Paul Dano
Biography: Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 19, 1984
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Little Miss Sunshine
2006-07-26
Little Miss Sunshine
Overview: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-26
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The Girl Next Door
2004-04-09
The Girl Next Door
Overview: Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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Explicit Ills
2008-03-08
Explicit Ills
Overview: The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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The Good Heart
2009-09-11
The Good Heart
Overview: Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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There Will Be Blood
2007-12-26
There Will Be Blood
Overview: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-26
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Taking Woodstock
2009-08-26
Taking Woodstock
Overview: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-26
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Gigantic
2008-09-09
Gigantic
Overview: Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Weapons
2007-01-19
Weapons
Overview: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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Knight and Day
2010-06-15
Knight and Day
Overview: A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-15
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Where the Wild Things Are
2009-10-16
Where the Wild Things Are
Overview: Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2005-02-25
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Overview: Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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The Extra Man
2010-08-01
The Extra Man
Overview: A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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L.I.E.
2001-09-07
L.I.E.
Overview: With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the two eventually develop an unlikely and dangerous friendship.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Cowboys & Aliens
2011-07-29
Cowboys & Aliens
Overview: A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-29
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For Ellen
2012-02-12
For Ellen
Overview: After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Meek's Cutoff
2011-04-08
Meek's Cutoff
Overview: A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-08
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12 Years a Slave
2013-10-18
12 Years a Slave
Overview: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Looper
2012-09-26
Looper
Overview: In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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Being Flynn
2012-03-02
Being Flynn
Overview: Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Ruby Sparks
2012-07-25
Ruby Sparks
Overview: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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Too Young to Be a Dad
2002-06-10
Too Young to Be a Dad
Overview: When 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but begins to rethink it. This movie is taken from the father's point of view.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-10
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Prisoners
2013-09-19
Prisoners
Overview: Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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The Newcomers
2000-10-01
The Newcomers
Overview: A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007-02-07
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Overview: A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Nation,' featuring Linklater and the cast of the movie in rehearsals, shooting, and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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Light and the Sufferer
2008-09-09
Light and the Sufferer
Overview: Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York City for a new life in California only to find their plans--and lives--being forever changed by the appearance of a mysterious alien.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Love & Mercy
2015-05-29
Love & Mercy
Overview: In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-29
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023-02-14
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Overview: A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-14
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Dumb Money
2023-09-15
Dumb Money
Overview: Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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The King
2006-05-05
The King
Overview: A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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Taking Lives
2004-03-19
Taking Lives
Overview: Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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Youth
2015-05-20
Youth
Overview: Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-05-20
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Swiss Army Man
2016-06-24
Swiss Army Man
Overview: Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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The Wizard of the Kremlin
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Overview: Russia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young artist-turned-TV producer, Vadim Baranov, unexpectedly becomes the spin doctor of a promising member of the FSB (ex-KGB), Vladimir Putin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Emperor's Club
2002-11-22
The Emperor's Club
Overview: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Okja
2017-06-28
Okja
Overview: A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-28
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Fast Food Nation
2006-11-17
Fast Food Nation
Overview: A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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The Batman
2022-03-01
The Batman
Overview: In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-01
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Flatscreen
2012-02-09
Flatscreen
Overview: A bookclub meeting that ends up in a orgie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-09
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The Guilty
2021-09-24
The Guilty
Overview: A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020-10-08
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Overview: An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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The Fabelmans
2022-11-11
The Fabelmans
Overview: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Spaceman
2024-02-23
Spaceman
Overview: Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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