Burgess Meredith
Also Known As: Oliver Burgess Meredith, بورگس مریدیت
Biography: Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" who was "one of the most accomplished actors of the century." Meredith won several Emmys and was nominated for Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burgess Meredith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: November 16, 1907
Deathday: September 09, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rocky II
Overview: After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Rocky
Overview: An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-20
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Rocky III
Overview: After an intense fight with Clubber Lang and the death of his trainer Mickey, Rocky Balboa is left devastated. Former rival Apollo Creed steps in to help Balboa get back his fighting spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Rocky V
Overview: A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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State of Grace
Overview: Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Genres: Documentary Drama Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Overview: Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
Overview: Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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Clash of the Titans
Overview: To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Batman
Overview: The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The Day of the Locust
Overview: Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Grumpy Old Men
Overview: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Jigsaw
Overview: New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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True Confessions
Overview: A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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Skidoo
Overview: Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Magic
Overview: A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-08
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Burnt Offerings
Overview: A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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The Manitou
Overview: A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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The Last Chase
Overview: Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Santa Claus: The Movie
Overview: In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Full Moon in Blue Water
Overview: Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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Torture Garden
Overview: Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Street of Chance
Overview: In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-03
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
Overview: The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low. Director Barrie Gavin describes the film as "the history of an artist ... struggling to write music which could have real meaning for the society he had just joined." Weill is remembered by the conductor Maurice Abravanel and the actor Burgess Meredith and there are extracts from several of his works.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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Madame X
Overview: A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-03
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A Yank Comes Back
Overview: In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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That Uncertain Feeling
Overview: A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-20
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Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Foul Play
Overview: A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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In Harm's Way
Overview: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-06
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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92 in the Shade
Overview: A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Overview: A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Story of G.I. Joe
Overview: War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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The Hindenburg
Overview: Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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When Time Ran Out...
Overview: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Golden Rendezvous
Overview: Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacked by a heavily armed group of mercenaries, led by John Vernon. Complicating matters, a nuclear warhead has been smuggled aboard as collateral for a rendezvous with another ocean liner, loaded with gold bullion. A cast full of supernovas, dazzling set & stunt work, and a catchy theme tune by Jeff Wayne create a pleasing audio-visual experience light on logic but fast paced and entertaining nonetheless.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-25
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Hard Contract
Overview: A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Camp Nowhere
Overview: Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Wet Gold
Overview: Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. Although Laura's boyfriend (Barnes), keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds an old newspaper article which matches up with the events described to her by him. After becoming a true believer, Laura convinces Barnes, Sampson and a dive shop owner, Keating, to search for the treasure. Together they set off from Key West in the Baker's boat, which Barnes is supposed to be looking after. Keating shows a liking for Laura, and because of this, Barnes begins to feel uncomfortable towards him. After spending some time in the water, their dreams become reality, but the discovery of gold begins to show a change in their personalities...
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-28
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Mackenna's Gold
Overview: A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-18
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The Sentinel
Overview: As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-07
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Stay Away, Joe
Overview: Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.
Genres: Western Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-08
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King Lear
Overview: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-22
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G.I. Joe: The Movie
Overview: G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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On Our Merry Way
Overview: Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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Mine Own Executioner
Overview: Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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San Francisco Docks
Overview: Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Overview: Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
Overview: An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Winterset
Overview: A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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The Rear Gunner
Overview: Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-10
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The Great Bank Hoax
Overview: When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Fanfare for a Death Scene
Overview: An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Albert Schweitzer
Overview: This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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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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Golden Needles
Overview: An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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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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Hurry Sundown
Overview: Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance against the greedy husband of the majority landowner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Hay que matar a B.
Overview: In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-14
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Probe
Overview: That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
Overview: Sylvester Stallone and John G. Avildsen narrate behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Rocky" to mark the film's 40th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-09
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The Man
Overview: When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-19
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Oddball Hall
Overview: Elderly jewel thieves on the run from the law pass themselves off as wizards to a village of bewildered Africans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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Magnificent Doll
Overview: While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-08
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We the People
Overview: This film shows people as they participated in various activities, such as sailing, watching parades, working and traveling. It discusses the growth of the nation beginning with the American Revolution and documents the country's evolution from a rural to an urban society. The film emphasizes the importance of the census throughout history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The New Healers
Overview: The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Outrage!
Overview: After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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There Goes the Groom
Overview: After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Joe Butterfly
Overview: The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Tunisian Victory
Overview: Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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The Living Sands of Namib
Overview: Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the extraordinary creatures who thrive there. With temperatures at nearly double that of the warmest temperate climes, it seems nothing could survive. Yet life flourishes, miraculously.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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SST: Death Flight
Overview: On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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The Crazy-Quilt
Overview: A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake her husband with her overflowing optimism, but the marriage is severely strained when her first pregnancy ends in miscarriage. They separate, and the woman has a number of affairs, but eventually she returns to her husband. They have a daughter, then settle down to a life that is a blend of the husband's worldliness and the wife's idealism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-03
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The Cardinal
Overview: A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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Grumpier Old Men
Overview: A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Opponents
Overview: Documentary about Rocky Balboa's opponents throughout the saga from the original Rocky (1976) to Rocky V (1990).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-05
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Winter of the Witch
Overview: The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence makes her struggle to adjust to the modern world, and to change from bad to good witch. Based on the book "Old Black Witch" by Wende and Harry Devlin.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Works of Calder
Overview: The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against music: the sky, trees, leaves, a bird, water, sand, a beach. A little boy wanders along the beach observing the natural world around him. He walks and presently comes to a house and peers inside. The second sequence has no music. The narrator speaks of sculptor Alexander Calder and his work, as we see Calder in his workshop, cutting and creating unusual shapes, and seeing the resultant artworks. The last sequence has music as we view images of Calder's work. However, now they are intercut with images from nature so that we understand that Calder's inspiration is the natural world around him. The film ends as it began, with an image of the sun, now fading into the sky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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The Reivers
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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A Salute to France
Overview: Directed by Garson Kanin and Jean Renoir.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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The Chaplin Puzzle
Overview: This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It concludes with a director's cut of the film Police (1916). The series is narrated by none other than Burgess Meredith.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-28
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Sly
Overview: His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Answers
Overview: Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway Patrolman visits a young woman in New York who had told him if he ever came to New York, she'd show him a good time. In the second, "The Constituent," a United States Senator drops in on a constituent who has been sending him scathing and profane letters for decades. Lastly, in "Twinkle, Twinkle," a restless housewife who has been writing fan letters to a television soap opera star, receives a surprise visit by him on her husband's bowling night.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Final Assignment
Overview: An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Spring Madness
Overview: Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Lincoln
Overview: Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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The Forgotten Village
Overview: Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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The Scoundrel
Overview: A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-30
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-16
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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A Walk in the Sun
Overview: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons
Overview: TMZ exclusively sits down with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone as they discuss for the first time how their once-fierce rivalry led to two Hollywood icons forever being friends and brothers in arms.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-23
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UFOs: It Has Begun
Overview: A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. Hosted by the LEGENDARY Rod Serling. This was considered his "coming out the closet" in regards to his deep belief in UFOs just before his death from cancer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Overview: A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Clay Pigeon
Overview: An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Our Country
Overview: A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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A Welcome to Britain
Overview: An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes through geography lessons, food and entertainment on the Home Front.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Broken Rainbow
Overview: Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-05
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Golden Arrow
Overview: On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Overview: Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Attack: The Battle for New Britain
Overview: War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943. - Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-20
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The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
Overview: A little girl, Molly, loses her doll, Belinda, in the Blinkin wood and the Blinkins find it and make it their mission to return her to the owner. In the process, Flashy gets kidnapped by Mr Bear and the Blinkins are given a ransom from Mr Bear and Mr Grogg in the form of food from their winter store in exchange for Flashy's safe return.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Master Gunfighter
Overview: Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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The Wickedest Witch
Overview: Avarissa, a witch so evil that she was banished to an underground kingdom, attempts to trick a human child into committing a despicable act so that she can switch places with him and escape.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Thumbelina
Overview: Thumbelina is the answer to her mother's prayers but is all too soon stolen away by Mother Toad as a wife for her son. With the help of many different woodland creatures, especially the Swallow, Thumbelina overcomes many obstacles to try and get back to her mother.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Overview: Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-31
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Night of the Hunter
Overview: A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-04
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Beware! The Blob
Overview: A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Across the Moon
Overview: Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-28
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Hymn of the Nations
Overview: Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the "Inno delle nazioni," a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early 1860s. (For this musical work, Verdi utilized the national anthems of several European nations.) In December 1943, Arturo Toscanini filmed a performance of this music for inclusion in an Office of War Information documentary about the role of Italian-Americans in aiding the Allies during World War II. Toscanini added a bridge passage to include arrangements of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the United States and "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union and the Italian partisans. Joining Toscanini in the filmed performance in NBC Studio 8-H, were tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-01
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Mastergate
Overview: A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Waiting for Godot
Overview: Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Overview: A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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Sorcerers' Village
Overview: Documentary film recounting the travels of Captain Hassoldt Davis and his wife, Ruth Staudinger Davis, across the Ivory Coast. The Davises filmed their exploits, seeking out in particular evidence of the beginnings and native practices of witchcraft and sorcery, and culminating in a visit to the village of YHO, ostensibly a village of sorcerers.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Overview: This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" story to the screen. Dudley Moore (Patch) hosts; David Huddleston intros in character as Santa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove
Overview: Three kids think they see a sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove, and set out to find what's behind the mystery.
Genres: Family Adventure Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Lock, Stock and Barrel
Overview: A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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The United States Service Bands
Overview: This patriotic wartime short showcases the service bands of the U.S. Army, Army Air Force, Marines, and Navy.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Old Faithful
Overview: A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park. Various celebrities are enlisted to help.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Overview: The cast of Rocky (1976) pays tribute to actor Burgess Meredith.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Circasia
Overview: Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-08
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The Father
Overview: Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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La Classe américaine
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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The Kidnappers
Overview: Manila, Philippines. The loving American father Louis Halliburton desperate attempts to save his son from ruthless kidnappers. He is unable to do it alone and so calls up his wife's former lover, an ex-FBI agent to assist. Unfortunately, the former agent is devious and greedy. Fortunately, his new girlfriend Chrisitine Hall isn't.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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Puff, the Magic Dragon
Overview: Jackie is a boy who is so trapped by his fears and doubts that he could not communicate with anyone. Then, a magic dragon named Puff comes to help Jackie by taking his soul force on a wonderous voyage to his island of Honah Lee. Along the way, they have adventures that nurture Jackie's imagination and courage in unorthodox ways.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Puff the Magic Dragon: The Land of the Living Lies
Overview: Sandy is a little girl with a penchant for whoppers. However, when her lies start go so far as to implicate the innocent for her own misdeeds, Puff decides to step in. Using his magic, Puff takes Sandy to the Land of Living Lies where everyone tells the most ridiculous lies and honesty is persecuted. Only when Sandy realizes the need for honesty can she help Puff escape this insane world. Written by Kenneth Chisholm
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-17
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Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody
Overview: The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-17
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Dear Mr. Gable
Overview: Burgess Meredith narrates this insightful MGM-produced documentary about the life and career of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, from his childhood in Ohio, to his star status in Hollywood, and to his romantic life off-screen, including his marriage to Carole Lombard. The film incorporates classic film footage of Gable with interviews of people from his past, including an old classmate from his school days, a former sweetheart, and his press agent. Another treat is the rare home movie footage of Gable and Lombard on a camping trip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-05
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Mr. Griffin and Me
Overview: Kenneth Griffin, a Hollywood director, hasn't seen his wife in 24 years since he stole paintings from her and went into hiding.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-09
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Getting Away from It All
Overview: Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-18
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Hot to Trot
Overview: Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Overview: Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-27
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A Fan's Notes
Overview: A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-02
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