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Maple Leaf Dreams

A young Filipino couple move to Canada to try to make a life for themselves, but struggle with loneliness and have trouble making ends meet.

More Than Blue (TW) (2018)

A terminally ill man sets up his best friend, whom he has loved since high school, so that she will not be lonely after he passes away.

Matsuyuki plays the part of Nao Suzuhara, an elementary school teacher. When she realizes that one of the female students is receiving abuse from her mother, Nao’s maternal instincts kick in, and she impulsively decides to bring the girl into her own care. Serving as a substitute mother, Nao takes the child on a trip from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and the two experience various events together along the way.

Novoland: The Castle in the Sky

In the ancient time, the human honored the winged clan as gods for their ability to fly and to build a castle in the sky. The day when the castle was to be lifted off the ground an explosion destroyed it. A human girl was suspected to have the done it. However, a man from the winged clan didn’t believe it and saved her life. As it turned out, it was a faction of the winged clan trying to start a war with the humans in order to expand their control.

Past and Present

Chinese horror movie about campus students summoning a vengeful spirit, bad idea….

Red Nights

A woman steals an ancient artefact and flees to Hong Kong in order to sell it. Little does she know that the box contains an ancient vial of poison and the people she is dealing with will go to any lengths to obtain it.

Scarlet Heart: Ryeo

Scarlet Heart: Ryeo is the remake of Chinese drama Bu Bu Jing Xin that stars IU as a woman who gets time-warped back to the Goryeo dynasty, and becomes involved with a very large family of princes, some of whom are vying for the throne, or her affections, or both.

She Was Pretty (2021)

Once popular and pretty, down-on-her-luck Ai is shocked to find herself working for her nerdy childhood crush who’s now a suave fashion magazine editor.

The Day After Valentine’s

Kai, a distraught man meets Lani, a strong, confident woman who seems to have answers to all of life’s most difficult questions. Kai realizes that with Lani’s wisdom and ‘go-get’ attitude, he may be able to fix everything in his life.

The Eye

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

The Legend of the Blue Sea

The drama is a fantasy romance, taking its motif from the mermaid/merman story in Korea’s first historical (romance) storybook. In the Joseon-era storybook, it is recorded that real-life figure Kim Dam Nyeong returned mermaids/mermen that were caught fisherman back to the sea.

The Mermaid

A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan’s business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.

The Third Party

Andi, an aspiring fashion designer, is trying to win back her first love slash ex-beau, Max, a surgeon. Andi thought her plan to win Max’s heart will go smoothly, but Max found a new love unto a gay pediatrician named Christian.

The Wedding

Although Lia Marquez is a spirited woman who is set to marry Philip Cordero, the city’s most eligible bachelor, things get a little bit shaky when Lia’s ex-boyfriend returns to win her back.

Three Lives Three Worlds: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms

Tells of the story between two deities Ye Hua and Bai Qian, and their love story that transcends time.

Time Raiders

Time Raiders is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. It tells the story of explorers searching for the secrets of immortality in ancient tombs

Train to Busan

Marshal law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

Train To Busan 2: Peninsula

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

Two Steps From Heaven

Sheldon Chun (Bosco Wong), Sean Fung (Edwin Siu), and Tim Yau (Louis Cheung) are the “Iron Triangle” of The Rainmakers, a well-known and influential public relations company in Hong Kong. With their canny tongues and sharp wit, the three PR masters slide smoothly into the upper layers of society.