Alan Cumming
Also Known As: Alan Cummings, 알란 커밍, 艾倫康明飾, آلن کامینگ
Biography: Alan Cumming FRSE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and an Olivier Award. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the West Endproduction of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1991). His other Olivier-nominated roles were in The Conquest of the South Pole (1988), La Bête (1992), and Cabaret (1994). Cumming won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for reprising his role as the Emcee on Broadway in Cabaret (1998). His other performances on Broadway include Design for Living (2001), and Macbeth (2013). Cumming is known for his film roles in Circle of Friends (1995), GoldenEye (1995), Emma (1996), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Buddy (1997), Spice World (1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Tempest (2010), Burlesque (2010), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). He is also known for his roles as Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Nightcrawlerin X2 (2003), and Loki in Son of the Mask (2005). On television, Cumming is best known for his role in the CBS series The Good Wife (2010–2016), for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Cumming also starred in the CBS series Instinct (2018–2019), the Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon! (2021–2023) and presents the Peacock reality game show The Traitors. Cumming has written a novel, Tommy's Tale (2002), and two memoirs in 2014 and 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cumming , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Birthday: January 27, 1965
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Gender: Male
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Overview: The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilma's love?
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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GoldenEye
Overview: When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-16
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Son of the Mask
Overview: Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Spy Kids
Overview: Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business."
Genres: Action Comedy Family Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-18
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Overview: This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Sweet Land
Overview: Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Bernard and the Genie
Overview: Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-23
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Neverwas
Overview: Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Circle of Friends
Overview: Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
Overview: A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-18
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Full Grown Men
Overview: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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Dare
Overview: When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny. Envious, her shy best friend Ben also dares to pursue Johnny.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Rare Objects
Overview: A young woman seeks to rebuild her life when she takes work at an antique store. She regains her confidence from the kind souls who own the shop, until faces from her traumatic past start to surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-14
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Overview: Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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The Anniversary Party
Overview: While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Overview: Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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Annie
Overview: Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-07
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Titus
Overview: Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Marlowe
Overview: Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-15
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The Smurfs
Overview: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-29
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Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Burlesque
Overview: Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-majestic theater that houses an inspired musical revue. Vowing to perform there, she makes the leap from bar to stage, helping restore the club's former glory.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-23
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Black Beauty
Overview: The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-29
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X2
Overview: Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-27
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Boogie Woogie
Overview: In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his assistants, Beth, is sleeping with Art's most acquisitive client, Bob Macclestone. Beth wants Bob to set her up in her own gallery, so she helps him go behind Art's back for the Mondrian. Bob's wife, Jean, sets her eye on a young conceptual artist, Jo, who lusts after Art's newest assistant, Paige. Meanwhile, self-absorbed videographer Elaine is chewing her way through friends and lovers looking to make it: if she'll throw Dewey, her agent, under the bus, Beth may give her a show. And the Mondrian? No honor among thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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Buddy
Overview: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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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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Searching for Debra Winger
Overview: Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-13
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Riverworld
Overview: Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-18
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The Tempest
Overview: An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-11
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Overview: Conceived by John Mauceri, this new work is a re-imagination of Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, "The Nutcracker." Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 book, Alan Cumming recounts the origin story of how a prince got put into a nutcracker. Unlike the ballet, we also learn what happens when the young girl grows up, having saved the prince, and what they are doing today.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-14
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Intimate Affairs
Overview: Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance of the luminaries in attendance, Edgar secures two comely stenographers to transcribe their intellectual discussion. But, as the conversation unfolds, the stenographers find it increasingly difficult to remain casual observers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-18
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Ripley Under Ground
Overview: After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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The Goodbye Girl
Overview: Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets her stay, even keeping the master bedroom. Pragmatic pre-teen daughter Lucy soon takes to his charm, but Paula remains determined to hate all actors. Despite the stress of a Broadway Shakespeare lead he must play too queer for Frisco, he's determined to snatch romance from ingratitude.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Josie and the Pussycats
Overview: Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Overview: The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret. Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball. Narrated by Alan Cumming. With Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Barnaby Thompson.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Ghost Writer
Overview: John Vandermark (Cumming) has taken in a struggling writer, Sebastian St. Germain (Boreanaz), who overstays his welcome. When John discovers that Sebastian has simply been using him, he turns the tables on his young tenant in an effort to make him work off his rent debt. When Sebastian dies accidentally in the process, John tries to make it up to him by helping him get his book published posthumously. When the book is published, John can't help but take credit for the work of genius... and Sebastian comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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My Old School
Overview: In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-10
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Mr. Bean: Blind Date
Overview: In a Red Nose Day Special episode, Mr. Bean finds himself as a contestant on a TV show called 'Blind Date'. Among two other men, can Mr. Bean win a blind date with the beautiful Tracy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Jackboots on Whitehall
Overview: A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
Genres: War Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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The Smurfs 2
Overview: The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world¹s greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-30
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Second Best
Overview: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
Overview: Welcome to the gayest of gay ghettos, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-kids home. That is until Rick's lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten asks him to be the father of her child. There's just one catch, Kirsten's wife Dana and Rick's husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, and the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never looked so cute. Starring the voices of Alan Cumming, Peter Paige, Wilson Cruz, and Margaret Cho, with music from the creators of Avenue Q. Viewer discretion advised.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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The Outback
Overview: Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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The Money Pet
Overview: After his mutt accidentally eats some loose change, a man is soon bewildered to discover that his furry companion has passed the currency with compounded interest.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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My Father's Dragon
Overview: Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Maladies
Overview: A former soap star appears to have a narrator stuck in his head. As he moves in with his sister and works to restart his creative career, he tries to figure out who is really calling the shots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-29
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Almost in Love
Overview: A love triangle shot in two continuous 45-minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second a sunrise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-15
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It's Complicated
Overview: Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life—just when she thought she had it all figured out.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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For My Baby
Overview: A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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Prague
Overview: Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track down a piece of film that contains the only existing footage of his family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Burn Your Phone
Overview: Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this particular day he takes a series of calls from someone who is threatening to murder him.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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The Airzone Solution
Overview: The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they venture outside. AirZone, a powerful corporation, signs a lucrative deal with the government to deal with the problem. The public is told that AirZone plans to build giant filtration plants to clean the atmosphere, but environmentalists are skeptical, especially when people begin dying and disappearing around AirZone facilities.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Overview: When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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The Last Romantics
Overview: A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-29
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Muse of Fire
Overview: Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Cabaret
Overview: Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as cabaret girl Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as the bicurious Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the impish Emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside, a notorious political party grows into a brutal force.
Genres: Romance Music Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Sir Billi
Overview: An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to save an illegal fugitive - Bessie Boo the beaver!
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Passing Glory
Overview: When Spanish Civil War veteran Jessie McFarlane dies, the funeral is a mockery of her life and beliefs. Caught in a family divided by politics and religion Jessie's granddaughter, Sadie, makes a stand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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Loser
Overview: On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-21
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Ptown Diaries
Overview: Chronicling the amazing history of Provincetown a small Ma. town where the pilgrims first landed to the present day Gay Mecca. Ptown diaries weaves the story of the New England Yankees, Portuguese fisherman, bohemian artists into a single mesmerizing history. Provincetown was the first artists colony in the united states. The true beginnings of American drama took place here with the arrival of Eugene O "Neil, followed by the groundbreaking work of Tennessee Williams. Ptown diaries embraces the: the eccentric, the rich heritage, and the magnificent landscape known as "Lands End "
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-16
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Plunkett & MacLeane
Overview: Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Genie
Overview: Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Dread Poets' Society
Overview: Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Drive Back Home
Overview: A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Chu and Blossom
Overview: A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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The Diary
Overview: In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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Spice World
Overview: World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
Overview: Cumming hosts this cabaret-style gathering featuring seven up-and-coming queer comedians who represent not only the diversity of the queer spectrum, but also of comedy styling - from stand-up to characters to musical performances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Strange Magic
Overview: A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.
Genres: Music Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Eyes Wide Shut
Overview: After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-16
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Bathtime
Overview: A man tries to commit suicide for the love of his goldfish, but finds it surprisingly difficult to accomplish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Eighteen
Overview: Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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That Sunday
Overview: Romantic comedy/short film from 1994, starring Alan Cumming and Minnie Driver.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Bam Bam and Celeste
Overview: Celeste and Bam Bam escape their Midwest hometown for New York, and take on their high-school nemeses - the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage - while discovering that true beauty lies within.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-13
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Ooh the Banter!
Overview: Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-31
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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Overview: ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstein filmed each principal musical on Broadway for her project during the 2003-2004 season, for about 600 hours of initial film footage. She focused the film on four musicals, through the difficulties of pre-production, their openings, attendant publicity around the shows, and their reviews, through the 2004 Tony Award competition. The four musicals documented for the film were: Wicked, Taboo, Caroline or Change, Avenue Q.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Death Do Us Part
Overview: Film based on the myth of Death and the Maiden, directed by David Chavez Grant and Abigail Ory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Urbania
Overview: A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-24
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Overview: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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Battle of the Sexes
Overview: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Overview: A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-12
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Hurricane Bianca
Overview: A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-03
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Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Overview: Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Overview: The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that goal
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-25
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After Louie
Overview: As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what he sees as the younger generation's indifference to the politics of sex, and of death. An unexpected intimacy with a much younger man challenges Sam's understanding of contemporary gay life. Through this unconventional romance, he is forced to deal with the trauma that so informs his past, their present, and an unknown future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Lunch Hour
Overview: Delving into the anatomy of an affair, a soup-loving married man meets the soup-loving married woman of his dreams. Thereafter, both throw caution to the wind and engage in a messy affair for the ages.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
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Glenrothan
Overview: After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Donal to take over the family's whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the family's legacy. But their reunion forces the brothers to confront the past and the real reason Donal left Glenrothan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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X2 Global Webcast Highlights
Overview: In this piece, Michael Broidy of Fox Publicity sits with Bryan Singer, producers Ralph Winter and Lauren Shuler Donner, and actors Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, and Kelly Hu for an Internet-based chat. Each participant appears solo in this set of excerpts. They take queries from various international chat rooms and discuss a number of topics in this reasonably informative and interesting discussion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-25
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Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
Overview: It features interviews, some sketches of figuring out the look, behind the scenes footage of rehearsal and make-up of Nightcrawler on X2.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-25
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Michael Jackson's Halloween
Overview: The one-hour animated special, packed with the vocal talents of some of your favorite CBS stars and the King of Pop's most memorable hits, follows Vincent and Victoria, as they embark on a magical journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Queer as Art
Overview: Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading figures from right across the arts in Britain, including Stephen Fry, David Hockney, Sir Antony Sher, Alan Cumming, Sandi Toksvig, Jeanette Winterson, Will Young and Alan Hollinghurst, and it explores the distinctive perspectives and voices that LGBT artists have brought to British cultural life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Show Dogs
Overview: Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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MOFO NYC
Overview: MOFO NYC is the party brainchild of DJ Singer Glam Bitch Mother Michael T. Along with partners the lovely & talented DJ Justine D, club owner & drummer producer Johnny T & the late great night life visionary Georgie Seville. Together they produced 10 years of epic parties that made NYC nightlife legendary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Always at The Carlyle
Overview: The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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Conquest of the South Pole
Overview: A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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The Real Cabaret
Overview: Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic Cabaret. Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of singer Sally Bowles and the film's stylish recreation of the era have become defining images of Weimar Berlin. In this documentary, actor Alan Cumming explores the truths behind the fiction. He meets many of those closely involved with the original film, including Liza Minnelli, and talks to cabaret artists, among them acclaimed performer Ute Lemper. Alan explores the origins of the Cabaret story in the writings of Christopher Isherwood and uncovers the story of the real life Sally Bowles, a woman very different from her fictional counterpart. He talks to the composer of Cabaret about the inspiration for the film's most famous songs and discovers the stories of the original composers and performers, among them Marlene Dietrich. Finally, Alan reveals the tragic fate of many of the cabaret artists at the hands of the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Overview: As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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CinéMagique
Overview: CinéMagique was a theatre show at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris mixing the live performance of an actor with synchronised movie scenes on a big screen. The attraction opened with the park on March 16, 2002 and stars Martin Short and Julie Delpy. The last show was on March 29, 2017.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-16
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PoliWood
Overview: An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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Becoming Men
Overview: Nothing equals that feeling of ultimate conquest like our first sexual experiences. It is a time of mystery, wonder and new adult responsibilities. Here are real-life stories of young men taking the final step on their journey from boyhood to manhood. Superb photography, spectacular guys and candid interviews capture the joys and fears of sexual awakening and evoke memories of those early experiences that define our lives. Tony Award winning Broadway and film star, Alan Cumming, narrates this sensitive look at the challenges and glories of youthful passion, including current information for making safer choices. A must for all men.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Overview: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Overview: Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleakly funny and subversively devastating stalemate. Endgame forms the first half of a double bill, performed alongside Samuel Beckett’s rarely-seen short play Rough for Theatre II.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-01
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Garfield
Overview: Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-10
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Picasso Baby
Overview: Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
Overview: A mix of cabaret and standup recorded at Joe's Pub in New York.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-11
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Gray Matters
Overview: Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Butter
Overview: Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
Overview: A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-17
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GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Overview: A short documentary about the cast of GoldenEye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Overview: Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-26
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Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
Overview: Judy Collins burst onto the music scene in the 1960s and has not stopped since. Along with Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle, and Jimmy Webb, Collins leads a candid conversation about the larger community of singer-songwriters who continue to shape the musical landscape decades into their respective careers. Rounding out the afternoon, Tony Award winner Alan Cumming joins Collins to discuss musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim, who penned “Send In the Clowns”—arguably the biggest hit of Collins’ career.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-30
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Bad Blood
Overview: A man infected with HIV exacts his revenge on the person responsible. Based on a chapter from Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Overview: An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Any Day Now
Overview: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-14
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The Mystery of Claywoman
Overview: A mock documentary exploring the purported existence of 'Claywoman', a 500 million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. Presented as a found, severely damaged and restored film, the short features performances by Amy Poehler, Debbie Harry and Alan Cumming among others.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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Borges and Me
Overview: Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-year-old student Parini dreams of becoming a writer but is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible 70-year-old Borges. As the journey takes a surreal turn, their differences magnify until, in the tradition of a classic road trip, the two ultimately find common ground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Run
Overview: A lonely rural mechanic battles for survival after a tragic accident robs him of the life he's known. As he learns to love himself, he finds in the worst losses lie the greatest gains and in the most deafening silence lies the loudest song.
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V13
Overview: In Vienna in 1913, Hugo, a young man from a well-off Viennese family, is sent to see Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis. Hugo complains that he feels an impulsive revulsion tinged with hatred for Jews. Freud accepts him for an analysis. Hugo befriends a struggling artist obsessed with vegetarianism and German nationalism, Adolf. Filmed in contemporary New York City—particularly in the Bronx—V13 portrays the origins of the Nazi Weltenschaung. Alan Cumming gives an extraordinary performance as SIgmund Freud. The screenplay is based on a play by Alain Didier-Weill. His prior collaboration with the director, THE CALLER (2008), won the Made in New York Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Sleazy Tiger
Overview: Hopeless romantic Alan is having a great first date with vegan heartthrob Blair but when Blair gives him a jar of homemade kimchi, Alan struggles to control his erotic desire and finds himself in Horny Hell fighting to get back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
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Endgame
Overview: Tony winner Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe star in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, which opened February 4 at The Old Vic. The play is part of a double-bill, along with Beckett’s short work Rough for Theatre II. Directed by Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape), Endgame is set in a bare room, where an old, blind tyrant named Hamm, played by Cumming (Cabaret, Daddy), is locked in a stalemate with his servant Clov, played by Radcliffe (Lifespan of a Fact, Equus). Interrupted only by the nostalgic musings of Hamm’s ancient, dustbin-dwelling parents, this double act cling stubbornly to their routine of casual savagery and mutual dependence.
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92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
Overview: The 92nd annual tree-lighting ceremony in New York kicks off the holiday season with a dazzling display of musical talents, star-studded surprises and the lighting of the iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-04
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Overview: A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-11
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The Naturalized
Overview: Weaving together the lives of different people from different countries who all share a quest for citizenship by choice, not birthright, this documentary travels from a citizenship class in San Jose to a naturalization ceremony in Iraq. Along the way, there's unprecedented access to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, revealing the complex process up close, including a marriage interview and the one-on-one Citizenship Exam. How many amendments are in the Constitution? To become an American, not knowing is not an option. Contemporary stories of struggle and success are combined with insightful interviews from notable naturalized citizens like Fareed Zakaria, Alan Cumming, David Rakoff, and Isabel Allende.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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