Sigourney Weaver
Also Known As: Susan Alexandra Weaver, 西格妮·韦弗, سيغورني ويفر, Σιγκούρνι Γουίβερ, சிகர்னி வேவர், სიგურნი უივერი, सिगोर्नी वीवर, 시고니 위버, 雪歌妮·薇佛, Сігурні Вівер, سیگورنی ویور
Biography: Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films. She is known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, which earned her an Academy Award nomination in 1986 and is often regarded as one of the most significant female protagonists in cinema history. A seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Weaver won both Best Actress in Drama and Best Supporting Actress in 1988 for her work in the films Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year. She also received Academy Award nominations for both films. For her role in the film The Ice Storm (1997), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress ina Supporting Role. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the 1984 Broadway play Hurlyburly. Weaver's other film roles include Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Dave (1993), Galaxy Quest (1999), Holes (2003), WALL-E (2008), Avatar (2009), Prayers for Bobby (2009), Paul (2011), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and A Monster Calls (2016); and the television miniseries Political Animals (2012) and The Defenders (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sigourney Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 08, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Female
TMDb-Id: 10205
IMDb-Id: nm0000244
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Known For
Snow Cake
Overview: A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Alien
Overview: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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Galaxy Quest
Overview: For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector - "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart", "Lt. Tawny Madison and "Dr.Lazarus" - set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space...and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Gorillas in the Mist
Overview: The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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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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1492: Conquest of Paradise
Overview: 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Aliens
Overview: Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-18
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Annie Hall
Overview: New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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The Tale of Despereaux
Overview: Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-18
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Death and the Maiden
Overview: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-04
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Copycat
Overview: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Working Girl
Overview: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-20
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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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Heartbreakers
Overview: Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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Happily N'Ever After
Overview: An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-05
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Be Kind Rewind
Overview: A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-20
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Deal of the Century
Overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Bonnie
Overview: A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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The Year of Living Dangerously
Overview: Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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The Cabin in the Woods
Overview: A group of teens journey to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a worldwide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Prayers for Bobby
Overview: Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-24
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Vantage Point
Overview: During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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The Village
Overview: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Alien³
Overview: After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Alien Resurrection
Overview: Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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Eyewitness
Overview: NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Holes
Overview: A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Baby Mama
Overview: A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Imaginary Heroes
Overview: Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-14
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The Gorge
Overview: Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-13
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Overview: When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-18
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Infamous
Overview: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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Crazy on the Outside
Overview: A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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Half Moon Street
Overview: Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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Inside Pandora's Box
Overview: A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of cinema
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-28
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Company Man
Overview: In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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50 Films to See Before You Die
Overview: Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled by film critics and personalities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-22
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The Girl in the Park
Overview: A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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You Again
Overview: History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its stripes. On Marni's side is her mother, while Joanna's backed by her wealthy aunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Paul
Overview: For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-14
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Jeffrey
Overview: Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Tadpole
Overview: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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The Guys
Overview: The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must deliver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-11
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The TV Set
Overview: As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every crass suggestion Lenny makes improves the show's response from test audiences and brings the show a step closer to getting on the air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Get Bruce!
Overview: Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearances, from Oscar hosts and award recipients to Presidents. We meet his mom and see photos of his childhood; in Chicago, he writes for the Tribune and then heads West. Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Bette Midler talk with him and to the camera about working with Bruce, and we also watch Bruce help others prepare for Liz Taylor's 60th, Bill Clinton's 50th, and an AIDS awards banquet where the hirsute, rotund Vilanch lets his emotions show.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Ice Storm
Overview: In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Avatar
Overview: In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-15
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
Overview: This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film. Every possible element towards what went into making the movie is included here and gives fans an overload of information to fill their brains with.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Overview: The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
Overview: The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for the film's 2003 DVD release. The cast and crew tell us how this movie came to be, from it's script which never changed through production, to its initial theatrical release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Cedar Rapids
Overview: A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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Vamps
Overview: The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.
Genres: Comedy Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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A Map of the World
Overview: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Wilderness: A Country in the Mind
Overview: Nature is our common impressional and biological ancestor. Its history is now, an open book of essences which we have largely, through the intervention of the industrial state, forgotten how to read. This film is a return to immanence, a restorative immersion, and does what film is best at: inducing a mood of informative ecstasy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Rampart
Overview: The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Red Lights
Overview: Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Avatar: The Way of Water
Overview: Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-14
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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The Snow Queen
Overview: This version of The Snow Queen is the first to be adapted from another adaptation. All of Sigourney Weaver's narration is from Amy Erhlich's 1982 picture book. Still, things are cut out and changed a bit. The troll/devil is gone. The mirror belongs to the Snow Queen and it is her only friend. She grows very angry and lonely and smashes her mirror. She wants a friend and since Kai is all fucked up, she takes him. The princess is cut from Gerda's journey and the crow turns out to be the Witch in disguise who helps her along the way. The Robber Girl has a mullet and is SUPER TOUCHY with Gerda. The Snow Queen lets Kai and Gerda go once she sees how much they love each other. It even melts her heart...and the rest of her. Yeesh.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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Dust Bunny
Overview: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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Abduction
Overview: For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the truth, he is hunted by assassins, forcing him to flee with his neighbor, Karen, the only person he can trust.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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The Cold Light of Day
Overview: After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
Overview: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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The Wild Swans
Overview: The narration of Sigourney Weaver, the music of Jason Miles and an animated format bring to life this classic fairy tale
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Madman
Overview: Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital has driven him to revenge. Persuading his friends and lovers to join him in his quest, he sets out on a mission of blood and vengeance. Sigourney Weaver stars as the brave woman who must love and trust a madman.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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One Woman or Two
Overview: An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Capturing Avatar
Overview: Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in 1995. Also included are numerous interviews with cast, artists, and other crew members. The documentary was released as a bonus feature on the extended collector's edition of Avatar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Alien Evolution
Overview: Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast members and directors, including Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott. This documentary is featured on the 9th disc of the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set, released in 2003.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Chappie
Overview: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Genres: Crime Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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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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Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
Overview: Celebrate the work of actor and comedian Bill Murray at the Kennedy Center, as the recipient of the 19th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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Big Bad Love
Overview: Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-11
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Ghostbusters 1999
Overview: Documentary Interviews of the director and cast of the original Ghostbusters film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Overview: Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-12
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A Monster Calls
Overview: A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way. Conor, a twelve-year-old boy, encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Rabbit Ears - Peachboy
Overview: In ancient Japan, a peasant couple discovers a little boy inside a giant peach. Momotaro, the Peachboy, grows up to become a courageous hero who vanquishes the evil ogres who've been tormenting his people.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Overview: An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Featured in the Deluxe Edition Blu-ray set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-17
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Through These Eyes
Overview: For years, photographer Steve McCurry has traveled to war zones and captured the human face of conflict. He is perhaps best known for his striking photographs in National Geographic, especially the haunting image of a young Afghan refugee in a red shawl. Yet, he says, his previous experiences have no parallel in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, which he witnessed and photographed just hours after arriving home to Manhattan from Asia. In this program, McCurry visits some of New York’s Muslim communities—photographing, among other things, a prayer service at the largest mosque in Brooklyn—to show how the events of 9/11 changed life here forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-11
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My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Overview: Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.
Genres: Animation Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
Overview: An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-13
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Overview: A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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His Highness Hollywood
Overview: Ian Halperin poses as a gay wannabe actor and member of the Israeli royal family to get an inside look at the Hollywood industry in this companion film to his well-received book, Hollywood Undercover: Revealing the Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown. Along the way, he receives a promise from the Church of Scientology to cure his homosexuality and gets the inside scoop from numerous luminaries -- including Brad Pitt, Jay Leno and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Sigourney Weaver - Actionheldin und Stil-Ikone
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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Ghostheads
Overview: A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the world meeting extreme Ghostbusters fans. Every Ghosthead is unique. Every Franchise is its own. Every pop culture fandom should learn how to give back to the community.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Overview: Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Assignment
Overview: Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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Ghostbusters
Overview: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Genres: Action Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-14
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Aliens Expanded
Overview: Exploring James Cameron’s beloved science-fiction epic from teeth to tail, Aliens Expanded is truly the most in-depth, passionate and innovative celebration of a movie ever attempted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Helmut by June
Overview: An intimate portrait of iconic photographer Helmut Newton shot by his wife and fellow photographer June Newton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-30
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The Sorrows of Gin
Overview: An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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O Youth and Beauty!
Overview: Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-31
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
Overview: The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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The Alien Saga
Overview: In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. The brilliant and terrifying result reinvented the horror and science fiction genres, creating one of the most successful and celebrated film franchises in Hollywood history. This award-winning, feature-length documentary explores the series.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Overview: In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-11
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Avatar 4
Overview: The fourth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2029-12-19
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The Mandalorian & Grogu
Overview: The Mandalorian and Grogu are embarking on a new adventure — to movie theaters. Plot TBA.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-05-20
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The Roman Empire in the First Century
Overview: Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time - the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order from chaos, built the most cosmopolitan society the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century A.D.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Avatar 5
Overview: The fifth installment of the Avatar franchise.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2031-12-17
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Rakka
Overview: A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-14
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Overview: An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Finding Dory
Overview: Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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WALL·E
Overview: What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
Genres: Animation Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-22
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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
Overview: A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-26
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Oats Studios: Volume 1
Overview: A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Neill Blomkamp. Includes: Rakka, Firebase, Zygote, Kapture-Fluke, Cooking with Bill, Praetoria, God and Gdansk.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-30
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Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
Overview: ACID TEST explores “the other carbon problem” – the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which could challenge the health of the ocean ecosystem on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Overview: When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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My Salinger Year
Overview: A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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The Good House
Overview: Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s reckless behavior.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii
Overview: An original short film narrated by Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver featuring excerpts from Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal letters to her husband written during her journey to and around the Hawaiian Islands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
Overview: A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-26
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Tipping Point: The End of Oil
Overview: In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no one expected was that a tiny Native community, living down the river from Canada's tar sands, would reach out to the world for help — and be heard.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
Overview: The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-07
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Deconstructing 'The Village'
Overview: In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movie's genesis and development, the choice of time period and setting, finding a location and creating the sets, the flick's visual design and cinematography, working with the actors and bonding on the set, the costumes, problems with the weather, shooting in the woods, casting, the actors' "boot camp", editing and storyboards, audio design, the score, and the movie's creatures.
Genres: Documentary Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-11
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John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Overview: An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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National Geographic : Search for the Afghan Girl
Overview: She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-08
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Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry
Overview: Is it human conceit to attribute emotions to animal actions, or are emotions basic to life on earth? Wildlife filmmakers and scientists make a convincing argument for the latter in this gripping film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Protecting the Amazon Demands Radical Change
Overview: On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Amazon Watch released this video in collaboration with friend and ally Sigourney Weaver. Amazon Watch is expanding its work and growing the power of the movement to protect the Amazon rainforest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-22
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Annul Victory
Overview: Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election battle. The film documents the roller coaster ride of emotions in California after the historical state Supreme Court decision in May of 2008, finding it unconstitutional to deny gays and lesbians the right to be married in the state, and then the passage of Proposition 8 in November, denying gays and lesbians marriage rights, and “annulling” thousands of marriages. The story is told through the life and experiences of Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, one of the 14 couples involved in the historic litigation, with a look at some of the 18,000 couples who got married during the window of “legality” between May and November, with thought and commentary provided by a host of celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-02
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All You Need Is Love
Overview: All You Need Is Love focuses on the many thousands of children that exist in and around the Thai-Burma border and specifically through the children of Good Morning School in Mae Sot, Thailand. By introducing you to their lives, their hopes and their dreams, we hope that we can show how the power of the positive works in extreme circumstances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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Fragile Planet
Overview: Leave Planet Earth behind as you fly to the farthest reaches of the Universe. Float up through Earth’s atmosphere, and gain an astronaut’s view of your home — the only planet currently known to support life. Then travel to the Moon, Mars, and even beyond the Milky Way to search for habitats that might support extraterrestrial life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Gorillas Revisited with Sigourney Weaver
Overview: More than twenty years after her murder, Sigourney Weaver recounts Dian Fossey's transformation from researcher to conservation activist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Call Jane
Overview: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Overview: Vanya and his stepsister Sonia have lived their entire lives in their family's farmhouse. While they stayed home to take care of their ailing parents, their sister Masha has been gallivanting around the world as a successful actress and movie star, leaving Vanya and Sonia to feel trapped and regretful. Their soothsayer/cleaning woman Cassandra keeps warning them about terrible things in the future, which include a sudden visit from Masha and her twenty-something boy toy Spike.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Master Gardener
Overview: Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-19
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Alien, Terror in Space
Overview: In space, no one can hear you scream! the catchy slogan that accompanies Alien sums up the unprecedented stakes of this film that will mark the history of cinema. In 1979, for the first time on screens, a mainstream feature film will mix two distinct worlds of genre cinema: science fiction and horror. Ridley Scott forever shakes up the cinematic landscape by plunging the audience into anguish with his oppressive universe and his iconic monster. The documentary looks back at the lasting impact of this masterpiece, exploring Scott’s audacity and the genesis of his unique aesthetic. In the claustrophobic corridors of the Nostromo spaceship, the heroine played by Sigourney Weaver, becomes the first strong female figure to redefine the conventions of the genre, far from the clichés of the time. By revisiting the film's key sequences, the documentary shows how Alien explores profound themes such as survival and dehumanization, while reflecting a scathing critique of the capitalist system.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-21
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