Susan Blakely
Also Known As: Susie Blakely
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, The Concorde ... Airport '79, and Over the Top. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and The Lords of Flatbush. Her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the female lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty, and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara. Blakely gained wide critical acclaim with her leading role in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. For her performance, Blakely won that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the following year when she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979: the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79 opposite Alain Delon, and the sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in many made-for-television movies. She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker, and Joan Kennedy in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story. She appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Mom's a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She recently guest-starred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, and Cougar Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Germany
Birthday: September 07, 1948
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Gender: Female
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My Mom's a Werewolf
Overview: The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-11
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L.A. Twister
Overview: The satirical journey of two guys in Los Angeles making their film as they go through the twisted world that is: Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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Wildflower
Overview: One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends and hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from the torture she undergoes daily. However, Alice's stepfather soon finds out about the friendship Alice has struck up and punishes her brutally. This story of friendship and youth shows that everyone is human and deserves to be treated so, no matter their disability or weakness.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-03
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Hate Crime
Overview: Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-14
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The Bunker
Overview: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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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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The Perfect Neighbor
Overview: A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-13
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The Lords of Flatbush
Overview: Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into street fights, and hang out at a local malt shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Overview: A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-24
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Grizzly Park
Overview: A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Capone
Overview: Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Crash Point Zero
Overview: A scientist recovers a powerful weapon created by inventor Nicola Tesla in the early twentieth century. Now, the plane carrying the device and a disparate group of passengers crashes in the Canadian mountains. The battle to survive begins.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Co-ed Call Girl
Overview: Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, sleaze, and violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-11
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A Mother's Testimony
Overview: An ex-convict's mother's worst suspicions about her son are confirmed when he is implicated in a murder
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-06
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April Morning
Overview: A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-24
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Gut Feeling
Overview: A young advertising executive creates the world's hottest ad campaign, only to find himself fired a week later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Incident
Overview: Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-04
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Race Against Fear
Overview: When a young track star is raped by her coach, no one but her mother will believe her story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Overview: Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-14
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Russian Holiday
Overview: In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Annihilator
Overview: Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-07
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Dreamer
Overview: The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion Harry wanted to be — and never was. Torn between ambition and love, Dreamer fights to have both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Blackmail
Overview: Two drifters attempt to blackmail a gangster's wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Dead Reckoning
Overview: A doctor, his wife and her lover make a voyage on the yacht of the doctor. But when the weather turns very bad they have to stop the sea cruise and seek refuge on a lonely island. There begins a deadly game in which the lover and the wife try to kill the husband...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-23
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Overview: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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The Survivalist
Overview: An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Hungry Hearts
Overview: The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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The Perfect Boyfriend
Overview: A charming but devious man conspires to bilk a wealthy veterinarian of her money.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-04
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Dream a Little Dream
Overview: Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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And the Sea Will Tell
Overview: A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-24
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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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International Airport
Overview: Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Shampoo
Overview: A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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Make Me an Offer
Overview: Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-11
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Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Overview: Frank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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Color Me Perfect
Overview: A mentally challenged woman undergoes an experimental treatment that temporarily transforms her into a genius.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Overview: A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Hiroshima Maiden
Overview: "You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Blood & Orchids
Overview: Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-23
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Broken Angel
Overview: A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-13
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Remember to Breathe
Overview: Alice Martin (Lee Meriwether), a former musical headliner, now lives alone and forgotten in a house hidden away just below the Hollywood sign. She remembers a past love (Susan Blakely) as she searches for meaning in her golden years. While mentoring a young aspiring singer (Leigh Ann Larkin), past memories become entwined with the present as Alice comes to realize that what she thought was lost is only dormant, awaiting a new spark.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Ladykillers
Overview: A female police detective enlists her boyfriend to help her track down a murderer picking off the dancers at an upscale male strip club in Los Angeles.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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Displacement
Overview: A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-15
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Savages
Overview: A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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Torn Between Two Fathers
Overview: The daughter of a divorced couple wages her own custody battle. After her natural mother dies in an accident, a teenager sues her natural father for the right to live with her disabled step-dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-20
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The Genesis Code
Overview: A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-25
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The Perfect Nanny
Overview: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, but she dies in an accident and Andrea gets the job after all, excelling and quickly becoming part of the family. Then Lewis' girlfriend, Dr. Julia Bruning, is mysteriously killed. When his boss tells Lewis of impending cutbacks at the hospital, the boss is murdered. Meanwhile, Lewis' teenaged daughter Fawn begins piecing together the history of the new nanny and discovers that Andrea may be responsible for these and other killings - but Fawn had better hurry, because the slayings are getting closer to home
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Stingray
Overview: A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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A Cry for Love
Overview: Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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Her Married Lover
Overview: Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. When Richard’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident, the lovers are accused of murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Overview: Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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Secrets
Overview: A young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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Seven Sundays
Overview: Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Overview: TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-18
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Overview: Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them - because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. So Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-01
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Over the Top
Overview: Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Overview: In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Murder Times Seven
Overview: For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Mating Dance
Overview: A romantic cop thriller with a twist.
Genres: Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-15
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No Child of Mine
Overview: A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-31
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Pride
Overview: On the morning of his annual gay pride party, Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who had disowned him over 20 years ago. Now suffering from Alzheimer's dementia, the father gets a crash course in all things gay from Stephen's eclectic mix of friends. Seeds of their turbulent relationship come to light as does hope that the two can move past their fears, accept and forgive one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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Chain of Command
Overview: Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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