Paul Stewart
Biography: Paul Stewart (March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor known for his tough, guttural voice. He frequently portrayed villains and mobsters throughout his lengthy career. Born Paul Sternberg in New York City, Stewart graduated from Columbia University and made his Broadway theatre debut in the play Two Seconds in 1931. A few years later he met Orson Welles, who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre, where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. He was a founding member of AFTRA. Sternberg's many screen credits include Citizen Kane, Twelve O'Clock High, Champion, Kiss Me Deadly, The Bad and the Beautiful, In Cold Blood, The Day of the Locust, S.O.B., and W.C. Fields and Me, in which he portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld. On television, he appeared in Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alcoa Theatre, Dr. Kildare, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Name of the Game, McMillan & Wife, Mission Impossible,The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, and Remington Steele, among many others. He also directed some television episodes, among them "Little Girl Lost", from the Twilight Zone. Stewart was married to big band singer/actress Peg La Centra from 1939 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 77. He was characterized in the 1999 television movie RKO 281.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 13, 1908
Deathday: February 17, 1986
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Citizen Kane
1941-04-17
Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965-04-09
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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Deep in My Heart
1954-12-09
Deep in My Heart
Overview: Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978-01-08
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Overview: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-08
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We're Not Married!
1952-07-11
We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Appointment with Danger
1950-03-31
Appointment with Danger
Overview: Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952-12-25
The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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The Window
1949-05-10
The Window
Overview: An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Champion
1949-04-09
Champion
Overview: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Opening Night
1977-12-22
Opening Night
Overview: Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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Johnny Eager
1941-12-09
Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Deadline - U.S.A.
1952-03-14
Deadline - U.S.A.
Overview: With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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Edge of Doom
1950-08-03
Edge of Doom
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Twelve O'Clock High
1949-12-21
Twelve O'Clock High
Overview: In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-21
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Illegal Entry
1949-06-01
Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01
Mr. Lucky
Overview: A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-01
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955-04-28
Kiss Me Deadly
Overview: One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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King Creole
1958-07-02
King Creole
Overview: Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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City Beneath the Sea
1971-07-16
City Beneath the Sea
Overview: A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Jigsaw
1968-06-05
Jigsaw
Overview: After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-05
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In Cold Blood
1967-12-15
In Cold Blood
Overview: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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W.C. Fields and Me
1976-03-31
W.C. Fields and Me
Overview: In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Loan Shark
1952-05-23
Loan Shark
Overview: A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Government Girl
1943-11-05
Government Girl
Overview: An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Hell on Frisco Bay
1955-12-31
Hell on Frisco Bay
Overview: A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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The Joe Louis Story
1953-09-18
The Joe Louis Story
Overview: The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-18
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The Pilot
1980-11-26
The Pilot
Overview: Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-26
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The Cobweb
1955-06-07
The Cobweb
Overview: Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Walk Softly, Stranger
1950-10-14
Walk Softly, Stranger
Overview: A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-14
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Easy Living
1949-10-08
Easy Living
Overview: A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-08
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Hollywood Classic Special
2010-01-28
Hollywood Classic Special
Overview: Compilation hodgepodge.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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The Wild Party
1956-12-21
The Wild Party
Overview: An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Top Secret Affair
1957-01-30
Top Secret Affair
Overview: A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-30
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Chicago Syndicate
1955-07-01
Chicago Syndicate
Overview: An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Prisoner of War
1954-05-04
Prisoner of War
Overview: American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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The Juggler
1953-05-11
The Juggler
Overview: A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-11
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The Other Side of the Wind
2018-11-02
The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Murph the Surf
1975-06-11
Murph the Surf
Overview: Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century," the robbers took 22 precious gems, including the Star of India, the 100.32-carat de Long Ruby and the 16.25-carat Eagle Diamond, stones so famous they would be impossible to sell.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15
Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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S.O.B.
1981-07-01
S.O.B.
Overview: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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The Nativity
1978-12-17
The Nativity
Overview: The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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Nobody's Perfekt
1981-08-07
Nobody's Perfekt
Overview: While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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Power
1980-01-14
Power
Overview: Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-14
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The World at War
1942-09-18
The World at War
Overview: Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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F for Fake
1973-09-01
F for Fake
Overview: Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Beyond All Limits
1959-07-08
Beyond All Limits
Overview: This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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The Day of the Locust
1975-05-07
The Day of the Locust
Overview: Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Berlin Express
1948-05-01
Berlin Express
Overview: In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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A Child Is Waiting
1963-02-13
A Child Is Waiting
Overview: Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-13
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Fabulous Trinity
1972-11-09
Fabulous Trinity
Overview: In a Wild West town, Miss Nora, a beautiful smuggler, meets Scott, a bounty hunter that goes to Mexico with her for work issues. While they are in Mexico, three smugglers arrested by the military are released by the girl, who used all her seduction skills to get what she wants. But the guerrilla leader realizes the trap and the three smugglers are considered fugitives pursued by the Mexican revolutionaries and by Scott, as the law has put a price on their heads.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-11-09
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Not One Shall Die
1957-01-01
Not One Shall Die
Overview: A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Carter's Army
1975-05-25
Carter's Army
Overview: A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.
Genres: TV Movie War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-25
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Carbine Williams
1952-05-01
Carbine Williams
Overview: David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Tempest
1982-08-13
Tempest
Overview: A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Bite the Bullet
1975-09-26
Bite the Bullet
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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How to Commit Marriage
1969-07-07
How to Commit Marriage
Overview: A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-07
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She Loves Me Not
1949-11-04
She Loves Me Not
Overview: A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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