Theodore Bikel
Biography: Theodore Meir Bikel wa a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 02, 1924
Deathday: July 21, 2015
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The African Queen
1952-01-07
The African Queen
Overview: At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-07
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The Return of the King
1980-05-11
The Return of the King
Overview: Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-11
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998-01-04
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Overview: Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-04
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Victory at Entebbe
1976-12-22
Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Melba
1953-08-07
Melba
Overview: Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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The Defiant Ones
1958-08-14
The Defiant Ones
Overview: Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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The Pride and the Passion
1957-07-10
The Pride and the Passion
Overview: During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
Genres: War History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966-05-25
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Overview: When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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I Bury the Living
1958-07-01
I Bury the Living
Overview: A newly appointed cemetery chairman believes that, merely by inserting a black plot-marking pin into a wall-sized map of the cemetery, he can cause the deaths of that plot's owner.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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200 Motels
1971-11-10
200 Motels
Overview: "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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I Want to Live!
1958-11-18
I Want to Live!
Overview: Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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Above Us the Waves
1955-03-29
Above Us the Waves
Overview: In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988-01-01
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Overview: A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such songs as "Sleeping in a Jar," and "Strictly Genteel." The inside history of the first feature-length film to be shot on video in 6 days.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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My Side of the Mountain
1969-06-25
My Side of the Mountain
Overview: Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-25
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Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1980-06-01
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
Overview: Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions, who are most popular for their work with Queen.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-01
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The Enemy Below
1957-12-25
The Enemy Below
Overview: The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
1971-12-23
Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
Overview: Making of "200 Motels".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-12-23
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Shadow Conspiracy
1997-01-25
Shadow Conspiracy
Overview: Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-25
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010-03-23
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Overview: The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real African locations, barely overcoming all kinds of hardships and disasters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Festival
1967-10-23
Festival
Overview: Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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Second Chances
1998-09-01
Second Chances
Overview: A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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Darker Than Amber
1970-08-14
Darker Than Amber
Overview: Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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The Kidnappers
1953-12-01
The Kidnappers
Overview: After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Sands of the Kalahari
1965-11-24
Sands of the Kalahari
Overview: A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Sweet November
1968-02-08
Sweet November
Overview: A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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The Angry Hills
1959-07-29
The Angry Hills
Overview: In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Dark Tower
1987-10-29
Dark Tower
Overview: A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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Murder on Flight 502
1975-11-21
Murder on Flight 502
Overview: On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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See You in the Morning
1989-04-14
See You in the Morning
Overview: Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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The Young Lovers
1954-08-24
The Young Lovers
Overview: A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-24
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A Dog of Flanders
1959-03-17
A Dog of Flanders
Overview: The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when his loving grandfather dies.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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The Divided Heart
1954-11-09
The Divided Heart
Overview: During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-09
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Forbidden Cargo
1954-05-04
Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Woman Obsessed
1959-05-27
Woman Obsessed
Overview: After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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Crisis in the Kremlin
1992-01-01
Crisis in the Kremlin
Overview: The sister-in-law of an assassin and a CIA agent team-up to save Gorbachev's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Little Ark
1972-03-01
The Little Ark
Overview: This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953. Fortunately, they and their animals are taken in by a salty old boatman who helps them reunite with their father.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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A Day to Remember
1953-11-10
A Day to Remember
Overview: A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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The Vintage
1957-05-08
The Vintage
Overview: A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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Pericles on 31st Street
1962-04-12
Pericles on 31st Street
Overview: Racial tensions break out on 31st Street, a multi-ethnic community. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Harry Mark Petrakis novel for NBC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for NBC's The Dick Powell Theatre, premiering on Apr. 12, 1962.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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The Final Days
1989-10-29
The Final Days
Overview: The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004-09-17
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Overview: In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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The Blue Angel
1959-09-04
The Blue Angel
Overview: Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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My Fair Lady
1964-10-21
My Fair Lady
Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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Fraulein
1958-06-08
Fraulein
Overview: A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-08
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The Stingiest Man in Town
1978-12-23
The Stingiest Man in Town
Overview: This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Killer by Night
1972-01-07
Killer by Night
Overview: A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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Loose Change
1978-02-26
Loose Change
Overview: Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-26
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Julius Caesar
1955-08-01
Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and his fellow Senators has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Moulin Rouge
1952-12-23
Moulin Rouge
Overview: In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-23
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Saint Joan
1967-12-04
Saint Joan
Overview: A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her trial.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-04
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Noon Wine
1966-11-23
Noon Wine
Overview: A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter novel for ABC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67, premiering on Nov. 23, 1966.
Genres: Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-23
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Prince Jack
1985-12-01
Prince Jack
Overview: A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Betrayed
1954-09-07
Betrayed
Overview: Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-07
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The Love Lottery
1954-01-30
The Love Lottery
Overview: Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-30
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016-05-03
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Overview: Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-03
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A Stoning in Fulham County
1988-10-24
A Stoning in Fulham County
Overview: Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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Crime and Punishment
2002-06-01
Crime and Punishment
Overview: A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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Benefit of the Doubt
1993-06-17
Benefit of the Doubt
Overview: Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into Karen's life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-17
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Inside the Soviet Circus
1988-03-09
Inside the Soviet Circus
Overview: Go behind the scenes at Moscow's Circus School and experience the magic and wonder of the performances that delight millions. See lion tamers risk life and limb, trapeze artists glide through the air, of course, the beloved clowns who inspire imagination and fantasy. With laughter as their language, the Soviet Circus bridges the gap between generations, borders, and all peoples of the world.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-09
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The Diary of Anne Frank
1967-11-26
The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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The Desperate Ones
1967-01-01
The Desperate Ones
Overview: In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Flight from Vienna
1956-01-31
Flight from Vienna
Overview: A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-31
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In the Month of Kislev
1994-06-01
In the Month of Kislev
Overview: A wealthy arrogant merchant learns the true meaning of Hanukkah when he takes the family of a poor peddler to court for savoring the smell of his wife's pancakes from outside their window.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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The Colditz Story
1955-01-25
The Colditz Story
Overview: Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-25
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The Dybbuk
1960-10-03
The Dybbuk
Overview: The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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Very Close Quarters
1986-08-14
Very Close Quarters
Overview: Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-bedroom apartment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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Shattered
1991-10-11
Shattered
Overview: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995-12-30
More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Overview: This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My Fair Lady," the classic musical about a poor young girl transformed into a woman of society through the tutoring of Prof. Henry Higgins. Includes footage of the filming process, as well as discussion by modern film critics about the impact movie had on later films.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-30
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My Family Treasure
1995-05-23
My Family Treasure
Overview: A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago when the Russian Revolution hit, but the egg got lost in the commotion.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-23
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The Little Traitor
2007-09-01
The Little Traitor
Overview: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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