Fred Melamed
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Biography: Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American actor and writer. He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: May 13, 1956
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Male
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Cat Person
Overview: When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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A Serious Man
Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Suspect
Overview: When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Chicanery
Overview: Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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Lovesick
Overview: Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Kid Gambled
Overview: Peer-pressured to steal a case of beer by his hooligan friends, a stoned anxiety-stricken teenager wobbles through the aisles of a Las Vegas convenience store battling his own self doubts and wild hallucinations. Featuring Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, In a World, Lady Dynamite).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-16
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Rumble
Overview: In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Fred Won't Move Out
Overview: Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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In a World...
Overview: An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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The Manhattan Project
Overview: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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Don't Trip
Overview: A struggling screenwriter falls into a dangerous relationship with a powerful producer's son.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
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Get on Up
Overview: A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Blumenthal
Overview: A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing at his own joke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-03
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Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
Overview: You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Diary of a Spy
Overview: Anna is a washed-up intelligence officer whose last mission left 7 people dead. Drunk, broke, and alone she is given the chance for one last mission: to seduce and recruit a valuable asset connected to the Saudi Royal Family. As she gets closer and closer to her target, Anna finds she is in over her head and she must decide between accomplishing her mission or finding a way to save herself.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-14
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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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The Mission
Overview: When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Interpersonal Exopolitics
Overview: Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.
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Original Language: en
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Little Death
Overview: A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Bone Tomahawk
Overview: During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Genres: Western Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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Some Kind of Beautiful
Overview: By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Fuzzy Head
Overview: Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really happened and at last, undo all that's been done.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Smart Pipe
Overview: Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-17
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Peak Season
Overview: An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected bond with a wilderness guide when she and her fiance take a summer holiday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-08
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Overview: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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You Are Whole
Overview: A spiritual missionary is mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-20
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Hail, Caesar!
Overview: When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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The Mission
Overview: When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
Overview: After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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The Bookie & the Bruiser
Overview: In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men served overseas during WWII and returned changed, no longer fitting inside the lives they'd left behind. Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very profitable, though risky, and their situation gets rather sticky when they find themselves stuck between a powerful Irish gang and the Mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Lemon
Overview: A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-22
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Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Overview: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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Passengers
Overview: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Silver Lake
Overview: The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girlfriend Mary (Woll) and her young daughters, plus his larger-than-life mentor (Fred Melamed).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-21
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
Overview: A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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The Pick-up Artist
Overview: A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Dragged Across Concrete
Overview: Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-21
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The Dictator
Overview: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-15
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Adult Beginners
Overview: A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-08
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Lying and Stealing
Overview: Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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The Vigil
Overview: A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-01
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Hairbrained
Overview: A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-25
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Shiva Baby
Overview: College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Hollywood Ending
Overview: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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Together Together
Overview: When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Husbands and Wives
Overview: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Sticky Fingers
Overview: Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Maclunkey Treasure Island
Overview: The Star Wars Minute Podcast and The George Lucas Talk Show are proud to return to Dynasty Typewriter on March 15 to stage their LIVE reading of the original screenplay to 1977’s Star Wars, with a radical cast including some of the galaxy’s hottest stars (…and maybe some surprises?!) Since its 1977 release, Star Wars has captivated audiences with its combination of revolutionary special effects and old-fashioned serial fun. What better way to celebrate this than assembling a cast the likes of which has not been seen since we staged our LIVE reading of the prequel trilogy in 2024!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-15
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The Good Mother
Overview: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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