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Documentary · True Crime
A masked gunman shoots UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk and vanishes. Five days later, police arrest a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate in Pennsylvania. One court has his plea, and another may never get a trial.
Documentary · True Crime
In the summer of 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito set off across America in a white camper van with her fiancé, sharing the trip with her followers. Weeks later, the van returned to Florida without her, and the texts her mother received didn't sound like Gabby.
Documentary · True Crime
In August 2018, Shanann Watts and her two young daughters vanished from their Colorado home overnight. Her husband Chris begged them on camera to come back. So why was his truck backed up to the garage before dawn?
Documentary · True Crime
For 86 years, his family ran justice in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Then Alex Murdaugh's wife and son were shot dead at the family kennels. A jury convicted him, but the verdict was overturned; he denies the murders, and a new jury will decide the case.
Documentary · True Crime
An Arizona mother falls for a writer of doomsday novels. Within a year, her husband has been shot dead, the writer's wife is dead, and her two youngest children have vanished. She says they're safe. Where are they?
Documentary · True Crime
In June 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from the bed beside her little sister. For nine months, volunteers searched while Elizabeth was often hidden in plain sight behind a veil.
Documentary · True Crime
For ten months, Taylor Parker wore a silicone belly and told her East Texas town a baby was coming. In October 2020, a trooper found her with a newborn who wasn't hers; a jury sent her to death row. Her lawyers still say the baby was never born alive.
Documentary · True Crime
In 2016, a young California mother vanished on her morning run. Twenty-two days later, she was found on a freeway in chains, saying two masked women had taken her. It took the FBI four years and a discarded tea bottle to learn where she had really been.
Documentary · True Crime
Near Albany, more than 16,000 people paid for self-help courses from a soft-spoken man they called Vanguard. Inside, a secret group of women handed over their darkest secrets as collateral and were branded with his initials. In 2019, Keith Raniere was convicted on every count; he still says he is innocent.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · 3D Animation
At Mistmoor Academy, the Vanclairs are supposed to be Aiden North’s enemies. So why does their proud daughter Vera keep risking everything to save him? As danger closes in, their forbidden attraction could cost them both.
Documentary · True Crime
In 1980, a Texas housewife went to her best friend's home to pick up a child's swimsuit. That night, Betty Gore was found dead, struck forty-one times with an ax. Candy Montgomery said it was self-defense, and a jury found her not guilty. What happened in the utility room?
Drama · Romance
On her wedding night, Ye Zhen's groom runs off to another woman. His powerful uncle arranged the marriage, and she expects him to clean up the mess—but provoking the man who holds the family together could cost her more than she bargained for.
Documentary · True Crime
In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy was found dead in his truck in a Massachusetts parking lot. His phone held thousands of texts from his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, whom a judge found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Can words alone make you guilty?
Drama · Thriller · Suspense · Romance
After a 36-hour ER shift, nurse Nianci comes home to a 12th-floor flat and a bloodied palm slamming her intercom at midnight. The man outside says he's a cop from the fifteenth floor — and something is walking up the corridor behind him. The rule is never open the door; the choice is hers.
Documentary · True Crime
In 1974, young women began vanishing across the Pacific Northwest, and witnesses had only a first name: Ted. An 18-year-old fought her way out of his car and gave police his face. This is the true story of Ted Bundy's victims, the survivors, and the road to justice.
Drama · Romance · Boys' Love
For ten years, Lin Guanyu has kept his true nature hidden at work. Then his company gets a new CEO: his high-school rival, Chen Bohan, the one man who can tell. When pride meets desire, who will fall first?
Documentary · True Crime
She was the queen of New York's raw-food scene. Then she met a man on Twitter who called himself Shane Fox. Prosecutors say $2 million vanished, staff went unpaid, and the couple went on the run—until a pizza order gave them away.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
A broke night-market fortune teller sees the red threads that bind people to their future spouses. When a rich stranger offers her a fortune to reveal his match, one touch sets her own fate in motion—and three very different men enter her life.
Documentary · Historical
Alexandria, 48 BC: exiled by her brother, Cleopatra has herself carried to Julius Caesar in a linen bed-sack and wins back a kingdom. Rome, Mark Antony and war with Octavian follow. Eighteen years later, cornered in her tomb, Egypt's last queen makes one final choice. How did she die?
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
The magic academy's proudest heiress denies every spark for the scholarship boy who beat her—until the Moon Mirror binds them for a year and a heart seal glows whenever her heart races. She can keep saying she's not in love; the mark keeps telling the truth.
Documentary · True Crime
Betty Broderick worked while her husband Dan became a doctor and a Harvard lawyer. After he hired a 22-year-old assistant and moved out, their divorce became a four-year war of fines and court orders. Before dawn on November 5, 1989, Betty entered his house with her daughter's key.
Documentary · True Crime
At 5:30 one summer morning in Ohio, a 17-year-old drove her boyfriend and his friend into a brick wall at 100 mph. Both young men died. She says she blacked out and never meant it; the black box says her foot was flat on the gas and the brake was never touched.
Drama · Romance
Air traffic controller Wen Yining is weeks from marrying first officer Gao Zixiang when his captain, Jiang Yan, carries him home drunk and reveals another woman. Now every voice in Taoyuan tower pulls her toward the one man she must refuse—as a missing tape threatens more than her wedding.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Suspense
A rainy-night red envelope on a Tainan road makes 何小滿 the bride of a groom who died 35 years ago. The gold ring won't come off, the wedding hall keeps waiting in her dreams, and every night he stays close she grows colder. The ghost gate closes in fifteen days.
Documentary · True Crime
She told New York she was a German heiress with millions abroad, and hotels, banks and a private-jet company believed her. In 2019, Anna Sorokin was convicted on eight counts and acquitted on two. Seven years later, she's in New York on an ankle monitor, fighting deportation.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Period Drama · Boys' Love
Branded a demon and killed by his own senior, Xie Wujiu wakes ten years later in a stranger's body—and the Master who slew him knows his face at once. Moved into the Master's courtyard and never let out of sight, he plays the fool while digging for the truth of that night.
Drama · Romance · Mystery · Girls' Love
A Taipei locksmith crashes her missing sister's fiancé's engagement dinner—and the new bride-to-be whispers that the sister is alive. Thrown together by a key, a debt, and a lie, they must decide whether to trust each other while every locked door hides a new danger. Attraction sparks as the wedding countdown begins.
Documentary · True Crime
In a January blizzard, Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dying outside a colleague's house, and his girlfriend was charged with backing her SUV into him. Two trials and one cracked taillight later, a jury acquitted her of murder. So who do you believe?
Drama · Romance · Revenge
When her groom bolts mid-ceremony, a humiliated bride accepts the only man who can save her family: his exiled older brother. Their one-year contract marriage becomes a weapon for the family throne and revenge on the mother who ruined her. But someone behind the runaway wedding is still pulling strings.
Drama · Romance · Girls' Love
Ice-cold student president Shen Zhixia kisses a convenience-store cashier at midnight and offers her 500,000 NTD to play her girlfriend for one semester. The cashier needs exactly that for her mother's hospital bill, but the contract's one rule—don't fall in love—gets harder every day.
Documentary · True Crime
Six people were home on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, one Saturday night in November 2022. By morning four college students were dead, and the only thing left behind was the leather sheath of a knife. What was found on its snap led police all the way to Pennsylvania.
Documentary · True Crime
For years, a Missouri town believed Gypsy Blanchard was dying and her mother was a saint for caring for her. Then her mother was found stabbed, Gypsy was gone—and when police found her 600 miles away, she was walking.
Drama · Romance
Her impossibly cheap Da'an room comes with a messy, sweet roommate who steams eggs and never sleeps. On day one at Hengyuan Group, the cold CEO who looks straight through her has his face — and a secret worth more than her rent.
Documentary · True Crime
In 2014, a 59-year-old interior designer met a charming man on a dating site who said he was a doctor, and married him two months later. Her daughter hired an investigator. What she found was worse than a lie... so why couldn't she leave?
Drama · Romance · Boys' Love
The shipping heir has chased off seven bodyguards. Number eight is an ex-Navy frogman who doesn't flinch—and he isn't here just to guard the son. In Kaohsiung's sun-baked harbour underworld, a three-day test becomes a dangerous attraction.
Documentary · True Crime
In June 2008, motivational speaker Travis Alexander was found dead in his Mesa, Arizona, shower, and his friends gave police one name: his ex-girlfriend. His camera had been through the wash, but its memory card kept the afternoon he died, minute by minute.
Drama · Romance · Mystery
Law student Shen Ruoqing poses as her missing twin brother to hold his baseball scholarship and find out who made him disappear. When her roommate yanks off her cap and the wig comes with it, three athletes learn the secret, and one of them may be the reason her brother is gone.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Period Drama · Revenge
Framed for poisoning the Emperor and condemned by the husband who signed her death warrant, Elinor wakes at her wedding altar with one second to change everything. This time she refuses the tyrant—only to find the feared Duke of the North won't let her go, and her second life is repeating faster than the first.
Documentary · True Crime
In 1989, two wealthy Beverly Hills brothers called 911 to say someone had killed their parents. They were convicted of the murders and said their father was the reason. Decades later, a parole board must decide: monsters, or victims?
Drama · Romance
A burnt-out Taipei designer dumps her credit-stealing boyfriend and rents the cheapest sea-view room in Kenting—only to find four handsome men already living there. Between kitchen near-misses, surfboard wars, and a looming auction, summer gets complicated.
Drama · Family Drama · Mystery · Suspense · 3D Animation
For thirty years, Aria Williams has borne her siblings’ hatred in silence. Now dying, she is forced into a live memory-extraction experiment meant to expose her alleged crimes. Her sister Brianna enters the past determined to prove she could have done better. But a Christmas Eve massacre, a cartel’s revenge, and a mother’s final promise begin to reveal what Aria faced—and why the truth may be more devastating than the blame.
Drama · Romance · Period Drama · Revenge · 3D Animation
Six years after a devastating breakup, Cordelia Lancaster is blind, isolated, and at the mercy of relatives who trade her future for power. The formidable Duke Luciano claims her as his wife, concealing that he is Luke, the penniless young man she once rejected. As familiar gestures awaken her memories, his hunger for revenge collides with the love he cannot bury—and a threat to her brother keeps her trapped in their dangerous bargain.