Barbara Barrie
Biography: Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film. On television she is perhaps best known for her portrayal, between 1975 and 1978, of the wife of the namesake captain in the detective sitcom Barney Miller. Barrie also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1971 for originating the role of Sarah in Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 23, 1931
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The Odd Couple: Together Again
1993-09-24
The Odd Couple: Together Again
Overview: Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days, so that she can plan the wedding herself, without him getting in the way. Felix temporarily moves in with Oscar, who is still living in the same apartment from the TV show. Due to throat cancer, Oscar had to have one of his vocal cords removed, and he can only speak in a raspy whisper. Meanwhile, plans for the wedding are going on, and things get complicated when Felix finds out that Edna's fiancé has been divorced twice.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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Breaking Away
1979-05-24
Breaking Away
Overview: Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-24
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Hercules
1997-06-13
Hercules
Overview: Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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For the Use of the Hall
1975-01-02
For the Use of the Hall
Overview: A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Judy Berlin
1999-10-06
Judy Berlin
Overview: Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lonely housewife, a frustrated schoolteacher, and a struggling filmmaker) to search for solace and understanding in themselves and one another.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Child of Glass
1978-05-14
Child of Glass
Overview: Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-14
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
2009-06-18
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Overview: A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-18
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End of the Line
1987-08-28
End of the Line
Overview: When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Frame Of Mind
2009-01-01
Frame Of Mind
Overview: A New Jersey police detective comes across new evidence in the Kennedy assassination.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Harvest
2011-03-05
Harvest
Overview: Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Twelve Thirty
2011-01-14
Twelve Thirty
Overview: TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-14
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Second Best
2004-01-01
Second Best
Overview: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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One Potato, Two Potato
1964-07-29
One Potato, Two Potato
Overview: Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-29
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Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
1990-12-23
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
Overview: The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town eccentric (Mulligan) and confides in him that he is from another planet.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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The Bell Jar
1979-03-20
The Bell Jar
Overview: Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-20
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022-05-27
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Overview: Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Two of a Kind
1982-10-08
Two of a Kind
Overview: Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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Not Just Another Affair
1982-10-01
Not Just Another Affair
Overview: A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Real Men
1987-09-25
Real Men
Overview: A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Summer of My German Soldier
1978-10-30
Summer of My German Soldier
Overview: Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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The Children Nobody Wanted
1981-12-05
The Children Nobody Wanted
Overview: True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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After the Rain
1988-09-23
After the Rain
Overview: A father disowns his daughter, Annie, because of her choice to marry a neighboring woodsman. The marriage is strong and bears four children, but Annie is determined to also include her father in her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Tell Me My Name
1977-12-20
Tell Me My Name
Overview: Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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30 Days
1999-09-15
30 Days
Overview: Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is getting a quickie wedding. Jordan panics and breaks up with Sarah by asking her to marry him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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The Caretakers
1963-08-21
The Caretakers
Overview: This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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Vital Signs
1986-02-11
Vital Signs
Overview: Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical profession.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-11
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Private Benjamin
1980-10-06
Private Benjamin
Overview: A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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Things Like This
2023-11-27
Things Like This
Overview: When two guys with the same name start falling in love it seems like everything has aligned for them to be together. But is fate ever exactly how you expect it to be?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-27
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The Execution
1985-01-14
The Execution
Overview: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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My Breast
1994-05-15
My Breast
Overview: Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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My First Love
1988-12-04
My First Love
Overview: Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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Barefoot In the Park
1982-03-20
Barefoot In the Park
Overview: HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married. He is a stuffed shirt just starting his career as a lawyer. She is an independently minded free spirit who prides herself on doing the illogical purely out of a sense of adventure
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-20
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$pent
2000-07-21
$pent
Overview: This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-21
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The Rank and File
1971-05-20
The Rank and File
Overview: Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Winnie
1988-10-10
Winnie
Overview: Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through her writing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Giant
1956-11-08
Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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Six by Sondheim
2013-12-09
Six by Sondheim
Overview: This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-09
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A Chance of Snow
1998-12-07
A Chance of Snow
Overview: After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and daughters for a flight to her mother's home. At the airport, her sportswriter husband shows up to catch a flight to Miami to visit his father. When a blizzard hits, the two suddenly find they have time to re-evaluate their relationship with assistance from an older couple.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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Working
1982-04-13
Working
Overview: This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-13
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Original Cast Album: Company
1970-10-28
Original Cast Album: Company
Overview: In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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To Race the Wind
1980-03-12
To Race the Wind
Overview: A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-12
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Significant Other
2020-05-14
Significant Other
Overview: All of Jordan Berman’s best friends are setting a date…and he can’t even get one. Now when he needs brunch plans, emergency dating advice, or just someone to commiserate and eat carbs with, he has to compete for attention with their new significant others. Of course he’s so happy for them, but Jordan is struggling to keep up with how fast everyone else is changing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-14
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972-01-20
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Overview: A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-20
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Above All Things
2018-03-15
Above All Things
Overview: Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1990-01-04
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Overview: Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-04
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