Joanna Miles
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joanna Miles (born March 6, 1940) is an American actress. Miles was born in Nice, France, the daughter of Jeanne Miles, an American painter, and Johannes Schiefer, a French painter art curator. She immigrated to the United States, and was naturalized a citizen, in 1941. She was a graduate of The Putney School, a progressive independent high school in Putney, Vermont in 1958. Miles won the two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1973 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie: Best Supporting Actress in Drama (for a Special - Program, a One-Time Appearance in a Series - or a Continuing Role) and Supporting Actress of the Year. She has also played supporting roles in various television shows and movies, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, (1990) and Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is known to Star Trek fans as Perrin, Sarek's wife, from the episodes Sarek and Unification. In 2001, she had a secondary role as the wife of a storekeeper in Tom Selleck's Turner Network Television Western film, Crossfire Trail. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanna Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nice, France
Birthday: March 06, 1940
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Gender: Female
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Born Innocent
Overview: A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Overview: Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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The Ultimate Warrior
Overview: Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Judge Dredd
Overview: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Crossfire Trail
Overview: Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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Monte Walsh
Overview: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Bug
Overview: An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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The Sound of Murder
Overview: The wife of a cynical children's author and her navy man lover decide to murder him because he won't give her a divorce. Their plan is so diabolically complicated it just might work, but the wife has second thoughts.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-18
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The Water Engine
Overview: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don't want the competition. Now he has to try and keep them from getting his idea, and somehow get it published.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-24
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The Glass Menagerie
Overview: An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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Small Vices
Overview: Bested on the best-selling novel by author Robert B. Parker, Joe Mantegna is Spenser - Boston's best-known private eye. Called upon to investigate a case of murder, corruption, and betrayal, the super sleuth finds himself marked for death and on the run from a ruthless international assassin.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-18
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less about him than for each other, and a million-dollar insurance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-21
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Thin Air
Overview: Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help locate her, who begins to piece together her complete life story while submerged in the Latino shadow world of the town of Proctor.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
Overview: Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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Blackout
Overview: A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-29
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As Is
Overview: Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-27
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The Orphan
Overview: A disturbed young man is plagued by horrific headaches that he believes make him commit murders.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Alone
Overview: John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-21
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Right to Die
Overview: Emily Bauer (Raquel Welch) is a successful psychologist with a happy home life who is suddenly stricken with the dreaded neurological affliction ALS (aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). At first, she is determined to fight for her life, but as her conditions deteriorates and she becomes more of a human vegetable, Ms. Welch begs her husband (Michael Gross) to help her die.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-12
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A Fire in the Sky
Overview: Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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The Promise of Love
Overview: A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who works at Camp Pendleton.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-11
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Natural Selection
Overview: Software programmer Ben Braden has it all: beautiful wife, cute kid, dream house, sports car, great job. Then one day the doorbell rings and he finds himself standing eye to eye with Alex Connelly, every inch his double and hell-bent on getting Ben's material features as well...
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-10
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Overview: Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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Everything to Gain
Overview: After losing her husband and two daughters in a robbery, Mallory must face up to her bereavement and ensuing depression.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-13
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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Overview: Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
Overview: DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real killer may be a twin sibling.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-17
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The Heart of Justice
Overview: David Leader investigates a seemingly senseless murder, and in the course of it is drawn into the labyrinth of a sinisterly unique wealthy family...
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Cross Creek
Overview: In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Sex and Breakfast
Overview: Two young couples using anonymous sex as a catalyst to fix their troubled relationships must rethink what makes a connection work.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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The Habitation of Dragons
Overview: Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Grave Misconduct
Overview: A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of vicious murders occur that seem to implicate her.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification
Overview: When the Federation calls for help in locating an ambassador suspected of defecting, Picard is troubled to learn that Spock is the one who has vanished. Seeking information from Spock's ailing father, Sarek, and unlikely help from the Klingons, Picard and his crew find the ambassador pursuing a personal mission on Romulus: a Vulcan/Romulan reunification. But though the Romulans claim to support the same goal, their motives are not what they seem.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-27
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All My Sons
Overview: Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles in determining the outcome of events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-19
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Delta County, USA
Overview: Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-20
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Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer
Overview: Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their deaths through labyrinth traps. Three innocent men have already taken the fall for Daedalus and when Daedalus strikes again, Shelby finds herself defending the latest man accused, a retired and respected judge--who also happens to be her own father.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-03
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The Way We Live Now
Overview: A mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series of disastrous love affairs with a series of women. He will eventually return to his wife, chastened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Aloha Means Goodbye
Overview: A young woman who is battling a rare blood disease must also fight against a greedy doctor who needs a heart-transplant donor, and has her in mind.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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