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Gank Your Heart
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Gank Your Heart (2020)

7.3
TV_14

Their meeting was a recipe for disaster, but their romance is sweet. This is a love story between an e-sports gamer and a Tsundere live streamer. Ji Xiang Kong had the reputation, the good looks and the hoards of fangirls. Qiu Ying meets him during an international competition and jumps at the chance to boost her own popularity, oblivious to the fact that his reputation in the world of e-sports is strangely tarnished. Instead of helping her, the association hurt her even more. The experience turns out to be a blessing in disguise as Qiu Ying finds her calling. By chance, she discovers that he is actually a misunderstood genius.

Time and Him are Just Right
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Time and Him are Just Right (2023)

7.4

The stubborn, adorable Lin Xi approaches the crafty top student Ji Jun Xing on purpose. Throughout their "opportunistic" friendship, feelings bloom between the two as they are always there for each other. Not only do they make friends, but they also make their own dreams and goals come true in the end.

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Call It Love
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Call It Love (2023)

7.7
TV_14

A woman's life comes to a halt at a crossroad, leaving her filled with thoughts of revenge. However, as she begins to empathize with her intended target, she realizes that love and forgiveness are more powerful than revenge. This melodrama explores themes of love, forgiveness, empathy, and the tragedies that come with them.

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Closer to You
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Closer to You (2020)

8.2

A surgeon suddenly returns to eighteen years ago and meets his classmate Han Fei, and helps her put down her guard and untie the knot in her heart.

The Long Season
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The Long Season (2023)

8.8

Wang Xiang meets a person he fears in Hualin. A mystery involving a lost father, deceased lover, and old friend spans 20 years. Characters search for truth across time and space. When the mystery is solved, fate remains.

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The Promise
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The Promise (2023)

7

Childhood friends Phupha and Nanfah were inseparable—until Phupha vanished for ten years. As Nanfah rebuilds his life, fate may bring them together once more.

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Winter's Bone
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Winter's Bone(2010)

7.1
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R
101Minutes

Ree Dolly, a 17-year-old girl in the Ozark Mountains, must find her drug-dealing father to save her family from losing their home. Despite warnings and threats, Ree persists in her search, facing brutal beatings and danger. With the help of her uncle, Teardrop, Ree uncovers the truth about her father's disappearance and sacrifices her own safety to prove his death. In the end, Ree and her family are able to keep their home and receive a mysterious cash boon. However, Ree now knows the identity of her father's killer.

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18 Things First Love Taught Me
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18 Things First Love Taught Me(2020)

101Minutes

The movie tells the story of Tian Xiaole (Chen Yao), who only thought about the "60-point pass life" female man, after meeting Cheng Daye (He Haochen), the savior with a "100-point halo", his life began to change dramatically , And willingly act as the "iron buddies" of each other, secretly falling in love with Cheng Daye in the name of friends, but in fact the two of them have always hidden the most sincere feelings for each other in their hearts. After all the ups and downs, waiting, and misses in life, returning to the beginning of love, it turns out that love at first sight is the simplest thing in the world.

The Cry of the Owl
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The Cry of the Owl(2009)

5.9
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101Minutes
Swans: A Long Slow Screw.
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Swans: A Long Slow Screw.(1986)

56Minutes

Features live footage from the Greed/Holy Money tour in 1986 in London and Nottingham and the A Long Slow Screw video.

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A flustered teacher scrambles to hide his fanboy side when his idol films at school—but being cast as his co-mentor makes secrets hard to keep.

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The Exile
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The Exile(2025)

82Minutes

Gouranga, a young man in 1960s rural Bengal, embarks on a journey where he encounters not only the local myths about a supernatural presence, but also his own demons which were buried in his past. The film was in the list of TOP 10 Recommended Movies of NFDC Film Bazaar 2023. It also won the Film Bazaar Recommends Award in the Viewing Room Category.

Our Love Story
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Our Love Story(2016)

6.6
99Minutes

When Yoon-Ju, a talented art student, meets Ji-Soo, a reserved and mysterious bartender, their lives change forever as they navigate their feelings for each other and societal expectations.

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Match Play
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Match Play (2024)

Stuntman Jae-Yeon starts teaching action scenes to idol Doh-ha, who comes to learn the moves, and the two start to grow closer. Even as they clash, they can’t help but grow curious about each other.

Last Call
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Last Call(2019)

6.5
77Minutes

Last Call follows a suicidal alcoholic on the anniversary of his son’s death. When he attempts to call a crisis hotline, a misdial connects him with a single mother working as the night janitor at a local community college.

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Why Try to Change Me Now
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Why Try to Change Me Now (2023)

7.3

In the 1990s, a series of murders rocks a run-down industrial city in north-eastern China. Dalei Zhang, winner of a Silver Bear in 2021, adapts the award-winning novel “Moses on the Plain” by Xuetao Shuang with precision and poetry.

The Hinge
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The Hinge(2026)

The movie follows an unnamed internet hitman who, after one of his previous victims comes back to life, locks himself in his bathroom with a gun with one bullet to get away from the corpse that is outside his bathroom door that is banging on the door trying to get in! As time goes by he slowly starts going insane and starts talking to himself in one sided conversation while having weird dreams that seem to predict the future, he receives dog food and phone calls from a strange man with unexplained knowledge about everything named Mr. E, who discusses topics of morality, philosophy, and mysterious, all-powerful them, while asking to be let into the house!

Discover movies and TV series that captivate with their gradual buildup and intense payoff. Dive into the world of 'Slow burn' storytelling, where tension simmers until it reaches a boiling point. Explore this collection of films and shows that skillfully balance patience and suspense.

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