Barry Primus
Biography: Barry Primus (born February 16, 1938) is an American actor, director, and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Primus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 16, 1938
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Life as a House
2001-10-25
Life as a House
Overview: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Boxcar Bertha
1972-06-14
Boxcar Bertha
Overview: "Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-14
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The Brotherhood
1968-12-01
The Brotherhood
Overview: The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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New York, New York
1977-06-21
New York, New York
Overview: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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Night and the City
1992-10-16
Night and the City
Overview: Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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Heartland
1979-09-22
Heartland
Overview: Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart, a rancher. The work is back-breaking and the isolation is brutal, particularly as winter arrives. Elinor begins to think about homesteading her own property near Stewart's ranch, but Stewart tries to dissuade her with explanations about the killing conditions and poor rewards, especially for a woman with no man to help her ranch. Although their temperaments are different and little affection exists, Elinor and Stewart agree to marry and combine homesteads. What lies ahead is the severest test of all.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-22
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Absence of Malice
1981-11-19
Absence of Malice
Overview: Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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Von Richthofen and Brown
1971-06-30
Von Richthofen and Brown
Overview: Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970-12-16
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Overview: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1971-09-15
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Overview: Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Flipping
1997-03-07
Flipping
Overview: The story of Michael Moore, Shot, Hooker, Joey, and Dennis. Five gangsters who work for a man named Leo. They soon discover they could get more out of life if they could run the streets themselves. Tensions build and loyalty is tested as they plan a hit that could change all of their lives forever.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-07
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Big Rose
1974-03-26
Big Rose
Overview: Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy contractor.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Denial
1990-01-21
Denial
Overview: A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-21
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Avalanche
1978-09-29
Avalanche
Overview: After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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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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Break a Leg
2005-04-21
Break a Leg
Overview: A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Night Games
1980-04-11
Night Games
Overview: A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Big Business
1988-06-10
Big Business
Overview: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986-01-31
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Overview: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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Joy
2015-12-24
Joy
Overview: A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-24
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American Hustle
2013-12-03
American Hustle
Overview: A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-03
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The Book of Murder
1974-03-19
The Book of Murder
Overview: Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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Gold Coast
1997-09-28
Gold Coast
Overview: Karen stands to inherit millions from her dead husband on one condition: she must stay away from other men. Two of the deceased's former associates seek his money by getting closer to Karen, not knowing that doing so places the fortune out of reach.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-28
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The Stranger
1987-12-04
The Stranger
Overview: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Crime of the Century
1996-09-14
Crime of the Century
Overview: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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The Longest Week
2014-09-05
The Longest Week
Overview: Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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The Prank
2024-03-15
The Prank
Overview: After their teacher fails them, two high school students decide to teach the imperious, demanding instructor a lesson by falsely accusing her of the murder of a missing student.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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The River
1984-12-01
The River
Overview: Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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15 Minutes
2001-03-01
15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Talking Walls
1987-08-01
Talking Walls
Overview: A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a French girl in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Righteous Kill
2008-09-11
Righteous Kill
Overview: Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
1989-03-15
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Overview: The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avacado supplies, recruits feminist professor Margo Hunt to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only good as a source of food. Accompanying Dr. Hunt on her trip are Jim, a guide of questionable competence, and Bunny, a student of unquestionable incompetence.
Genres: Horror Comedy Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-15
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Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target
1977-05-02
Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target
Overview: A millionaire hires a pair of private investigators, who specialize in recovering lost and stolen objects, to find his daughter, who has apparently been smuggled out of the country.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-02
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Heart of Steel
1983-12-04
Heart of Steel
Overview: A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-04
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Faye
2024-05-15
Faye
Overview: Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-15
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Brotherly Love
1985-05-28
Brotherly Love
Overview: A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-28
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Paper Dolls
1982-05-24
Paper Dolls
Overview: Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-24
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Stillwatch
1987-02-10
Stillwatch
Overview: Television journalist, Patricia Traymore, moves to Washington to do an in-depth interview with vice presidential hopeful, Senator Abigail Winslow. She moves into a house where she lived as a child and where her father murdered her mother and attempted to kill her. She wants to face the past and, with the help of a psychic neighbor, Lila Thatcher, find some answers about this tragic event. In the meantime, Senator Winslow has some secrets she is hiding.
Genres: Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-10
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The Dion Brothers
1974-06-16
The Dion Brothers
Overview: Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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Jake Speed
1986-05-30
Jake Speed
Overview: Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-30
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Guilty by Suspicion
1991-03-15
Guilty by Suspicion
Overview: Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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The Desperate Hours
1967-12-13
The Desperate Hours
Overview: The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Rock Bottom
2019-04-11
Rock Bottom
Overview: Rock Bottom chronicles the cosmic/comic misadventures of a girl undergoing a life crisis after she locks herself out of her apartment with no pants on and is thereby forced to confront her emotional, philosophical, and logistical problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Trade Off
1995-04-29
Trade Off
Overview: A man has an affair with a mysterious woman and shares with her his desire to end his troubled marriage. When his wife is found dead, his lover admits to the killing and persuades him to kill her husband in return.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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The Irishman
2019-11-01
The Irishman
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Arkansas
2020-05-05
Arkansas
Overview: Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-05
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Autopsy
1975-01-18
Autopsy
Overview: A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Incident at Vichy
1973-12-06
Incident at Vichy
Overview: Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Big Guns
2006-01-01
Big Guns
Overview: The fun-loving, easy-going, 60- to 75-year-old Senior Softball team "Kids At Heart" suddenly decide to go for their secret dream -- win the World Series (BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!) Renaming themselves "Big Guns", they get serious and play hard, maybe a little too hard. Our sweet guys suddenly disappear! The joking stops! Madcap disasters strike the team! Illegal bats and booze, ringers and wild women bring out the worst in them! Finally even wise old guys think twice as they rediscover that love and their friendships are more important than winning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Macbeth
1981-01-01
Macbeth
Overview: An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Portrait of a Showgirl
1982-04-09
Portrait of a Showgirl
Overview: The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Jackson
2008-09-13
Jackson
Overview: Donald (Barry Primus) promises Sam (Charlie Robinson) the best day of his life. This seems unlikely, given they are both homeless men mired in the bleak landscape of Los Angeles' Skid Row. Moreover, the source of Donald's optimism is a mere $20 bill (called a "Jackson") which he bummed off a passing businessman (Steve Guttenberg) earlier that day. But Donald vows that with it, they can do anything, and drags a reluctant Sam off in search of adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019-09-13
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Overview: Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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James Dean
2001-08-04
James Dean
Overview: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-04
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The Rose
1979-11-07
The Rose
Overview: Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Black & White
1999-11-29
Black & White
Overview: Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is loose, and all the victims are low-life guys whom Nora has dealt with. So, when the tire tracks of a police car are found at a murder scene, she's the prime suspect of internal affairs investigator Simon Hertzel...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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