Shawn Elliott
Also Known As: Eliezer Santiago
Biography: Shawn Elliott (February 24, 1937 – March 11, 2016) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring in the original cast of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris onstage and as Paco in the film Short Eyes (1977).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santurce, Puerto Rico
Birthday: February 24, 1937
Deathday: March 11, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Dream House
Overview: Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite her initial rejection of him, sets out to build a dream house for both of them.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Off Beat
Overview: Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-10
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Overview: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-02
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Hurricane Streets
Overview: Marcus is a New York City street kid torn between his friends' criminal activities and a girl trying to keep him out of trouble.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-21
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Short Eyes
Overview: A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Arbitrage
Overview: A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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The New Yorker
Overview: Skirt-chasing Gaul Alfred and comely American tourist Alice meet by chance and strike up a rapport during her whirlwind vacation in the City of Lights. Alas, Alice is soon jetting back over the Atlantic, which leaves the smitten Alfred hopelessly bereft, heartbroken, and determined to win her back. In a fit of desperation, he books a flight and follows in hot pursuit, settling in the Big Apple; his decision to set foot on a plane, however, represents the first of many disasters to befall him. In the course of Alfred's trip, the airline loses his luggage, and when he finally reaches Alice's doorstep, she isn't dazzled to see him but instead rather disgusted - she doesn't hesitate to tell him to beat it. Never one to relent, the ever-persistent Alfred grows convinced that she will eventually buckle, and decides to settle in Manhattan until that moment arrives and takes a job as a dog-sitter for the seedy businessman Farrakhan.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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Crossover Dreams
Overview: Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Promised a Miracle
Overview: True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-19
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The Feast of the Goat
Overview: Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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Beat Street
Overview: An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Death in Small Doses
Overview: One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-16
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Do the Right Thing
Overview: Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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Impulse
Overview: A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
Overview: A police detective teams up with his buddy's daughter to investigate cult-ritual mutilations.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-02
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The Dead Pool
Overview: Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-13
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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Overview: Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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Double Take
Overview: A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-12
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Blue Moon
Overview: Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-16
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