Kate Capshaw
Biography: Kathleen Sue Spielberg (Born: November 3, 1953, Height: 5 ft 7 inches (1.70 m)), known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is an American actress and painter with a multifaceted career that traverses action-adventure classics, heartwarming comedies, and artistic pursuits. Born in Texas, Capshaw embarked on an unexpected path: initially, she pursued a career in education, earning a Master's degree in Learning Disabilities and teaching special education. However, her artistic heart yearned for a different stage. Driven by this passion, she moved to New York and delved into acting, landing a role in the soap opera "The Edge of Night." Fate and Hollywood intervened in 1984 when Capshaw, after beating out 120 actresses, landed the pivotal role of Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This action-adventure blockbuster, directed by Steven Spielberg, not only catapulted her to international fame but also sparked a personal connection that led to their marriage in 1991. Capshaw's career thrived in the 80s and 90s, showcasing her dramatic and comedic chops in films like Dreamscape, Black Rain, Love Affair, and Just Cause. She explored lighter roles in SpaceCamp and The Love Letter, proving her versatility. Beyond acting, Capshaw is a devoted mother to seven children, including actress Jessica Capshaw, and co-parent to adopted children with Spielberg. She has actively supported various charities, highlighting her dedication to humanitarian causes.
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Birthday: November 03, 1953
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984-05-23
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Overview: After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Black Rain
1989-09-22
Black Rain
Overview: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Best Defense
1984-07-20
Best Defense
Overview: An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-20
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Dreamscape
1984-08-15
Dreamscape
Overview: In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-15
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The Love Letter
1999-05-21
The Love Letter
Overview: In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter - ardent, sensual... and unsigned. As the letter falls into different hands, residents of the small town to eye one another with renewed interest - wondering who it's for and who it's from. Determined to find the letter's author, Helen MacFarquhar begins a quest that will open her life to a new chapter involving two decidedly different men: George, an old friend from her past, and Johnny, a young man very much in her present. Unexpectedly, one mysterious love note has the power to unlock some startling secrets, leaving a trail of wonderful surprises as it turns an entire town upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
How to Make an American Quilt
Overview: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Love at Large
1990-03-09
Love at Large
Overview: Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Just Cause
1995-02-17
Just Cause
Overview: A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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The Quick and the Dead
1987-02-28
The Quick and the Dead
Overview: In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.
Genres: Action Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-28
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SpaceCamp
1986-06-06
SpaceCamp
Overview: Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.
Genres: Family Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Love Affair
1994-10-21
Love Affair
Overview: Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998-10-02
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Overview: Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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Power
1986-01-31
Power
Overview: Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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The Locusts
1997-10-03
The Locusts
Overview: Delilah Potts has always had her choice of men to work her ranch and fill her bed. But from the moment Clay Hewitt, a handsome drifter with a mysterious past, arrives at her door, Delilah knows that her life will never be the same. And when he spurns her affections, she unleashes a torrent of forbidden passions and deadly secrets that will prove to Clay that the only thing darker and more dangerous than the past he's escaping... is the one he's about to discover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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The Alarmist
1998-10-23
The Alarmist
Overview: Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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Next Door
1994-09-04
Next Door
Overview: Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-04
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991-03-01
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Overview: H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Her Secret Life
1987-04-12
Her Secret Life
Overview: Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-12
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A Girl Thing
2001-01-19
A Girl Thing
Overview: A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time. Hour Three is about adultery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Duke of Groove
1996-05-07
Duke of Groove
Overview: Mother takes her teenage son to a party, to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-07
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Due East
2002-04-11
Due East
Overview: Mary Faith Rapple, a bright high school senior, has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a night class, cares for her widowed father and pretty much keeps to herself. When a fellow loner moves to Due East, she finds herself in a relationship for the first time, leading to a small town scandal that changes her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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Windy City
1984-09-21
Windy City
Overview: The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
2023-12-01
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Overview: An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982-12-01
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Overview: A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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A Little Sex
1982-04-02
A Little Sex
Overview: Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and sex addict, cheating on Katherine during their pre-married relationship. Because Katherine is genuinely in love with him, she is willing to overlook this and believes that perhaps marriage will change things.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Music by John Williams
2024-11-01
Music by John Williams
Overview: His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Private Affairs
1987-12-29
Private Affairs
Overview: Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-29
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Black Rain: Making The Film
2006-10-10
Black Rain: Making The Film
Overview: A documentary on the making of the film, Black Rain, which actually encompasses 4 parts, Production, Filming, The Script and Cast, Post-Production
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-10
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Everything Is Copy
2015-09-29
Everything Is Copy
Overview: A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-29
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Internal Affairs
1988-11-06
Internal Affairs
Overview: A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-06
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The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
1984-12-04
The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
Overview: A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-04
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Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021-05-07
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Overview: Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the charismatic archaeologist Indiana Jones was born and how his first adventure, released in 1981, triumphed at box offices around the world.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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