The movie “The Mule” is based on real events. Leonard Sharp, a veteran of the Second World War, a pensioner, a famous gardener and florist from Michigan City, contracted to transport large quantities of drugs from the Mexican border to Detroit, which he did for more than 10 years. In October 2011, Sharpe, 87, was finally arrested and brought to justice. The trial lasted a long time, as a result he received only 3 years due to his age and the “dementia” declared by lawyers. However, they did not serve as well, they were released a year later. He died in 2016 at the venerable age of 92 years from natural causes.
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Early 1960s, New York. Tony Vallelongi, who worked as a bouncer in the club, remained without work for a while. You have to pay for the apartment, and you will not leave the children hungry, so the hero cannot afford to sit idle. Here the phone call is very opportunely: a certain doctor Shirley really needs a driver, will not Tony come for an interview? And so he in a suit declares to the apartment above Carnegie Hall, where it turns out that Dr. Shirley is no doctor, but a virtuoso pianist with a couple of degrees, and, most importantly, he is black. Don Shirley needs not just a driver, but a man who can protect him under any circumstances and get him out of any problems, since he is going to go on a tour to the southern states for two months.
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“Boy Erased” is an autobiographical book of the journalist Garrard Conley, transferred to the screen. He was born to a religious family, his father was a Baptist pastor, so when the student realized that in his romantic dreams he was dreaming about boys and not girls, the pastors’ council and parents decided to send him for conversion therapy. Just at the period from the life when Conley was undergoing therapy, this film fixes its attention. This movie touches on another equally painful topic, the theme of parents and children, the first attempts to do the best, ignoring the desires and needs of the second.
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9 episodes
The protagonist of the TV series “Tin Star” Jim Worth worked in the London police department. Things were going great in the megalopolis, but he was leaving for the province to head the local police station. The local police is a very dull place: no one is going to give all the best, but there is a lot of work. Not so long ago, the once modest and quiet town was flooded with migrants who came to work at the oil refinery. The settlement has changed forever: from a once peaceful corner in the province of England, it has turned into a raging epicenter of the criminal world. Trafficking in drugs and weapons, prohibited financial fraud, robbery, murder, fraud – all this every day. The main character will have to deal with numerous problems in his city. So far, the locals have greeted the new police chief coolly, but gradually stir up interest, turning Worth’s life into a real hell.
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13 episodes
The story of the series “Outlander” begins with the fact that after the end of the Second World War, a young couple goes to Scotland. So it turns out that the wife, whose name is Claire, goes alone on the hill where the Celtic stones are located, touches them, and ends up in 1743. And so began her adventures in the 18th century, where the Scots fought for their independence from the British, and where she would meet friends, enemies, meet another love, where her life would be in danger and she would save the lives of other people.
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12 episodes
The story “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” goes about a girl who was saved from a cult in which several girls were kept underground in a bunker by a mad man and inspired them with the idea of an apocalypse. From the bunker, already in adulthood, four girls were released. Three of them decided to return to the city where they lived, and one decided to stay in the big city, to find a new life, where no one knows where she was for the last 13 years. And you have to immediately face a modern, cold and rude world!
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13 episodes
The third season of the series ” The Good Place” will continue the story that happened with the main character. The girl may look nice, but in fact she is a real villain who, during her lifetime, was sure that she would definitely go to hell for her deeds. However, death overtakes a girl unexpectedly quickly. Eleanor wakes up in a very strange place. Decently dressed man declares that she was in the best place in heaven, prepared especially for the ideal people who had lived a decent life. The girl perfectly understands that there was a mistake. However, the heroine does not hurry to disclose the secret of her real life. She likes the situation in this heavenly world, she likes those who live next to her (with rare exceptions), but her presence and indecent behavior sometimes breaks the delicate balance of this ideal world.
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13 episodes
The death of close people who have become unwitting victims in a gangster shootout, makes the main character of the series “The Punisher” of the former marines Frank Castle to take the path of war and revenge. He dreams of revenge on the villains, so he challenges the criminal world of New York. The criminals of the metropolis are dangerous people with connections and authority, but for the newly made Punisher there is no way back: he is ready to go to the very top of the criminal world to punish those who once took his beloved people from him.
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4 episodes
The fifth season of the action-packed British series “Luther” continues to break the stereotype about the classic work of a police inspector. The protagonist is a strong man in body and spirit every day fights against crime and himself. He does not always adhere to the rules, for which some consider him a “dirty” policeman, although in fact he does not violate the law, rather goes against his conscience.
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3 episodes
The eleven-year-old boy and his mother are in the center of attention of the plot of the mini-series “Butterfly”. The main character Max can not decide on gender, so behaves like a girl. The guy used to behave like the opposite sex, dress like them, and also communicate from the female face. Max is going through difficult times, and his depressed state breaks his views on life and self-determination. And peers are not averse to making fun of the unhappy main character. Mom tries to cope with the problem of her child alone, but she realizes that she has no approach to her son. Stephen, ex-husband, who decides to support his son, returns to the family. Parents are united in an effort to give Max the opportunity to self-determination and become a happy child.
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