74th Golden Globe Awards

This film is a a harrowing tale about the cultural divide in Kerala, a troubled province located on India’s picturesque Malabar coast, When The Woods Bloom reveals that all is not what it seems. Despite being the country’s most advanced city with 100 percent literacy and world-class health care systems in place, it is not without its deep-rooted monumental issues and dangerous conflicts.

Set in 1957, The People Vs. Fritz Bauer is about a German Jewish attorney general in pursuit of Nazis to bring justice for their atrocities during WWII.

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight. When Juan, a feared drug dealer ruling over a mean corner in a tough Miami neighborhood, comes across a scared, trembling kid in the opening scenes from director Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, the audience does not expect the layers of care and tenderness that frame the encounter.

Based on the 1973 Michael Crichton movie of the same name, Westworld focuses on a Western-inspired theme park which is populated by ‘hosts,’ androids that cater to every whim of the guests that visit it.   No fantasy is too far-out to be fulfilled, no storyline taboo.

An ensemble show about a family and their relationships, loves and lives that flashes back and forward in time.   A couple expecting triplets has one stillborn child, and ends up adopting an abandoned child that appears in the hospital at the same time.

A young boy disappears from the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana under mysterious circumstances.   His distraught mother, friends and the town cops all begin a massive manhunt for him, but as the title suggests, things are not straightforward.

This is the sixth nomination for the HBO series which is the most downloaded show in the world.   Based on the fantasy novels by George R.

The 10-episode first season which airs on Netflix is created and written by Peter Morgan, Golden Globe winner for Best Screenplay for The Queen, and nominee for the same award for Frost/Nixon.   The show starts with Princess Elizabeth’s marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 and follows the lives of the royals up to her coronation as Queen Elizabeth II, on to 1955.

Operation Chromite , directed by John H. Lee, is based on the real events of the Battle of Incheon during the Korean War in the 1950s.

The Beirut-set satire Halal Love consists of three interconnected tales in which devout Muslims try to manage their love lives and desires without breaking any of their religion’s rules. While the comedy is rarely laugh-out-loud funny, it does provide humorous inside into how people deal with challenges of faith and desire in an Islamic environment.