Bob Balaban
Also Known As: Robert Elmer Balaban, Robert Balaban, باب بالابان
Biography: Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Capote (2005). Balaban has also directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films. He is also an author of children's novels. Balaban began his career in the 1960s, appearing in small roles in films and television shows. He made his breakthrough role in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, playing a young hustler who befriends an aging rodeo cowboy. In the 1970s, Balaban appeared in a number of popular films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), and 2010 (1984). He also continued to work in television, appearing in recurring roles on the shows Lou Grant and Designing Women. In the 1990s, Balaban began a long and fruitful collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Guest. He appeared in all of Guest's mockumentary comedies, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006). Balaban's performances in these films were widely praised, and he earned a reputation as one of the most reliable comedic actors in Hollywood. In addition to his work in film and television, Balaban has also directed three feature films: The Last Shot (1999), Bernie (2011), and A Little Help (2010). He is also a successful author of children's novels, and he has won several awards for his writing. Balaban is a respected and versatile actor who has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment industry. He is known for his sharp wit, his impeccable comedic timing, and his ability to create memorable characters. He is a true Renaissance man, and he is sure to continue to entertain audiences for many years to come. Balaban has been nominated for numerous awards throughout his career. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, for his work on the television shows Lou Grant and Designing Women. He has also been nominated for two Tony Awards, for his performances in the Broadway plays The Norman Conquests and The Plough and the Stars. Balaban is a recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Balaban is married to Lynn Grossman, and they have two children together. He is a resident of New York City.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Birthday: August 16, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
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80 for Brady
Overview: Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it's never too late to live life to the fullest. Inspired by a true story.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Ghost World
Overview: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Overview: After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Jakob the Liar
Overview: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Midnight Cowboy
Overview: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-25
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Conversation with the Beast
Overview: An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-20
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Deconstructing Harry
Overview: Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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No Reservations
Overview: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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2010
Overview: While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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Dead Bang
Overview: Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-24
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Gosford Park
Overview: In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-26
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The Late Shift
Overview: David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-24
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The Majestic
Overview: Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-21
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Little Man Tate
Overview: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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Altered States
Overview: A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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The Mexican
Overview: Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Overview: Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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For Love or Money
Overview: New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Carl Laemmle
Overview: A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his efforts in the 1930s to save Jewish families in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-15
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Rage
Overview: A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Lady in the Water
Overview: Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Scene Stealers
Overview: Billy Bottomsly, a struggling artist, is plagiarised by a Hollywood mogul. He involves his "typecast" friends in a star-jacking retribution plan. Billy's own dark comedy of errors becomes the ground floor in a pyramid of deception; each revelation an unsettling reminder that control is indeed an illusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Best in Show
Overview: The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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Dedication
Overview: A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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Recount
Overview: In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-25
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The Windmill Movie
Overview: Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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Report to the Commissioner
Overview: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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For Your Consideration
Overview: The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star generates awards buzz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Howl
Overview: It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Waiting for Guffman
Overview: Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-21
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Funny
Overview: People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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End of the Line
Overview: When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Absence of Malice
Overview: Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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The Strawberry Statement
Overview: A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Girl Most Likely
Overview: A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Clockwatchers
Overview: The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-12
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Asteroid City
Overview: In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-08
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Unnatural Pursuits
Overview: An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Overview: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-26
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The Monster Hunter
Overview: Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Monuments Men
Overview: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
Genres: War Drama History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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An L.A. Minute
Overview: Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his 1% world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Me, Natalie
Overview: Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-13
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Making It
Overview: A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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Fading Gigolo
Overview: Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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How Dare You Want More: The Short Film
Overview: A short film sequel to the six-episode web miniseries “Thank You and Sorry.”
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-14
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Moonrise Kingdom
Overview: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Girlfriends
Overview: A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Overview: Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Moonrise Kingdom".
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-22
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Overview: An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Overview: Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Giving Up the Ghost
Overview: After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband's ghost helps with a current murder case.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Swing Vote
Overview: A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-19
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A Mighty Wind
Overview: Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Trust the Man
Overview: Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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The Definite Maybe
Overview: When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he fears the worst. But his best friend, Ziggy, shows up A.W.O.L. from the Peace Corps and leads him out to the swank Hamptons for Easter weekend in search of betterment and understanding. Once there, they confront the adult roles of life for the first time; fraud, attempted murder, two-faced disloyalty and well-catered cocktail parties!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-04
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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Overview: This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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Thin Ice
Overview: A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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Three to Tango
Overview: Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Greedy
Overview: Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Mascots
Overview: Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-11
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The Bank Shot
Overview: A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-31
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Marriage: Year One
Overview: A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-15
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Cradle Will Rock
Overview: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-10
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Pie in the Sky
Overview: A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Eva Hesse
Overview: German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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The Five Stages of Grief
Overview: Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Isle of Dogs
Overview: In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Catch-22
Overview: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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The Face of Fear
Overview: Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-30
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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Overview: A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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George Romero's Golden Tales 2
Overview: Compilation of five horror stories from Tales from the Darkside (1983) that takes the viewer into the dark world of vampires, cursed objects and sinister humor. Despite the title, only the final story is by Stephen King.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-25
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Prince of the City
Overview: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
Overview: With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-29
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Bob Roberts
Overview: Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Overview: A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-08
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Spielberg
Overview: A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-05
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Everything Is Copy
Overview: A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-29
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Capote
Overview: A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Tuxedo
Overview: Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Paired with a partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting secret agent.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Amos & Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-05
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Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Overview: Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-21
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Plan B
Overview: A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Overview: A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Overview: Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-05
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Marie and Bruce
Overview: A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate and committment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-19
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Do You Like to Read?
Overview: The librarian of the town of New Penzance introduces six animated segments illustrating Suzy's favorite books.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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The French Dispatch
Overview: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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License to Wed
Overview: Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-04
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F--k
Overview: Some people will do anything to find the location.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-07
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Tex, the Passive/Aggressive Gunslinger
Overview: The legend of Tex, who never lost a gunfight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Alice
Overview: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Overview: A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-18
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Overview: Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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How Moving
Overview: With some apprehension, Jared (Richard Ellis) flew across the country to move in with his boyfriend, Owen (writer-director Owen Thiele). On top of the expected challenges of move-in day, they're faced with a practical one that puts their relationship to the test.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Prince of the City: The Real Story
Overview: The true story behind the Prince of the City.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Fantasy Life
Overview: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The girls' mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she's in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne's family to babysit for the summer on Martha's Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Overview: This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's character, how the astronauts float in space, and the construction of the spaceship in which the astronauts carry out their mission. The vehicle is so large, the two largest sound stages on the MGM lot were used to construct it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Bad Actors
Overview: A spirited group of activists inadvertently glue themselves together while preparing for a protest.
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Original Language: en
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