Michael Moriarty
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Birthday: April 05, 1941
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Gender: Male
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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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James Dean
Overview: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-04
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Courage Under Fire
Overview: A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Neverwas
Overview: Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Blood Link
Overview: A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass…
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Who'll Stop the Rain
Overview: John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-02
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Pale Rider
Overview: A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Troll
Overview: When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy, thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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Shiloh
Overview: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to Judd Travers, a local hunter. After Shiloh is mistreated again, he runs away and returns to Marty. Knowing his father will once again make him bring Shiloh back to Judd, he makes a home for the dog in an old shed up the hill from the Prestons' house and hides him from his family. His secret is soon discovered when a stray attacks the dog one night and he must turn to his father for help.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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A Return to Salem's Lot
Overview: Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Q
Overview: New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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Report to the Commissioner
Overview: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Overview: The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-26
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The Last Detail
Overview: Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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The Stuff
Overview: Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Overview: The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-27
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The Sound of Murder
Overview: The wife of a cynical children's author and her navy man lover decide to murder him because he won't give her a divorce. Their plan is so diabolically complicated it just might work, but the wife has second thoughts.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-18
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The Arrow
Overview: The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-12
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The Hanoi Hilton
Overview: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) is dragged off to be tortured.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Managua
Overview: When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua to sort out the mess.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-09
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Hitler Meets Christ
Overview: Hitler Meets Christ premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2007 and went on to play at other festivals internationally. Written as a play by Michael Moriarty entitled "Hitler and Christ meet Death at the Port Authority Bus Station" while living in New York and acting in Law & Order, it was adapted for screen after Moriarty moved to Vancouver Canada. The film was produced by Brendan Keown and Jeremy Dyson of Third Tribe Productions and directed by Brendan Keown.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Woman Wanted
Overview: After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive son, Wendell, also grows attached to Emma, threatening to tear apart the family's already hostile relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-14
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The Glass Menagerie
Overview: An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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Hickey & Boggs
Overview: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
Overview: Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. The result is an engrossing glimpse into mob life in the early 20th century.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-17
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Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
Overview: When Shiloh's abusive previous owner, Judd Travers, tries to retake Shiloh again, Ray tries to find a way to end the rivalry and open up the hidden kindness within the town drunk.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-02
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Overview: The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing from the original short story and a number of Gilmans' other gothic works (The Giant Wisteria, The Unwatched Door, etc.), The Yellow Wallpaper is an original narrative of events that unfold around the actual writing of "The Yellow Wallpaper" short story. After a devastating fire, Charlotte and John rent a countryside house and attempt to start life over, though Charlotte, upon seeing visions of her deceased daughter, retreats to the house's attic and pulls away from her husband and sister. Written by Max Visconti
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Dark Tower
Overview: A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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Calm at Sunset
Overview: Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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Too Far to Go
Overview: Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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Reborn
Overview: A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-27
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Full Fathom Five
Overview: Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear sub KIROV is stolen and the weapons are aimed at the United States.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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The Art of Murder
Overview: Elizabeth Sheridan is a painter, living in a beautiful home on the coast near Seattle, where her wealthy husband Cole runs a yacht-building company. Elizabeth and the firm's top designer, Tony Blanchard, are having an affair. A particularly nasty blackmailer confronts her with pictures, threatening to give them to Cole; she and Tony agree to pay, but after two deaths and a torched house, things have gotten complicated: infidelity pales next to a murder charge. A high-school yearbook photo takes her further into danger. What motive might explain and connect the twists? Is she ensnared beyond hope?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-14
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Of Things Past
Overview: A young couple struggling to save their marriage after the tragic loss of their baby son moves to idyllic Mammoth Lakes, CA. Filmed over thirty-five years, we see Michael and Laura's journey through love, commitment, secrets and desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-06
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A Summer Without Boys
Overview: A middle-aged woman going through a divorce takes her daughter to a summer lodge where the girl experiences a powerful awakening to life's challenges.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-05
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Pick Me Up
Overview: On a desolate stretch of mountain road, a friendly truck driver who enjoys slaughtering hitchhikers meets a charming hitchhiker who prefers to butcher anyone who gives him a ride.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Santa Baby
Overview: Mary Class is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she left behind to take over for her dad and implement her innovative ideas for running Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-10
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Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
Overview: A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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Becoming Dick
Overview: Story of a struggling New York actor who discovers the formula for success and suddenly finds himself richer and more famous than he could have imagined.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-31
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The Secret of the Ice Cave
Overview: A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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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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Out of Line
Overview: Henry, a hitman hired to take out a socialite, finds himself falling for Jenny, a parole officer, instead.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-20
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Fugitives Run
Overview: There's never a dull moment from the time Clint Northern meets Dan John Fighting Bear at his granddaughter's birthday party. The two take an instant dislike to each other but find themselves unlikely partners when they're mistaken as the culprits of a local bingo heist! Madness and mayhem ensue as they embark on a mission to clear their names and bring the real culprits to justice while evading a vengeful cop, and a crazed casino security guard. It's a barrel of laughs that never stops rolling! Along the way, they get a lot more adventure than they bargained for, some newfound respect, and quite possibly a lasting friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-02
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Crime of the Century
Overview: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Broken Silence
Overview: A Carthusian monk, dedicated to silence and meditation for the last 25 years, must travel from France to Jakarta to get a signature that will renew the property lease for his monastery. Terrified of his experience on the airplane, he gets off at its first stop, New Delhi, plunging into the strange world outside his monastery walls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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How Holocaust came to Television
Overview: At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the German population was suddenly reminded of the terrible Nazi crimes against the Jews. What is now expressed with the hitherto unknown word Holocaust, hits many millions of people in the heart. The unexpected echo and the audience reactions were fierce. Even before the TV broadcast neo-Nazis blasted in vain transmitting towers in Germany to prevent this. From the creation and the shooting over the broadcast to the tremendous reactions, documentary filmmaker Alice Agneskirchner tells the story of this emotional television event, which led to a paradigm shift in the perception of German Nazi crimes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-14
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Mob Princess
Overview: A woman wants to clear her father's name. He supposedly murdered a shady night club owner. She starts looking for clues about the real perpetrator, but finds more than she bargained for.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-23
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Mindstorm
Overview: A psychic's investigation into the disappearance of a Senator's daughter leads her to a dangerous cult and the truth about her mysterious past.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-28
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Children of Fortune
Overview: Navy detective Dave Passenger is assigned to investigate the murder of a sailor's girlfriend. Dave follows the trail of evidence to a small Arizona community where polygamy is still being practiced. Along for the ride is Passenger's estranged 15-year-old daughter Erica who has been invited to participate in the investigation by Dave in the hope that he can mend a few family fences while tracking down the culprit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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My Old Man's Place
Overview: Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-29
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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Overview: A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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12 Hours to Live
Overview: Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking on sunshine either, since this madman killed her partner when Megan hesitated to pull the trigger. Now Megan won't stop till she nails this guy, but can she save Amy before her time's up?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Living with the Dead
Overview: A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. The detective investigating the murders looks to him for help in solving the case.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-28
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The Deadliest Season
Overview: Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Overview: Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-20
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Earthquake in New York
Overview: A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-11
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House of Luk
Overview: House of Luk is a quirky drama following the lives of three loveable losers who frequent a Chinese restaurant and discover the true meaning in their lives when they each decipher a cryptic message in a fortune cookie.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Cold Blooded
Overview: A serial murderer of teenage girls is loose, and working the case are a possibly corrupt detective Lou Miles a probably corrupt chief inspector Brodsky and his "favorite snitch." Dark personal histories and current politics mix to get the ambitious DA and her investigator involved.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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Deadly Skies
Overview: When scientist Dr Madison Taylor discovers an asteroid the size of Texas is heading for Earth, she sets out to destroy it - with or without the help of the military.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-15
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Odd Birds
Overview: In 1965, an Asian-American girl wants to be an actress despite the odds. Her mother thinks it's just a silly dream. However, her quirky middle-aged high school teacher decides to help her try out for a Broadway musical.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-10
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Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Overview: Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-29
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Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants
Overview: Galileo is thwarted in his pursuit to uncover the universe's mysteries by a lack of money, a lazy brother and a jealous rival. Luckily, he finds support from his student, Prince Cosimo, son of the Medici family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Born Too Soon
Overview: American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-25
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Gunfight at Dry River
Overview: The closing years of the nineteenth century Old West. Dry River tells the story of a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought, with the only water source controlled by a family of American renegades on the trail for a legend of lost gold. When a Mexican stranger arrives to reclaim his father’s land, a violent confrontation will cause the lives of all to be forever transformed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Major Crime
Overview: Undercover police work to bring a pedophile to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-23
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