Tom Bower
Biography: Tom Bower (born January 1938) is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles from 1973 to present. He played physician-husband Curt on The Waltons. He has held a number of prominent supporting roles including Dan Miller in the 2000 film Pollock and the gas station attendant in the 2006 film The Hills Have Eyes. He also plays the barkeep in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Taking a Break from All Your Worries". He has also had many notable roles in films such as River's Edge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Die Hard 2, Clear and Present Danger, Nixon, and The Negotiator. His 2008-09 roles include Appaloosa, with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Gospel Hill, with Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, as well as playing Pat McDonough, the father of Nicolas Cage's character, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Sheriff Bob Maples in The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck, and Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. Bower is also an award-winning stage actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 03, 1938
Deathday: May 30, 2024
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Known For
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000-02-09
The Million Dollar Hotel
Overview: A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-09
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The Ballad of Little Jo
1993-08-20
The Ballad of Little Jo
Overview: After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Genres: Romance Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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The Badge
2002-09-07
The Badge
Overview: A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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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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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003-05-24
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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Poodle Springs
1998-07-25
Poodle Springs
Overview: Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-25
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Gospel Hill
2008-02-09
Gospel Hill
Overview: Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-09
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High Crimes
2002-04-05
High Crimes
Overview: A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Hearts in Atlantis
2001-09-28
Hearts in Atlantis
Overview: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009-09-11
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Overview: Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Crazy Heart
2009-12-16
Crazy Heart
Overview: When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-16
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The Hills Have Eyes
2006-03-10
The Hills Have Eyes
Overview: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Appaloosa
2008-09-19
Appaloosa
Overview: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Pollock
2000-09-06
Pollock
Overview: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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Love Can Be Murder
1992-12-14
Love Can Be Murder
Overview: Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad asks her to marry him. After a therapy session, she quits her job to the surprise of her family and Brad, and goes into the detective business, opening her own private-eye office. Unfortunately, the ghost of the private-eye who owned the office still lingers and Elizabeth's the only one who can see or hear him. At first, she becomes an unwilling partner in Nick Peyton's unfinished investigation, but then she finds herself falling for the salty, but dead, guy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-14
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Double Down South
2024-01-19
Double Down South
Overview: In a world of illegal, high-stakes gambling, Nick owns a run-down plantation house. He is enamored with the smart, tough and charming ace Diana's intent to win big and is determined to stake her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1995-01-13
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Overview: Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-13
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Raising Cain
1992-08-07
Raising Cain
Overview: Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Follow Me Home
1997-02-28
Follow Me Home
Overview: Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black woman. Together, these four men and one woman encounter racism, sexism, internal conflicts, and finally redemption as they discover their common humanity and their internal ability to conquer the societal ills that effect them all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-28
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The Killer Inside Me
2010-02-19
The Killer Inside Me
Overview: Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-19
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1996-06-20
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Overview: Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-20
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Session
2011-01-20
Session
Overview: A psychological suspense drama-thriller where a psychologist becomes obsessed with one of his patients. The lines between dreams and reality blend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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A Slipping Down Life
1999-01-22
A Slipping Down Life
Overview: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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We Have a Ghost
2023-02-24
We Have a Ghost
Overview: After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Massive Retaliation
1984-09-01
Massive Retaliation
Overview: Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the stress to come while the children are separated from the adults and have their own troubles along the way.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Relentless 3
1993-08-18
Relentless 3
Overview: Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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Raymond & Ray
2022-10-14
Raymond & Ray
Overview: Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they’ve become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Nightbreaker
1989-03-08
Nightbreaker
Overview: Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to excessive radiation. The young Brown and a colleague interview soldiers, who show their ignorance and insouciance in the face of this danger. The movie intercuts scenes between the young Alexander Brown and older Alexander Brown, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. Will the decorated psychiatrist finally speak out on the atrocity he witnessed?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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The Avenging Angel
1995-01-22
The Avenging Angel
Overview: Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-22
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Out of the Furnace
2013-11-09
Out of the Furnace
Overview: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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Feel
2006-12-01
Feel
Overview: Over the course of a single day, four different men visit a massage parlor looking for some kind of emotional or physical connection. Simultaneously, the film explores the complex emotional experiences of the women who work there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Buffalo Soldiers
1997-12-07
Buffalo Soldiers
Overview: They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-07
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Revenge on the Highway
1992-12-02
Revenge on the Highway
Overview: At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-02
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983-08-19
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Overview: Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Undoing
2007-12-05
Undoing
Overview: A crime drama set in LA's Koreatown, UNDOING introduces us to Samuel, who returns after a mysterious absence to reconcile the death of his best friend exactly one year ago.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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Dillinger
1991-01-06
Dillinger
Overview: Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, the pressure mounts on the FBI – even from the White House – for his capture.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-06
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Pain Within
2007-03-30
Pain Within
Overview: A drama about child abuse and its long term effects on its victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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13 Sins
2014-04-11
13 Sins
Overview: Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Brothers of the Head
2006-07-28
Brothers of the Head
Overview: In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-28
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Wired
1989-08-25
Wired
Overview: The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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White Man's Burden
1995-12-01
White Man's Burden
Overview: The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-01
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978-12-17
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Overview: The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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Digging for Fire
2015-08-21
Digging for Fire
Overview: Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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The Ever After
2015-02-13
The Ever After
Overview: Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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Lamb
2015-10-20
Lamb
Overview: Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and takes Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her into the beauty of the mountain wilderness. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-20
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North Country
2005-02-12
North Country
Overview: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
1993-08-27
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
Overview: The Bonnie & Clyde story is re-told from a contemporary viewpoint. Clyde in this movie is a high school nerd working in the local burger joint. Urges to steal things are inflamed when he runs into Bonnie, the bored daughter of the local police commissioner, who is running with a street gang led by Kirk. Clyde immediately senses a kindred spirit in Bonnie. Initially she ignores him, but he rescues her from a shop-lifting charge and offers her a ride in a stolen van. Soon the two have taken guns from her father's home and go off on a bloody crime spree...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Promised a Miracle
1988-05-19
Promised a Miracle
Overview: True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-19
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Runoff
2015-06-26
Runoff
Overview: The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desperate lengths to save her family when they are threatened with being forced from their land.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Familiar Strangers
2008-01-01
Familiar Strangers
Overview: "Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Perhaps as friends - weird friends?" An off beat - funny - heartfelt story of family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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What Price Victory
1988-01-18
What Price Victory
Overview: What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-18
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When Hell Was in Session
1979-10-08
When Hell Was in Session
Overview: This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation, torture and terrible living conditions brought on by his North Vietnamese captors in an effort to keep communication alive between the prisoners. His wife, Jane, is also arranging a POW wives league in the U.S. in order to popularize their plight.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-08
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Dark Around the Stars
2013-09-13
Dark Around the Stars
Overview: Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Against the Wall
1994-03-26
Against the Wall
Overview: In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-26
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True Believer
1989-02-17
True Believer
Overview: Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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The Negotiator
1998-07-29
The Negotiator
Overview: The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-29
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1989-10-10
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Overview: Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in this notorious criminal, who has been plaguing the territory, he might be able to get a pardon.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-10
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Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982-09-29
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
Overview: A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-29
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Family Sins
1987-10-25
Family Sins
Overview: Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-25
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Nixon
1995-12-22
Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Light of My Life
2019-08-09
Light of My Life
Overview: Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-09
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Lady in White
1988-04-22
Lady in White
Overview: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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I Melt with You
2011-12-09
I Melt with You
Overview: Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-09
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A Woman for All Men
1975-08-01
A Woman for All Men
Overview: Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie. Walter's son Steve automatically becomes smitten with Karen while both Walter's daughter Cynthia and loyal housekeeper Sarah suspect that something is up. This provokes a tangled web of deception, infidelity, and even murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-01
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River's Edge
1986-10-10
River's Edge
Overview: A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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The Road to Terror
1989-12-24
The Road to Terror
Overview: In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-24
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Wildrose
1984-05-04
Wildrose
Overview: June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it on her own. But the worsening steel industry forces major cutbacks and June is bumped down to an all-male pit. She becomes the brunt of the other workers' hostilities and is forced to fight against them -- and the man she loves -- to save her job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
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Shimmer
1993-10-01
Shimmer
Overview: The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention center, where two boys befriend each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Talent for the Game
1991-04-26
Talent for the Game
Overview: Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ball experience, but with a pitching arm no one has seen the like of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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The Killing Jar
1997-05-27
The Killing Jar
Overview: Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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As You Like It
2017-09-15
As You Like It
Overview: A modern-day, all-male re telling of Shakespeare’s comedy classic about lovelorn lads, vengeful men, shameless hussies and mind games. Set in the contemporary American west, with original language.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Making a Deal with the Devil
2019-06-20
Making a Deal with the Devil
Overview: A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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The Last Big Save
2019-05-18
The Last Big Save
Overview: A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019-10-11
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Overview: In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982-01-16
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Overview: A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia. He tries to decline but the sheriff insists...
Genres: Family Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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The Lightship
1985-12-14
The Lightship
Overview: A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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The Amateurs
2006-04-28
The Amateurs
Overview: Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Fully Realized Humans
2020-08-08
Fully Realized Humans
Overview: Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-08
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Incident at Vichy
1973-12-06
Incident at Vichy
Overview: Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Black Limousine
2010-10-19
Black Limousine
Overview: A ghost story set in the city of dreams.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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After the Denim
2010-01-02
After the Denim
Overview: "After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who transforms from a bristly, argumentative, resentful man stuck in the routines of his own preferences into a husband capable of compassion for others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-02
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977-06-16
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Overview: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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Senior Love Triangle
2019-09-08
Senior Love Triangle
Overview: An 84-year old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms relationships with two elderly women and goes on a crusade to save them from the isolation of their retirement homes in East Hollywood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-08
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Two Ways Home
2020-12-29
Two Ways Home
Overview: Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-29
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The Laramie Project
2002-01-10
The Laramie Project
Overview: "The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-10
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Going Greek
2001-08-04
Going Greek
Overview: Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers refuse to accept his geeky cousin/roommate unless Jake agrees to pledge with him. As the semester progresses, Jake struggles to maintain his grades as well as his affair with Paige, a beautiful sophomore who hates all fraternities. Through naked scavenger hunts, sorority ass-signings and all night
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-04
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The Commitment
1976-01-01
The Commitment
Overview: A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Beverly Hills Cop II
1987-05-18
Beverly Hills Cop II
Overview: Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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Distant Thunder
1988-11-11
Distant Thunder
Overview: A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an animal in the forest. He finds himself unprepared for the changes that he will have to cope with, and when the vet tries to contact his son, he realizes that he has caused more damage than he had imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Monday After the Miracle
1998-11-15
Monday After the Miracle
Overview: Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John Macy, a caring young professor at the college Helen attends, comes between them. John and Annie fall in love and marry and the two women must choose what is more important — the love between a man and woman or the bond between the two of them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-15
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Georgia
1995-05-19
Georgia
Overview: Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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Malevolence
1999-02-01
Malevolence
Overview: A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outside turn someone who killed in defense into a hardened criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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The Spittin' Image
The Spittin' Image
Overview: A man looks back at his childhood and his relationship with his grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Hurricanna
Hurricanna
Overview: In an attempt to save Anna Nicole Smith's life, her devoted therapist, Khristine embarks on a 36-hour odyssey in which she unknowingly delivers the fatal blow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Flannel Pajamas
2006-11-15
Flannel Pajamas
Overview: A mismatched couple meet on a blind date in Manhattan... as Stuart and Nicole progress from love to marriage to discussions about starting a family, their relationship faces the challenges of critical friends, emotionally-demanding relatives, time-consuming careers, different religions and the stresses caused by the endless negotiations all couples wage daily.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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