Jacqueline Brookes
Also Known As: Jacqueline Victoire Brookes
Biography: Jacqueline Victoire Brookes (July 24, 1930 – April 26, 2013) was an American film, television, and stage actress, best known for her work both off-Broadway and on Broadway.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: July 24, 1930
Deathday: April 26, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Entity
Overview: Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla's traumatic past is motivating her to commit self-induced injuries, rather than anything supernatural.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-30
Popularity:
The Good Son
Overview: A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-24
Popularity:
Silent Witness
Overview: The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-14
Popularity:
Losing Isaiah
Overview: Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-17
Popularity:
The Hospital
Overview: Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
Popularity:
The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
Popularity:
Last Embrace
Overview: Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-04
Popularity:
Love and Money
Overview: An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
Popularity:
Without a Trace
Overview: English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, a frantic Selky contacts the police. Detective Al Menetti, a father himself, takes an interest in the case that quickly turns into an obsession. As a devastated Selky struggles to come to terms with Alex's disappearance, Menetti steps out from behind the badge to continue investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-04
Popularity:
Rodeo Girl
Overview: Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider herself, encouraged by her one-time performer mother, and eventually confronts her new lifestyle, despite her husband's disapproval. Based on the true story of rodeo champion Sue Pirtle.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-17
Popularity:
Medea
Overview: A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-12
Popularity:
Paternity
Overview: Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hire a surrogate mother in the hope of having a son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-02
Popularity:
Ghost Story
Overview: Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
Popularity:
Medea
Overview: Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
Word of Honor
Overview: A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, and his boss threatens to fire him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-06
Popularity:
Stacking
Overview: After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-22
Popularity:
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Overview: Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-28
Popularity:
Hardhat & Legs
Overview: A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-09
Popularity:
Unholy Matrimony
Overview: He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-03
Popularity:
Starcrossed
Overview: An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight for the freedom of her people.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-31
Popularity:
Act of Love
Overview: A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life of limited mobility and function, the young man finds his own life weighed down by his thoughts and feelings about the accident. Motivated by his emotions and the suffering of his brother, the young man performs an "act of love" which creates more chaos for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-24
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
One of Our Own
Overview: Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases. Problems arise when a top doctor is brought in seriously injured after a car crash, and Goodwin must deal with the doctor's own personal physician who wants to avoid a scandal. At the same time Goodwin's own son is brought in with a life threatening condition. This film was the pilot for the TV series Doctor's Hospital.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-05
Popularity:
License to Kill
Overview: A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-16
Popularity:
The Werewolf of Washington
Overview: After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-01
Popularity:
Whispers in the Dark
Overview: Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
Popularity: