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Series · 10 connectionsTwo childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.
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2021 · 48 min · Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.
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2026 · Drama
When his carefree life is upended by an unexpected family tragedy, Filip is forced to grow up or risk losing all that he has left.
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2025 · Crime · Drama · Mystery
A successful and renowned novelist — haunted by trauma and a mysterious blackmailer — returns to his hometown to reckon with his unresolved past.
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2021 · Drama
For decades, childhood best friends Kate and Tully have weathered life's storms together -- until a betrayal threatens to break them apart for good.
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2025 · Drama
Reunited as teens, childhood friends Keisha and Justin fall deeply in love, experiencing the joy and heartache of a first romance that will change their lives forever.
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2022 · Drama
Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.
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2022 · Crime · Drama · Mystery
When a young man goes missing soon after his friend dies, life in a tight-knit, affluent Warsaw suburb slowly unravels, exposing secrets and lies.
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2026 · 25 min · Drama
You're sixteen. You're still figuring out your sexuality, your relationships and your values. And you make mistakes. Matty is an introverted boy who, despite his indecisive and hesitant nature, has managed to come out, thanks to a family and friends who support him. But when he falls in love with Radek, a boy his own age, during the entrance exams for an art high school, he runs headfirst into the reality of first emotional confusion, missteps and failures. Acting in good faith, he makes a few mistakes that quickly snowball into bigger ones. Within a few weeks his childishly naive world turns cruelly adult, and he suddenly has to face unexpected problems and the incomprehension of those around him. Will he manage to find a fragile inner balance in the storm of a complicated adolescence?
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An online community of amateur sleuths use technology to solve crimes -- and make quirky friends -- in their quest for justice.
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2026 · Drama
After a family scandal, teen rower Teagan Tao moves to a small town and joins an elite prep school's all-boys crew, sparking rivalry and attraction.
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