David Proval
Also Known As: Clark Katz
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Aaron Proval (born May 20, 1942) is an American actor, known for his roles as Richie Aprile on the HBO television series The Sopranos and as Tony DeVienazo in the 1973 Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets opposite Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. Proval was born in Brooklyn, New York of Jewish heritage, the son of actress Clara Katz of Romanian origin. He has appeared in such feature films as The Shawshank Redemption, Mob Queen, Four Rooms, UHF, Innocent Blood, The Siege, a cameo appearance in Smokin' Aces, and has had recurring roles in television shows such as Picket Fences, Boomtown and Everybody Loves Raymond. In 1977 his voice was heard in the cult animated film WIZARDS, as the robot assassin Necron 99. In 2008, David Proval starred in the comedy City of Shoulders and Noses. The film is being produced by Sybil Danning, George Parra, and Tommy Ardolino. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Proval, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: May 20, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
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Four Rooms
Overview: It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-09
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Mean Streets
Overview: A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-14
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Romeo Is Bleeding
Overview: A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-13
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Hey Good Lookin'
Overview: An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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The Star Chamber
Overview: As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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The Phantom
Overview: The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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The Siege
Overview: The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-06
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Innocent Blood
Overview: Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Stiletto
Overview: The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-29
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Wizards
Overview: After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother's throne, assembles an army and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf's gentle twin brother, the bearded and sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf's plans for world domination -- even if it means destroying his own flesh and blood.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Queen of the Lot
Overview: An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-19
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Rusty
Overview: The film tells the story of Rusty McCaan, who is recently released from prison and struggling to find work in a rural American town. While trying to be a father to his 4 year old daughter, he finds solace in the arms of Maria, a truck stop prostitute who never stays in one place for too long.
Genres: Drama Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-04
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The Circle
Overview: A frantic young woman begs a stranger to help save her marked husband, not realizing that the stranger is the hit man hired to kill him. Experimental digital movie shot entirely in one take and in real time.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-18
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Zigs
Overview: Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-01
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Nunzio
Overview: A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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Skyscraper
Overview: A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-29
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The Hollywood Sign
Overview: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Flipping
Overview: The story of Michael Moore, Shot, Hooker, Joey, and Dennis. Five gangsters who work for a man named Leo. They soon discover they could get more out of life if they could run the streets themselves. Tensions build and loyalty is tested as they plan a hit that could change all of their lives forever.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-07
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Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
Overview: Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-17
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Adventures of Serial Buddies
Overview: Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van just to make friends. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure - encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren't careful they might just become human, in what is "the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-20
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The Courtyard
Overview: Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex; then one of his neighbors is murdered ... by mistake ... Jonathan was the intended victim!
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-24
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Silent but Deadly
Overview: Senior citizens are being offed by a masked killer in their small retirement community.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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The Deported
Overview: An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-15
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Phantom Punch
Overview: From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and untimely death in 1971.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-01
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Vice Versa
Overview: A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-25
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White Boy
Overview: An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being brutally attacked by the gang he seeks revenge via his street connections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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The Shawshank Redemption
Overview: Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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The Legacy of Avril Kyte
Overview: After a self-imposed absence, Avril Kyte returns to the small North Pacific fishing town she grew up in to discover her entire world is about to change dramatically.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-25
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Hollywood Dreams
Overview: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-25
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Balls of Fury
Overview: Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-29
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13 Moons
Overview: Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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The Brooklyn Banker
Overview: The story of Santo Bastucci, a local banker with a rare gift for memorizing numbers; he is unwittingly cast into the forefront of an aging wiseguy's bid for power, Manny "The Hand" Mistera. Santo is caught between the loyalty he has for his cagey father-in-law, Benny, his childhood friend, Basta, and his streetwise uncle, Matteo, the pastor of their Brooklyn church.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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To the Limit
Overview: Colette is an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villain and his organization of trained assassins for the murder of her husband while the man is also after mobster Frank Di Vinci for his own personal reasons. It isn't long before the paths of both Colette and Frank meet whom they share the same vendetta against the same man and they reluctantly try to co-operate with each other to bring him down.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-19
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Smokin' Aces
Overview: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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The Monster Squad
Overview: Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
Genres: Comedy Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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The Relic
Overview: A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-10
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Strike a Pose
Overview: A famous fashion photographer and her lover, ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play
Overview: An friend of Jim's continues to seek his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with the mafia man, Jim must must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's, at rest, himself.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-25
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Nobody Wants Your Film
Overview: Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and enthusiasm that go into completing a picture. Using footage from an indie movie set, e-mails constructing a plotline about distributor difficulties and interviews with indie mainstays such as Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell, the film provides a riveting look at one producer's rejections and rewards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-06
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Just Desserts
Overview: Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so her asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of restaurant, but unfortunately they started off on the wrong foot, but she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco's former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco's former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco's temper. So will they be able to pull it off. And at the same time Marco finds himself attracted to her but she already has a boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Sharkskin
Overview: The Post War II story of Manhattan born Mike Esposito, a practiced tailor of custom mens clothing; a man of dignity and honor, whose developing involvements with the Italian mob wraps him up in a world of moral dilemma and clashing values.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Mob Queen
Overview: In Brooklyn of the '50s, small-time mobster George and his sidekick Dip realize they've forgotten the birthday of mob boss Joey, so they engage the services of prostitute Glorice. Joey's reaction to Glorice gives George a promotion, and he's installed as Joey's assistant. George makes the discovery that gender-bent Glorice is not exactly a woman after all. The problem gets worse: Joey intends to marry Glorice, who plans to blackmail Joey after the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-27
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Overview: After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Pete Smalls Is Dead
Overview: Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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Cabaret Maxime
Overview: A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-31
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Papa
Overview: A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His biological father, meanwhile, resides in a psychiatric care unit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-14
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Shakedown
Overview: When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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The Unknown Trilogy
Overview: Somewhere, between the boundaries of life and death, lays the darkest places in the human heart. In these dimly lit recesses crouch fears older than mankind itself. Yet only by visiting this netherworld from time to time can we hope to unearth what lurks just beyond the grasp of our imaginations. The Unknown Trilogy dares to navigate these shadowy passages in three chilling tales that will make you glad you decided to come along for the ride...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-29
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Rolling Thunder
Overview: An ex-military unit specializes itself in non-lethal combat methods and takedowns and offers its services
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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Lost Angelas
Overview: Best actress nominee Angela Rose is missing and the only lead to her over-publicized disappearance is her ex-fiancé and struggling screenwriter, Jake Hart. Searching for Angela and haunted by memories he cannot explain, Jake journeys through the Hollywood underbelly and discovers a secret connection he has with a vanished movie star, also named Angela, who disappeared thirty years ago.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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Murder Without Conviction
Overview: Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Nowhere to Hide
Overview: A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a contract on his life.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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Bookies
Overview: Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-20
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The Brady Bunch Movie
Overview: The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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The Real Sopranos
Overview: This movie shows the connections between the TV series 'The Sopranos' and a real-life New Jersey Mob. The story of the rise and fall of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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The Latin from Manhattan
Overview: Follows the wild, exhilarating life of legendary adult film icon Vanessa Del Rio, set against the backdrop of organized crime-controlled Times Square during the 70s and 80s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-11
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Overview: Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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UHF
Overview: The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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Newsbreak
Overview: A reporter risks his life to get to the bottom of a stack of lies, corruption and murder surrounding the opening of a local power plant.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-26
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High & Outside: A Baseball Noir
Overview: A minor league baseball player refuses to believe his career is over and takes desperate measures to keep his dream alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-28
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Foster & Laurie
Overview: The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Cinderella Liberty
Overview: A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Sopranos Behind-The-Scenes Volume 1 of 2
Overview: This show is not produced or released by HBO & includes rare never seen footage! See Bloopers, Retakes, & Candid Videos! Visit Filming Locations & watch Flights, Crashes & Whackings! 15 Cast Commentaries illustrate 6 Seasons!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-15
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James Dean
Overview: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-04
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The Boston Strangler
Overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Written for Walken
Overview: An aspiring filmmaker uses his few contacts to try and get actor Christopher Walken attached to the movie he hasn't written yet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-14
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