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SBS On Demand: The Disappearance, Magnifica 70.

French & Brazilian dramas plus season 2 of Gangland Undercover screen from Sunday.

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More new and returning dramas come to SBS On Demand this Sunday, including French crime thriller The Disappearance (pictured), Brazilian drama Magnifica 70, and US crime drama Gangland Undercover.

The Disappearance
Sunday, 27 November (season 1 – all 8 episodes available)
When a 17-year-old girl, Lea Morel (Camille Razat), fails to return home from a night out on the town, the Morel family begins to fall apart.
As the hours pass and there is still no sign of her, Lea’s father, Julien (Pierre-François Martin-Laval), is unable to wait for the time-consuming police investigation and embarks on a personal mission to find his daughter. Her mother, Florence (Alix Poisson), tries to maintain a semblance of normality, especially for her younger daughter, Zoe (Stella Trotonda). Meanwhile, Lea’s elder brother, Thomas (Maxime Taffanel), is filled with guilt – he had promised to accompany her home that night.
The police investigation, led by Inspector Molina (Francois-Xavier Demaison), builds a portrait of a complex young girl. Episode by episode, everyone’s secrets are revealed – and the family members realise they didn’t know Lea as well as they had thought.

Magnifica 70
Sunday, 27 November (season 1 – all 22 episodes available)
Coming to Australia exclusively on SBS On Demand is the popular Brazilian series Magnifica 70, which investigates censorship in the filmmaking scene during the 1970s and 80s – during the height of the conservative Brazilian military dictatorship.
Magnifica 70 follows Vicinte (Marcos Winter), a 35-year-old middle-class man who works in the film censorship department of the Sao Paulo government. He lives a mundane life and is in a lukewarm marriage to Isabel (Maria Luiza Mendonça), the daughter of the revered General Souto (Paulo César Peréio). However, when Vicinte first lays eyes on Dora Dumar (Simone Spoladore) in a film he’s meant to censor for work, he is instantly captivated. His fascination with Dora takes him to the red light district of Sao Paulo, where he leaves behind conservative ideals and begins to work with Dora and Manolo (Adriano Garib), the chief producer of the Magnifica film company, to create films that challenge the boundaries of censorship.
Magnifica 70 portrays a universal and timeless situation – the clash between desire for the forbidden, longing and repression, freedom and prejudice.

Gangland Undercover S2
Sunday 27 November (season 1 available now, season 2 joining – all 14 episodes available)
Season two of Gangland Undercover continues to follow the true story of Charles Falco (played by Damon Runyan), one of only three men ever to infiltrate three different outlaw biker gangs.
It’s been two years since Falco has infiltrated the Vagos bike gang, and he’s been forced to disappear into a witness protection system. However, fuelled by unease and the inability to settle into his new life, he takes on a more dangerous undercover operation that puts him on the front line of a feud between several biker gangs.
Working in conjunction with law enforcement and drawing on the wealth of material from Falco’s book, along with broader documented historical research of inter-gang rivalry, Gangland Undercover shows a combination of interviews and high-end recreations to capture the reality of outlaw biker counter-culture: a world where freedom is equated with the right to carry guns and trade drugs with impunity, and respect can be earned through fear.

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