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1) Darkness
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
She was the ultimate patriot. Now, what she knows could bring down the government. Libby is a former top national security advisor who, while working with ruthless political veteran Rachel, signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror. Except thousands died under false pretenses. Haunted by this, Libby sets out to tell the truth, risking treason and her own life, to expose a cover-up that stretches all the...
4) McCanick
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An out of control narcotics detective with a secret past hunts down a harmless low level criminal who knows the real truth about his past.
5) The Alpines
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows seven friends coming together for a weekend getaway after several years of growing apart. They've moved on with their lives. But the secrets of their past have come back to haunt them.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is scary, funny, and as painful and sharp as youth. Like all teenagers, the students at Coal Hill Academy have hidden secrets and desires. They are facing their own worst fears, navigating a life of friends, parents, school, sex, sorrow and possibly the end of existence. The very walls of space and time are starting to thin. Something is pressing on the other side: something waiting for its chance to kill everyone and everything, to bring us all...
8) XXY
Publisher
Mundo en DVD
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Alex is a teenager who hides a secret. Shortly after his birth, his parents decided to settle in an isolated cabin on the outskirts of Pirip̀olis. The story begins with the arrival of a couple of friends who come from Buenos Aires with their teenage son ℓlvaro.
9) The giver
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
10) Roadkill
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Peter Laurence is a political outsider who is very popular with the people. Fresh from a successful libel case against a journalist printing stories alleging corruption, he's a man on the rise. But Peter has plenty of skeletons in his closet. And soon he discovers another - an illegitimate daughter serving a prison sentence. It's a secret that could ruin him. And one, apparently, that his Prime Minister already knows.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones must investigate the secrets and scandals centering on a reclusive couple after a social services investigator tries to visit them and is later found dead.
12) Dogville
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Although they are both heavily pregnant and due at the same time, their lives could not be more different. Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.
14) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
15) Villains
Publisher
Alter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mickey and Jules are lovers on the run, headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State. When their car dies after a gas station robbery, they break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
16) Hellbender
Publisher
Shudder, RLJEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
17) Bullitt County
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four drinking buddies with a dark secret reunite for a bachelor party in 1977 rural Kentucky. But when the friends discover that their favorite distillery has been turned into a winery, Gordie seizes on another adventure: search for the legendary buried Prohibition money deep in the woods of Bullitt County. The others join him, only to discover there's something much more dangerous than cursed treasure. They may have forgotten the dark secret from...
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The drama continues as season two begins moments after the explosive season one finale. The girls are the talk of the town -- and not in a good way. Whoever said that change is good has never visited Rosewood, PA ... or come across four pretty little liars.
19) The other man
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
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