David Margulies
Biography: David Margulies was born on February 19, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). He was previously married to Carol Grant. He died on January 11, 2016 in New York City, New York, USA.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 19, 1937
Deathday: January 11, 2016
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Ghostbusters
1984-06-08
Ghostbusters
Overview: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986-02-09
Nine 1/2 Weeks
Overview: An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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Ghostbusters II
1989-06-16
Ghostbusters II
Overview: Having lost their status and credibility five years after covering New York City with gooey roasted marshmallows in Ghostbusters (1984), the city's former heroes and once-popular spirit-hunters struggle to keep afloat, forced to work odd jobs. However, when Dana and her baby have yet another terrifying encounter with the paranormal, it is up to Peter Venkman and his fearless team of supernatural crime fighters to step up and save the day. Once more, humankind is in danger, as rivers of slimy psycho-reactive ectoplasm, paired with the dreadful manifestation of evil sixteenth-century tyrant Vigo the Carpathian, threaten to plunge the entire city into darkness. Is the world ready to believe? Can the Ghostbusters save us for the second time?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-16
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Dressed to Kill
1980-07-25
Dressed to Kill
Overview: After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-25
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Celebrity
1998-09-07
Celebrity
Overview: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Last Embrace
1979-05-04
Last Embrace
Overview: Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-04
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All That Jazz
1979-12-16
All That Jazz
Overview: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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All Good Things
2010-12-03
All Good Things
Overview: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-03
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Roadie
2012-01-06
Roadie
Overview: After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-06
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Whiskey School
2005-09-11
Whiskey School
Overview: Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Out on a Limb
1992-09-04
Out on a Limb
Overview: While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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Invitation to a Suicide
2005-02-01
Invitation to a Suicide
Overview: Raised in an insular Polish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he's destined to become a poor baker like his father, Kaz Malek attempts to steal from a Russian mobster and run away with the girl of his dreams, Eva. Not cut out for a life of crime, he ends up with a $10,000 debt to the mobster who threatens to kill his father. Unable to pay or face his father's death, Kaz comes up with a novel plan: he'll hang himself and sell tickets to the show. He is surprised to find, however, that the mobster as well as the neighborhood are extremely supportive of this idea... not to mention his father. But even if he can sell the tickets will he really go through with it? By the time this dark comedy reaches its surprising conclusion, Kaz learns that sometimes embracing death is the only way to a better life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-01
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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
1972-03-16
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Overview: An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Largo Desolato
1990-04-20
Largo Desolato
Overview: A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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The Front
1976-09-17
The Front
Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Skin Deep
2011-10-30
Skin Deep
Overview: A woman repays a loan she borrowed long ago from an unscrupulous lender.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-30
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A Stranger Among Us
1992-07-17
A Stranger Among Us
Overview: Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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A Jersey Tale
2004-06-25
A Jersey Tale
Overview: Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an immigrant pawnbroker makes his weekly payments.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Never Forget
1991-04-08
Never Forget
Overview: Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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A Most Violent Year
2014-12-31
A Most Violent Year
Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Ira & Abby
2006-06-23
Ira & Abby
Overview: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Kojak: Ariana
1989-11-02
Kojak: Ariana
Overview: One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-02
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Divorced Kids' Blues
1987-03-04
Divorced Kids' Blues
Overview: A 15-year-old struggles through the politics of divorce as his parents split up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-04
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Curmudgeons
2016-04-15
Curmudgeons
Overview: The best part of getting old is no longer caring what anybody thinks. Eighty years-old and in assisted living, Ralph Pajovic is involved in a relationship that makes his family anxious. On a crisp, winter day, his unlucky-in-love granddaughter comes for what seems like an ordinary visit. A curmudgeon by nature, Ralph can’t possibly predict the surprise she has in store for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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Times Square
1980-10-17
Times Square
Overview: When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986-12-26
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Overview: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-26
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Looking for an Echo
2000-11-10
Looking for an Echo
Overview: The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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Hide in Plain Sight
1980-03-21
Hide in Plain Sight
Overview: True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Night-Flowers
1979-01-01
Night-Flowers
Overview: Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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A Doctor's Story
1984-04-23
A Doctor's Story
Overview: A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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A Case of You
2013-11-06
A Case of You
Overview: Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Man of the Century
1999-10-29
Man of the Century
Overview: Fantasy-comedy about a young man who lives as if it is 1928 or so, and his encounters with modern-day women and modern-day criminals.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Perfect Witness
1989-10-28
Perfect Witness
Overview: An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-28
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Judy Garland: By Myself
2004-02-25
Judy Garland: By Myself
Overview: As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But drugs, overwork, even psychological abuse at the hands of the studio is now part of the Garland legend. But despite the number of Garland books and documentaries, one account has always been missing -- Garland herself never managed to write a memoir. She did make several attempts at an autobiography, often recording stories on a tape recorder. Judy Garland: By Myself (2004), finally fills in the blanks - using Judy's personal recordings to tell the story in her own words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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My Old Man
1979-12-07
My Old Man
Overview: An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
2002-06-09
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
Overview: While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock horns over the ever increasing budget of Stroheim's film Foolish Wives. Though battered by the film industry, Indy decides to give it one more chance and goes on a location shoot with legendary director John Ford. Ford and his cronies, including aging gunman Wyatt Earp, help him see the magic of movies and moviemaking, and when an actor is accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to save the film.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-09
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Funny About Love
1990-09-21
Funny About Love
Overview: As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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The Girl on the Train
2014-06-06
The Girl on the Train
Overview: When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort. Within the blink of an eye his life of complacency is left behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred...a world of intrigue, danger, and the possibility of blood
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-06
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994-02-04
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Overview: He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Magic Sticks
1987-06-05
Magic Sticks
Overview: Felix is a down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make native New Yorkers dance uncontrollably.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-05
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Ishtar
1987-05-15
Ishtar
Overview: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020-01-07
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Overview: The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-07
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Daniel
1983-08-26
Daniel
Overview: The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Fading Gigolo
2013-09-07
Fading Gigolo
Overview: Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Adam Bloom
2020-04-02
Adam Bloom
Overview: An aspiring photographer balances responsibilities of caring for an ailing grandmother and an internship with an aging photo artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-02
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Running on Empty
1988-09-09
Running on Empty
Overview: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Lifebreath
1997-11-07
Lifebreath
Overview: A man plans a perfect murder to get a lung transplant for his dying wife.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Hudson River Blues
1997-12-12
Hudson River Blues
Overview: Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi
2010-07-18
Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi
Overview: A Bangladeshi Cab Driver in New York City embarks on his own journey of self-discovery when a drag queen hails his cab.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-18
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Candy Mountain
1988-01-20
Candy Mountain
Overview: A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-20
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