Peter Gerety
Biography: Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known as Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire (2002–2008).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 17, 1940
Deathday: N/A
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K-PAX
2001-10-26
K-PAX
Overview: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Syriana
2005-11-23
Syriana
Overview: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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Inside Man
2006-03-17
Inside Man
Overview: When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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Wolf
1994-06-17
Wolf
Overview: Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-17
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001-08-05
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Overview: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-05
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Boston Strangler
2023-03-16
Boston Strangler
Overview: Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-16
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Homicide: The Movie
2000-02-13
Homicide: The Movie
Overview: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Mrs. Winterbourne
1996-04-19
Mrs. Winterbourne
Overview: Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Runaway
2005-04-26
Runaway
Overview: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2009-01-15
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Overview: Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-15
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Montana
1998-01-16
Montana
Overview: A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Papa Was a Preacher
1986-09-19
Papa Was a Preacher
Overview: Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Get the Gringo
2012-03-15
Get the Gringo
Overview: A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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My Dog Tulip
2010-01-05
My Dog Tulip
Overview: The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by BBC editor, novelist and memoirist J. R. Ackerley.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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Second Best
2004-01-01
Second Best
Overview: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Sea Is All I Know
2011-06-24
The Sea Is All I Know
Overview: When an estranged couple come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiraling into spiritual crisis and brutal heartbreak.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Play/Stop
2009-01-01
Play/Stop
Overview: Short comedy film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Flight
2012-11-02
Flight
Overview: Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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The Demon Murder Case
1983-03-06
The Demon Murder Case
Overview: A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-06
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God's Pocket
2014-05-09
God's Pocket
Overview: A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Hollywood Ending
2002-05-03
Hollywood Ending
Overview: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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A Most Violent Year
2014-12-31
A Most Violent Year
Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
1985-02-11
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
Overview: A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as Ralph's first serious romance with his new neighbor, Randy playing a turkey in the school Thanksgiving Day play, The Old Man setting his sights on a yellow buick and the High School basketball rival game of the season.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-11
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2008-09-12
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Overview: Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000-11-02
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Overview: World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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Changeling
2008-10-24
Changeling
Overview: Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Cymbeline
2014-09-03
Cymbeline
Overview: War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-03
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Looking for Kitty
2004-05-06
Looking for Kitty
Overview: A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-06
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Stop-Loss
2008-03-28
Stop-Loss
Overview: A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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People I Know
2002-11-21
People I Know
Overview: A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-21
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Virgin
2003-06-14
Virgin
Overview: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Phoebe in Wonderland
2008-02-07
Phoebe in Wonderland
Overview: The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Change in the Air
2018-10-19
Change in the Air
Overview: A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
1998-01-01
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
Overview: Two young men who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend who has long since disappeared. Stories they have heard indicate that the friend has been seen in an apparently rambling, incoherent state at Coney Island. Their trip leads them to a number of adventures involving the otherworld-like life at the Park and revelations related to their own pasts including the death of one's sister, a failed past relationship, financial failings, and alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Working Man
2019-02-02
Working Man
Overview: When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can't reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Iola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter Brewer in order to revive the defunct factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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Charlie Wilson's War
2007-12-19
Charlie Wilson's War
Overview: In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Ash Wednesday
2002-10-11
Ash Wednesday
Overview: In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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The Tender Age
1986-04-07
The Tender Age
Overview: Tim Donovan, a juvenile probation officer for the city of Boston, is assigned the case of Nikki, a troubled teenage girl who's been arrested for Assault & Battery. Tim quickly falls under the attractive Nikki's spell, convinced her delinquency is deep-rooted, and sets out to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-07
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Public Enemies
2009-07-01
Public Enemies
Overview: Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Genres: Crime History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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War of the Worlds
2005-06-13
War of the Worlds
Overview: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-13
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Surviving Picasso
1996-09-04
Surviving Picasso
Overview: The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994-11-06
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Overview: 1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-06
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013-10-04
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Overview: Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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A Case of Deadly Force
1986-04-09
A Case of Deadly Force
Overview: Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Things That Hang From Trees
2006-03-11
Things That Hang From Trees
Overview: St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. The young boy's seemingly simple goal develops into a struggle in which his life, both internal and corporeal, hangs in the balance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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First Affair
1983-10-25
First Affair
Overview: A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-25
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Revelation
2024-07-10
Revelation
Overview: After a major trauma, a detective takes on a case that will test how ready she is to return to work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-10
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Handle With Care
Handle With Care
Overview: Cole navigates the divorce of a year-long marriage from Reese. Cole learns the tragic realities of divorce while jumping through a series of legal hoops and is tasked with selling their unopened wedding gifts online, as they are technically joint assets—really. The absurdity of it all is not lost on Cole, who begins this journey appraising everything in his life, both figuratively and literally, with a practiced cynicism alongside commentary on the “wedding industrial complex.” However, the strangers he meets along the way via Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and eBay break down his world-weariness. And with the impending nuptials of his best friend, Cole must reconcile his belief that society programs everyone into “happily ever after” and take responsibility for his actions.
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Original Language: en
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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
1988-08-05
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
Overview: From Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) comes the story of 14 year old Ralphie's first job, and the family vacation the family is planning to a rustic fishing cabin on Lake Michigan. Originally made for the Disney Channel, this film is a delightful family comedy.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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A Complete Unknown
2024-12-18
A Complete Unknown
Overview: New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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