Viveca Lindfors
Also Known As: Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors
Biography: Viveca Lindfors (1920-1995) was a renowned Swedish-American actress known for her versatility and captivating performances on stage, in film, and on television. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Lindfors developed a passion for the performing arts from a young age, honing her craft at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In 1946, Lindfors was brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would become a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman - two of Sweden's most famous cinematic exports. This marked the beginning of a prolific international career that would span several decades. Lindfors went on to appear in a wide range of acclaimed films, including the film noir classic "I'll Cry Tomorrow" and the psychological thriller "The Addams Family." Beyond her on-screen work, Lindfors was also a respected theater actress, garnering critical acclaim for her portrayals of iconic roles such as Hedda Gabler and Medea. Her versatility and emotional depth were widely praised, and she was known for her ability to bring nuance and complexity to even the most challenging characters. In addition to her acting work, Lindfors was also a dedicated educator and mentor, sharing her expertise and passion for the performing arts with aspiring actors and directors. She taught at several prestigious institutions, including the Actors Studio in New York, and was instrumental in nurturing the next generation of theatrical talent. Throughout her career, Lindfors received numerous accolades and honors, including a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the television film "Testimony of Two Men." She was also recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Swedish Film Institute, cementing her status as one of the most respected and influential Swedish actors of the 20th century.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Birthday: December 29, 1920
Deathday: October 25, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Stargate
Overview: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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The Way We Were
Overview: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Secret Weapons
Overview: Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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The Brothers' Woman
Overview: City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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The Exorcist III
Overview: On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Zelda
Overview: Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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The Sure Thing
Overview: Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Backfire
Overview: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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The Halliday Brand
Overview: Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Adventures of Don Juan
Overview: Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Brainstorm
Overview: Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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The Hand
Overview: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Dark City
Overview: Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Moonfleet
Overview: Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-24
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Silent Madness
Overview: A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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The Story of Ruth
Overview: Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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This Side of the Law
Overview: A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-17
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A Wedding
Overview: Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-29
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Nebbie sul mare
Overview: A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-05-10
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Coming Apart
Overview: A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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The Damned
Overview: An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Bell from Hell
Overview: When John is released from a psychiatric center where he has been hospitalized for a long time, he decides to move into the house of his dead mother, whose inheritance is in dispute.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-19
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Overview: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Run for Cover
Overview: An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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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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Sylvia
Overview: Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-10
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The Wind Is My Lover
Overview: Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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Fanfare for a Death Scene
Overview: An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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No Exit
Overview: The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Night Unto Night
Overview: A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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A Question of Guilt
Overview: A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-21
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Tabu
Overview: Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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Interlude
Overview: The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-11
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Weddings and Babies
Overview: A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-05
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Voices
Overview: An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
Overview: Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Marie in the Windmill
Overview: Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-15
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I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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No Sad Songs for Me
Overview: Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-27
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Marilyn: The Untold Story
Overview: The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-10
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Snurriga familjen
Overview: Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-18
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Tempest
Overview: A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Flying Missile
Overview: A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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I paradis ...
Overview: The Stockholm publisher Adam, a wealthy gentleman with a favorable appearance, has completely undeservedly gained a reputation for being a great Don Juan. Women of all ages are drawn to him and give him their invitations. To be at peace, Adam escapes on his sailboat out into the archipelago and settles down on a small islet. But the ladies follow him and in their footsteps follow jealous fiancés and angry courting cavaliers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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Zandalee
Overview: Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johnny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-09
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Child of Darkness, Child of Light
Overview: A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two virgin conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan's followers can stop him.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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The Tenth Level
Overview: Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-26
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Five Fingers : The Temple of the Swinging Doll
Overview: An edited version of an episode of the television series, Five Fingers released in theaters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Linguini Incident
Overview: A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob the New York restaurant where two of them work.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Inside the Third Reich
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-09
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The Sin of Anna Lans
Overview: At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-20
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Misplaced
Overview: The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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Divorce Wars: A Love Story
Overview: Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and must juggle his domestic conflicts with his clients' problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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Journey Into Light
Overview: John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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For Ladies Only
Overview: An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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The Best Little Girl in the World
Overview: Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-11
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The Raiders
Overview: A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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The Last Tycoon
Overview: Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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To the Victor
Overview: An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
Overview: A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Oscuros sueños de agosto
Overview: Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides to spend the holidays with her, taking advantage of the fact that her boyfriend has gone to study in Germany. During her stay in the sanatorium, Ana meets Mario, an attractive young man somewhat unbalanced, who tries to seduce her. Although at first she does not show any interest, little by little she becomes attracted to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Cauldron of Blood
Overview: A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-16
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Morgondagens melodi
Overview: The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-23
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Svarta rosor
Overview: A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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Rachel River
Overview: A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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If I Could Marry the Minister
Overview: Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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Backstreet Justice
Overview: A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-21
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Four in a Jeep
Overview: Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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No Time for Flowers
Overview: A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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The Serious Game
Overview: Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-26
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Going Undercover
Overview: Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-17
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Freckled Max and the Spooks
Overview: A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Horror
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1987-10-17
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A Doctor's Story
Overview: A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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Creepshow
Overview: Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from the grave, a meteor's ooze that makes everything grow, a snack for a crated creature, a scheming husband, and a malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-10
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Passions
Overview: A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Exiled in America
Overview: A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-04
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Natural Enemies
Overview: Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, is a failed husband, a failed father, he considers his entire life a failure. His decision is made, there's only one escape: to kill his family and himself.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Appassionata
Overview: A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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A House Without Boundaries
Overview: Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Run For Cover
Overview: Former KGB plot a terrorist attack on New York City.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Unfinished Business
Overview: Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized theater. Though he has brought along his current mistress, he wants to come back to Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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The Ann Jillian Story
Overview: Ann Jillian finds out she has cancer and the movie shows how she deals with that (the hospital treatments and impact on her life).
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-04
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Geoffrey Beene 30
Overview: A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-05
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Yellow Ward
Overview: A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Playing for Time
Overview: When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
Genres: Drama Music History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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An Affair of the Skin
Overview: A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Jag är eld och luft
Overview: Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-07
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Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Overview: Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo Marker, Irish Wolfhound owner, doing everything to get keep them together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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Girlfriends
Overview: A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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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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Natural Enemies
Overview: Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, is a failed husband, a failed father, he considers his entire life a failure. His decision is made, there's only one escape: to kill his family and himself.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Goin' to Chicago
Overview: About left wing students in 1964.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-10
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