Sam Robards
Biography: Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his film roles in American Beauty (1999) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). For his performance in the Broadway production of The Man Who Had All the Luck, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: December 16, 1961
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American Beauty
1999-09-15
American Beauty
Overview: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001-06-29
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Overview: David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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Prêt-à-Porter
1994-12-23
Prêt-à-Porter
Overview: During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Fandango
1985-01-25
Fandango
Overview: In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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Catch That Kid
2004-02-06
Catch That Kid
Overview: A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills and teamwork to navigate the challenge.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-06
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The Rebound
2009-09-16
The Rebound
Overview: Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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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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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994-09-07
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Bird
1988-06-01
Bird
Overview: Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Perestroika
2009-03-20
Perestroika
Overview: Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1983-05-22
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Overview: An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-22
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The Ballad of Little Jo
1993-08-20
The Ballad of Little Jo
Overview: After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Genres: Romance Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Not Quite Paradise
1985-03-28
Not Quite Paradise
Overview: Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or search for themselves. But when American pre-med student Mike falls for tough kibbutz woman Gila he must make the most difficult choice of his life. In a land of clashing cultures, remarkable possibilities and shocking dangers, can real love survive the most surprising challenge of them all?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-28
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Black and Blue
1999-11-17
Black and Blue
Overview: After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Love from Ground Zero
1998-09-30
Love from Ground Zero
Overview: Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-30
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Awake
2007-11-28
Awake
Overview: While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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Grand Street
2014-05-02
Grand Street
Overview: Camilla Reilly’s elegant life has come undone. Once a fast-track film executive living in a luxurious SoHo loft, she finds herself unemployed, broke, single and suddenly homeless. Just as her cool, steely façade gives way to quiet desperation, she meets Amory, a brash young writer whose deeply personal screenplay she rejected a year earlier. Though Camilla doesn’t remember him, “Amo” has never forgotten. Over of the course of the next 24 hours, the two share a sleepless journey through the teeming streets and shadowy scenes of late night Manhattan. From downtown demimonde to uptown refinement, they edge closer to discovering their secret connection, until, ultimately, their whirlwind love story takes a fateful turn.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Isle of Hope
2022-12-09
Isle of Hope
Overview: A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Obsessed
2002-09-22
Obsessed
Overview: A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-22
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Pancho Barnes
1988-10-25
Pancho Barnes
Overview: Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-25
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On Golden Pond
2001-04-29
On Golden Pond
Overview: Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a father-daughter relationship with her dad, whom she has never known closely; and a young teenager dealing with parental divorce. Ethel and Norman Thayer are an old couple living "On Golden Pond". Their daughter, Chelsea, is 42 years old, and has never been married. She is dating a 45 year old dentist, and brings him up to Golden Pond to meet her parents. Her boyfriend, Bill, has a 14 year old son named Billy, who comes along. Young Billy has been virtually raised by his mother, who is newly divorced from his father. The troubled child is left with the elderly Thayers for some time, as his father and Chelsea take off for a tour of Europe.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-29
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Bright Lights, Big City
1988-04-01
Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Che: Part One
2008-09-05
Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Bounce
2000-11-15
Bounce
Overview: Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a pretty Dallas businesswoman. When the plane goes down, killing all aboard, Buddy's guilt soon turns into an alcohol problem. As part of his 12-step program, Buddy seeks atonement and decides to seek out the woman he thinks he's left a widow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-15
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Space Cadet
2024-07-04
Space Cadet
Overview: Tiffany "Rex" Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, and her "doctored" application lands her in NASA's ultra-competitive astronaut training program. In over her head, can this Florida girl rely on her quick wits, moxie and determination to get through training and into the cosmos before she blows her cover?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-04
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Beautiful Girls
1996-02-09
Beautiful Girls
Overview: During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Isle Child
Isle Child
Overview: When a young Korean-American adoptee discovers that his birth mother is terminally ill in Korea, he must decide whether to preserve the facade of his All-American suburban life or dive into his vague past to find answers to his feelings of otherness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Where Is Kyra?
2018-04-06
Where Is Kyra?
Overview: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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The Warden
2001-01-12
The Warden
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-12
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The Art of Getting By
2011-06-17
The Art of Getting By
Overview: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-17
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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996-11-08
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Overview: Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Into Thin Air
1985-10-29
Into Thin Air
Overview: Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Donor Unknown
1995-11-01
Donor Unknown
Overview: Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murdered so Nick could live.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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The Late Bloomer
2016-10-07
The Late Bloomer
Overview: A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Hamlet
2000-12-10
Hamlet
Overview: A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-10
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Dinner and Driving
1997-01-01
Dinner and Driving
Overview: A newly married couple faces problems in the form of siblings, friends and exes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Other Side of the Tracks
2008-03-28
The Other Side of the Tracks
Overview: A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Tempest
1982-08-13
Tempest
Overview: A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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The Blackwater Lightship
2004-02-04
The Blackwater Lightship
Overview: A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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Surviving Eden
2004-03-01
Surviving Eden
Overview: A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his short-lived stint with fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Casualties of War
1989-08-18
Casualties of War
Overview: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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Marmalade
2004-06-14
Marmalade
Overview: Marmalade is a romantic comedy about a fashion model who gets too old to continue her work. Her demise in her professional life happens as her personal life falls completely apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-14
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997-04-30
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Overview: David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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