Nina Foch
Also Known As: Нина Фош, Nina Consuela Maud Fock, نینا فوخ
Biography: Nina Foch (born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch American actress. After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19, Foch became a regular in the studio's horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid-1940s through the 1950s, often playing roles as cool, aloof sophisticates. Her career spanned six decades, consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television appearances.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Adult: No
Birthday: April 20, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 05, 2008
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Sliver
Overview: A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Mahogany
Overview: An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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An American in Paris
Overview: Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Escape in the Fog
Overview: A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Alien Nation: Dark Horizon
Overview: Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They send Aponso to earth to locate the slaves ready for the aliens to pick them up.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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The Undercover Man
Overview: Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Pumpkin
Overview: Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when the queen of formals finds herself mentoring Pumpkin, a disabled athlete, their two worlds collide.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-28
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The Return of the Vampire
Overview: In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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Nomads
Overview: One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Scaramouche
Overview: In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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My Name Is Julia Ross
Overview: Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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Cry of the Werewolf
Overview: A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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Cash McCall
Overview: Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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Executive Suite
Overview: When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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The Dark Past
Overview: A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Johnny Allegro
Overview: Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
Overview: A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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Child of Glass
Overview: Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-14
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How to Deal
Overview: Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her crazed sister is planning a wedding but has second thoughts and her best friend has fallen madly in love for the first time leaving Halley to feel even more alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-18
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Jennifer
Overview: Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-13
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Theatre 62: Rebecca
Overview: A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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Hush
Overview: Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection for Helen, and, despite her Southern smile, she's starting to act strangely. As Helen tries to create a happy home life, Martha attempts to divide the family so that Jackson will become hers alone.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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Johnny O'Clock
Overview: When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Overview: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-05
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You're Never Too Young
Overview: When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-25
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Shadows in the Night
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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In the Arms of a Killer
Overview: A young detective falls in love with a witness in a murder case and suddenly becomes a suspect herself.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-05
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Shadow of Doubt
Overview: An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-09
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Morning Glory
Overview: An ex-convict who is on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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A Song to Remember
Overview: Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Such Good Friends
Overview: Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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Gidget Grows Up
Overview: After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-30
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Sombrero
Overview: Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Four Guns to the Border
Overview: A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Three Brave Men
Overview: A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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St. Benny the Dip
Overview: A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-24
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A Little Bit Like Murder
Overview: A malevolent old house is pervaded by evil spirits who inflict harm upon the occupants. Their latest victim is a woman who is overcome with hatred for her family.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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The Sands of Time
Overview: Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-23
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Outback Bound
Overview: A girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-11
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Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Overview: The life and times of actor and NRA activist Charlton Heston.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-20
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Fast Company
Overview: The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Wagon Wheels West
Overview: In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-30
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Dixie Lanes
Overview: Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion greet Clarence upon his return - his pre-war moonshine activities and absence have embittered his teenage son, split apart his family, and alienated the small town. Moreover, his conniving sister-in-law conspires with the crooked sheriff to prevent a family reconciliation. In attempting to stabilize his family, and in seeking to punish the conspirator who brought him before the law, Clarence almost destroys both the town and his family. But sanity, love and music conquer all, and family and town are reunited.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-03
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Scarecrow
Overview: Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Prison Ship
Overview: Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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She's a Soldier Too
Overview: Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-29
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She's a Sweetheart
Overview: In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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It's My Party
Overview: Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Strange Affair
Overview: Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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Night of Execution
Overview: A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Overview: American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and developed different cinematique techniques, such as brilliantly shot dancing sequences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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'Til There Was You
Overview: Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Overview: In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Back When We Were Grownups
Overview: A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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Salty
Overview: After their parents are killed in a hurricane, brothers Taylor and Tim Reed are taken in by the owner of a fledgling marina in the Florida Everglades, where they befriend a sea-lion named Salty and carry out a series of adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Skin Deep
Overview: Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Prescription: Murder
Overview: In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-20
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Nine Girls
Overview: One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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The Kill
Overview: Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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Female Artillery
Overview: An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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Family Blessings
Overview: Lee Reston is a widow whose police officer son Greg dies in a car accident. Greg's friend and fellow officer Chris Lallek tries to help the Reston family in Greg's absence. Soon, he and Lee grow close and fall in love. But Lee is fifteen years older than Chris, something that upsets most of her family, including her college-aged daughter. When Chris proposes marriage, Lee must decide whether to risk alienating her family in order to be with the man she loves.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-06
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Don't Kill Your Friends
Overview: By setting a bad example, pilot Dilbert shows the necessary safety rules for fighter pilots, and the ones training them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-24
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A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris
Overview: This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot, and the eventual reception of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-16
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The Great Houdinis
Overview: A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-18
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Rich and Famous
Overview: Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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The Making of The Ten Commandments
Overview: Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses and directed by legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who also introduces this documentary. Visit the sets in Egypt, where the Old Testament scenes were acted out, and watch newsreel footage of the gala Hollywood premiere. Also included is a compilation of clips from biblical films called "Hollywood Looks at the Bible."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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