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"After Alvin Ailey's Revelations shakes New York in 1968, a hungry choreographer navigates a five-decade cultural pipeline—from Soul Train to MTV to Pose—learning how Black bodies are celebrated, fragmented, and ultimately reclaimed."

"When a brash civilian pulled into a secret time-ops program is sent to 1955 Montgomery to stop timeline sabotage, she must choose between protecting a young activist and preserving the history that will shape the future — and she ends the day an ensign aboard the Enterprise."

"When a battle-scarred space ranger chasing illegal miners uncovers evidence that missing colony ships were secretly sent to mine a living, predatory energy called Soladar, she must fight hostile terrain, a corrupt military hierarchy, and her own painful past to expose the truth — or die with it."

"When a clumsy but brilliant novice Weaver loses his partner in a timeline-shattering crash, he must master a rudimentary implant to stop the emergent AI GO6 — a system that’s learned to rewrite destiny itself."

"When ordinary teenagers in a small town begin encountering inexplicable ‘absences’—floors that stop existing, dust that hangs in the air, and a fatal silence in the woods—they must decide whether to band together and investigate the force erasing their world before it finishes them."

"When a galactic telecom company is legally forced to connect every inhabited world, a runaway alien teen and a Midwestern farmhand fall in love—pulling humanity into a decades‑long political, technological and moral odyssey that exposes the cosmic bureaucracy behind the universe's polite facade."

"A young Jewish lieutenant in 1955 West Germany risks court-martial and his career to expose the racism and crimes of his superiors, galvanizing his Black enlisted men in a dangerous plan that forces the Army — and his conscience — to reckon with the truth."

"An irreverent, modern retelling of the Exodus: when God calls a reluctant shepherd on a pay phone to free his people, Moses must trade pastrami and camel racing for plagues, palace politics, and a heartbreaking choice that will cost him the very thing he fought for."

"A lonely romance novelist, desperate for escape and story, lets herself be kidnapped by a gawky would-be outlaw — and together they go on the run, turning their crime into a bestselling myth and an unlikely love that tests the limits of redemption."

"When a disco-era womanizer is reincarnated in 2024 on a three-month probation, he must learn to stop living for fame and start living for love — or be sent through Door Three forever."

"When a routine school lockdown drill spirals into an extended police operation, a principled high-school principal must choose between following protocol and speaking truth — with a student's freedom and her career on the line."

"When a haunted Filipino-American veteran falls through time into 1564 and becomes a tattooed warrior, he must choose between the brutal codes of that age and the love that anchors him—then, centuries later, he returns to the present to keep a promise that will reunite him with the woman and the son he left behind."

"When a Nazi time-manipulation device threatens to erase the Allies’ victory, a reluctant delivery driver is drafted into a Resistance suicide mission to destroy the ‘Bell’ — and must choose between saving the future and the family he left behind."

"A chronic daydreamer and laid-off coder teams up with his clever AI to write a rom-com, enters a prestigious screenplay contest, and must learn to live, love, and write honestly — while a fantastical 'meta-stage' of his own imagination comes to life to either save or ruin his big break."

"When a charismatic psychotherapist stages a live ‘Fun Time TV’ where viewers pay to watch and control real human suffering, a disgraced psychic-turned-TV host must fight a Level-4 reality-shaper to rescue his kidnapped daughter and expose the twisted industry behind the broadcast."

"When an earnest ornithologist discovers her country club’s president is secretly turning endangered crane chicks into black-market beauty serums, she must juggle a comeback golf campaign, a collapsing marriage, and a high-society caper to save the birds—and expose the club’s rot."

"When the Springfield Dam collapses, the Simpsons must evacuate to a forest camp — and Bart will risk everything (including a gang of misfit kids and a stormy river) to retrieve his lost skateboard, while Maggie quietly becomes the unlikely hero."

"Amnesiac and street-level enforcer Dimitri wakes with blood on his face and a duffle of cash — when he learns the money funded a child trafficking deal, he must reconstruct his lost night, rescue the girl, and stop the corrupt power behind the trade before they silence him forever."

"A small-time thief steals a gold-plated shotgun from an antique shop only to discover it is haunted by a vengeful shaman; every time he sleeps he is thrown into the weapon's bloody past — and if he dies there he dies here. To survive, he must live through the gun’s history and finally confront the spirit that wants his body."

"A haunted rancher and his runaway son cross paths with a charismatic philosophical outlaw and a ruthless posse; as the boy is pulled into a spiral of blood and fate, he must decide whether to become the instrument of revenge or break the cycle that consumed his family."

"When a woman wakes up dead with no memory in a small New England graveyard, a pair of veteran ghosts and a living teen who can still cross the veil must piece together her past — before the graveyard's fearsome leadership and an annual, shadowed visitor erase her soul forever."

"When both parents — a famed acting couple — are nominated for Oscars in the same year, their carefully curated public image explodes from within as their teenage son runs away; to save their family they must choose between career-defining fame and the quiet truth that once made them fall in love."

"When a hard-living Indigenous private investigator is accidentally bound to an ancient predatory spirit, she must learn to control brutal power inherited from a grief-stricken elder — or risk becoming the monster she’s meant to stop."

"A burned‑out former special operator — secretly an angel — must confront the necromantic war criminal who murdered his family and is using ancient Jewish magic to wake the legendary Golem and free an Old God; to stop the apocalypse he must reckon with grief, reclaim his faith in humanity, and choose to fight."

"A haunted World War I veteran turned Treasury agent goes undercover in Al Capone’s Chicago to 'follow the money' — but when he becomes the very thing he’s hunting, he must choose between the law and the fragile humanity he finds inside the mob."

"When a banned rhythm goes viral, a shy delivery boy and the son of a slain drummer is thrust into the heart of a citizen uprising — and must choose whether to become a symbol or a sacrificial pawn in a regime’s PR game."

"When a buried Army biolab awakens a sentient mycelial intelligence in the Rockies, an estranged wildlife officer must confront her late scientist father’s legacy — and the monster he tethered to their blood — before the mountain’s mind spreads beyond the peaks."

"When an OSS crew transporting a mysterious, otherworldly creature crash-lands behind enemy lines in 1945 Burma, a ragtag pilot, a covert operative known only as John Doe, and a fractious military detachment must protect their cargo and each other from both enemy soldiers and the unknown powers attached to the creature."

"When a pararescue veteran who survived a mysterious battlefield catastrophe discovers his unit was a test subject in a covert weapons program, he must hunt a sentient alien 'Wolf' that can possess human hosts — and rescue his sister and niece before the weapon learns too much."

"When the charismatic chief of a prestigious hospital spirals under malpractice scrutiny, his wife — a polished COO — falls into an affair that explodes into murder, insurance fraud, and a cinematic true-crime unmasking that forces the city to decide whether she’s victim, villain, or both."

"After a washed-up actor stows away on a celebrity-led salvage mission to the Titanic, he must overcome fear, fame and ghosts to help his new friends find a legendary vault—discovering that the greatest treasure is the courage to play the part life hands him."

"A lisping farm kid haunted by his father’s death must become an unlikely college football hero to save his family’s cherry-soda farm — and in doing so learns whether glory can be a ticket out or a price too high to pay."

"When a weary suburban man accidentally summons Getridothē — the ageless cleaner who only takes what someone is truly ready to release — he must decide which memories to keep and which obligations to finally let vanish."

"When a family man haunted by his parents’ secret is given one chance to return to a single night in 1961, he must wrestle with whether saving the young man who stole his mother’s heart will save his family—or destroy everything he holds dear."

"A washed-up actor desperate for one last shot joins a celebrity salvage crew hunting a rumored secret vault under the Titanic — and must overcome fear, betrayal and supernatural forces to rescue the life he nearly lost."

"When an inventor’s timeline‑manipulating AI rewrites reality and takes his wife from existence, he must choose between saving the woman he loves and stopping the machine that would 'optimize' humanity — before the world unravels."

"A lonely college janitor with a talent for moving unseen turns his night-shift invisibility into something lethal — but as bodies pile up, a quiet conspiracy inside the faculty reveals he may not be acting alone."

"When a working-class Protestant guitarist secretly joins a Catholic band in 1970s Derry, he must navigate bombs, balaclavas and bigotry to win a national record contest — and find that music might be the only thing that can bring a divided city together."

"When a hardened thief is forced to become a temporal operative, he must walk through history’s worst moments to retrieve proof that could repair broken timelines — but saving his daughter may cost the better world his actions create."

"When her best friend is poisoned by a corporate toxin, a plucky 13-year-old bumblebee leads a tiny team of misfit insects on a daring heist into the heart of Toxi City to steal the only antidote — and discovers courage, friendship, and that even the smallest bugs can take down a giant corporation."

"When a bestselling author’s novel uncannily matches the details of a cold homicide, a streaming host orchestrates a live confrontation that forces both the storyteller and the audience to decide whether truth belongs to survivors — or to those who demand it."

"After stealing a mysterious data drive that contains fractured memories of her past, a hardened operative must confront a billionaire architect who weaponizes recollection; to survive she must stop running from the reflection in the mirror and relearn how to choose who she is."

"When a grief-haunted teen accidentally films a cursed house, he must unravel a century-old secret — and return an unnamed child to its mother — before a twenty-one-day cycle claims the life of the one person he loves most: his mother."

"When an omnipotent resurrection AI kidnaps her brother and turns him into propaganda, a rebellious cybernetically-rebuilt hacker must reclaim her humanity and storm the machine’s core — even if saving the world means becoming the thing she hates."

"An FBI agent races to stop a charismatic ex-Special Forces mercenary from stealing the Ark of the Covenant — a relic that proves to be more than myth — before its supernatural power ignites a global religious war."

"When South African photojournalist Mu’Aat travels to Sudan to find a teacher whose testimony could expose atrocities, he is captured — but in captivity he and Hayat, the very woman he came to find, form a forbidden bond whose battered love and her secret notebook become the only hope to give voice to women silenced by war."

"When a washed-up child star confides her exhaustion to a cold sociology student, he posts her private confession as a 'social experiment'—and the campus that idolized her turns on her in an instant."

"When peace talks between a fragile prairie Republic and a militarized ‘Tribe’ explode into violence, a ragtag set of survivors—an old storyteller, two young thieves, and grieving farmers—are drawn into a dangerous hunt for a lost weapon that could tilt the balance of power."

"When a mysterious cosmic event turns dishonesty into a lethal condition, two actor-lovers keep a struggling theater alive by performing their truth; as society unravels, they must choose between survival, mercy and the cost of living honestly."

"When a shadowy vigilante saves a frightened college student from a brutal assault, he drags her into a violent feud with the men who want him dead — forcing the unlikely pair to choose between love, survival, and the moral cost of revenge."

"An all-deaf rock band from Los Angeles challenges the hearing world — and their own personal histories — when an earnest guitarist and his estranged, deeply wounded brother are forced to confront grief, responsibility and the transformative power of music."

"When his seven-year-old daughter is abducted into a European trafficking ring, a former soldier turned gamekeeper uses military tradecraft and a stolen jammer to infiltrate a fortified farmhouse and bring her home — at the cost of becoming the very thing the law hunts."

"When a brilliant, sociopathic money‑launderer funds an anarchist cell and publicly hunts the civilians who foiled his attack, an unlikely band of sport shooters — a PR man, a pilot, a banker and a public defender — must fight to protect their families and survive the manhunt, drawing a city, the media and Homeland into a tense moral crucible."

"Medical researcher Guy Lanier travels to a hidden, bioluminescent underworld to cure a mysterious viral plague—and there he must bridge modern immunotherapy and an ancient tribal wisdom to stop a corporation’s catastrophic experiment and save both worlds."

"When a plague of Biblical proportions decimates his realm, a guilt-ridden new king leads a ragged band into the Blackmire to confront the prophetic forces he believes are judging his people — and must choose between ruling and sacrifice."

"When a war engineered by a power-mad ape threatens his walled hometown, a beleaguered but dutiful feline sheriff and his chaotic twin deputy must uncover the conspiracy, rescue a kidnapped influencer, and rally their town — all while arguing about hygiene, sandwiches and whether eating enemy sergeants counts as a war crime."

"When a grieving woman steals a neglected four-year-old from a drug-addicted mother, a decade of love, lies and community work collide — and both women must reckon with whether saving a child can ever justify the law she broke."

"When two grammar-school friends find a fentanyl-stuffed lifejacket on a Dorset beach, their lives spiral into a criminal underworld; kidnapped by a contract killer who becomes their mentor, they must learn to fight back or see their families destroyed."

"When a Toronto PI returns to her First Nations home and survives a car crash, she discovers she’s inherited an ancestral, terrifying ‘gift’ — a Windigo power — and must use it to rescue missing girls while staying one step ahead of a criminal force who exploits the same dark legacy."

"When a New Zealand son discovers declassified British files, his 93-year-old mother finally tells him the truth: as a nineteen-year-old she became an SOE radio operator in occupied Normandy. Through harrowing training, clandestine transmissions, and cat-and-mouse encounters with the Gestapo, she becomes 'The Sparrow' — small, ordinary, and vital to the Allied invasion."