Fred Thompson
Biography: Freddie Dalton 'Fred' Thompson (August 19, 1942 - November 1, 2015), credited as Fred Thompson and Fred Dalton Thompson, is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003. He served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, he has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, he joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch. In May 2007, he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009, he returned to acting with a guest appearance on television series; and co-starred with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Birthday: August 19, 1942
Deathday: November 01, 2015
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Iron Eagle III
1992-01-09
Iron Eagle III
Overview: Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-09
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Days of Thunder
1990-06-27
Days of Thunder
Overview: Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-27
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Die Hard 2
1990-07-03
Die Hard 2
Overview: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-03
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Cape Fear
1991-11-13
Cape Fear
Overview: Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-13
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The Hunt for Red October
1990-03-02
The Hunt for Red October
Overview: A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-02
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No Way Out
1987-08-14
No Way Out
Overview: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006-01-20
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Overview: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Feds
1988-10-28
Feds
Overview: Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real fighting- machine, in contrast with Janis, the great student. They have to help each other, all the way to graduation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-28
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In the Line of Fire
1993-07-08
In the Line of Fire
Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-08
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007-05-27
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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Secretariat
2010-08-20
Secretariat
Overview: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-20
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Sinister
2012-03-29
Sinister
Overview: True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Alleged
2010-09-09
Alleged
Overview: Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles Anderson, a talented young reporter, feels trapped working for his deceased father's weekly newspaper and living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN) in steep decline. Seeing the "Monkey Trial" as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles manages to insert himself into the middle of the "Trial of the Century." Once in the midst of this staged event, however, he is torn between his love for the more principled Rose, his fiancée, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make as the eager protégé of H.L. Mencken, America's most colorful and influential columnist.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-09
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The Last Ride
2012-06-22
The Last Ride
Overview: At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, country music legend Hank Williams hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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All the President's Men Revisited
2013-04-21
All the President's Men Revisited
Overview: The Watergate case was the original game changer of America politics. How has Watergate changed the Presidency? What effect has the scandal had on our political leaders? And has hope and optimism forever been replaced in our national dialogue by doubt and cynicism? In 1973, Watergate's most pivotal year, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein doggedly investigated the scandal exposing the long, twisted trail of cover-ups and lies.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-21
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Unlimited
2013-10-11
Unlimited
Overview: A young genius on the run from the Mexican cartel must hide out in an orphanage while he uncovers the secret to a device that provides unlimited energy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Persecuted
2014-05-09
Persecuted
Overview: Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with or profiting from the girl's murder; a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire Christian community in America.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Last Best Chance
2005-01-01
Last Best Chance
Overview: Thriller about governments around the world racing to attempt to stop a terrorist organization from gaining loose nuclear weapons and supplies before it's too late.
Genres: Drama Thriller Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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A Larger Life
2014-11-27
A Larger Life
Overview: A small town lawyer, with a comfortable small town life undertakes the biggest case of his career in an area of law he does't handle against corporate defendants that never lose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-27
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Evel Knievel
2004-07-30
Evel Knievel
Overview: Legendary daredevil Robbie "Evel" Knievel (George Eads) is profiled in this action-packed biopic helmed by John Badham. Long before extreme sports became ubiquitous, the hard-living exhibitionist vaulted his motorcycle over steep canyons, crates of venomous snakes and snarling cougars. But as Knievel amassed wealth and world records (along with 35 broken bones), his taste for liquor and ladies equaled his appetite for adventure.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Curly Sue
1991-10-25
Curly Sue
Overview: Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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90 Minutes in Heaven
2015-09-11
90 Minutes in Heaven
Overview: A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Racing Stripes
2005-01-06
Racing Stripes
Overview: Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-06
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Class Action
1991-03-15
Class Action
Overview: A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Thunderheart
1992-04-03
Thunderheart
Overview: An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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Marie: A True Story
1985-09-27
Marie: A True Story
Overview: In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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23 Blast
2014-10-24
23 Blast
Overview: When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Unholy Matrimony
1988-10-03
Unholy Matrimony
Overview: He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-03
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Baby's Day Out
1994-07-01
Baby's Day Out
Overview: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Barbarians at the Gate
1993-03-20
Barbarians at the Gate
Overview: F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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The Genesis Code
2010-08-25
The Genesis Code
Overview: A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-25
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Stay the Night
1992-04-26
Stay the Night
Overview: Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule. "Stay the Night" tells the dark tale of the controversial romance of a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older woman named Jimmie Sue Finger, who suffers from an abusive marriage. Jimmie Sue and her younger lover plot to murder her husband, which leads to either eternal bliss for the both of them or a curse on their relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-26
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Bed of Lies
1992-01-20
Bed of Lies
Overview: Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-20
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
2009-01-01
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
Overview: A notorious political satirist conceals his identity and poses as a political candidate.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Born Yesterday
1993-03-26
Born Yesterday
Overview: A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgirl's lack of etiquette may damage his own social reputation and tries to change her — but fails to realise that her enhanced eloquence will empower her to voice her own strong opinions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-26
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White Sands
1992-04-24
White Sands
Overview: A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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God's Not Dead 2
2016-04-01
God's Not Dead 2
Overview: When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Flight of the Intruder
1991-01-18
Flight of the Intruder
Overview: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Necessary Roughness
1991-09-27
Necessary Roughness
Overview: When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Keep the Change
1992-06-09
Keep the Change
Overview: A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daughter of a family foe, is now married to an old friend.
Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-09
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