Title Recommendations based on Lindsay Bluth Funke
A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which Tributes must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
Black Mirror is a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
The Doctor fled Gallifrey in a "borrowed" time machine known as the TARDIS. Now he wanders the the space-time continuum trying to cope with his regret by seeking companions and saving billions of lives.
Dr. Gregory House is the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital where leads a team of handpicked young doctors. Brilliant, pessimistic, self-indulgent, sardonic, proud, and irritable, House hides most of his emotions behind his ever-present snide and witty comebacks. But his unconventional approach to his work makes him a frustrating superior to deal with.
Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears—the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron's realm. Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings.
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
The 100 picks up the pieces after Earth was ravaged by nuclear war and 2,658 survivors moved to the Ark. Clarke Griffin knows that the Ark is running out of oxygen, which is the reason (though not the public one) that she and 99 other "Delinquents" have been shipped to the wasteland that is Earth. It's a toss-up as to what is more dangerous: her surroundings or her companions.
Everything was normal for Clary Fray until she witnessed a group of teenagers murder someone. Now she's seeing things no one else can see. And her mother has vanished, leaving only a cryptic message. Clary joins the Shadowhunters, who are humans infused with angels' blood who use their supernatural abilities to wage a secret war against demons and monsters. They don't seem keen on her joining, but now that she knows what's out there, what else can she do?
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.
Supernatural focuses on two brothers who lost their mother to a demon. Since their mother's death, Dean and Sam Winchester travel across the U.S. in 1967 Chevy Impala, keeping an eye out for the supernatural and battling demons, vampires, and anything else that goes bump in the night.
The Simpsons?is a satire of the American family, and often hits a little too close to home without ever truly stepping over the line (though it certainly comes close). Lampooning everything from nuclear energy to American slob-isms, the show has become a world-wide favorite since its series debut in 1989.
In The Walking Dead, Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He tries his best to keep everybody from dying, or worse, becoming undead. Society has fallen apart, and a cure seems to be out of the question. And with stakes that high, in-fighting is bound to develop among the living. Rick doesn't just have to protect everyone from the walkers; he has to protect them from themselves too.
