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You try to get external contents with HTTPS URL via that function.
Maybe CA bundle in the hosting wasn’t setup correctly.

You can get around this problem by writing a custom function that uses curl, as in:

function file_get_contents_curl( $url ) {

  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE );

  $data = curl_exec( $ch );
  curl_close( $ch );

  return $data;

}

Then just use file_get_contents_curl instead of default file_get_contents whenever you’re calling a URL that begins with HTTPS (and/or normal HTTP, too. Mostly people use curl to access external contents).