Anton Yelchin
Also Known As: Anton Viktorovich Yelchin, Антон Ельчин, Anton Elchin, Анто́н Ви́кторович Ельчи́н, Анто́н Ельчи́н, Αντόν Βίκτωροβιτς Γιέλτσιν, Αντόν Γιέλτσιν, 안톤 옐친
Biography: Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American film and television actor, known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, and for several other prominent roles. Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin relocated to the United States as an infant. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001). His role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor. He later appeared on the television series Huff and appeared in the films Terminator Salvation (2009), Charlie Bartlett (2007), Fright Night (2011), Like Crazy (2011), The Smurfs (2011), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). He appears in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and and Star Trek Beyond (2016). Yelchin frequently worked on independent and lower-profile films, headlining the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011), the 2011 remake of Fright Night, the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas (2013), the romance 5 to 7 (2014), the horror comedy Burying the Ex (2014), the neo-noir The Driftless Area (2015), and the horror thriller Green Room (2015). As a voice actor, he voiced Clumsy Smurf in the live-action Smurfs films (2011–2013) and lead role James "Jim" Lake Jr. on the Netflix animated series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016–2018). He maintained an active career until his accidental death in 2016 when he was fatally injured by his SUV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Yelchin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Birthday: March 11, 1989
Deathday: June 19, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Terminator Salvation
Overview: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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Along Came a Spider
Overview: After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, he is lured back into action as the kidnapper wants to deal with Alex personally. Teamed with Jezzie Flanigan, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the missing girl, Alex follows a serpentine trail of clues that leads him to a stunning discovery - the kidnapper wants more than just ransom.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Hearts in Atlantis
Overview: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Geppetto
Overview: Toymaker Geppetto is desperate for a son, so he is overjoyed when a wooden puppet boy, Pinocchio, is magically brought to life. However, the relationship between father and son soon sours, and Pinocchio runs away to join a travelling puppet show. This forces Geppetto to realise how much he loves Pinocchio, and he sets out on an eventful journey to find him.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-07
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Alpha Dog
Overview: Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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House of D
Overview: In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-07
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Delivering Milo
Overview: A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-04
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Charlie Bartlett
Overview: Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Star Trek
Overview: The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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The Smurfs
Overview: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-29
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Geppetto
Overview: Toymaker Geppetto is desperate for a son, so he is overjoyed when a wooden puppet boy, Pinocchio, is magically brought to life. However, the relationship between father and son soon sours, and Pinocchio runs away to join a travelling puppet show. This forces Geppetto to realise how much he loves Pinocchio, and he sets out on an eventful journey to find him.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-07
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Like Crazy
Overview: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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You and I
Overview: Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father's job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love of t.A.T.u.'s music.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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A Time for Dancing
Overview: Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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The Beaver
Overview: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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Fierce People
Overview: A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-05
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Middle of Nowhere
Overview: The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Overview: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-05
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Fright Night
Overview: A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Overview: Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-27
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The Smurfs 2
Overview: The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world¹s greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-30
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
Overview: When Grouchy Smurf behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to appreciate Christmas.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Overview: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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Odd Thomas
Overview: In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Overview: When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Cymbeline
Overview: War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-03
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Rudderless
Overview: A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Seven Friends: George Miller’s Justice League
Overview: Documentary chronicling director George Miller's unmade 2008 superhero movie Justice League Mortal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Burying the Ex
Overview: Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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5 to 7
Overview: A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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New York, I Love You
Overview: New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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The Driftless Area
Overview: Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal, and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. A contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-18
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Dying of the Light
Overview: Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Experimenter
Overview: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Green Room
Overview: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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That As They Say Is That
Overview: Anton Yelchin and Amber Heard star in a short film directed by Kurt Iswarienko. Inspired by the classic, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, this modern short format rendition was created for Interview Russia to accompany an 18 page Fall 2012 Fashion Story Kurt Iswarienko shot for the magazine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Broken Bells: Holding on For Life
Overview: Broken Bells: Holding on For Life Music Video
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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Star Trek Beyond
Overview: The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-07
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15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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We Don't Belong Here
Overview: A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-04
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Broken Horses
Overview: The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Kiss Kiss Fingerbang
Overview: A nice guy discovers his dark side when his girlfriend reveals her secret weakness.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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Porto
Overview: Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Rise
Overview: In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Rememory
Overview: The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Thoroughbreds
Overview: Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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The Apprentice
Overview: Wayne, an awkward loner, has just started working the graveyard shift as an apprentice mortician. When his merciless supervisor leaves him alone and in charge for the night, Wayne decides to make the most of it. Starring Anton Yelchin, this controversial short film was cut from the theatrical release of Movie 43 for pushing the boundaries too far.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Jack
Overview: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend's parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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A Man Is Mostly Water
Overview: The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-12
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Court of Conscience
Overview: During life, your conscience may draw on divine knowledge or precepts that help direct you toward right action and warn against wrong action. But in death, your conscience will be that of a record, that will testify for or against you before a divine tribunal as well as your own soul. Even if your conscience is inactive, flawed, 'seared', asleep, during your own life, as could be said in the worst of villains, it will come fully to life with a perfect memory of all one's actions in the after-life. No matter how well regarded you are in life, you will one day have to take responsibility for your own actions, no matter how well you think you've hidden them from Others, God, or Yourself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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Rooftop Kisses
Overview: This is a film that tells the story of a twelve year old boy who has to come to terms with the death of his father as it relates to the selling of his boyhood home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-23
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Dark
Overview: A government agent must track down and kill a terrorist before he loses his full memory from dementia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-11
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Automobile Waltz
Overview: Two protagonists riding around a set in vintage cars, arriving at different locations reminiscent of those in old Hollywood movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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So You Want To Be A Pirate!
Overview: With the help of his trusted dodo Polly, the Pirate Captain presents fun-loving and hilarious tips and advice on pirating. Learn how to remember where you buried your treasure, the secrets of navigating winds, get an inside look at pirate recruiting and even a Pirate’s recipe for a giant squid with lemon. Featuring special guests like Charles Darwin and the Pirate King you will set sail for giggles and fun with musical surprises along the way!
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-09
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Love, Antosha
Overview: From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton's impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-02
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Trollhunters: Happy Birthday to You!
Overview: What's better than a birthday? How about a chorus of trolls and humans wishing you the happiest, most epic celebration in history!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Trollhunters: New Year's Eve Countdown
Overview: Though an epic battle wages across two worlds, all manner of creatures come together to toast the New Year. But only for 10 seconds.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-26
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Movie 43
Overview: A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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Oscars and Ulcers: The Production History of 'High Noon'
Overview: This visual essay, narrated by Anton Yelchin, focuses on the production history at High Noon. Included with the essay are plenty of very rare and archival promotional materials
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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