Henry G. Sanders
Also Known As: Henry Gayle Sanders, Henry Sanders, Henry Gale Sanders
Biography: Henry Gayle Sanders is an American actor known for his TV roles as Prosper Denton on Queen Sugar, Samuel Carter on 9-1-1, Uncle Chester on Hap & Leonard, Cedric on the miniseries DMZ, and Robert E. On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as well as the TV movie of the same name. He's known for his film roles as Arthur Holloway in Samaritan, Pastor Jack in Roman J. Israel Esq., Cager Lee in Selma, Red Henderson in Whiplash, Martin in Rocky Balboa, Cesar's Trainer in Play It to the Bone, and Sandy in Bull Durham. He has also had roles in a number of TV movies. He's guest starred on numerous TV shows including Shameless, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, CSI, Cold Case, Eleventh Hour, Heartland, Commander in Chief, Joan of Arcadia, The West Wing, Boomtown, NYPD Blue, Moesha, Sliders, ER, Murphy Brown, The Young and the Restless, L.A. Law, Alf, Matlock, Married... with Children, Beauty and the Beast, Moonlighting, Cagney & Lacey, Highway to Heaven, What's Happening Now?, 227, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Knots Landing, Night Court, Knight Rider, Diff'rent Strokes, St. Elsewhere, The Greatest American Hero, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and The Rockford Files.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Birthday: August 18, 1942
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Gender: Male
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Bull Durham
Overview: Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-15
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Rocky Balboa
Overview: His wife is dead and his son hates him, but this old man still has fight in him! When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger, and thirty years his junior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Crimes of the Mind
Overview: The true story of Carolyn's Raeburn's daughter who graduated from high school at the age of 16. Laura was bright, popular and enthusiastic about the future, but the summer before she was to begin college, an event occurred changing forever the lives of her and her family. Laura visited a boarding ranch in the country to learn horseback riding. And there, she entered a world dominated by a strange and fearsome woman who took control of Laura's mind. She was groomed to replace the woman's dead daughter. Carolyn spent the next five years of her life, much of her sanity and more than half a million dollars to get her daughter back.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-11
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Made in Heaven
Overview: Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Session Man
Overview: When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Kuffs
Overview: George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Choose Me
Overview: Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Killer of Sheep
Overview: An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-14
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The Inheritance
Overview: A beautiful orphan of mysterious parentage is asked by her adoptive family to help find a husband for their niece, but when two suitors both fall for the orphan girl, the niece instigates a scheme to discredit her in the eyes of her guardians. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-06
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The Ambush Murders
Overview: An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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No Man's Land
Overview: A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Overview: In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Kicks
Overview: A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a female university professor who has the same proclivities.
Genres: Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-11
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The Devil's Garden
Overview: Bizarre Rituals of Forbidden Ecstasy on the Island of the Possessed
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Little John
Overview: The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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Rebel
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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Blues
Overview: Chile and Head, two wannabe thugs, get more than they bargained for when they duck into a blues joint while on the run from the cops. The seventy-year-old owner of the club and his staff, each societal misfits in their own right, become hostages and bear witness to an intense journey of self discovery as Chile and Head move down vastly divergent paths.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Deadly Sunday
Overview: A family's weekly Sunday drive turns terrifying when desperate jewel thieves detour them and hold them hostage.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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No Place to Hide
Overview: In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their track.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-12
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Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
Overview: As Colorado Springs' Commisioner, Sully opposes a deal to mine for copper to make electricity. In order to sway Sully's decision, Mr. Garrick threatens Sully. Sully and Michaela's daugther, Katie, is then kidnapped while the town celebrates Michaela's birthday. The search for Katie takes Sully, Micheala, and their friends on an adventure through Mexico that is filled with danger at every turn.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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Samaritan
Overview: Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Overview: A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-21
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Callie & Son
Overview: A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-13
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Breathless
Overview: Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-13
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Dying to Love You
Overview: Roger Paulson is lonely after his divorce. He thinks he has finally found the woman of his dreams...until he uncovers her web of lies.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-16
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Weekend Pass
Overview: Four Navy recruits fresh from boot camp graduation in San Diego spend a weekend pass together out on the town in Los Angeles before shipping out for further training.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-03
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Berkeley
Overview: Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Overview: A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Overview: An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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Whiplash
Overview: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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A Time to Live
Overview: The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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My Brother's Wedding
Overview: A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-13
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Panama Red
Overview: A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-31
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Carnival of Souls
Overview: A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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Independence Day
Overview: In this drama that was a UCLA student thesis expanded to feature length, two African-Americans come from Tennessee to Los Angeles. The man will not marry the woman as he has just been released from prison and cannot commit himself. He ends up working in a factory, while she gets a job as a maid. The two split up after he gets involved in a strike. She goes to school but ends up laid off from a good paying job. Later the two meet again. Both are surprised by the great changes in their lives since they have been apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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The Switch
Overview: Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to end his life. The DJ reluctantly has a switch installed on Larry's life support that Larry can activate at any time (via his mouth) to end his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-17
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Tonight's the Night
Overview: The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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The Boss' Son
Overview: Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior exec position are quashed when he's told to report to the shipping department, where he's trained as a delivery driver. Learning the business from the ground up embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-02
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Child's Play 3
Overview: Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-30
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Selma
Overview: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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You Again
Overview: History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its stripes. On Marni's side is her mother, while Joanna's backed by her wealthy aunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Play It to the Bone
Overview: Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Rainbow Drive
Overview: A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Overview: Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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Endangered Species
Overview: A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped
Overview: Arthur Milo, an IRS official with access to detailed personal and financial data, chooses his kidnap victims from his files. Pete Honeycutt is in charge of the case and Milo taunts him with personal phone calls, eventually threatening his family.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-12
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Hobson's Choice
Overview: Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Ride with the Wind
Overview: Frank Shelby is a motorcycle racer for whom age, personal tragedy and a love for the bottle have supplanted hopes of the big time. But when he meets Katherine, a widow whose young son, Danny, has leukemia, Frank forms an unexpected bond with them. And Danny's determination in the face of his illness gives Frank a newfound drive to win.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-18
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Overview: A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-09
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Blue: The American Dream
Overview: Gary "Blue" Meekins is a medium-weight fighter struggling to box his way to the American dream, but Harlem's mean streets threaten to turn him into another statistic when an old friend cons him into helping rob a local drug dealer. But the heist goes disastrously wrong when the victims turn out to be an innocent family. Wracked by guilt, Blue commits himself to seeking his redemption in the ring.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-11
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Something So Right
Overview: Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-30
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Good Men
Overview: After the birth of his grandson, Bobby Roth undertakes a cinematic investigation as to what constitutes being a "good man" in today's world. This voyage of discovery leads him to interview more than fifty of his friends, both men and women who he considers to be "good people," about their views on everything from how they were parented to their thoughts on feminism, change, and regrets they might have. Their answers both surprises and enlighten both the viewers and Bobby, himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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I Don't Know
Overview: A failed cartoonist scores a dangerous win at a high-stakes poker game, and flees the criminal underworld of Los Angeles with his resilient sex worker fiancé.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-02
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Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
Overview: An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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Concrete Beat
Overview: A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Manhood
Overview: Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. A teenage son rebels against everything his parents hold sacred. A gather tries hard to own up to his responsibilities. A black-sheep brother-in-law revels in the depths of depravity. His estranged wife finds the freedom to explore her sexuality. Together, they create an emotionally charged family dynamic that builds to a powerful - and unexpected - ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-23
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Family Feud
Overview: Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-04
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Deadly Messages
Overview: When Laura unearths an old Ouija board in her closet, her roommate, Cindy, uses it and encounters the spirit of a man that had been murdered in their apartment. After Laura later witnesses Cindy being strangled to death, the authorities arrive to find Cindy missing and no evidence of a crime. Laura sets out to convince everyone that the murder was real while evading the man she feels is Cindy's killer.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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