Lilyan Chauvin
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Biography: French character actress Lilyan Chauvin may be one of those actors or actresses whose face you know without knowing their names. Chauvin was a long time veteran of the European stage, and was adept at playing strict, but sometimes loving characters. To horror fans, she might be best known as the sinister Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), but her career started back in the 1950s when she was plucked from the stage to appear in small minor roles in motion pictures. One notable film was with John Wayne in North to Alaska (1960). For about thirty years, Chauvin was one of the busiest character actresses in Hollywood, appearing in over forty films as well as on television. Her many film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Predator 2 (1990), No Place to Hide (1992), Universal Soldier (1992) as Jean-Claude Van Damme's mother, and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) with Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Birthday: August 06, 1925
Deathday: June 26, 2008
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Gender: Female
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Predator 2
Overview: A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Sublime
Overview: Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
Overview: Billy Chapman, who was traumatized by his parents' Christmas Eve murder, then brutalized by sadistic orphanage nuns, grows up to dress as jolly St. Nick for a yuletide rampage to punish the naughty.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
Overview: Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Silk Stockings
Overview: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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King Creole
Overview: Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
Overview: Ricky is released from a mental hospital, taking with him the memory of his brother Billy's death and embarking on a journey of relentless revenge.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-10
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
Overview: This historical and critical look at slasher films, which includes dozens of clips, begins with Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Prom Night. The films' directors, writers, producers, and special effects creators comment on the films' making and success. During the Reagan years, the films get gorier, budgets get smaller, and their appeal wanes. Then, Nightmare on Elm Street revives the genre. Jump to the late 90s, when Scream brings humor and TV stars into the mix.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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Lost, Lonely and Vicious
Overview: Rising young male movie star, bizarrely preoccupied with death and involved with his older-woman dramatic coach, meets an innocent sweet-young-thing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Stormy Weathers
Overview: Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, however, she finds out that there is much more to the case.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-04
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Overview: When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Duty Dating
Overview: Clarice, the perfectionist stylist of Dwellings magazine, decides after many romantic dates never got her further then a second date to follow her editor's advice and try the unconventional method of a female love Dr. which includes 'duty dating' with three men simultaneously until she finds a fiancé. After a difficult start the method gets her best catch, ambitious and hunky lawyer Graham, to propose to her, but then good old-fashioned doubts kick in, also concerning her best male friend, photographer Sheridan..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Bloodlust!
Overview: Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Flying High
Overview: In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qualifying for airline stewardess training at Sun West Airlines, and then start getting a taste of the rigors and fun of the real thing as rookie stewardesses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-28
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Universal Soldier
Overview: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Tyson
Overview: The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Private Benjamin
Overview: A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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No Place To Hide
Overview: Detective Joe Garvey is called in to a mysterious case: a ballerina has been slayed on stage during a performance, it seems she didn't even fight. At her house Garvey finds her 14 years old precocious sister Tinsel. She's not very cooperative, so he arranges to have her sent to the orphanage -- until she's attacked too. He takes her under his wings, and soon both get the attention of a secret organization.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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Portrait of a Stripper
Overview: A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-02
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Stanley's Gig
Overview: An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-19
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Overview: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Mephisto Waltz
Overview: A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Listen to Me
Overview: It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
Overview: The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-30
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Born in East L.A.
Overview: Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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The Passing
Overview: The three Naibert children, in their teens and early twenties, inherit a vast estate from their grandmother Rebecca. But unknown to them, the family inheritance has passed from grandmother to granddaughter for centuries-and Rebecca has a long reach from the grave to assure that the line is unbroken. The first weekend in the mansion is a party for the three Naiberts and their friends-but one by one, they vanish without a trace. Is death the punishment for violating Rebecca's spell? Are the demons that beset the young people real-or only reflections of their own fear? Is it murder, violence from another dimension, or madness? The answer lives in the reflections.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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The Junkman
Overview: As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a fiery battle, turning highways and city streets into a blazing junkyard.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-28
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Bad Influence
Overview: Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Round Trip to Heaven
Overview: Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So when Larry and his cousin Steve decide to go to Palm Springs to look for Ms. Right at a popular beauty pageant, the owner of the briefcase will do the impossible to get it back.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Death Doll
Overview: A woman is stalked by a killer who is obsessed with leaving dolls at the scene of the crime.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Beyond Reason
Overview: An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Overview: Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Catch Me If You Can
Overview: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-16
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The Other Side of Midnight
Overview: When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marries the sweet but naive Catherine. Even though Noelle has found a new lover, an affluent Greek named Constantin, and has started a great career as an actress, she vows revenge on her onetime lover. But once her plan is in motion, she and Larry fall in love and plot Catherine's death.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-08
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North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Overview: The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-21
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The Man Who Wasn't There
Overview: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Funny Lady
Overview: Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-15
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North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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Child of Glass
Overview: Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-14
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Overview: In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Five Aces
Overview: Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding plans, Chris returns to the neighborhood of his youth to consider his married future and to spend one last week of bachelorhood with his four high school buddies: Ray, Ash, Todd and Sean. Together, the reunited "Five Aces" enjoy a funny bittersweet week reminiscing about a time when they had all the answers... only nothing turned out the way they planned. As the week's events unfold, the Five Aces begin to realize exactly what life and friends mean to each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Illusion Infinity
Overview: Patricia Paradise, a successful Las Vegas singer, is married to a Vegas Casino Mogul. Having made sacrifices for her career and her husbands business Patricia has postponed her greatest desire to build a family. When her husband dies, she discovers their business is bankrupt and she is left with neither wealth nor family. Devastated by grief and disappointment, she leaves town in the middle of the night and begins a journey of self discovery that changes her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Tickle Me
Overview: A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly threatened by a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold hidden in a ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Once Upon a Dead Man
Overview: The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
Overview: Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-30
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