taiwanese webseries about two college students who fall in love amidst their struggles with family and societal expectations. Directed by the mastermind behind the hit drama Obsessed, this series explores themes of identity, self-discovery, and acceptance. A must-watch for fans of LGBTQ+ romance.

The true life story of Carlos Tevez, an Argentine soccer player who rose from a difficult childhood to Boca Juniors stardom.

Gangland crime drama set in small-town Ireland. Damien, a young MMA fighter with dreams of escaping his tough neighbourhood, is held back by his struggling family and his brother Wes's involvement with the local drug gang. On the eve of a big fight, a major drug deal goes wrong and Wes goes missing, events which drag Damien into a dangerous new world potentially fraught with violence and even murder.

Living Undocumented follows eight undocumented immigrant families who have volunteered to tell their stories as they face potential deportation. Ranging from harrowing to hopeful, their journeys illuminate and humanize the complex US immigration system and depict the struggles that many must endure in their quest to pursue the American dream.

Could it be more than coincidence? Candela, a lovely, vivacious Flamenco dancer from Seville, literally bumps into Massimo, good-looking Roman businessman, when they are stranded at Prague Airport. Poles apart and off to a rocky start, they somehow keep colliding. Even back home. In Seville, Candela's life is difficult, with a small son, an ex-husband serving time in prison and months behind on her rent, while Massimo in Rome is due to marry and desperate to keep his struggling business afloat. Somehow they inexplicably keep meeting, yet only they can see each other. Despite the distance between them, they are materializing in each other's mind and communicating all the time, often at the most inconvenient moments. Everyone around them thinks they are nuts. And pretty soon, so do they. They talk, bicker, trade advice, and try to shut out the rest of the world. Hallucination? Delusion? Or could they be made for each other? Sometimes destiny won't take "no" for an answer.

Making plans for the future of her children, Yeşil's path crosses with the famous football player Yasin Bıçakçı. However, life has other plans for Yeşil, who has been trying to implement the plan she has designed for years...

When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case.

A successor to his earlier, 105-minute TV play The Black Stuff (1980), Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac lawyers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.

Parizaad is born with unfortunate circumstances - a poor family of eleven people and darkened skin. We all know how obsessed with fair skin. Parizaad isn't fair-skinned, but then his name, which means son of a fairy, is a stark contrast. Fairies, by stereotype would imply that the person is fair and beautiful, right.