Lee Grant
Biography: Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952 she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years. She was able to find only occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. It also contributed to her divorce. She was removed from the blacklist in 1962 and rebuilt her acting career. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night (both 1967), and Shampoo (1975), for the last of which she won an Oscar. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice. In 1986 she directed Down and Out in America which tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and in the same year she also won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 31, 1925
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Known For
Mulholland Drive
2001-06-06
Mulholland Drive
Overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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Valley of the Dolls
1967-12-27
Valley of the Dolls
Overview: In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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In the Heat of the Night
1967-08-02
In the Heat of the Night
Overview: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
2023-01-23
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-01-23
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Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995-11-29
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Overview: The life and career of the renowned television writer and creator of the classic science fiction series, "The Twilight Zone."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-29
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Dr. T & the Women
2000-09-13
Dr. T & the Women
Overview: A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-13
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Damien – Omen II
1978-06-09
Damien – Omen II
Overview: Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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Detective Story
1951-10-24
Detective Story
Overview: Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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Shampoo
1975-02-11
Shampoo
Overview: A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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Teachers
1984-10-05
Teachers
Overview: A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Airport '77
1977-03-11
Airport '77
Overview: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Defending Your Life
1991-03-22
Defending Your Life
Overview: Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968-10-23
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Overview: After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1970-09-18
There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014-12-31
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
Overview: From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hollywood's longest standing traditions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Marooned
1969-12-11
Marooned
Overview: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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Poor Liza
2000-01-01
Poor Liza
Overview: A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976-03-30
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Overview: Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV's cameras go behind the scenes to follow major Hollywood figures (including Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Lee Grant, Jack Nicholson, and many others), capturing them in candid moments—inside their limousines, dressing for the ceremony, backstage at the awards.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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Plaza Suite
1971-05-12
Plaza Suite
Overview: Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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The Landlord
1970-05-20
The Landlord
Overview: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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Little Miss Marker
1980-03-21
Little Miss Marker
Overview: Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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The Swarm
1978-07-14
The Swarm
Overview: Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Visiting Hours
1982-05-21
Visiting Hours
Overview: A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981-02-13
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Overview: Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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The Spell
1977-02-20
The Spell
Overview: A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979-02-09
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
Overview: A drug dealer's car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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Storm Fear
1955-12-16
Storm Fear
Overview: A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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Voyage of the Damned
1976-12-22
Voyage of the Damned
Overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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The Internecine Project
1974-07-24
The Internecine Project
Overview: Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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Why Me?
1974-05-13
Why Me?
Overview: Why Me? a one-hour documentary on breast cancer narrated by actress Lee Grant. First broadcast on May 13, 1974 on CBS in Los Angeles, it was the first major television documentary to deal with breast cancer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-13
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Middle of the Night
1959-05-20
Middle of the Night
Overview: Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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The Big Bounce
1969-03-05
The Big Bounce
Overview: A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-05
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The Balcony
1963-03-21
The Balcony
Overview: The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-21
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The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11
The Substance of Fire
Overview: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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The Amati Girls
2001-01-09
The Amati Girls
Overview: Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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You Can't Go Home Again
1979-04-25
You Can't Go Home Again
Overview: An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Night Slaves
1970-09-29
Night Slaves
Overview: A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night... he seems to be the only one unaffected. What is happening to the townsfolk? Who is the mysterious young women he keeps seeing? Why isn't he affected?
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968-05-10
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Overview: On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-10
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983-02-22
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Overview: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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What Are Best Friends For?
1973-12-18
What Are Best Friends For?
Overview: A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972-10-11
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Overview: After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09
Hello Actors Studio
Overview: After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For the first time ever, filmmakers have been allowed to film their work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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Portnoy's Complaint
1972-06-19
Portnoy's Complaint
Overview: During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-19
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Deadlock
1967-05-17
Deadlock
Overview: A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and killed by a detective. She notifies the police that she is waiting for the detective who shot her husband and intends to kill him in front of his fellow officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958-04-15
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Overview: A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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The Neon Ceiling
1971-02-08
The Neon Ceiling
Overview: A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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Calling the Shots
1988-09-08
Calling the Shots
Overview: Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999-04-01
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Overview: Documentary that examines whether America is failing children by not making child care an issue of national priority.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997-10-05
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Overview: Documentary on breast cancer featuring a series of interviews with survivors and their families. Director and host Lee Grant speaks with support groups, doctors and activists whose lives are dedicated to the fight against breast cancer
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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Tell Me a Riddle
1980-12-15
Tell Me a Riddle
Overview: Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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The Mafu Cage
1978-03-19
The Mafu Cage
Overview: Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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The Big Town
1987-09-25
The Big Town
Overview: It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992-06-16
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
Overview: Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that features one of the most vivid and disturbing interviews ever recorded--taped behind the walls of the prison where Kuklinski is serving two consecutive life sentences for multiple homicide.
Genres: Documentary Crime Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-16
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Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017-04-25
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Overview: “We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series about directors, leaders… who happen to be women.Audiences will hear directly from women who are on the front lines of the field: from major award winners to NYU students, festival darlings to frustrated auteurs. They will discover the pathways to successful creativity as well as how these filmmakers drive through obstacles creative, cultural, and professional. The film ultimately will act as a toolbox for any filmmaker as well as “peer to peer mentorship” for any person who is looking for creative or professional guidance as they move toward their own dreams of being a visual storyteller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-25
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990-08-27
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Overview: A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-27
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A Billion for Boris
1984-01-01
A Billion for Boris
Overview: In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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For Ladies Only
1981-11-09
For Ladies Only
Overview: An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001-09-04
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Overview: This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM's theme of the month for September 2001. Actors Lee Grant and Paul Mazursky, producer Roger Corman, director John Carpenter, film critic Molly Haskell, and journalist Peter Biskind discuss the issues involved in six films of the 1950s. Topics include teenage loneliness, youth rebellion, changing gender roles, and the beginning of the sexual revolution.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-04
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A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982-05-01
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Overview: This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989-02-13
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Overview: The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-13
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She Said No
1990-09-23
She Said No
Overview: A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-23
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Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006-01-01
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Overview: The cast of Rocky (1976) pays tribute to actor Burgess Meredith.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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It's My Party
1996-03-22
It's My Party
Overview: Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Hal
2019-03-28
Hal
Overview: Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Mulholland Dr.
1999-01-01
Mulholland Dr.
Overview: Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Pie in the Sky
1964-01-01
Pie in the Sky
Overview: Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Going Shopping
2005-09-30
Going Shopping
Overview: A clothing designer tries to save her struggling boutique store by having a tumultuous weekend sale of her shop's inventory by playing on the addictions of shopping for the women of Beverly Hills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Ransom for a Dead Man
1972-10-09
Ransom for a Dead Man
Overview: A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-09
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992-03-26
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Overview: An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-26
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Perilous Voyage
1976-06-29
Perilous Voyage
Overview: A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-29
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The Willmar 8
1981-04-21
The Willmar 8
Overview: Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-21
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Plaza Suite
1982-05-23
Plaza Suite
Overview: HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Lee Grant and Jerry Orbach playing three roles.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-23
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When Women Kill
1983-09-06
When Women Kill
Overview: When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell victim to at the hands of men. The program profiles the battered women who speak frankly about the cruel abuse, threats, and fears, and the overassertive men who led them down a one-way path to death and destruction. The film features in-prison footage, including a segment depicting a confession by a follower of the notorious Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted of two killing sprees and committed to life in prison.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-06
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What Sex Am I?
1985-10-01
What Sex Am I?
Overview: "What Sex Am I?" follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Citizen Cohn
1992-08-22
Citizen Cohn
Overview: As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-22
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And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018-04-27
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Overview: This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen. The film tells the story of Astor's 1936 child custody case.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-27
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Women on Trial
1992-10-27
Women on Trial
Overview: "Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers who often either don't want them or have been convicted of domestic violence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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An Affair of the Skin
1963-11-20
An Affair of the Skin
Overview: A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Earth and the American Dream
1992-10-01
Earth and the American Dream
Overview: A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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In My Daughter's Name
1992-05-10
In My Daughter's Name
Overview: A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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The John Garfield Story
2003-02-03
The John Garfield Story
Overview: This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-03
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Divorce American Style
1967-06-21
Divorce American Style
Overview: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982-04-12
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Overview: A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-12
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Partners in Crime
1973-03-24
Partners in Crime
Overview: A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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The Million Dollar Face
1981-03-12
The Million Dollar Face
Overview: Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020-09-18
Killian & the Comeback Kids
Overview: Forced to return to his struggling hometown after an expensive college degree, Killian gathers former childhood friends to audition for a music festival coming to their once prosperous steel town.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000-02-02
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Overview: Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City at the start of his career; his involvement in the US civil-rights movement; and efforts to end apartheid in South Africa. Friends and acquaintances, as well as other performers, give their insights about what makes him so special.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-02
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The Seagull
1975-01-05
The Seagull
Overview: Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-05
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Battered
1989-09-12
Battered
Overview: Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Intimate interviews with the victims and children of the cycle are combined with the eye opening and heart breaking stories of the abusers themselves to take you deeper into every facet of these American lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-12
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Down and Out in America
1986-12-01
Down and Out in America
Overview: The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the power of community organizing to fight injustice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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Under Heat
1994-06-01
Under Heat
Overview: Dean is 36 and recently diagnosed as HIV positive. He has come home to tell his mother and his older brother Milo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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The Good Doctor
1978-11-08
The Good Doctor
Overview: A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-08
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014-08-10
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Overview: Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003-09-03
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Overview: Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues, to most that knew them then in both capacities as soul mates. Their politics were similar which was reflected in their work. Kazan was a Communist Party member for a few years in the mid-1930's, but Miller never officially joined the party ranks. Their relationship changed in the early 1950's when Kazan was subpoenaed to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee where he named names of Communist Party members past and present.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997-07-08
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959-12-14
The World of Sholom Aleichem
Overview: This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-14
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021-09-17
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Overview: Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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