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Historical · Documentary
An Austrian bride becomes queen at Versailles. A necklace fraud she did not commit damages her reputation as France enters revolution. From the failed flight to Varennes to the tribunal and execution of 1793, whose account shaped the woman we remember?
Historical · Documentary
Anne Boleyn rises from Catherine of Aragon’s household to become Henry VIII’s second queen. Their marriage helps transform England’s church. In 1536, accusations of adultery, incest and treason bring her to the Tower. What do the surviving records prove?
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
Sherri Rasmussen, a nursing director and newlywed, was killed at home in 1986. Police pursued burglars while a saliva swab waited in a freezer. Twenty-three years later, the DNA led to an LAPD detective. How did the evidence survive when the investigation failed?
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In 1996, nineteen-year-old Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart vanished after a party. Paul Flores was convicted of her murder in 2022; his father Ruben was acquitted. Three decades after her disappearance, the search continues. Where is Kristin?
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
Natalee Holloway vanished on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. Years later, the man last seen with her demanded money from her mother for information about her remains. What would his 2023 guilty plea finally reveal?
True Crime · Mystery
In 2018, preserved crime-scene DNA and investigative genetic genealogy led detectives to Joseph James DeAngelo, who pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 kidnappings for robbery in 2020. How did a family tree help investigators identify the Golden State Killer and obtain a direct DNA match?
True Crime · Drama
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos at nineteen and left Stanford to pursue hundreds of blood tests from a few drops, building a company valued at $9 billion. As the lab’s machines kept failing behind that promise, how long could the secret hold?
True Crime · Drama · Mystery
On Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant, vanished from her Modesto home. Her husband Scott said he had gone fishing ninety miles away, in a boat almost nobody knew he owned. Four months later the bay gave up its answer. Why had he told another woman he had "lost" his wife?
True Crime · Drama
For eight years millions watched Ruby Franke raise six children on YouTube. In August 2023 her 12-year-old son escaped a counselor's house in the Utah desert, duct tape on his ankles, and asked a neighbor for help. How did the mom who gave parenting advice end up pleading guilty to child abuse?
True Crime · Drama
In 2018, an Arizona mother fell for a man who wrote books about the end of the world. Within a year her husband was shot dead, his wife was dead, and her two youngest children had vanished. She told everyone they were safe. Nine months later, police dug up his backyard.
True Crime · Drama
In June 2002, a man cut a window screen and took 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from the bed beside her little sister. For nine months, volunteers searched from Idaho to Richfield. She was often in plain sight, hidden behind a veil. Her sister remembered a voice. Strangers on State Street remembered a face.
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In the summer of 2021, a 22-year-old from Long Island set off across America in a white camper van with her fiancé, posting the trip for her followers. Weeks later the van came home to Florida without her, and the texts her mother kept getting didn't sound like her daughter at all.
True Crime · Drama
At 5:30 one summer morning in Ohio, a 17-year-old drove her boyfriend and his friend into a brick wall at 100 miles an hour. Both young men died. She says she blacked out and never meant it. The black box says her foot was flat on the gas, and the brake was never touched.
True Crime · Drama
For 86 years, his family ran justice in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Then his wife and son were shot dead at the family kennels. A jury convicted him, a court threw the verdict out, and he has always denied it. Now a new jury will decide what happened at Moselle.
True Crime · Thriller
For ten months, Taylor Parker wore a silicone belly and told everyone in her East Texas town a baby was coming. In October 2020, a trooper pulled her over with a newborn in her lap. The baby wasn't hers. A jury sent her to death row. Her lawyers still say the baby was never born alive.
True Crime · Mystery · Drama
In 2016 a young California mother vanished on her morning run. Twenty-two days later she was found on a freeway in chains, branded, saying two masked women had taken her. It took the FBI four years and a discarded tea bottle to learn where she had really been.
True Crime · Drama · Thriller
In 2020 Tim Bliefnick told a game-show host his biggest wedding mistake was saying "I do." In 2023 his estranged wife Becky, a nurse and mother of three, was shot 14 times in her Quincy, Illinois home, days before their divorce trial. So who was riding a blue bicycle past her house at night?
True Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Six people were home on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, one Saturday night in November 2022. By morning four college students were dead, and the only thing the killer left behind was the leather sheath of a knife. What was found on its snap would lead police all the way to Pennsylvania.
True Crime · Drama
Near Albany, New York, more than 16,000 people paid for self-help courses from a soft-spoken man they called Vanguard. Inside, a secret group of women handed over their darkest secrets as collateral and were branded with his initials. In 2019 a jury convicted Keith Raniere on every count. He still says he is innocent.
True Crime · Drama
Texas, 1980. A church-going housewife stops by her best friend's house to pick up a child's swimsuit. That night, the friend is found dead, struck forty-one times with an ax. Candy Montgomery said it was self-defense, and a jury found her not guilty. What happened in the utility room?
True Crime · Thriller
At 6:45 one December morning, a masked gunman shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk and vanished. Five days later, police in a Pennsylvania McDonald's arrested a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate. Now one court has his plea, and another may never get a trial.
True Crime · Drama
In 1989 two rich sons called 911 to say someone had killed their parents. They had done it themselves, and they said their father was the reason. Thirty-seven years later, a parole board must decide: are they monsters, or victims?
True Crime · Thriller · Romance
In 2014 a 59-year-old interior designer met a charming man on a dating site who said he was a doctor, and married him two months later. Her daughter hired an investigator. What she found was worse than a lie... so why couldn't she leave?
True Crime · Drama
For years, a whole town in Missouri believed Gypsy Blanchard was dying, and that her mother was a saint for caring for her. Then her mother was found stabbed, Gypsy was gone, and when police found her 600 miles away, she was walking.
True Crime · Mystery
In a January blizzard, Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dying in the snow outside a colleague's house, and his girlfriend was charged with backing her SUV into him. Two trials and one cracked taillight later, a jury acquitted her of murder. So who do you believe?
True Crime · Drama
In July 2014, Conrad Roy, 18, was found dead in his truck in a Massachusetts parking lot. His phone held thousands of texts from his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, 17. A judge found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Can words alone make you guilty?
True Crime · Thriller
In 1974, young women began vanishing across the Pacific Northwest, and witnesses had only a first name: Ted. Then an 18-year-old fought her way out of his car with a handcuff locked on her wrist and gave police his face. The true story of Ted Bundy's victims, the survivors, and the road to justice.
True Crime · Drama
Betty Broderick worked while Dan became a doctor and a Harvard lawyer. Then he hired a 22-year-old assistant, moved out, and the divorce became a four-year war of fines and court orders. Before dawn on November 5, 1989, Betty let herself into his house with her daughter's key.
True Crime · Thriller
In June 2008, motivational speaker Travis Alexander was found dead in the shower of his home in Mesa, Arizona, and his friends gave police one name: his ex-girlfriend. His camera had been through the wash, but its memory card kept the afternoon he died, minute by minute.
True Crime · Drama
She told New York she was a German heiress with millions abroad, and its hotels, banks and a private-jet company believed her. In 2019 a jury convicted Anna Sorokin on eight counts and acquitted her on two. Seven years later she is still in New York, on an ankle monitor, fighting deportation.
True Crime · Drama · Thriller
In August 2018, Shanann Watts, 15 weeks pregnant, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, vanished from their Colorado home overnight. Her husband Chris stood on the porch and begged on camera: "just come back." So why was his truck backed up to the garage before dawn?
Drama · Romance
Xiaoman fights to save her late grandmother’s oyster-omelette stall from redevelopment in Taipei’s Wanhua district. When a clumsy stranger offers to work for meals, she gives him a chance—but his answers don’t quite add up.
Romance · Fantasy · Anime · Comedy
Moon House's perfect heiress never misses a spell—until a clueless Sun House boy makes roses burst from her wand. When her father invites him to dinner, keeping her magic under control is about to get even harder.
Drama · Romance
A loan shark threatens Lin Yutong's grandmother over a debt she can't pay. Then the heir to Taipei's most feared underworld family arrives with a startling claim: Yutong is his long-lost youngest sister. But her new family's protection comes with secrets of its own.
Boys' Love · Romance · 3D Animation · Sports
Last year's final ends when Jiang Che's fastball sends catcher Lu Chuan off the field. Now they're teammates, and Lu is the only one who can catch him. Can these rivals keep their eyes on the game?
Romance · 3D Animation · Sci-Fi
On her first day aboard a deep-space station, a hull breach sends her straight into the arms of an ice-cold commander. He orders her home, but a gentle medic and a cocky pilot may hold clues to her brother's disappearance. Who will she trust?
Drama · Revenge
After ten years as a housewife, Shen Yuqing is thrown out of her marriage and separated from her daughter. But her ex-husband's struggling company is about to get a new owner—and Yuqing is ready to reclaim her future.
Girls' Love · Romance · Anime · Mystery
Every night at 3 a.m., a sleepless woman buys ginger tea from night clerk Anan, paying with exact change. When a stranger intervenes during a confrontation, the two women finally begin to talk—but someone is watching from across the street.
Drama · Romance · Thriller
When auditor Xu Nian'an uncovers NT$300 million in dirty money at a Macau casino, she becomes a target. Casino heir Li Sihan hides her in his penthouse, but staying alive means trusting a man who has secrets of his own.
Romance · Fantasy · Anime · Comedy
A rainy fall, a shattered teapot and a fox-spirit clerk make for a rocky start at Muqing's inherited Jiufen teahouse. To keep it, she must run it for 100 nights—with a grumpy teacher and a clientele that isn't entirely human.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
Lin Nian is ready to leave her temple life behind—until her father collapses and a gangster threatens to take over. When a handsome temple general appears before her, she must decide whether to let a god into her life, and her body.
Romance · Anime · Comedy
Pressed about her love life at Lunar New Year dinner, Xiaoman rents a boyfriend under the table. But keeping up the act for six days with her matchmaking family proves trickier than either of them expects.
Drama · Romance
When a phone flash goes off, Xiaohe pulls her mysterious new part-timer behind the bubble tea counter. He can't shake a cup, speaks Mandarin with a Korean accent, and seems desperate to stay out of sight. As trouble closes in, keeping him hidden could cost her more than she expects.
Romance · Fantasy · Anime · Comedy
Nora's summoning exam explodes into disaster when she accidentally summons the school's top student, teacup and all. Now the prefect must tutor her before the full-moon re-exam—or she faces expulsion.
Romance · Mystery
After a cruel party humiliation, shy fashion student Xiaoyu wakes up with a stunning new face—and walks straight back in. But as a campus romance blossoms, her second life draws her into a mystery she can't ignore.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · 3D Animation
At Mistmoor Academy, the Vanclairs are supposed to be Aiden North’s enemies. So why does their proud daughter Vera keep risking everything to save him? As danger closes in, their forbidden attraction could cost them both.
Drama · Romance
On her wedding night, Ye Zhen's groom runs off to another woman. His powerful uncle arranged the marriage, and she expects him to clean up the mess—but provoking the man who holds the family together could cost her more than she bargained for.
Drama · Thriller · Suspense · Romance
After a 36-hour ER shift, nurse Nianci comes home to a 12th-floor flat and a bloodied palm slamming her intercom at midnight. The man outside says he's a cop from the fifteenth floor — and something is walking up the corridor behind him. The rule is never open the door; the choice is hers.
Drama · Romance · Boys' Love
For ten years, Lin Guanyu has kept his true nature hidden at work. Then his company gets a new CEO: his high-school rival, Chen Bohan, the one man who can tell. When pride meets desire, who will fall first?
Documentary · True Crime
She was the queen of New York's raw-food scene. Then she met a man on Twitter who called himself Shane Fox. Prosecutors say $2 million vanished, staff went unpaid, and the couple went on the run—until a pizza order gave them away.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
A broke night-market fortune teller sees the red threads that bind people to their future spouses. When a rich stranger offers her a fortune to reveal his match, one touch sets her own fate in motion—and three very different men enter her life.
Documentary · Historical
Alexandria, 48 BC: exiled by her brother, Cleopatra has herself carried to Julius Caesar in a linen bed-sack and wins back a kingdom. Rome, Mark Antony and war with Octavian follow. Eighteen years later, cornered in her tomb, Egypt's last queen makes one final choice. How did she die?
Drama · Romance · Fantasy
The magic academy's proudest heiress denies every spark for the scholarship boy who beat her—until the Moon Mirror binds them for a year and a heart seal glows whenever her heart races. She can keep saying she's not in love; the mark keeps telling the truth.
Drama · Romance
Air traffic controller Wen Yining is weeks from marrying first officer Gao Zixiang when his captain, Jiang Yan, carries him home drunk and reveals another woman. Now every voice in Taoyuan tower pulls her toward the one man she must refuse—as a missing tape threatens more than her wedding.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Suspense
A rainy-night red envelope on a Tainan road makes 何小滿 the bride of a groom who died 35 years ago. The gold ring won't come off, the wedding hall keeps waiting in her dreams, and every night he stays close she grows colder. The ghost gate closes in fifteen days.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Period Drama · Boys' Love
Branded a demon and killed by his own senior, Xie Wujiu wakes ten years later in a stranger's body—and the Master who slew him knows his face at once. Moved into the Master's courtyard and never let out of sight, he plays the fool while digging for the truth of that night.
Drama · Romance · Mystery · Girls' Love
A Taipei locksmith crashes her missing sister's fiancé's engagement dinner—and the new bride-to-be whispers that the sister is alive. Thrown together by a key, a debt, and a lie, they must decide whether to trust each other while every locked door hides a new danger. Attraction sparks as the wedding countdown begins.
Drama · Romance · Revenge
When her groom bolts mid-ceremony, a humiliated bride accepts the only man who can save her family: his exiled older brother. Their one-year contract marriage becomes a weapon for the family throne and revenge on the mother who ruined her. But someone behind the runaway wedding is still pulling strings.
Drama · Romance · Girls' Love
Ice-cold student president Shen Zhixia kisses a convenience-store cashier at midnight and offers her 500,000 NTD to play her girlfriend for one semester. The cashier needs exactly that for her mother's hospital bill, but the contract's one rule—don't fall in love—gets harder every day.
Drama · Romance
Her impossibly cheap Da'an room comes with a messy, sweet roommate who steams eggs and never sleeps. On day one at Hengyuan Group, the cold CEO who looks straight through her has his face — and a secret worth more than her rent.
Drama · Romance · Boys' Love
The shipping heir has chased off seven bodyguards. Number eight is an ex-Navy frogman who doesn't flinch—and he isn't here just to guard the son. In Kaohsiung's sun-baked harbour underworld, a three-day test becomes a dangerous attraction.
Drama · Romance · Mystery · Sports
Law student Shen Ruoqing poses as her missing twin brother to hold his baseball scholarship and find out who made him disappear. When her roommate yanks off her cap and the wig comes with it, three athletes learn the secret, and one of them may be the reason her brother is gone.
Drama · Romance · Fantasy · Period Drama · Revenge
Framed for poisoning the Emperor and condemned by the husband who signed her death warrant, Elinor wakes at her wedding altar with one second to change everything. This time she refuses the tyrant—only to find the feared Duke of the North won't let her go, and her second life is repeating faster than the first.
Drama · Romance
A burnt-out Taipei designer dumps her credit-stealing boyfriend and rents the cheapest sea-view room in Kenting—only to find four handsome men already living there. Between kitchen near-misses, surfboard wars, and a looming auction, summer gets complicated.
Drama · Family Drama · Mystery · Suspense · 3D Animation
For thirty years, Aria Williams has borne her siblings’ hatred in silence. Now dying, she is forced into a live memory-extraction experiment meant to expose her alleged crimes. Her sister Brianna enters the past determined to prove she could have done better. But a Christmas Eve massacre, a cartel’s revenge, and a mother’s final promise begin to reveal what Aria faced—and why the truth may be more devastating than the blame.
Drama · Romance · Period Drama · Revenge · 3D Animation
Six years after a devastating breakup, Cordelia Lancaster is blind, isolated, and at the mercy of relatives who trade her future for power. The formidable Duke Luciano claims her as his wife, concealing that he is Luke, the penniless young man she once rejected. As familiar gestures awaken her memories, his hunger for revenge collides with the love he cannot bury—and a threat to her brother keeps her trapped in their dangerous bargain.