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Fringe is a sci-fi paranormal mystery thriller drama series created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. The Fox series follows FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, who is assigned to work with mad scientist Walter Bishop and his jack-of-all-trades son Peter Bishop, to investigate cases involving fringe science. Fringe stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, Mark Valley, and Seth Gabel. So, if you loved the mind-bending storylines, thrilling mysteries, and compelling characters in Fringe, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The X-Files (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Fox

The X-Files is a sci-fi mystery horror thriller drama series created by Chris Carter. The Fox series follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate various cases involving paranormal phenomena. The X-Files stars David Duchovny,...

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Russian Doll is a mystery comedy-drama series created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler. The Netflix series follows Nadia Vulvokov, a young woman who finds herself stuck in a time loop where she dies and relives the same night. She soon finds someone stuck in the same situation as her and teams up with them to solve this mystery and get out of the time loop. Russian Doll stars Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, Elizabeth Ashley, Charlie Bartlett, and Chloë Sevigny. So, if you loved the mind-bending storyline, hilarious dark comedy, and compelling characters in Russian Doll, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Undone (Prime Video) Credit – Prime Video

Undone is an adult animated sci-fi fantasy psychological mystery comedy-drama series created by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The Prime Video series follows Alma Winograd-Diaz,...

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Time travel is one of the most popular sub-genres in films and TV shows. Both fantasy and sci-fi genre fans are probably already in love with time travel content. The most compelling thing about time is that it can used in various ways from time loop stories like Groundhog Day and changing the past stories like Terminator. So, we thought of compiling a list of all the best time travel shows on Netflix you should check out.

Travelers Credit – Netflix

Travelers is a sci-fi thriller drama series created by Brad Wright. The Netflix series follows the story of a group of people who send their consciousness back in time to the 21st century in other people’s bodies from a post-apocalyptic world so that they can save the world from a terrible future. Travelers stars Eric McCormack, Reilly Dolman,...

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Midnight at the Pera Palace is a Turkish time-travel historical drama series created by written by Elif Usman. Inspired by the 2014 historical non-fiction book titled Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by author Charles King, the Netflix series follows the story of Esra, a young journalist in modern-day Istanbul as she is tasked with writing an article about the Pera Palace Hotel and soon she is transported back in time and tries to stop a sinister plot from unfolding that could change the Turkey she knows. So, if you loved the time travel intrigue, compelling characters, and a thrilling story in Midnight at the Pera Palace here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Dark (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Dark is a German sci-fi mystery thriller series created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese.

The Signal is a hit due to its twisty mystery and international appeal, landing in Netflix's top 10 in the USA and UK. Dark blends sci-fi and mystery like The Signal, spiraling into time-travel and shocking revelations over three seasons. Constellation follows an astronaut questioning reality, with an outstanding cast exploring a dizzying psychological drama.

Netflix's new German-language sci-fi mystery show The Signal has become an instant hit, with fans eager to find similar shows to enjoy. The Signal is a rare example of a foreign-language show finding a big international audience. At the time of writing, The Signal is in the Netflix top 10 in both the USA and the UK, proving that the show's twisty mystery has universal appeal. The Signal's international cast helps it appeal to people from all over the world, but it also relies on great storytelling and several references to famous real-life cases.

The Signal...

TV shows like Dark and Westworld become even better the second time around due to their intricate storytelling and hidden details. Community and The Good Place are highly rewarding shows to rewatch because of their attention to detail and self-referential humor. The Wire and Mad Men offer a layered viewing experience that allows audiences to fully appreciate the character development and social commentary on rewatch.

There are plenty of great TV shows out there that become even better the second time viewers watch them. Due to the nature of serialized storytelling and the complex and intricate possibilities of the modern television landscape, there are many shows out there that audiences would do themselves a disservice if they did not rewatch some of them from time to time. While it can be hard to find the time for a rewatch when there are so many new shows to catch up on,...

Netflix shows have a history of delivering shocking season finales that leave audiences on the edge of their seats. Examples include Dark, Money Heist, House of Cards, Mindhunter, The Oa, Dead to Me, The Midnight Gospel, BoJack Horseman, and You. These finales reveal unexpected twists, explore complex themes, and leave viewers eagerly awaiting the next season.

Over the years, Netflix shows have left audiences shocked with season finales that confounded all expectations, revealed the hidden motivations of major characters, or had jaw-dropping twists that nobody saw coming. As a streaming service that has taken major risks with varied and diverse genres of programming, some Netflix series, such as Stranger Things, have gone on to become cultural touchstones that viewers eagerly await the upcoming season of following shocking endings, lingering cliffhangers, or uncertain character fates. Netflix appears to understand the power of a shocking finale as it’s a surefire way...

Dark is getting the trilogy treatment. Co-creator Baran bo Odar recently announced Netflix has renewed the TV show for a third and final season.

The German-language series follows four families who discover secrets about themselves and their community through the use of a wormhole located beneath the local power plant. The cast includes Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofman, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari, and Karoline Eichhorn.

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"Everything is connected." Netflix just released the premiere date and a new preview for season two of Dark.

The German-language series follows four families who discover secrets about themselves and their community through the use of a wormhole located beneath the local power plant. The cast includes Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofman, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari, and Karoline Eichhorn.

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Looking past the regular popular streaming playlists, audiences can find quality television shows to binge made in countries both across the pond and south of the border. Read on to find the best international television shows to watch this summer.

Breathe

“Breathe,” starring R. Madhavan and Amit Sadh, is an Indian thriller that features a cat-and-mouse story as a police detective tries to solve a string of murders of organ donors. His prime suspect is a father desperately seeking a donor to save his dying son.

How to Watch: Amazon Prime

Cable Girls

This Spanish period drama follows four women working in Madrid’s first and only telephone company in 1929 right before the global financial crash. The show showcases the hardships working women faced during the time period and how they overcame them. The series stars Blanca Suárez, Maggie Civantos, Ángela Cremonte, and Nadia de Santiago.

How to Watch: Netflix...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the entirety of Netflix’s series “Dark.”]

Netflix’s German supernatural mystery thriller doesn’t fit neatly into any puzzle box, but it sure is addictive and intriguing. Initially built around the case of a missing boy in Winden, “Dark” quickly bursts through the confines of the small town — not by reaching beyond its borders, but beyond its time. The curious time travel element, however, is a tricky one, and two warring forces are trying to control it. Unfortunately, it seems that many young boys have been caught in the middle.

The time travel occurs in 33-year increments, which creates a curious connection with Winden’s past, present, and future. In particular, viewers have gotten to know the young, middle-aged, and older versions of the same characters that hail from a few major families. Trying to keep the various surnames, generations, and each person’s secrets straight is difficult enough, but throw in a kidnapping priest,...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the entirety of Netflix’s series “Dark.”]

Netflix’s German supernatural mystery thriller doesn’t fit neatly into any puzzle box, but it sure is addictive and intriguing. Initially built around the case of a missing boy in Winden, “Dark” quickly bursts through the confines of the small town — not by reaching beyond its borders, but beyond its time. The curious time travel element, however, is a tricky one, and two warring forces are trying to control it. Unfortunately, it seems that many young boys have been caught in the middle.

The time travel occurs in 33-year increments, which creates a curious connection with Winden’s past, present, and future. In particular, viewers have gotten to know the young, middle-aged, and older versions of the same characters that hail from a few major families. Trying to keep the various surnames, generations, and each person’s secrets straight is difficult enough, but throw in a kidnapping priest, arcane references,...

Chicago – Reminiscent of “The Vanishing” and “Memories of Murder,” Baran bo Odar’s “The Silence” is one of the most acclaimed international thrillers of the year. This excellent work focuses more on the people wrapped up in grief and sin than the mystery itself, and heralds the arrival of a great new talent. What I love so much about the Music Box Films Blu-ray release of the film is the way it highlights the talent of the man who made it, including two short films he produced before this full-length debut in their entirety.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Not only is it a Great film on its own (running nearly an hour), what’s so interesting about watching “Unter der Sonne” (which is about the ’80s summer in which a poor kid fell in lust with his cousin) in relation to “The Silence” is the visual commonalities the two films share. As a...

Chicago – With echoes of “The Vanishing” and “Memories of Murder,” Baran bo Odar’s dread-filled “The Silence” is a character-based thriller that focuses more on the people wrapped up in its web of perversion and murder than the crimes themselves. It’s an accomplished debut with a notable German cast that falters only a bit in terms of plotting and pacing but still heralds the arrival of a confident director who works well with both actors and visual composition. “The Silence” can be punishingly bleak and even depressing but it’s undeniably well-made and performed at the same time.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Two men – Peer (Ulrich Thomsen) and Timo (Wotan Wilke Mohring) – sit and watch a film in a darkened room. Timo’s stunned, ashamed reaction makes it clear that the film is not a happy one. They get in a car and drive off, passing a young girl named Pia on a bike.

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the icy German thriller “The Silence” at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre!

“The Silence,” which you’ll love if you like “The Killing,” stars Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg, Burghart Klaußner and Karoline Eichhorn from writer and director Baran bo Odar based on the novel by Jan Costin Wagner.

To win your free “The Silence” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre at 3733 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning!

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We have an exclusive clip from The Silence, opening in theaters today. Baran bo Odar directs this new crime thriller about a missing young girl, whose bicycle is discovered in the exact same spot where another girl died 23 years earlier. Is it a coincidence? Peer Sommer (Ulrich Thomsen) certainly seems to think so in this scene where the body is discovered.

The Silence - Exclusive A Coincidence

The Silence was released March 8th, 2013 and stars Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg, Burghart Klaußner, Karoline Eichhorn, Roeland Wiesnekker, Jule Böwe. The film is directed by Baran bo Odar.

A retired investigator is called back onto the job in director Baran bo Odar's thriller The Silence, which follows two cases that have eerily similar connections. The story centers on a 13-year-old girl who goes missing in the same spot where, 23 years prior, a young girl was savagely murdered, a case that still remains unsolved. Krischan (Burghart Klau&#223ner), the original investigator assigned to the case, comes out of retirement to try and unravel this bizarre mystery. Music Box Films has unveiled the first trailer and poster for this gripping nail-biter that will have you on the edge of your seat when it debuts in theaters March 8.

The Silence - Trailer

The Silence begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat. Now, on the exact same date in the present, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing, her...

Rotterdam this year has offered one certifiable giant discovery in international cinema: German filmmaker Dominik Graf, revealed in a simultaneously introductory and interventionist retrospective programmed by Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller. An incredibly prolific filmmaker beginning in the late 1970s, Graf has interwoven his cinema into the fabric of the German television industry, producing a body of work ranging from television episodes, made-for-tv films, essay movies, documentaries, and a handful of films intended for the cinema.

Yet despite Graf's prodigious output of nearly sixty works, its primarily creation for national television has meant that it has been essentially unavailable to English-speaking audiences prior to Rotterdam's 17 film retrospective. The first film of his I saw was Komm mir nicht nach (Don't Follow Me Around) in the middle of the Dreileben trilogy in 2010, notably another for-television project, but one which had festival and theatrical ambitions beyond German living rooms, perhaps due...

In one of those serendipitous quirks of scheduling that festival-going sometimes throws up, I saw what are currently my favourite male and females performances among 2010's new films in consecutive screenings on the final Saturday of the Viennale.

Attentive readers of this site will already be familiar with my enthusiasm for Mišel Matičević and his work in Thomas Arslan's In the Shadows(Im Schatten)—itself one of the year's most outstanding world-premieres—which I wrote about in my dispatches from the Berlinale back in February.

Over eight months later I had my second viewing of the picture, an absorbingly low-key, stripped down neo-noir that showcases the strengths of what's become known as the "Berlin School," built four-square around the very precise, very physical, largely wordless turn from Matičević ("stone-faced," according to Variety's enthusiastic belated review, published in the wake of the picture's early October screening at the Vancouver Film Festival.

"A Map of the Heart" (Der Felsen) is a dreary tale about a distraught tourist losing her emotional balance on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Hoping to sell audiences on its deeper meanings, though, veteran German director Dominik Graf lavishes every trick of lighting and video camerawork he knows on this meager story populated with many unsympathetic characters.

It's No Sale, but, hey, you can't blame a guy for trying. You can, however, blame him for trite characters, contrived situations and implausible coincidences. Even these Graf and co-writer Markus Busch try to explain away by unraveling the tale within the African tradition of improvisational storytelling. Practitioners, who still ply this trade in Corsica, must link three random objects with an impromptu story, thus excusing the weird contours of its plot lines.

Mostly, Graf makes himself the movie's star by using the story as a pretext for his self-serving visuals. There will always be critics, some adult moviegoers and even festival juries impressed by such showoffs, so who knows how this competition film will fare at the Berlin International Film Festival? In the commercial marketplace, though, "Map" can expect only the shortest of theatrical runs.

Katrin's (Karoline Eichhorn) holiday becomes a nightmare when her married lover (Ralph Herforth) informs her that his wife is pregnant. (Doesn't your heart go out to her already?) When he splits, the unhinged Katrin strays from her "tourist sanctuary" to the company of male lowlifes who seemingly lurk around every corner on Corsica.

She falls in with a German youth named Malte (Antonio Wannek), who turns out to be a resident of a nearby camp of juvenile delinquents. His puppy-dog devotion to Katrin distracts her from the island's other sexual warriors. Malte goes AWOL from the camp, taking Katrin and his 11-year-old brother Kai (Sebastian Urzendowsky) on a volatile journey into the mountains.

What Malte's brother is doing on Corsica is never explained. Kai spends most of his time collecting junk from the beaches and trying to convince German tourists to adopt him.

The story bears scant scrutiny, but the characters are noteworthy for being among the most dislikable encountered in recent movies. Seemingly, they all lack brains, morality or even survival instincts. Wannek's Malte is the most viable character, an instinctual, amoral youth thrown for a loop by his first encounter with absolute love. Eichhorn projects an earthy sensuality, but Katrin is such a dummy that she can do little but go for broke in playing the emotive extremes.

The movie is jumpy and impressionistic, with the fatalistic drone of an unknown narrator playing against Hana Mullner's nervous editing and cinematographer Benedict Neuenfels' mix of light levels and weather conditions.

A MAP OF THE HEART

Kinowelt/ZDF/Bavaria Film

Producer: Gloria Burkert

Director: Dominik Graf

Screenwriters: Markus Busch, Dominik Graf

Director of photography: Benedict Neuenfels

Production designer: Claus Jurgen Pfeiffer

Music: Dieter Schleip

Costume designer: Barbara Grupp

Editor: Hana Mullner

Color/stereo

Cast:

Katrin: Karoline Eichhorn

Malte: Antonio Wannek

Kai: Sebastian Urzendowsky

Jurgen: Ralph Herforth

Robert: Peter Lohmeyer

Running time -- 116 minutes

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