Leo Burmester
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leo Burmester (February 1, 1944 - June 28, 2007) was an American actor. Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, including in Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), and also for directors such as John Schlesinger and Sidney Lumet, and as the Apostle Nathaniel in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Burmester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: February 01, 1944
Deathday: June 28, 2007
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The Devil's Advocate
1997-10-17
The Devil's Advocate
Overview: Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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The Abyss
1989-08-09
The Abyss
Overview: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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The Last Temptation of Christ
1988-05-28
The Last Temptation of Christ
Overview: Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Article 99
1992-03-13
Article 99
Overview: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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The History of 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
The History of 'Cruising'
Overview: Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007-09-18
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Overview: Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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A Perfect World
1993-11-24
A Perfect World
Overview: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Broadcast News
1987-12-16
Broadcast News
Overview: Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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Lone Star
1996-06-21
Lone Star
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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Innocent Blood
1992-09-25
Innocent Blood
Overview: Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Monday Night Mayhem
2002-01-14
Monday Night Mayhem
Overview: The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Passion Fish
1992-12-11
Passion Fish
Overview: After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Truman
1995-09-09
Truman
Overview: Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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The Neon Bible
1995-08-23
The Neon Bible
Overview: During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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The House of God
1984-01-01
The House of God
Overview: Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Speed of Life
1999-04-17
Speed of Life
Overview: Drew (Scott Caan) must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old buddy tries to get him to become a pusher. He gets further drawn in by a new and exciting girlfriend, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who uses drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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America Brown
2005-10-28
America Brown
Overview: A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Cruising
1980-02-15
Cruising
Overview: When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Old Man
1997-02-10
Old Man
Overview: A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives them farther from their destination and they soon must decide to go off on their own or find their way home.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-10
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Dumbarton Bridge
1999-01-01
Dumbarton Bridge
Overview: The hypnotic, watery landscapes of the San Francisco Bay Area's salt ponds set the magical tone of the film. This festival favorite, critically acclaimed drama tells the story of rebirth - as a father and daughter rediscover each other. Like few other American movies, the film uniquely approaches multi-racial conflicts.Shed, a Vietnam vet working the salt ponds of the south bay area and fighting demons of the past, is visited by the daughter he left behind in Vietnam 17 years before when the American troops retreated.Minh is an outcast in her own homeland and has come to America to find her father. She ignites dormant emotional fires and the two of them begin a parallel search for ethnic identity and personal belonging.The powerful performances are set to a classic jazz and 50s/60s R&B soundtrack, with stunning visuals of the moody waterscapes at the margins of Silicon Valley.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Big Business
1988-06-10
Big Business
Overview: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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Red Betsy
2003-03-27
Red Betsy
Overview: A close-knit Midwestern farm family deals with loss, change, and social progress during the 1940's.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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Rattlesnake in a Cooler
1982-01-01
Rattlesnake in a Cooler
Overview: A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Secret of Mulan
1998-01-01
The Secret of Mulan
Overview: The story of Mulan told in the world of insects.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Mistrial
1996-11-02
Mistrial
Overview: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-02
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River Red
1998-11-06
River Red
Overview: Dave kills his alcoholic father to end the cycle of violence in the house. But when his little brother Tom confesses to the murder and goes to jail, Dave turns to petty crime to pay the bills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-06
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The Great Elephant Escape
1995-03-25
The Great Elephant Escape
Overview: Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police and lions on a journey they'll never forget.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-25
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City by the Sea
2002-09-06
City by the Sea
Overview: Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Eye of the Storm
1998-01-01
Eye of the Storm
Overview: When a sudden storm traps a college student from California in the Miller's farmhouse basement, in the dead geographic center of America, with Irma, her husband Dallas and their brooding 30-year-old son Billy, their dark secrets are revealed. This taut, well-crafted drama is a star turn for Blythe Danner, leading us on an intriguing path of family dysfunction and hidden tragedies. The Millers are trying to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their only daughter. Irma's delusions about the tragedy are further complicated by the arrival of the suspicious California coed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004-10-26
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Overview: The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-26
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Getting to Know You
1999-01-22
Getting to Know You
Overview: A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Gangs of New York
2002-12-14
Gangs of New York
Overview: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Sweet Liberty
1986-05-16
Sweet Liberty
Overview: Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Daniel
1983-08-26
Daniel
Overview: The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Odd Jobs
1986-03-01
Odd Jobs
Overview: Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Switchback
1997-10-31
Switchback
Overview: After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murderer is in hiding. Although officially taken off the case because of its personal significance to him, Frank continues to pursue the killer, causing concern for local sheriff Buck Olmstead. When another victim pops up at a nearby car garage, Frank knows that he is as close as he'll ever be to tracking down the elusive killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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...First Do No Harm
1997-02-16
...First Do No Harm
Overview: When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Limbo
1999-06-04
Limbo
Overview: Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo and her troubled teen-age daughter enter Joe’s life. Both mother and daughter fall for Joe, increasing the friction between them. The tension continues to build when Joe invites them on a pleasure cruise up the Alaskan coast, discovering too late that the trip may cost them their lives.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-04
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990-11-02
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Overview: A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993-09-01
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Overview: Documentary about the challenging making of the sci-fi film "The Abyss" , with commentary by various actors and crew, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage of the actual shooting of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Precious Blood
1982-03-09
Precious Blood
Overview: A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-09
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