David Duchovny
Also Known As: David William Duchovny, 데이비드 듀코브니, 大衛·杜考夫尼, דיוויד דוכובני, דייוויד ויליאם דוכּובני, Девід Духовний, دیوید دوشاونیو
Biography: David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960. He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. His father was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from the Russian Empire and Poland. His mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army. Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball as a shooting guard and centerfield for the varsity baseball team. He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. At Yale, he was a student of popular literary critic Harold Bloom. Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. In April 1999, Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born in June 2002. Duchovny is a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian. On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. On October 15, 2008, Duchovny's and Leoni's representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlier.A week later, Duchovny's lawyer said that he planned to sue the Daily Mail over an article it ran that claimed he had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay while still married to Leoni, a claim that Duchovny has denied. On November 15, 2008, the Daily Mail retracted their claims. After getting back together, Duchovny and Leoni once again split on June 29, 2011.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 07, 1960
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Gender: Male
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The Rapture
Overview: A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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The X-Files
Overview: Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Return to Me
Overview: It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Overview: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Kalifornia
Overview: A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-24
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Red Shoe Diaries
Overview: A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out in an unusual way by placing an ad asking for women’s diaries and hearing their stories.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-16
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Beethoven
Overview: The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St Bernard. Doctor Varnick, the local vet has a secret and horrible sideline, which requires lots of dogs for experiments. Beethoven is on the bad doctor's list.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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House of D
Overview: In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-07
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The X Files: I Want to Believe
Overview: Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-24
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Playing God
Overview: Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Evolution
Overview: A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Zoolander
Overview: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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The Joneses
Overview: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-16
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The Secret
Overview: Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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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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Working Girl
Overview: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-20
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Full Frontal
Overview: A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Overview: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Connie and Carla
Overview: After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-16
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Queer Duck: The Movie
Overview: Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed by a brassy Broadway broad. Queer Duck wonders if he'd be happier being straight, while Gator the waiter spills his problems to a compassionate Conan O'Brien.
Genres: Animation Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-14
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The TV Set
Overview: As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every crass suggestion Lenny makes improves the show's response from test audiences and brings the show a step closer to getting on the air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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FOX 25th Anniversary Special
Overview: A special celebrating FOX's 25 years on the air. Highlights from iconic series and tributes to memorable moments, as well as celebrities honoring the network include.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-22
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Ruby
Overview: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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You People
Overview: A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Goats
Overview: Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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Quantum Hoops
Overview: While most sports films celebrate the quest for a championship, "Quantum Hoops" follows a team that is searching for a single win. The documentary chronicles the final week of the 2006 Caltech basketball season. The team is currently in the midst of a 21 year losing streak - over 240 consecutive conference losses. Caltech is annually considered one of the top 5 academic institutions in the world yet its athletic department always takes a back seat to the achievements of its world renowned faculty, Nobel prize winners, and advancements in the world of science and technology.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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The Estate
Overview: Down-on-her-luck divorcee Macey and her fickle sister Savanna attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt Hilda in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Phantom
Overview: The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-03
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Overview: In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that forever binds him to Ludlow.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Denial
Overview: A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-21
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Julia Has Two Lovers
Overview: Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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What Happens Later
Overview: Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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New Year's Day
Overview: A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Louder Than Words
Overview: After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Baby Snatcher
Overview: A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-03
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Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
Overview: Three erotic tales make up this collection from the popular Zalman King series. In “The Art of Loneliness,” a beautiful blind radio show personality experiences an unusual thrill when a couple engages in an intense erotic encounter in her presence. Forbidden zone finds two lovers transported into a futuristic world. And in the picnic, two guys and a girl turn a picnic in the countryside into a comedic scene of love, loss, and last requests.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-28
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Adam the First
Overview: Adam, a 14-year-old boy travels across the country to meet a series of men who could be his father after finding a letter with a list of names and addresses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Overview: New York City's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but it has become a beacon of hope for Ukraine. As the second-generation owner Tom Birchard reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Reverse the Curse
Overview: Follows Ted, an aimless thirtysomething who moves in with his father Marty when he develops a fatal illness. Marty’s health suffers every time the Boston Red Sox lose, so to keep him happy and alive, Ted enlists Marty’s grief counselor Mariana and friends to fake a Red Sox winning streak.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-14
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Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Red Shoe Diaries Movie 10: Some Things Never Change
Overview: A beautiful cowgirl (Sammi Davis) fights off the advances of a handsome stranger (Maximo Morrone), until she realizes he's not trying to tame her. He knows she's as spirited as a wild mustang, and he just wants to set her free. A temperamental director (Brad Fisher) and a powerful producer (Marina Giulia Cavalli) revisit a familiar scenario of love. Three years ago they almost destroyed each other with passion. Now, after one incredible night, it seems like nothing's changed. From A to Z, the alphabet girl (Christiana Capetillo), a beautiful fashion model finds there's twenty-six ways to love in this Red Shoe Diaries collection from master sensualist Zalman King.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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Inside The X-Files
Overview: Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Overview: Before he was Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, The Waterboy, or Billy Madison, Adam Sandler was doing Saturday Night Live playing hilarious characters and singing hilarious songs like the Hanukkah song and Christmas song. Watch Adam act in his own star studded way as Canteen Boy, Cajun Man, Opera Man, and much more!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-26
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Bad Influence
Overview: Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
Overview: A cab ride with a dangerously seductive stranger ignites a steamy, purely sexual affair for a woman torn between her hunger for lust and her passion for love. An adventurous married woman becomes enticed by an anonymous office worker in the building next door, playing a tantalizing game of daring all by baring all. And when a beautiful female cop gets shunned by the man she desires, she arrests him, handcuffs him and makes him a slave to her passions in payment for his crime in this Red Shoe Diaries collection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-23
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Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
Overview: Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A young wife discovers lipstick on her husband's collar. She follows him, meets his mistress, and has a lesbian fling with her. Talk To Me, Baby: A man caught cheating in a bar by his wife admits his past dalliances on the drive home, which gets his wife aroused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-16
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Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
Overview: A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect is lured by a mysterious beauty into a torrid game of temptation and seduction. And a hot-motored woman races a hard-driving man from the edge of passion to the depths of obsession in a detour to the back roads of destiny and desire in this Red Shoe Diaries collection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-20
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Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
Overview: Evan, a beautiful bounty hunter after a seductively handsome and charming con man who makes his living using his looks and wit to defraud women of their fortunes. This time Evan has met her match and he won't give up without a fight. Then, it's Christmas Eve at Fort Louis and Chandler has the weekend off. Chandler and two of her girlfriends opt for a night of wild abandon at the local bar. Finally, men have been taking care of Alicia all of her life. Now she is forced to make a decision -either hustle the streets or hustle the game of pool...and pool it is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Venice/Venice
Overview: Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
Overview: Three separate episodes of the Red Shoe Diaries (1992) tv series - "How I Met My Husband", "Naked in the Moonlight" and "Midnight Bells" - edited together into movie length.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-06
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The Craft: Legacy
Overview: An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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The Bubble
Overview: Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Overview: The Who were honored at the 2008 ceremony from the Pauley Pavilion at UCLA instead of the usual Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center. The concert consisted of an hour-long performance by the band as well as tributes by Incubus, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips, Adam Sandler and Tenacious D.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-17
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Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
Overview: Night of Abandon: A wild blissful night in Brazil during Carnival. Liar's Tale: A burned out photojournalist's obsession with a high-class call girl awakens her ability to feel again. In the Blink of an Eye: A passionate boxer seduces a happily married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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See You When I See You
Overview: Described as "an exploration of the intricacies of grief and healing".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Strokes
Overview: A Brakhage-ish wannabe study mixing a shot similar to the ones in La mirada de Goya with some other shots from an X-Files episode the director watched in 2024.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2025-01-06
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