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Offensive language, sexual references, and nudity
Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.
Drug use, sexual references, and offensive language
A three-part documentary following the "biohacking" looksmaxxer and manosphere influencer known as Tony Huge. A portrait of masculinity in the influencer age, where extreme biohacking, online performance, and a series of suspicious deaths converge.
Violence, offensive language, drug use, and suicide
Set in 1973 during the US’s attempt to overthrow the Chilean government, two CIA agents are dispatched to Easter Island. As the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, one of them bonds with a pair of rebellious students, which threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
Black Doves, Season 2
Season 2
Graphic violence and offensive language
A decades-old betrayal threatens to destroy the Black Doves and their alliances, friendships and families.
Coarse language and adult themes
A basset hound narrates how his human family faces turmoil when their mother lands in hospital in the lead-up to Christmas.
Violence and offensive language
Accused of a crime he didn't commit, and with nothing to lose, a war hero battling PTSD leads law enforcement on a high-speed, cross-country car chase with the help of his brothers-in-arms, as a captivated public roots for his escape.
It Gets Worse
Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2
Sex scenes, drug use, offensive language, and sexual references
Three best friends from college face eviction in London. As they scatter across the city, they navigate friendship, dating disasters, and adulting – all while the world crumbles around them.
A Story of Derry
IT: Welcome to Derry. A story of Derry
Horror and bloody violence
Three young people go into the Western Wood and encounter a terrifying ancient spirit, the Kollu.
Content that may disturb
A maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children operated between 1925 and 1961 in Tuam, County Galway. In the 21st century, the home became the focus of a national scandal after a forensic excavation uncovered the remains of hundreds of babies and young children, along with illegal adoptions, mistreatment, and systemic neglect. In this film based on based on true events, an amateur historian investigates the horrors that took place there.
Sexual violence themes, suicide, nudity and offensive language
Inspired by true events. In 2006, "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. But when a high-stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame turns into a nightmare of performative justice.
Drug references and offensive language
A three-part documentary about Friends star Matthew Perry that goes behind the scenes of his life and fame to reveal the actor's decades-long battle with addiction.