Biography: Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history. Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 09, 1951
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1999-09-15
Overview: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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2005-11-04
Overview: Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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2005-11-23
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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2005-09-30
Overview: A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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1998-02-01
Overview: The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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2000-06-22
Overview: Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-22
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1996-07-24
Overview: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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1991-10-11
Overview: This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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2002-06-14
Overview: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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2000-06-28
Overview: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Genres: Drama History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-28
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2002-12-06
Overview: Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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2007-02-12
Overview: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits, however Hanssen is really suspected of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years and being responsible for the deaths of agents working for the United States.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-12
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2007-08-22
Overview: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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2003-07-22
Overview: True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-22
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2002-04-13
Overview: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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2010-09-15
Overview: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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2010-03-11
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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1987-08-28
Overview: Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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2008-03-28
Overview: A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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1993-04-09
Overview: When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-09
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1998-01-30
Overview: Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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1996-06-21
Overview: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-21
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1999-02-19
Overview: Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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2023-03-16
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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2003-05-25
Overview: Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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2010-09-11
Overview: An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-11
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2010-10-21
Overview: Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-21
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2009-10-16
Overview: Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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2004-09-17
Overview: The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Overview: A movie about a valentine to big dreamers whose dreams won’t necessarily come true. Individuality vs. conformity, fantasy vs. reality; but mostly, it’s about family. As the Smart family move from one state to the next, they cope with loss and struggle with identity, all while performing in regional theater.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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1997-12-13
Overview: We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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2006-09-12
Overview: In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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2022-03-15
Overview: An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist finds companionship in an unwanted pet, two sisters find courage to say things they never had the words to say, and an unexpected packet of sourdough starter has horrifying and hilarious consequences. These are some of the stories captured in WITH/IN, a collection of thirteen films created by actors and their families during the time that changed our lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-15
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2011-08-19
Overview: Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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1995-04-09
Overview: Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain falls for the mother of the family - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees.
Genres: Western Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-09
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2012-12-20
Overview: A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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2014-04-16
Overview: For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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1991-04-26
Overview: In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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2012-11-16
Overview: Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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2013-12-26
Overview: An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-26
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1991-02-03
Overview: The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-03
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2006-03-21
Overview: Featurette on the making of Capote (2005).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-21
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Overview: Preparing for the revival of a hit Broadway show towards the end of a celebrated career, actress Melody Harper is, for the first time in her life, uncertain and afraid. Struggling with the crushing possibility that her best years may be behind her, she quickly starts losing her grasp on reality as she experiences vivid memories of her younger self.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
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2013-06-19
Overview: Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's assassination. Based on a book by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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1995-11-21
Overview: When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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2008-09-06
Overview: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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1991-03-15
Overview: Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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2016-04-06
Overview: An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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2011-11-22
Overview: When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-22
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1992-04-14
Overview: A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
Genres: Crime Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-14
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1982-12-31
Overview: Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to Hollywood. They land at an open mic night in a New Jersey bar where Bobby’s aunt and uncle (once aspiring actors) lay out the realities of life as a working actor. The film was inspired by performers Savoca met while making her first student film, most notably William DaPrato. Filled with wry humor and quiet revelations about the pursuit of artistic dreams, Bad Timing also features Marianne Leone and the on-screen debut of future Academy Award winner Chris Cooper.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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2016-10-13
Overview: Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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2018-04-01
Overview: Three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities - Micah, Naieer, and Naomie - challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-01
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2016-12-25
Overview: A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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2016-03-25
Overview: Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-25
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1994-03-06
Overview: Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate food and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her family alive.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-06
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2004-07-23
Overview: A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-23
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2010-01-01
Overview: A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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2017-06-15
Overview: Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-15
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1996-05-10
Overview: Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid routine. The moment arrives when he stumbles upon a woman, Patty Vare, unconscious in a field. Deciding to risk it, John takes her to his dorm to look after her, much to the disapproval of his friends. John's decision proves fateful as he and Patty grow close to one another. However, she may be keeping secrets from him.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
Popularity:
1990-11-17
Overview: Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-17
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2019-12-25
Overview: Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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2019-09-07
Overview: An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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2020-07-01
Overview: A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-01
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2019-10-29
Overview: Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in Southern West Virginia. Along with a lasting legacy of support for union rights, the film inspired many West Virginians to become filmmakers and introduced the world to many great actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-29
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2019-05-03
Overview: The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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1992-01-20
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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2009-02-09
Overview: Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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1991-10-02
Overview: A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-02
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2019-03-08
Overview: A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how she finds happiness.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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2000-10-24
Overview: A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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1996-04-10
Overview: A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-10
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1991-06-08
Overview: The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-08
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2008-12-05
Overview: A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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2008-04-14
Overview: This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-14
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2021-06-14
Overview: Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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1997-12-21
Overview: John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-21
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Overview: John Sayles came to West Virginia to make his film MATEWAN, about the gun fight over labor in the coal fields. The film has had a lasting impact on locals regarding the subject and the filming's influence on people's lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Overview: Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
Genres: Romance War Music
Original Language: en
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