Martha Plimpton
Biography: Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 16, 1970
Deathday: N/A
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Parenthood
1989-07-31
Parenthood
Overview: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-31
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The Mosquito Coast
1986-11-26
The Mosquito Coast
Overview: Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-26
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Another Woman
1988-10-13
Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994-09-07
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Pecker
1998-09-25
Pecker
Overview: A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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I Shot Andy Warhol
1996-05-01
I Shot Andy Warhol
Overview: Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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The Goonies
1985-06-07
The Goonies
Overview: A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-07
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200 Cigarettes
1999-02-26
200 Cigarettes
Overview: In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Eye of God
1997-10-17
Eye of God
Overview: A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Rollover
1981-10-11
Rollover
Overview: An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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Daybreak
1993-05-08
Daybreak
Overview: When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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The River Rat
1984-09-28
The River Rat
Overview: On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Music from Another Room
1998-04-24
Music from Another Room
Overview: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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Running on Empty
1988-09-09
Running on Empty
Overview: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Josh and S.A.M.
1993-11-24
Josh and S.A.M.
Overview: Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home?
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Shy People
1987-05-14
Shy People
Overview: New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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Small Town Murder Songs
2010-09-14
Small Town Murder Songs
Overview: Walter is the chief of police in a small Ontario town that has its first murder victim, an attractive young woman who is found naked on the shores of the nearby lake. The woman isn't local and while the Ontario Provincial Police have taken the lead in the investigation, Walter assists where he can. The town is mostly a close-knit Mennonite community and Walter has recently returned to his church. He is also trying to deal with his own temper that led to a violent incident some months before. As the young woman is identified, it becomes apparent that Walter's former love interest may be lying.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-14
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My Life's in Turnaround
1994-06-17
My Life's in Turnaround
Overview: Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-17
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Colin Fitz
1997-01-19
Colin Fitz
Overview: Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two opposites learn a lot about life, death, and the magic of Colin Fitz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-19
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Remember Me
2010-03-11
Remember Me
Overview: Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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Company
2011-06-15
Company
Overview: Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-15
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The Sleepy Time Gal
2001-01-24
The Sleepy Time Gal
Overview: A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
Stars & Bars
Overview: A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Samantha
1992-11-20
Samantha
Overview: A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992-09-12
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Overview: An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995-11-22
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Overview: Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Chantilly Lace
1993-07-18
Chantilly Lace
Overview: A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-18
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The Defenders: Payback
1997-10-12
The Defenders: Payback
Overview: Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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A Woman at War
1991-08-10
A Woman at War
Overview: Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-10
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994-11-23
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Overview: The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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Silence Like Glass
1989-07-06
Silence Like Glass
Overview: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-06
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The Perfect Woman
1993-10-16
The Perfect Woman
Overview: The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, even though we don't hear what the men are saying, we know exactly what line and lie they're pitching. The women, who are desperate for affection and a relationship, apologize, bend over backwards to accommodate, cooperate with every male fantasy, tolerate every male insecurity, ignore infidelities, and pick up the check.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-16
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Hair High
2004-04-17
Hair High
Overview: Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998-01-18
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Overview: The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-18
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Stanley & Iris
1990-02-09
Stanley & Iris
Overview: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011-05-30
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Overview: A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-30
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A Blink of Paradise
1992-01-17
A Blink of Paradise
Overview: "A Blink of Paradise" is a twelve minute investigation into the event that caused one woman's first memory. Obsessed by past images of herself as a baby in a carriage, she uncovers a simple fact concerning her mother that explains why she has been haunted by them ever since. This is realized through an interweaving of her present life (on a therapist's couch) and the visual fragments she has retained of that day. Having located the source of her pain, she is now able to go forward with newfound understanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-17
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Beautiful Girls
1996-02-09
Beautiful Girls
Overview: During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Sovereign
Sovereign
Overview: Based on real events, the story follows a father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, as they venture across the country and find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police that sets off an intense manhunt with tragic consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
1985-05-06
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Overview: Directed by Richard Donner, it features Cyndi Lauper and the film's cast in a playful, pirate-themed adventure. The video captures the fun and camaraderie of the movie, with energetic performances and cameos from professional wrestlers, making it a memorable piece of 80s pop culture.
Genres: Music Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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Marvelous
2008-02-08
Marvelous
Overview: After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her to make mechanical objects work again and also healing powers. As news of this travels they find themselves pursued by the press and people and take refuge in the home of a wealthy elderly woman cured by Gwen. Gwen is disturbed by all the publicity, but Queenie relishes it and claims she has is a medium.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Hello Again
2017-11-08
Hello Again
Overview: Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, La Ronde.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Independent's Day
1998-01-15
Independent's Day
Overview: Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-15
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Honey Bee
2018-11-28
Honey Bee
Overview: Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-28
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Dante's Inferno
2007-01-18
Dante's Inferno
Overview: A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-18
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I'm Not Rappaport
1996-12-24
I'm Not Rappaport
Overview: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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Frozen II
2019-11-20
Frozen II
Overview: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-20
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The Defenders: Taking the First
1998-10-25
The Defenders: Taking the First
Overview: A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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Pitch Black Panacea
2020-05-04
Pitch Black Panacea
Overview: Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they will enter a completely dark room together for ten days. But in the hallucination-inducing darkness, they are forced to confront personal demons.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-04
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Searching for Debra Winger
2002-07-13
Searching for Debra Winger
Overview: Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-13
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Mass
2021-10-08
Mass
Overview: Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997-07-08
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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Sardinia
2024-08-10
Sardinia
Overview: A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-10
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