John Randolph
Also Known As: Emanuel Hirsch Cohen Randolph, جان رندولف
Biography: John Randolph (1915–2004) was an American film, television and stage actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 01, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 24, 2004
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Overview: In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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King Kong
Overview: An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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Seconds
Overview: An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Overview: It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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The Wizard of Loneliness
Overview: After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Heaven Can Wait
Overview: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Little Murders
Overview: A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-09
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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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Vital Signs
Overview: Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical profession.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-11
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Pretty Poison
Overview: A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexpected murder and chaos that change their lives forever.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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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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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Overview: A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-29
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Kentucky Woman
Overview: A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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Iron Maze
Overview: In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburgh: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it - in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and Sugito's young wife and business partners, but it takes a while, until he gets through the maze of apparently contradictory statements.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Overview: The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Number One
Overview: A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-21
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The Naked City
Overview: After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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Adventures of the Queen
Overview: A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-14
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Frances
Overview: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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The Adventures of Nellie Bly
Overview: A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane conditions in New York of the 1880s in "The New York World."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-11
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The Gathering
Overview: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature and he hasn't spoken to his youngest son after having an argument with him which he was in the wrong but only realize after his son left and has not been heard from since. But he goes to her to help him find him. But when his doctor says that it won't be good for him to travel, she suggests that they invite them all for Christmas. While most of them come, Adam's attempt at reconciliation won't be easy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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Smith!
Overview: When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Overview: U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
Overview: Learn the tale of Joshua's leadership and his determination to follow his God. Joshua leads the Hebrews through a battle with the Canaanites, who built a wall to prevent them from passing through to the Promised Land.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-25
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Lovely But Deadly
Overview: A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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Nowhere to Run
Overview: Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing a winning blackjack system, he hatches a plan that takes years of preparation: to fake his death, assume a new identity and win $500,000 at blackjack.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-16
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Beyond the Horizon
Overview: On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo's two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life somewhere "beyond the horizon." Andy is hard-working and steadfast and loves his brother deeply. When Ruth reveals that she loves Robert and not, as everyone believed, Andy, Robert's plans to go to sea with his uncle are disrupted. He decides to stay at home and marry Ruth, while Andy, unwilling to remain close at hand as his brother marries the girl he loves, takes Robert's place on the voyage. This turn of events leads to heartache and tragedy for everyone involved.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-17
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Crosscurrent
Overview: Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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A Step Out of Line
Overview: Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Kill Me If You Can
Overview: The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-25
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The Runaways
Overview: A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which has escaped from a wild-animal compound during a lightning storm.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Overview: Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-08
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As Summers Die
Overview: Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Lucan
Overview: A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity. Pilot film for the short-lived series.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-22
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Overview: The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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A Rose for Emily
Overview: Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Shooting Stars
Overview: Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Doctors' Private Lives
Overview: Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-20
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The Execution
Overview: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Overview: A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-12
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Fourteen Hours
Overview: A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Sibling Rivalry
Overview: Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Sunset Strip
Overview: A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he doesn't see. Tammy is a costume designer, open to quick sex with the various rockers she works with and loved from afar by Michael, a photographer recovering from a case of the clap. His good friend is Felix, a morose, alcoholic songwriter. On hand for comic relief is Marty Shapiro, a fast-talking record producer. Getting ready for the gig at the club, Zach's performance, and the early-morning aftermath comprise the film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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Sweet Love, Bitter
Overview: A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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You've Got Mail
Overview: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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The Adventures of Pollyanna
Overview: Pollyanna’s Aunt Polly wants the girl to spend her time studying, but Pollyanna has other ideas. She joins a secret club with a group of orphans, and they spy on a mysterious new resident in town, only to learn that her standoffishness is because of her desire to shield a retarded son. Pollyanna helps the town accept the boy and his mother.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-10
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Secrets
Overview: A young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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Nero Wolfe
Overview: Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Killing at Hell's Gate
Overview: A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target practice, decide to eliminate the rest of the witnesses.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-31
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A Foreign Field
Overview: Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
Genres: Comedy Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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A Price Above Rubies
Overview: About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-26
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The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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The Right of the People
Overview: The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a lawyer to allow citizens to carry handguns. He launched his fight after his wife and daughter were killed during a robbery.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-13
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A Death of Innocence
Overview: A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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Prizzi's Honor
Overview: Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Nourish the Beast
Overview: Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan who happens to be a cop, an elderly gentleman who explodes every time somebody calls him grandpa, a dying husband and an errant daughter who cries all night. The husband, Baba's fifth, is already submitting an ad for her sixth. The cop catches a Japanese stealing cameras and chains him to a radiator, the daughter guiltily confesses she voted for Nixon and runs off, and the husband-who may not die after all-insists they must wait out Watergate for a Democrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Gaily, Gaily
Overview: After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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Serpico
Overview: New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Pueblo
Overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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The Dogwalker
Overview: Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds himself caught up in her life and over her head in a twisted mix of class, race, age, sex, drugs, dog leashes, inheritances and contract bridge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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The New Deal for Artists
Overview: The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-06
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Means and Ends
Overview: A 1985 Canadian drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Partners in Crime
Overview: A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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The Family Rico
Overview: A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-13
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The Borgia Stick
Overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Independence
Overview: John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-04
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