James MacDonald
Also Known As: James G. MacDonald, James McDonald, James Gordon MacDonald
Biography: James MacDonald is an actor and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Phone Booth
Overview: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-04
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Volcano
Overview: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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Tigerland
Overview: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Joy Ride
Overview: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Space Cowboys
Overview: Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-04
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Hollywood Homicide
Overview: Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-09
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Mercury Rising
Overview: Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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Turbulence
Overview: On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-09
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Home of the Brave
Overview: The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Hostage
Overview: The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head before he reveals where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Texas Chainsaw 3D
Overview: A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-03
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Fissure
Overview: Still reeling from a personal tragedy, Detective Paul Grunning is sent on a routine call to a local professor's home. When things turn deadly, he must navigate a fractured reality to solve the mystery before it's too late.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-08-25
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Overview: About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-27
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Single and Ready to Jingle
Overview: Emma Warner feels like she lives Christmas year-round. As SVP at a toy company, she has had a great year with the season’s most successful toy but she is exhausted. All she wants is a non-holiday vacation with hot guys and a beach. Her assistant books her a flight to St. Johns but she ends up on the wrong plane and lands in St. Johns, Alaska, a town that goes all out for Christmas. Local holiday hero, Connor is stuck dealing with Emma who he considers a scrooge until her childhood Christmas memories thaw her to this town and to Connor.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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The Kids Are All Right
Overview: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-09
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Eye of the Stalker
Overview: A judge finds that the law is no help when her daughter becomes the object of a college professor's dangerous and terrifying obsession. Inspired by actual events.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-18
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Two Evil Eyes
Overview: A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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Little Boy
Overview: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Sour Grapes
Overview: The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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Montana Amazon
Overview: The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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Blackout
Overview: John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wife is murdered which he is forced to go to L.A. in order to solve the crime and piece together his mysterious past.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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The Birdcage
Overview: Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Broken Arrow
Overview: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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NYPD Mounted
Overview: New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the City's Mounted Police Department.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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