Arliss Howard
Biography: Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arliss Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 18, 1954
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Known For
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997-05-23
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Overview: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-23
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Full Metal Jacket
1987-06-26
Full Metal Jacket
Overview: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Tequila Sunrise
1988-12-02
Tequila Sunrise
Overview: In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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Amistad
1997-12-10
Amistad
Overview: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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The Time Traveler's Wife
2009-08-14
The Time Traveler's Wife
Overview: Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-14
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The Thicket
2024-09-05
The Thicket
Overview: An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.
Genres: Crime Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Moneyball
2011-09-23
Moneyball
Overview: The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Dandelion
2004-01-15
Dandelion
Overview: In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-15
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The Lightship
1985-12-14
The Lightship
Overview: A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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CrissCross
1992-05-08
CrissCross
Overview: Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-08
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Ruby
1992-03-27
Ruby
Overview: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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The Lesser Evil
1998-10-01
The Lesser Evil
Overview: Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather, to sort out the deadly details of one fateful afternoon in their past, when they all skipped school - and their lives were altered forever. Now the haunting truth has caught up with them, along with the reality that they are probably heading for jail. But in the soul-searching angst of deciding right from wrong, the though of going down after all this time seems incomprehensible. And with the authorities hot on their trail, the old friends quickly realize that someone has to pay and their only option to remain free is to sacrifice the only thing they've held on to for years... each other!
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Sylvester
1985-03-15
Sylvester
Overview: Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Wilder Napalm
1993-08-20
Wilder Napalm
Overview: Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Men Don't Leave
1990-02-02
Men Don't Leave
Overview: A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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You Know My Name
1999-08-22
You Know My Name
Overview: In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a six-gun. An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman, whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own. Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits; and the success of that silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, spreads his reputation like a brushfire. But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug (Arliss Howard) who hides behind a badge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-22
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The Infiltrator
1995-06-24
The Infiltrator
Overview: In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-24
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The Killer
2023-10-25
The Killer
Overview: After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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A Killer in the Family
1983-10-30
A Killer in the Family
Overview: Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-30
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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996-11-08
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Overview: Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Iran: Days of Crisis
1991-09-30
Iran: Days of Crisis
Overview: Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-30
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Till Death Us Do Part
1992-02-18
Till Death Us Do Part
Overview: This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-18
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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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Plain Clothes
1988-04-15
Plain Clothes
Overview: To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Crime Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Those Secrets
1992-03-16
Those Secrets
Overview: A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Big Bad Love
2001-10-11
Big Bad Love
Overview: Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-11
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The Day After
1983-11-20
The Day After
Overview: In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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The Prodigal
1983-10-14
The Prodigal
Overview: They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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The Sandlot
1993-04-07
The Sandlot
Overview: During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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Beyond the Call
1996-06-23
Beyond the Call
Overview: Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-23
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A Map of the World
1999-09-13
A Map of the World
Overview: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Awake
2007-11-28
Awake
Overview: While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021-02-27
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Overview: Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix's black-and-white ode to Hollywood's Golden Age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-27
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1990-01-01
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Overview: Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Birth
2004-10-29
Birth
Overview: It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Over/Under
2013-01-04
Over/Under
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-04
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Word of Honor
2003-12-06
Word of Honor
Overview: Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-06
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Hands of a Stranger
1987-05-10
Hands of a Stranger
Overview: A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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Concussion
2015-11-12
Concussion
Overview: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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The Boy Downstairs
2018-02-16
The Boy Downstairs
Overview: A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
Butterfly in the Typewriter
Overview: Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Door to Door
1985-01-08
Door to Door
Overview: A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-08
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The Ladies Club
1986-04-01
The Ladies Club
Overview: A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of women and gotten away with it through legal technicalities.
Genres: Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Wet
1994-05-04
Wet
Overview: The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-04
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Natural Born Killers
1994-08-26
Natural Born Killers
Overview: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Johns
1996-12-10
Johns
Overview: It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-10
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Mank
2020-11-13
Mank
Overview: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995-09-07
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Lapsis
2021-02-12
Lapsis
Overview: In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Mosaic
2017-10-13
Mosaic
Overview: A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Weapons
2007-01-19
Weapons
Overview: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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Tales of Erotica
1996-01-01
Tales of Erotica
Overview: A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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With/In Volume 2
2021-06-14
With/In Volume 2
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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For the Boys
1991-11-22
For the Boys
Overview: On a USO tour during World War II, entertainer Eddie Sparks needs a partner to round out his act. Soon after hiring performer Dixie Leonard, Eddie decides he wants her out of the show — mostly because she upstages him. Dixie is close to leaving of her own accord, but her uncle, Art Silver, convinces her to stay. As the years and wars go by, Eddie and Dixie experience a tumultuous relationship onstage and off while they continue the act for the troops.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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