Maurice Benard
Also Known As: Mauricio José Morales
Biography: Daytime Emmy Award winning Actor Maurice Benard joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Sonny Corinthos in August 1993. He briefly left the show for a year-long hiatus in December 1998. For his portrayal, Mr. Benard received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003. He was also nominated in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006 and 2011.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Martinez, California, USA
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Passions
Overview: A confession goes awry as a troubled woman enters a young priest's private chambers wielding a gun. As she catapults between anger and anguish, her devastating revelation forces the priest to face his own regrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-15
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Ruby
Overview: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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When Will it Strike Noon
Overview: The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded by a civil guard, his mistress (La Morenita), his henchman (Don Ramón) and the fortress governor (the venal Don Gaspar). One morning, the city's French jeweler Michel Dumartin receives a visit from a client named José Llanos, one of the regime's fiercest opponents. Llanos is soon denounced and shot dead by Salvador's men. At the same time, Dumartin was accused of complicity with the rebels. Arrested and imprisoned in the fortress, he is ripe for the death penalty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-06
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The Truth About Bebe Donge
Overview: François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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The Damned Lovers
Overview: A waiter, Paul, likes detective novels as he identifies with the characters, before becoming a sought-after offender himself. He flees with his group and his girlfriend Jackie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
Overview: Director Bud Clayman documents his struggle with OCD and Asperger's Syndrome and how it derailed his plan to become a filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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Her Wicked Ways
Overview: A young reporter forces her way into a veteran newswoman's life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Trials To Triumph: The Documentary
Overview: Follows the story of Freddie Stevenson from his meteoric rise through high school and college football to a chaotic life afterwards that led him to reinvent himself and rise up all over again. This documentary connects similar stories of struggle and redemption from motivational speaker Tony Gaskins, "General Hospital" star Maurice Benard, NFL and CFL player Delvin Breaux, and more. These stories are raw and uncut, just as they want to to tell them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-02
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L'aventurière du Tchad
Overview: Alain de Blomette, a family man, is in danger of becoming a deviant under the influence of his mistress Fanny Lacourt. He steals a bracelet, loses at gambling and contemplates suicide. His family intervenes and sends him to Equatorial Africa. Fanny, stubborn, joins him there, stirring up trouble on the plantation. The guns start talking. Alain's rival collapses and Fanny is mortally wounded. More devious than ever, Alain indulges in regrettable excesses. A fatherly inspector finally intervenes to instill in him a sense of honor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Mi Vida Loca
Overview: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Overview: Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-10
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Joy
Overview: A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-24
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Hold On
Overview: Fighting to save her brother from a life of addiction on Los Angeles' Skid Row, an overlooked singing prodigy embarks on an unlikely journey with the son of a famed music manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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A Lover Betrayed
Overview: Five years after her son was killed, Tess Ford is ready to live again. But a one-night romance with a handsome soldier throws her life back into chaos as the young man's attraction turns out to be a frightening obsession.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Nightmare Cinema
Overview: A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter
Overview: A revealing look at the life of Victoria Gotti, the daughter of notorious mob boss John Gotti.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-09
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The Ghost and the Whale
Overview: A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite remember the truth. A journey into the depths of his mind, a conversation with a whale and blood thirsty brothers.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-03
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Equal Standard
Overview: An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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The Story of Soaps
Overview: This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how female creators migrated from radio to television to become the dominant force in daytime for more than three decades. Today, the legacy of the soap opera continues all over prime time and reality t.v. An extensive look is taken at this iconic, impactful genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-19
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We Married Margo
Overview: Based on a true story (written by and starring the two dingbats who lived it). It's about two men who both used to be married to the same woman. Now divorced from her, they move in together to try to straighten out their lives, and end up driving each other crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-25
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Restraining Order
Overview: Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important. He is about to leave when some masked men go to his friend and kill him, when one of the men takes off his mask; it's Martin Ritter. Now being his lawyer, Robert can't say anything about what he saw. But that doesn't stop him from investigating what his dead friend was so worried about. It seems that he has stumbled onto something big, and instead of killing him they frame his wife for murder to get him to back off. But he doesn't and both his wife and him are now in danger. And still has no idea what's going on. Will he find out before they get to him?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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