New Releases on Netflix - Contract to Kill

Extremists and drug dealers make for an explosive mix in this action-thriller that finds Special Agent John Harmon tasked with thwarting a plot to use Mexican drug-smuggling routes as conduits for bringing arms and terrorists into the United States.

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New Releases on Netflix - Masterminds

In this offbeat comedy, four lunkheaded Southerners pull off one of the most brazen heists in U.S. history, stealing $17.3 million and getting away with it -- at first. When the FBI launches an investigation, the thieves find the noose tightening.

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New Releases on Netflix - All We Had

Left homeless by their landlord, Rita and her teenage daughter struggle to get by until they decide to head east to seek a new life. When their car breaks down in a small town along the way, they have no choice but to try to make a go of it there.

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New Releases on Netflix - Chronic

Working as a home-care nurse, David's dedication leads him to form strong bonds with his terminally ill patients. Managing friendships in his personal life, however, proves far more challenging.

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New Releases on Netflix - Kate Plays Christine

This intriguing mash-up of documentary and drama follows actress Kate Lynn Sheil as she heads to Florida to prepare for her film role as Christine Chubbuck, the Sarasota newscaster who committed suicide on the air in 1974.

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New Releases on Netflix - Moonlight

Growing up in the drug-soaked world of 1980s Miami, young Chiron struggles to make his way through a helter-skelter adolescence while also grappling with confusion and anxiety about his emerging sexuality.

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New Releases on Netflix - Queen of Katwe

Disney presents Queen of Katwe, a movie based on a vibrant true story starring Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo, and directed by Mira Nair. A Ugandan girl's life changes forever when she discovers she has an amazing talent for chess, in this celebration of the human spirit.

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New Releases on Netflix - Moonlight

Growing up in the drug-soaked world of 1980s Miami, young Chiron struggles to make his way through a helter-skelter adolescence while also grappling with confusion and anxiety about his emerging sexuality.

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New Releases on Netflix - Officer Downe

Los Angeles cop Terrence Downe is never really down, as his colleagues learn when he repeatedly springs back to life after being killed. When a cabal of baddies discovers the secret of Downe's reanimation, they conspire to get rid of him permanently.

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New Releases on Netflix - Allied

During a perilous World War II mission in Casablanca, French-Canadian operative Max Vatan falls in love with and weds French spy Marianne Beausejour. After learning that Marianne may be a Nazi double agent, Max launches an investigation of his wife.

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New Releases on Netflix - Creepy

After exchanging the perilous life of a police detective for the far safer world of academia, criminal-psychology lecturer Koichi Takakura is drawn back into the fray when an old case is reopened. Meanwhile, odd doings are afoot in his neighborhood.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Place to Call Home: Series 4

Change is in the air in 1950s Australia as Sarah navigates her complicated personal relationships amid the communist scare spurred by the Petrov Affair and the evolving social mores of the time.

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New Releases on Netflix - Fuller House: Season 1

When her firefighter husband dies on duty, D.J. Tanner-Fuller is left to raise their three boys by herself. Feeling overwhelmed, she asks her sister Stephanie to move in, along with best friend Kimmy and her teenage daughter, Ramona.

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New Releases on Netflix - London Road

London Road tells the moving story of a community coming together during the darkest of experiences. Based on the true events that occurred in 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five murdered women. When a local resident was charged, and then convicted, of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicenter of this tragedy. The film uses the actual words of the residents of London Road, set to an innovative musical score, to tell this gripping story in an extraordinary way.

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New Releases on Netflix - Viking Legacy

In ancient times, the search for seven sacred scrolls believed to grant power and prosperity to those who possessed them pushed Europe to the brink of war. As a Celtic King risked everything to protect the scrolls, a warlord hell-bent on finding them murdered him in cold blood, leaving his daughter in hiding until the day that the prophecy could be fulfilled.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bad Santa 2

Boozy scoundrel Willie Soke returns for another holiday season as a department store Santa, assisted by his elfin crony, Marcus. This time, Willie and his potty-mouthed mom conspire to defraud a charity.

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New Releases on Netflix - Waffle Street

Waffle Street is the true story of Jimmy Adams, a VP of a $30 Billion hedge fund who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at Papa's Chicken and Waffles. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24 hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits, and who just might be the right mentor to help Jimmy realize his full potential.

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New Releases on Netflix - Hacksaw Ridge

Based on a true story, this World War II drama focuses on Desmond T. Doss, a conscientious objector who becomes a hero while serving as an unarmed medic during the brutal and bloody fight for Okinawa.

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New Releases on Netflix - Heaven Sent

An 8 year old runaway from heaven takes it upon herself to rekindle the once intimate friendship and romance that has slowly, but surely slipped away from a couple. Using all of her skill and charm, as well as some well intentioned mischief, our little 8 year old runaway comically sets out to heal their broken hearts and save their marriage by helping them get back to the basics of love.

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New Releases on Netflix - I'm Not Ashamed

Rachel Joy Scott was the first student killed in the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, shot for refusing to renounce her Christian beliefs. This faith-based drama is based on Rachel's diary entries in the days leading up to her martyrdom.

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New Releases on Netflix - Manchester by the Sea

While working as a handyman in Boston, taciturn loner Lee Chandler gets word that his brother Joe has died of a coronary. After returning to the siblings' hometown, Lee receives another shock: He's been named legal guardian of Joe's 16-year-old son.

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New Releases on Netflix - Shangri-La Suite

In 1974, clinically demented lovers Jack and Karen escape from the mental hospital they've been confined in and set off to fulfill the warped dream that Jack has harbored since childhood: killing his hero, Elvis Presley.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Light Between Oceans

Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and radiant, spirited Isabel live together in married bliss on a remote, rugged island off the coast of Australia. But their windswept world is turned upside down when Isabel learns that she's unable to bear a child. One day, a drifting lifeboat washes ashore with a crying baby in it. The dilemma the couple now face will echo far beyond the island, engulfing and irrevocably impacting their world -- and that of a stranger -- in a passionate story about love, hope, and a fateful choice.

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New Releases on Netflix - Beauty and the Beast

Set in its native France, this lush take on the classic fairy tale follows a merchant's brave and beautiful daughter, who takes her place as a fearsome beast's prisoner while trapped in a castle of fantastical wonders.

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New Releases on Netflix - Blood on the Mountain

West Virginia is rich in natural resources, yet its residents have benefited little from them. This documentary details how industrial concerns have controlled the state's politics, economy and environment while failing to protect the populace.

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New Releases on Netflix - Seasons

This enlightening nature documentary illustrates the dramatic and subtle effects of Earth's changing weather cycle on the living patterns of animals and humans, stretching from 20,000 years ago to the present.

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New Releases on Netflix - I'm Not Ashamed

Rachel Joy Scott was the first student killed in the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, shot for refusing to renounce her Christian beliefs. This faith-based drama is based on Rachel's diary entries in the days leading up to her martyrdom.

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New Releases on Netflix - Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Christmas sees the Doctor join forces with a masked Superhero for an epic New York adventure. With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as The Ghost. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask?

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New Releases on Netflix - Grace and Frankie: Season 2

With their ex-hubbies now married to each other and their clans more integrated than ever, Grace and Frankie continue to struggle to make sense of the brave new world that is their lives. Frankie copes by getting more involved in Brianna's business.

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Welsh language Macbeth 'accessible to wider audience'

A production by Welsh language national theatre company Theatr Genedlaethol is broadcast live to cinemas for the first time.

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New Releases on Netflix - Mercy Street: Season 2

With the Civil War escalating, chaos intensifies in Alexandria as allegiances shift. Meanwhile, Mansion House Hospital is hampered by interpersonal undercurrents, and the Green family's position becomes ever-more precarious.

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New Releases on Netflix - Keeping Up with the Joneses

After moving into a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac, a married couple starts to suspect that their new neighbors are undercover government agents -- suspicions that are confirmed when the couple gets entangled in a case of global espionage.

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New Releases on Netflix - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

After surviving a widely publicized firefight in Iraq, Pvt. Billy Lynn and his Bravo Company comrades are brought to the United States for a publicity tour. But as they receive a hero's welcome, they face the dispiriting prospect of returning to war.

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New Releases on Netflix - Golden Kingdom

Left alone when their aging abbot departs on a long journey, four young Buddhist monks living at an isolated monastery in Myanmar are forced to fend for themselves as strange things suddenly start to transpire.

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New Releases on Netflix - London Town

In this coming-of-age drama, 14-year-old Shay Baker finds an escape from his melancholy adolescence in the music of the Clash, whose rebellious and trenchant lyrics transform Shay's view of the world and himself.

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New Releases on Netflix - Race to Win

n the wake of a sudden heart attack, the death of Gentry Rhodes (Luke Perry) leaves his devoted family in turmoil. Facing threats to sell their family ranch to pay off debts, oldest daughter Hannah (Danielle Campbell) looks to her father's spirit for guidance and strength. Hannah comes up with idea to win money and save the ranch by entering the upcoming barrel racing competition. After days of practice, the love and support from her family, and a few "visits" from her father, she discovers how to manage her self-doubt and overcome her fears of the past.

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New Releases on Netflix - Tharlo

To get ready for his official photo ID card, Tibetan shepherd Tharlo has his dirty, straggly locks styled by a beautiful young town girl -- who soon upends the infatuated Tharlo's entire life.

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New Releases on Netflix - Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word

Based on real events, this chilling tale recalls the unjust conviction and execution of Johnny Frank Garrett for raping and killing an elderly nun, and the string of mysterious deaths that began occurring after he left behind a letter vowing revenge.

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New Releases on Netflix - Ouija: Origin of Evil

As a teenage girl tries to come to grips with her father's recent death, she and her friends decide to contact his spirit through a Ouija board. But when they inadvertently summon a malevolent spirit instead, all hell breaks loose.

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New Releases on Netflix - Arrival

Confronted by a mass landing of alien vessels around the globe, military leaders seek the help of brilliant linguist Louise Banks in an effort to communicate with the extraterrestrials and determine their intentions.

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New Releases on Netflix - City of Dead Men

Having backpacked through South America, Michael arrives in Medellín, Colombia, flat broke. Luckily, a pretty local girl offers to let him stay with her and her friends at an abandoned psychiatric hospital -- which has a disturbing history.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Crash

In this financial thriller set in the near future, federally indicted stock trader Guy Clifton gets a chance for redemption when the U.S. secretary of the treasury pegs him to help foil a cyberattack that could cripple the country's economy.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Crooked Man

After she and her friends accidentally conjure a demon at a slumber party where one of the girls is murdered, Olivia Shaw returns home from a mental institution six years later, only to find that the killer may have returned with her.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Girl on the Train

During her daily rail commute, divorcée Rachel Watson observes the happily married couple living in a house near the train route. One day, she witnesses a scene that enrages her -- and soon finds herself deeply entangled in the ensuing mystery.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bodyguards: Secret Lives from the Watchtower

We've all seen them: the brawny men (and women) who stand between public figures and their public, sometimes becoming overzealous in their efforts to do so. This film explores the world of violence, stalkers and isolation that bodyguards face daily.

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New Releases on Netflix - Embrace

When Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfitt posted an unconventional before-and-after photo in 2013 it was seen by more than 100 million people worldwide and sparked an international media frenzy. EMBRACE follows Taryn's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.

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New Releases on Netflix - Quarry: Season 1

Already anguished by his Vietnam War experiences, Mac Conway feels the sting of rejection from his friends after he returns from combat in 1972. Drawn into a web of criminal characters, he becomes an enforcer for a shadowy figure known as the Broker.

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New Releases on Netflix - Stake Land 2

In this blood-spattered sequel, a personal tragedy leads a vengeful Martin to venture back into the brutal badlands to track down the only person who can help him: his missing mentor, Mister.

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New Releases on Netflix - Max Steel

After teenager Max McGrath's body begins generating powerful and uncontrollable surges of energy, he's saved from death by an alien named Steel. The two soon learn that they can harness superhuman power -- but only if they operate together.

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New Releases on Netflix - Oddball and the Penguins

An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Take

In this tense action-thriller, the lives of a deskbound CIA operative, a skillful American pickpocket and a young Frenchwoman intersect under lethal circumstances after a bomb explodes in a Paris Métro station.

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