Ron Silver
Also Known As: ران سیلور
Biography: Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver (July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Silver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 02, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 15, 2009
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Cutaway
Overview: The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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The Arrival
Overview: Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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Semi-Tough
Overview: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Overview: True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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The Entity
Overview: Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla's traumatic past is motivating her to commit self-induced injuries, rather than anything supernatural.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Ali
Overview: In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-10
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Timecop
Overview: In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-15
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Blue Steel
Overview: Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Welcome to L.A.
Overview: The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Overview: The story of one of America's first female reporters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-04
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Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60
Overview: The history of the United Nations highlighting the gap between the good intentions and ideals of its inception and the sad reality of its present state of inefficiency and corruption.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Live Wire
Overview: Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-03
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Silent Rage
Overview: A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Silkwood
Overview: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-14
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The Ten
Overview: Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-03
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Blind Side
Overview: A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside. Realizing that if they report it they could land in a Mexican jail (guilty until proven innocent) they clean up the car and return home. A few days later an insistent man shows up wanting a job and insinuating that he saw something in Mexico that he would not want to report, and the couple must make a decision about how far they will allow themselves to be blackmailed. Written by Ed Sutton
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-30
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Oh, God! You Devil
Overview: George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-07
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Reversal of Fortune
Overview: Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-19
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Best Friends
Overview: When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Black & White
Overview: Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is loose, and all the victims are low-life guys whom Nora has dealt with. So, when the tire tracks of a police car are found at a murder scene, she's the prime suspect of internal affairs investigator Simon Hertzel...
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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Red Mercury
Overview: Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Exposure
Overview: A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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Lovesick
Overview: Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Shadow Zone: The Undead Express
Overview: A teen obsessed with horror films befriends a vampire who leads him to a whole coven of vampires that hide beneath the New York subways.
Genres: Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-27
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The Wisher
Overview: Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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My Father's Will
Overview: Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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American Tragedy
Overview: Johnnie Cochran defends O.J. Simpson who is on trial for his wife's murder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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Billionaire Boys Club
Overview: The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S. back in the early '80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, every time Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-08
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When Billie Beat Bobby
Overview: The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-16
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Deadly Outbreak
Overview: Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is looking for a sample of a deadly virus that is being developed inside the facility.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Eat and Run
Overview: A humanoid alien lands on earth, and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian. Italian people, that is. Incompetent detective McSorely is the only one with a clue about what's going on, and even his grasp of the situation isn't too firm. The rest of the police force thinks he's crazy, while the alien continues sampling the Italian cuisine of New York City.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Ratz
Overview: Like lots of young ladies their age, Marci (Vanessa Lengies) and Summer (Caroline Elliott) have boys on their feverish brains. But the closer the girls get to their school's Spring Fling dance, the further they seem from finding dates. A desperate search for dance partners doesn't turn up any leads until the duo finds a magic ring. Aided by their newfound powers, they transform two pet rats into teen dreamboats -- with nightmarish results.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Garbo Talks
Overview: When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa. Can he find Garbo before it's too late?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-12
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Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Overview: A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its systematic torture of prisoners.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-19
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Festival in Cannes
Overview: Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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Xenophobia
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Beneficiary
Overview: Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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Enemies, a Love Story
Overview: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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A Father's Revenge
Overview: German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to be extradited to the USA. The father of one of the stewardesses decides he can no longer wait for diplomacy, and so flies out to Germany. There, frustration leads him to hire a former SAS counter-terrorism expert. Together they hunt down the terrorists.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-24
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Heat Vision and Jack
Overview: As the result of a NASA miscalculation, Astronaut Jack Austin flew too close to the sun, the rays expanding his mind and making him the smartest man on the planet. Now he and his talking motorcycle (who contains the mind of his former roommate) are on the run from NASA and their assassin, actor Ron Silver who want to take his brain. They travel from place to place solving paranormal mysteries with the help of Jack's newfound ability to become a super genius when his brain absorbs sunlight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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Fellow Traveller
Overview: In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Danger Zone
Overview: Rick Morgan, an American engineer who runs a mine in East Africa, is approached one day by his friend Jim Scott, who needs someplace to store canisters of toxic waste. Unfortunately, a spill occurs a short time later, resulting in deaths and Morgan having to leave the country. A year later, he is approached by a government agent looking for a missing supply of potentially hazardous poison, which in truth hides something even more valuable.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Lifepod
Overview: Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-28
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Rhapsody in Bloom
Overview: Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as she ventures out to start a new life with a charming musician.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Skeletons
Overview: A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Kissinger and Nixon
Overview: A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the Vietnam War and Nixon was grandstanding politically.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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Tunnel Vision
Overview: A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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Fahrenhype 9/11
Overview: A documentary which refutes and debunks facts made by Michael Moore in his film "Fahrenheit 9/11".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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Night of 100 Stars III
Overview: A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-21
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The White Raven
Overview: A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Love Is Strange
Overview: As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she loves together in this family drama starring Kate Nelligan and Ron Silver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-08
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Word of Honor
Overview: A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, and his boss threatens to fire him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-06
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The Goodbye People
Overview: An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-11
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Trapped In Silence
Overview: A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-11
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The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
Overview: A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-16
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Romancing the Stone
Overview: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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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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Murder at the Mardi Gras
Overview: A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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Dear Detective
Overview: A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-27
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Mr. Saturday Night
Overview: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Girl 6
Overview: A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Overview: The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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In the Company of Spies
Overview: An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old operative out of retirement to retrieve both the agent and the vital information in his possession.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-24
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Find Me Guilty
Overview: Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob
Overview: This historic documentary only aired once on July 25th 1994 on FOX. A special on organized crime as told by the people who lived it, as well as historical footage, newsreels and government surveillance tapes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Betrayal
Overview: Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-13
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The Good Policeman
Overview: Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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PoliWood
Overview: An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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