Irma St. Paule
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 09, 2007
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Party Girl
Overview: Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. Initially, Mary finds the job as a clerk boring and stifling, and prefers to get to know a street food vendor whom she likes. However, Mary must refocus her life once she loses her job and apartment.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Where the Money Is
Overview: Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Household Saints
Overview: A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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The Oracle
Overview: A murder victim reaches out from beyond the grave in an attempt to possess the body of a young woman who has moved into his old apartment.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Fast Food Fast Women
Overview: How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-15
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Satan's Playground
Overview: A family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. After their car breaks down, they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds, who warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-22
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Life on the Ledge
Overview: Brian Leib, a thirty-two year old, ritualistic neurotic recluse who lives with his paranoid parents, only leaves his house to see his psychiatrist. His days are kept as simple as the loaf of bread he makes every morning; the first slice his breakfast, the last slice his dessert--this gives him a "sense of closure for the day." On the verge of jumping he finds a tumor on his neck. Through this new found bad news he gets the strength to talk to Claire, another patient of his psychiatrist's. Claire, a beautiful stripper with a badly stained childhood lets her male guard down and lets Brian in. In order to protect Claire, Brian gets involved with a motley crew of gangsters, faces his fears and gains the will to live... but is it too late?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Caught
Overview: A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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Coming Soon
Overview: Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-08
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Crooks
Overview: During a late night drinking binge with bartender Nicky (Michael Marino), sixty-five year-old postman Sol Solzberg (Charlie Callas) leaks the details of his life-long plan to rob some valuable stamps from the local post office. Sol then promptly drops dead of a heart attack. Suddenly armed with his sure-fire answer to his financial woes, Nicky assembles a "crack" team of hapless crooks, headed by his best friend Paul (Jim Norton), and begins to plan and execute the caper. Whoever said crime doesn't pay had this gang of moronic Jersey boys in mind!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Paranoia
Overview: A girl, whose entire family was murdered by a serial killer, tries to isolate herself in New York City. Her fear escalates when the murderer starts stalking her on the internet. With his prison sentence about to end, the game of cat and mouse begins.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Trees Lounge
Overview: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Wirey Spindell
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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Thinner
Overview: An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Suits
Overview: A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan. The advertising satire follows the New York firm of Cranston & Co. as they fight rival Hoffman & Partners. Cranston fires his creative director which puts a young copywriter with a literature degree on the front line, even though he doesn't want to be. The contest comes down to a schmaltzy campaign by Hoffman with music by Air Supply that uses the tagline "Vorcan: your own personal air supply." or a more down to earth campaign from Cranston of "The pad ain't bad!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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Jersey Guy
Overview: The life of a twenty-five-year-old Garden State native becomes topsy-turvy after he meets a New York model.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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The Saint of Fort Washington
Overview: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Everything Relative
Overview: Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Queenie in Love
Overview: A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Second Best
Overview: Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Choking Man
Overview: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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The Last New Yorker
Overview: Lifelong friends Lenny Sugarman and Ruben Liebner , both in their 70s, both dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, barely recognize the Manhattan of their youth. The city they’ve loved for decades has become a playground for the too-rich; their places, the ones they’ve frequented for years, are now refuges from a changing world they’re increasingly unable to keep up with. When Lenny—a lone schemer all his life—finally gets in over his head, he decides to seek the one thing he’s never had: true love. But to achieve it, he may have to abandon the only place he’s ever known. THE LAST NEW YORKER is a tale of friendship, love and the world’s greatest city -- and how all three keep us young and make us feel alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-19
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Body/Antibody
Overview: Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-07
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Fear of Fiction
Overview: This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a man and a woman, each of whom has a twin brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-13
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Bittersweet Place
Overview: The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipolar Pappy, and Susannah, who tries to keep the family together despite it taking a strain on her romantic life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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In the Blood
Overview: Cassidy is a senior at a NYC college and he's trying to balance the demands of school, his role as big brother to Jessica, a freshman at the same school and his role as best buddy to horn-dog Mike with his emerging feelings of attraction to men. This is further complicated by a string of co-ed murders on campus for which his sister fits the victim profile.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Rain
Overview: Michael Keenan's film Rain takes us in from the main title to the payoff of its namesake. The heat and the throbbing music provide the indolent rhythm of the troubled life of Alex the cabdriver. The story is simple: New York as Hell. The noise, the sensory intrusions and the blistering heat don't stop those who can't leave from going about their business, forcing them into their own worlds sometimes to extreme degrees. Alex keeps moving, her taxi as metaphor, and waiting. Waiting is an active verb here. The sound effects, score, and chaotic images of New York captured by Robert LoScalzo come alive as the workings of Alex's interior anguish as well as the real exterior of the City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Desecration
Overview: Sixteen year-old Bobby is emotionally damaged by his mother's early death. He accidentally causes a nun's death, unleashing a chain of supernatural events that lead him into the pits of Hell.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Last Request
Overview: Pop's last request is for his sons to continue the family name. When his brother dies trying, Jeff leaves the seminary and encounters crazy women and odd ball characters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-16
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Layin' Low
Overview: On the highway of life, Jerry's at a dead-end. Unemployed and still living at home with his parents, this thirty-three year old loser has no drive to better his life. That's all about to change. A fateful drug deal gone bad transforms Jerry overnight into the cop's number one murder suspect and the mob's number one target. With a sack full of drugs and a budding romance at stake, Jerry could get a life... or lose it. Either way, it will be the ride of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Who Do I Gotta Kill?
Overview: A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Duane Hopwood
Overview: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Twelve Monkeys
Overview: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Better Than Ever
Overview: Walter and Hume, roommates in a veterans home, are complete opposites. Walter is a sarcastic wise mouth who loves to speak his mind. Hume is meticulous and quiet but loves to wind Walter up. Tired of being poked, prodded, and placated with pills by the nursing staff, the two escape. Determined to end their lives in quiet dignity, they load their weapons and hail a cab to a remote wooded area.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Amazing Floydini
Overview: Floyd has never won Lotto. Nor has he won at OTB. He's a middle-aged flunk floundering from temp jobs to performing magic tricks in the street to earn a buck. His life consists of his therapist, his nursing home bound mother and B.S. sessions with other late bloomers. But on the day before his 40th birthday, he decides to take charge of his life and pursue his first career as a magician. He soon realizes, however, that due to his allergic reaction to rabbits and ineptitude for children, his future in birthday party magic seemed quite ephemeral. Upon meeting Lulu, another life wanderer, Floyd steps up his act for adults and decides to supplement his income by incorporating a wallet disappearing trick into the act with her as his assistant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Psychos in Love
Overview: A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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The Bride in Black
Overview: A Brooklyn widow (Susan Lucci) traces the past of her boxer/sculptor husband (David Soul), gunned down on their wedding day.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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A Piece of Eden
Overview: A bittersweet comedy that follows three generations of the unlucky Tredici family from Corsica in the 1940's to an Indiana fruit farm in the present.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Love Is All There Is
Overview: The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Overview: In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Fever
Overview: A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-16
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Jeffrey
Overview: Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Come Away with Me
Overview: Maria, daughter of Italian emigrants, lives with her son Santino who lives by expedients. In a small American town, inhabited mostly by children of Italian immigrants, the woman does everything to prevent her boyfriend from getting lost by taking the wrong path, so every time Santino tries to score a shot, Maria manages to blow his plans. Until one day the loving mother decides that the time has come to teach a fundamental lesson for the life of her son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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The Cemetery Club
Overview: The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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Changing Face
Overview: Tom has just turned twenty-nine and finds himself struggling with his identity and appearance. His lover, Dan, an overworked schoolteacher, is constantly busy and has little time for their relationship. As their connection weakens, Tom undergoes a drastic transformation, both physically and emotionally, in an attempt to redefine himself. This change leads to unexpected consequences, forcing the couple to confront their insecurities, desires, and the true nature of their love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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