Alex Winter
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Biography: Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the three films in the Bill & Ted series (1989-2020). He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: July 17, 1965
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Gender: Male
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The Lost Boys
Overview: When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-31
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Overview: Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Overview: Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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In Search of Darkness: Part III
Overview: The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Adulthood
Overview: The lives of two siblings are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
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Death Wish 3
Overview: Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Haunted Summer
Overview: Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Freaked
Overview: A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Ben 10: Race Against Time
Overview: Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.
Genres: Action Family Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-11
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Rosalie Goes Shopping
Overview: Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Relatively Free
Overview: A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively Free' is an examination of Brown's return to a very different world, post the election.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Absolute Dominion
Overview: In 2085 A.D., global governing forces host a martial arts tournament. The last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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Grand Piano
Overview: Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Destroy All Neighbors
Overview: William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Smosh: The Movie
Overview: An embarrassing video of Anthony surfaces online right before his fifth high school reunion. The Smosh dudes then race to pull down the clip before it blows Anthony's chances of reconnecting with his teen crush Anna.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-23
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Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most "Excellent Adventure"
Overview: A look back on the making of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with the creators of the film, featuring Interviews With Actors Alex Winter And Keanu Reeves, Producer Scott Kroopf, Composer David Newman, Supporting Actors Dan Shor, Rod Loomis, Clifford David, Al Leong, Terry Camilleri, And Jane Wiedlin, Special Make-Up Effects Designer Kevin Yagher And More!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-10
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The YouTube Effect
Overview: YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire Internet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
Overview: SLAMMIN!... Rap's #1 video magazine. Here are the acts you're going to be meetin' in the premiere episode of this 1990 Video VHS Magazine produced by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro. Waking up in the morning with Big Daddy Kane...KANE style, a spin in Ice T.'s Ferrari and a tour of his home with the Rhyme Syndicate posse, MC Hammer contributes his def videos, Queen Latifah and her dancers 007 and 99 allow Slammin' into their "Queendom" to drop science on women in the rap industry. Chuck D, KRS-One, Chris Rock and Steve White take a comic's look at rap movies. Host Alex Winter races around town, trying to hook up with Slammin's rap acts in this premiere issue.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come
Overview: Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams by the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come. He is then taken through time to see what havoc man wrought upon the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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Meals on Wheels
Overview: Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries following her. However tragedy keeps befalling him at every turn, leading to many wacky situations as he pursues the lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-06
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Ben 10 Alien Swarm
Overview: Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
Genres: Adventure Action TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Blue's Big City Adventure
Overview: When Josh gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s Broadway musical, Josh and Blue skidoo to NYC for the very first time where they meet new friends and discover the magic of music, dance, and following one’s dreams.
Genres: Family Adventure Music Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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The Borrowers
Overview: The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Gauguin the Savage
Overview: Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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Smurfs
Overview: When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-16
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Anyone Can Quantum
Overview: The game is real and the stakes are high as the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Can Paul Rudd, an actor, beat Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our generation, in a game of chess that will determine the future of humanity? Most likely not. Unless...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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Bar-B-Que Movie
Overview: In this twisted spoof of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," a vacationing family encounters a communal group of cannibalistic misfits, played by legendary punk band Butthole Surfers. After drinking a hallucinogenic beverage, and eating part of his own son, the father witnesses a live performance by the band.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Banking on Bitcoin
Overview: Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of sovereignty and the financial status quo. After years of underground development Bitcoin grabbed the attention of a curious public, and the ire of the regulators the technology had subverted. After landmark arrests of prominent cyber criminals Bitcoin faces its most severe adversary yet, the very banks it was built to destroy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-30
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Squeal of Death
Overview: Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed with a gangster film. This pushes him over the edge into the life of crime. Or does it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2
Overview: Another low-budget horror documentary.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-15
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Impact Video Magazine
Overview: Counter-culture video magazine created by Stuart Shapiro, featuring Bill Hicks, Robert Williams, Public Enemy, Butthole Surfers, Survival Research Labs, and much more! Hosted by Alex Winter!
Genres: Animation Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
Overview: Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends — to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-27
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The Body
Overview: In Los Angeles, on Halloween night, a hitman tries to transport a corpse in plain sight, but people he stumbles upon on the street, believing that his sophisticated appearance is a magnificent disguise, constantly stand in his way to congratulate him.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-21
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Aisles of Doom
Overview: In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Showbiz Kids
Overview: A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
Genres: Documentary History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-14
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Medium Rare
Overview: Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-04
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In Search of Tomorrow
Overview: A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artist who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-19
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Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Overview: Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s. She illustrates this with clips from (fake) current hit films and music videos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-09
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
Overview: The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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In Search of Darkness
Overview: An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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This Is GWAR
Overview: The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. The feature documentary includes interviews with the band members, both past and present, as well as other artists including Weird Al Yankovic, Thomas Lennnon, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and Ethan Embry, including never before seen footage of legendary GWAR frontman Dave Brockie.
Genres: Documentary Music Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
Overview: Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-24
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The Idiot Box
Overview: After the success of Bill & Ted, Winter and his directing partner Tom Stern were able to sell a series to MTV. One of the first live action shows ever on the network. Super violent and politically incorrect, The Idiot Box was a huge hit for MTV. Stern and Winter played most of the characters in the show as well as sharing writing and directing duties.
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Original Language: en
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