Lorraine Bracco
Also Known As: Лоррейн Бракко, 洛琳·布萊克, لورین براکو
Biography: Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Karen Hill in Goodfellas, Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the HBO television series The Sopranos, and Angela Rizzoli, Jane's mother on Rizzoli & Isles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 02, 1954
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Gender: Female
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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GoodFellas
Overview: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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Switch
Overview: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Hackers
Overview: Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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The Basketball Diaries
Overview: A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Radio Flyer
Overview: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Rich Flu
Overview: A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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Someone to Watch Over Me
Overview: Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-09
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Medicine Man
Overview: An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-07
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Overview: A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Talent for the Game
Overview: Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ball experience, but with a pitching arm no one has seen the like of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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The Dream Team
Overview: Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Sing
Overview: When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing," he is forced to come to terms with his defiant self-destructive lifestyle and his growing attraction to his co-star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Snowglobe
Overview: A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe. Angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does not share her love for the holiday at all. When she is about to breakdown because of her family, she receives a snowglobe in the mail. When she opens up the snowglobe, she is transported into the world inside, where Christmas is the heart and soul for everyone who lives there. She discovers she can return to her world by going down a small path in the small forest at the edge of the village, and can return whenever she winds up the snowglobe. After a long set of visits to the globe, she accidentally gets trapped inside.
Genres: TV Movie Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-15
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Monster Summer
Overview: When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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Welcome to Mama's
Overview: After she inherits an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, manager Amy teams up with a blacklisted master chef looking for a second chance. They discover that the most important ingredient for any recipe is always love.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-26
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Tangled
Overview: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-02
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Son of Morning
Overview: As a solar catastrophe threatens the world, Phillip Katz (Joseph Cross), a stressed-out copywriter, is mistaken for the next messiah by an ambitious reporter (Heather Graham). Instantly becoming the most famous person on the planet, Phillip must decide how to use his newfound celebrity - for the betterment of mankind or himself!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-28
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Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Overview: Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Traces of Red
Overview: Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, along with anonymous letters from the killer.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-13
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Nonnas
Overview: Brooklyn native Joe Scaravella, after losing his beloved mother, realizes he’s wasted time as a single man at a dead-end job and yearns for a second chance at life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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Scam
Overview: A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-22
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Duets on Sofa
Overview: The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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My Suicidal Sweetheart
Overview: A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Custody of the Heart
Overview: Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-28
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Ladies Room
Overview: In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-30
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Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
Overview: After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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Silent Cradle
Overview: A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Death of a Dynasty
Overview: A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-07
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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The Liars
Overview: Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Dissonance
Overview: Dissonance explores the harsh challenges of a young man's stale relationship and stalled career. As everything seems to be going nowhere, he must decide whether he will hold onto love, or face the fear that moving forward may mean letting go. In a moment, everything changes forever...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-30
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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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Jacir
Overview: A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh realities of chasing the American dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Overview: A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), the successful film that redefined the mafia on the big screen. Featuring interviews with cast and crew and clips from the movie, this retrospective documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes experiences of what would turn out to be one of the greatest films ever made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Getting Gotti
Overview: Though she grew up in the same neighborhood with him, the new Assistant U.S. Attorney is determined to prosecute Mafia boss John Gotti. Uncooperative FBI agents and bureaucrats will not deter the driven young prosecutor as her quest culminates in the memorable and controversial trial of the "Dapper Don."
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-10
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Overview: In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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The Union
Overview: A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-15
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Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?
Overview: Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-06
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Sea of Love
Overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Master Maggie
Overview: A celebrity acting coach (Lorraine Bracco) is interrupted by an unknown actor (Neil Jain) begging for her help for a TV audition. What follows is an unexpected journey for the both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Scorsese's GoodFellas
Overview: In this produced by Brett Ratner new retrospective documentary we hear from cast members and additional participants include Harvey Keitel, Leonardo DiCaprio and Terence Winter, creator of Boardwalk Empire and screenwriter of The Wolf of Wall Street. The program gives us thoughts about Scorsese's approach to the material, casting, characters, and performances, costumes and period details, photography, music, and retrospective thoughts about the film. It is filled with memorable stories and observations from a wide array of commentators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-05
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Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!
Overview: Prostrate probing interviews! Live action murder! Naked people! Tired death-rockers! And more! Much more!!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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On a Moonlit Night
Overview: An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-05
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Monday Nights at Seven
Overview: Monday Nights At Seven is a love story about a single father, Lazo Saroby, who is struggling unsuccessfully to let go of his past. Then he meets Isabel, a young woman who is also facing the consequences of her own life choices. As feelings for Isabel expose the lie Lazo is living, he is forced to get real with himself, as painful as it might be. Facing the truth is Lazo's ultimate battle, but it's the only way he stands a chance of ever being free.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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A Ring for Christmas
Overview: Spoiled single girl Angie Moore gets cut off 25 days before Christmas. When she discovers the existence of a sizable trust fund that she will inherit once she gets married, Angie decides to find a man to marry - by Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-08
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James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
Overview: In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June 19 at age 51. The special features clips of Gandolfini’s work as well as behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-22
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Lifeline
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the kidnappers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Pinocchio
Overview: A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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The Birthday Cake
Overview: On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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