Nicholas Pryor
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Biography: Nicholas Pryor (born Nicholas David Probst; January 28, 1935) is an American actor. He has appeared in various television series, films, and stage productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 07, 2024
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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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Damien - Omen II
Overview: Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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Brain Dead
Overview: In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-16
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Murder in Three Acts
Overview: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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The Chamber
Overview: Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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The Gumball Rally
Overview: A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-28
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Murder at 1600
Overview: A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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Love Can Be Murder
Overview: Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad asks her to marry him. After a therapy session, she quits her job to the surprise of her family and Brad, and goes into the detective business, opening her own private-eye office. Unfortunately, the ghost of the private-eye who owned the office still lingers and Elizabeth's the only one who can see or hear him. At first, she becomes an unwilling partner in Nick Peyton's unfinished investigation, but then she finds herself falling for the salty, but dead, guy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-14
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Less Than Zero
Overview: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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American Tragedy
Overview: Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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Carriers
Overview: A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Kid From Nowhere
Overview: A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life. Things change for the better when the boy gains self-esteem training for the Special Olympics, and his mother learns to let go.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-04
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The Bachelor
Overview: Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Overview: The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-06
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Splendor in the Grass
Overview: Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-26
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Halloween Kills
Overview: Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Overview: Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a variety of subjects, from casting to visual effects. - Hope and Rebellion: Continuing the Saga - Designing Dystopia: Visual Aesthetic - Rebels and Warriors: The Cast - Fusing Form and Function: Costume, Make-Up and Hair - Fighting the System: Shooting on Location - D13: Rebellion Tactics: Stunts and Special Effects - Perfecting Panem: The Post-Production Process
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Nightbreaker
Overview: Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown is a young psychiatrist and a guest of the U.S. Army, where soldiers were routinely exposed to excessive radiation. The young Brown and a colleague interview soldiers, who show their ignorance and insouciance in the face of this danger. The movie intercuts scenes between the young Alexander Brown and older Alexander Brown, some thirty years after the nuclear tests. Will the decorated psychiatrist finally speak out on the atrocity he witnessed?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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Ruffian
Overview: Ruffian is an American made-for-television movie that tells the story of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion thoroughbred filly Ruffian who went undefeated until her death after breaking down in a nationally televised match race at Belmont Park on July 6, 1975 against the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. Made by ESPN Original Entertainment, the film is directed by Yves Simoneau and stars Sam Shepard as Ruffian's trainer, Frank Whiteley. The producers used four different geldings in the role of Ruffian. Locations for the 2007 film included Louisiana Downs in Shreveport, Louisiana and Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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Man on a Swing
Overview: A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-24
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Hail Caesar
Overview: Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar, so he makes Caesar a bet. If Caesar can make a hundred thousand dollars within six months, he can stay with Buffer... but if he fails, their relationship is over forever. How can Ceasar win the bet if he only knows how jam with his band?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
Overview: Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Rainbow
Overview: The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie studio system that held her back while her mother was forever pushing her to excel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Gideon's Trumpet
Overview: True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Genres: Drama Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-30
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A Short History of Decay
Overview: A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-16
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Smile
Overview: It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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The $5.20 an Hour Dream
Overview: A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-26
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Widow
Overview: A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-22
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Reunion
Overview: A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter, whose boyfriend is the star player on the school's basketball team his fellow alumni are playing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-14
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Collateral Damage
Overview: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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A Few Days at Weasel Creek
Overview: Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy and accompanies him on a side trip to visit his aunt in the Southern hamlet of Weasel Creek.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Overview: A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife and dog, and a U.S. Marshall. The incident caused major public outcry against the FBI and U.S. Marshals.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-19
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Overview: Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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The Diamond Trap
Overview: When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Broken Trust
Overview: A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-06
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Plutonium Incident
Overview: A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
Overview: A dramatization of the events leading up to the 1935 assassination of Huey Long, the flamboyant and controversial governor of Louisiana.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-21
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Choke Canyon
Overview: Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Trial by Fire
Overview: A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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Executive Decision
Overview: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Force Five
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Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-28
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Risky Business
Overview: Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Buster's Mal Heart
Overview: An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-28
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A Stoning in Fulham County
Overview: Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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Amazons
Overview: A cult of descendants of the Amazons plot to take control of mankind, but an inquisitive doctor might uncover their plans.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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Hoffa
Overview: A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.
Genres: Crime History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Molly
Overview: Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck makes her undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Overview: Eccentric 17-year-old Morgan Stewart (Cryer) can't seem to get his conservative parents to notice him - even though Morgan's been thrown out of 10 prep schools in 7 years! But when a sleazy campaign manager threatens Morgan's father's senatorial bid, Morgan comes home to clean up the mess... and creates hilarious havoc! by the time Morgan is finished, Washington politics will never be the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Desperate Voyage
Overview: A modern-day pirate hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. But his current captives have no intentions of being tossed into the briny.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-29
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Murder Between Friends
Overview: True story about two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-10
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Night Terror
Overview: A housewife flees from a policeman's killer on the road between Phoenix and Denver.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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The Hit Man
Overview: When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his special effects crew decide to help the kid teach the greedy man a lesson.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-29
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Into Thin Air
Overview: Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Second Sight: A Love Story
Overview: Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma. When Richard Chapman enters her life, a romance develops and McKay begins to let the outside world in to her private world. The prospect of an operation arises that will restore McKay's eyesight, but the fear of what it will do to her relationship with Chapman and the concern over the fate of her guide dog weigh heavily upon her decision to do the procedure.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-13
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Doctor Sleep
Overview: Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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The Way We Live Now
Overview: A mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series of disastrous love affairs with a series of women. He will eventually return to his wife, chastened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Pacific Heights
Overview: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Having Babies II
Overview: The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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The Last Song
Overview: An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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The List
Overview: A sudden death tied to a list from the past leads to unimaginable evil. Fresh out of law school and full of hope for the future, Renny Jacobson is stunned by his father's sudden death--and then by the terms of the will: the elder Jacobson has left the bulk of his estate to charity.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
Overview: A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional tales of three couples: Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon as a twosome who have married and divorced multiple times and who are on the verge of repeating their mistake; an anxious newlywed who prefers the "freedom" that living together allows; and Jack Albertson as an aging comedian who wants to marry his much younger secretary despite the disapproval of his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
Overview: New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been terrorizing the residents of a posh apartment building with screaming threats, insults and physical intimidation. Though the cops think the culprit is another street person, Cagney and Lacey believe the real killer is one of the tenants, many of whom have ample reason to have murdered the boorish bum.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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The Happy Hooker
Overview: Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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Airplane!
Overview: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-02
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Fear on Trial
Overview: The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Dark Angel
Overview: Homicide detective Walter D'Arcangelo is the only link to a serial killer who preys on adulterous women. Walter must confront his past in order to prove himself innocent before more women are killed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-10
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Summer of Decision
Overview: A college student trying to decide on a career spends the summer before his senior year assisting social workers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-13
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