Octavia Spencer
Biography: Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Being John Malkovich
1999-10-29
Being John Malkovich
Overview: One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Spider-Man
2002-05-01
Spider-Man
Overview: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005-03-11
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Overview: After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Overview: The story of Ruth, one of the Non-People, human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland guy named Dave, the only person that actually exists on Earth. Tired of serving as an extra in someone else’s life, Ruth is ready to demand a life of her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Never Been Kissed
1999-04-09
Never Been Kissed
Overview: Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Seven Pounds
2008-12-18
Seven Pounds
Overview: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-18
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Halloween II
2009-08-28
Halloween II
Overview: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-28
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Sol Goode
2003-03-11
Sol Goode
Overview: Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his hipster apartment, totaling his car, and the threat of having to find a real job, Sol realizes that maybe the life he's been leading is no longer making him happy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Coach Carter
2005-01-14
Coach Carter
Overview: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-14
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Pretty Ugly People
2008-11-14
Pretty Ugly People
Overview: Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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The Nines
2007-01-21
The Nines
Overview: A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-21
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Big Momma's House
2000-05-31
Big Momma's House
Overview: When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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Pulse
2006-08-11
Pulse
Overview: When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Spirited
2022-11-10
Spirited
Overview: Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-10
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004-01-23
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Overview: A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-23
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Beauty Shop
2005-04-22
Beauty Shop
Overview: Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profession. But after repeatedly butting heads with her shady, over-the-top boss, Jorge, Norris sets out to create her own salon -- even snagging a few of Jorge's employees and clients. Now, Jorge will do anything to shut her down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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Love at First Hiccup
2009-02-02
Love at First Hiccup
Overview: Victor, a bumbling and gullible high school freshman, has caught a serious case of Anya-itis—an acute, incurable crush on hot senior Anya. Too bad she dates the most popular guy in school and doesn't have a clue that Victor exists. After a string of awkward run-ins, his chances of scoring a date with Anya seem to go from hardly any to, well, zero. But his shy and goofy charm—and an elaborate scheme to win the girl of his dreams—just might do the trick.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-02
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American Virgin
2000-06-02
American Virgin
Overview: When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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Flypaper
2011-08-19
Flypaper
Overview: A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Dinner for Schmucks
2010-07-30
Dinner for Schmucks
Overview: Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Drag Me to Hell
2009-05-27
Drag Me to Hell
Overview: After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-27
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Small Town Saturday Night
2010-05-31
Small Town Saturday Night
Overview: Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that "his" future may not be "their" future. This news comes as a shock to Rhett, and he is faced with having to choose between following his dream and staying in his hometown in order to be with the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-31
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The Help
2011-08-09
The Help
Overview: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-09
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006-01-12
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Overview: Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Smashed
2012-01-22
Smashed
Overview: Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-22
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The Spleenectomy
2008-10-14
The Spleenectomy
Overview: After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, Judy is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for her, she gets another unbelievable chance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-14
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Snowpiercer
2013-08-01
Snowpiercer
Overview: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-08-01
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Little John
2002-05-05
Little John
Overview: The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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The Quest for Sleep
2022-03-18
The Quest for Sleep
Overview: The Quest for Sleep is a documentary that follows real characters whose struggles with sleep threaten to unravel their waking lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Paradise
2013-10-18
Paradise
Overview: After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Fruitvale Station
2013-07-26
Fruitvale Station
Overview: Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-26
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013-04-20
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Overview: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Herpes Boy
2009-10-24
Herpes Boy
Overview: A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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Lost on Purpose
2013-10-04
Lost on Purpose
Overview: Our story takes place in the fertile, San Joaquin Valley. Fueled by gin and sheer determination, Elizabeth James (Ms. Liz) operates her third generation dairy farm outside the region's domineering co-ops. To help keep the place afloat, she's employed five renegade ranch hands. These boys have put a pin in responsibility and opted to stretch out the party as long as possible. Unfortunately, women, booze, and fisticuffs can only lead to one outcome: trouble. With the dairy farm reporting its third straight deficit year, Ms Liz is attracting some unwanted attention. Delbert Furgeson, the owner of the area's largest co-op, is pushing to buy her out. This only incenses the prideful Ms Liz and starts a volatile feud between the two. Sharing the narrative are the ranch hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013-06-19
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Overview: Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's assassination. Based on a book by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Black or White
2014-09-06
Black or White
Overview: A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-06
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Get on Up
2014-08-01
Get on Up
Overview: A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Sparkler
1997-10-01
Sparkler
Overview: Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Fathers and Daughters
2015-10-01
Fathers and Daughters
Overview: A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Jesus People
2013-12-19
Jesus People
Overview: Based on the hilarious and popular FunnyorDie.com web series, the film charts the rise and fall of America's worst Christian pop band! Pastor Jerry gets possibly awful medical news and is determined to reach his rebellious teen while he still can. Jerry forms Cross My Heart, a Christian band, to keep his son on a "righteous" path. He finds four young musicians with varying levels of talent and the first single Save The World! takes off on multiple (and some unexpected) radio formats. But the band starts to unravel!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-19
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Blues for Willadean
2012-10-05
Blues for Willadean
Overview: The film adaptation of Del Shores' hit play. Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends. Del Shores adapts this uplifting story from his play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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Insurgent
2015-03-18
Insurgent
Overview: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022-09-22
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Overview: The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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Becoming bell hooks
2024-02-27
Becoming bell hooks
Overview: Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, class and gender serves as a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Learn how bell’s childhood in Hopkinsville and her connection to Kentucky’s “hillbilly culture” informed her views and her belief that feminism is for everybody. Becoming bell hooks, a one-hour documentary, features selections read by Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and interviews with feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Kentucky writers Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House, bell’s younger sister Gwenda Motley and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-27
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The Shack
2017-03-03
The Shack
Overview: A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Tow
Tow
Overview: Based on the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Smurfs Movie
2025-07-16
The Smurfs Movie
Overview: An animated musical film focused on Peyo's iconic creations.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-16
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Zootopia
2016-02-11
Zootopia
Overview: Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-11
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015-10-05
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Overview: Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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The Free World
2016-09-23
The Free World
Overview: Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Allegiant
2016-03-09
Allegiant
Overview: Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003-07-02
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Overview: Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog's relatives are being used as cosmetic test subjects, she heads to Washington D.C. to fight for animal rights.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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Hidden Figures
2016-12-10
Hidden Figures
Overview: The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Gifted
2017-04-07
Gifted
Overview: Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-07
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Small Town Crime
2018-01-19
Small Town Crime
Overview: Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Blue Streak
1999-09-17
Blue Streak
Overview: Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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The Shape of Water
2017-12-01
The Shape of Water
Overview: An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Just Peck
2011-02-16
Just Peck
Overview: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with parents who schedule family time in their planners and require him to sign contracts with them about his extra-curricular activities.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Bad Santa 2
2016-11-23
Bad Santa 2
Overview: Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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S.W.A.T.
2003-08-08
S.W.A.T.
Overview: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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Breakin' All the Rules
2004-05-14
Breakin' All the Rules
Overview: After being dumped by his model girlfriend, aspiring writer Quincy Watson quits his job and is inspired to pen the ultimate how-to book on breaking up. When it becomes a smash bestseller, he starts giving his player cousin, Evan, choice tips on how to win the battle of the sexes. But when Evan's beautiful girlfriend Nikki gets wind of the plan, it's these players that end up getting played.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-14
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Missing Pieces
2001-01-01
Missing Pieces
Overview: Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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What Planet Are You From?
2000-03-03
What Planet Are You From?
Overview: A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love there. A suspicious F.A.A. Agent targets him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000-06-06
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Overview: With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Pretty Persuasion
2005-01-22
Pretty Persuasion
Overview: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Lansky
1999-02-27
Lansky
Overview: Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-27
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A Time to Kill
1996-07-24
A Time to Kill
Overview: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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The Journeyman
2001-03-10
The Journeyman
Overview: In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross paths again as they both seek revenge, each in their own way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-10
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Follow the Stars Home
2001-05-06
Follow the Stars Home
Overview: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad brother pulls his disappearing act. Mark walks out on wife Dianne after learning that the baby they're expecting has severe genetic abnormalities. Dianne is nonetheless determined to bear her child, with support from her mother and Mark's brother David, a pediatrician whose love for Dianne is unspoken but obvious. How do they cope with the challenges of raising this little girl named Julia?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-06
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The Sky is Falling
2001-06-07
The Sky is Falling
Overview: A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-07
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The Soloist
2009-04-24
The Soloist
Overview: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013-08-07
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Overview: In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-07
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The 6th Man
1997-03-28
The 6th Man
Overview: A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Everything Put Together
2001-11-02
Everything Put Together
Overview: In a quiet suburban community where everything is peaceful and in its place, a single crack has just appeared. Angie and Russ are a young married couple with a bright future. Angie is pregnant and expecting to join her circle of friends in happy motherhood, but fate has other plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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Peep World
2010-09-15
Peep World
Overview: On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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Car Dogs
2017-03-24
Car Dogs
Overview: Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that promises to do "Whatever It Takes" to put you in a new car. But on a scorching hot Saturday in the middle of the Phoenix summer, Mark has a chance to get his own dealership - and out from under the thumb of his father. Mark has to sell thirty-five cars by the end of the day. The question: Will Mark do whatever it takes - including betraying his sales team and himself - to get what he wants?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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A Kid Like Jake
2018-06-01
A Kid Like Jake
Overview: On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008-04-06
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Overview: When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-06
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Luce
2019-08-02
Luce
Overview: A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-02
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Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Overview: The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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Ma
2019-05-29
Ma
Overview: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-29
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Instant Family
2018-11-13
Instant Family
Overview: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-13
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Onward
2020-02-29
Onward
Overview: In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-29
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020-10-26
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Overview: In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-26
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HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019-04-16
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Overview: This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-16
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Thunder Force
2021-04-09
Thunder Force
Overview: In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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The Heart
The Heart
Overview: A couple who, while desperate for cash, agree to take the job of delivering a human heart from New York to Florida in 24 hours. When they realize that their delivery is destined for a black-market buyer who illegally skipped the donor list, they try to reroute the heart to its rightful recipient, only to be hunted down by insane criminals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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Dolittle
2020-01-02
Dolittle
Overview: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-02
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Chicken Party
2003-10-14
Chicken Party
Overview: A comedic look at crime, love, tolerance and fried chicken.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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Encounter
2021-12-03
Encounter
Overview: A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Love and Distrust
2010-08-16
Love and Distrust
Overview: This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-16
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Superintelligence
2020-12-11
Superintelligence
Overview: When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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Valley Girls
1996-11-09
Valley Girls
Overview: Two Welsh women win a trip to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Bad Santa
2003-11-26
Bad Santa
Overview: You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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