Madeleine Stowe
Also Known As: Μαντλίν Στόου, Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora, مادلین استو, Мэделин Стоу
Biography: Madeleine Marie Stowe Mora (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her role in the 1987 crime-comedy film Stakeout. She went on to star in the films Revenge (1990), Unlawful Entry (1992), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Blink (1993), 12 Monkeys (1995), The General's Daughter (1999), and We Were Soldiers (2002). For her role in the 1993 independent film Short Cuts, she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madeleine Stowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: August 18, 1958
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Gender: Female
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Twelve Monkeys
Overview: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Short Cuts
Overview: Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-05
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Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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The General's Daughter
Overview: When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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We Were Soldiers
Overview: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Stakeout
Overview: Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Impostor
Overview: A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-03
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The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
Overview: A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of "Twelve Monkeys."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Bad Girls
Overview: Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Worth Winning
Overview: Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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China Moon
Overview: Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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The Two Jakes
Overview: Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-10
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Genres: Action History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Avenging Angelo
Overview: A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Revenge
Overview: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Octane
Overview: After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat, down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker, their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to find her daughter, Senga learns that Nat has been drawn into an evil cult.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Unlawful Entry
Overview: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-26
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Closet Land
Overview: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Tropical Snow
Overview: New York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their stomachs on plane to New York - although both know of the risks, since Marina's sister died on a similar journey. However on arrival at the airport in New York they show nerves and all their dreams start to shatter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-31
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Amazons
Overview: A cult of descendants of the Amazons plot to take control of mankind, but an inquisitive doctor might uncover their plans.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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Southern Comfort
Overview: The wife of a Southern mobster takes over the family business when her husband is sent to jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Blink
Overview: Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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The Nativity
Overview: The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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The Proposition
Overview: Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-26
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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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Another Stakeout
Overview: A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-22
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Gangster Wars
Overview: The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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The Christmas Hope
Overview: After the recent loss of her son Sean, Patty Addison devotes herself to finding homes for needy children. The loss of their son has strained Patty's relationship with her husband Mark, but they reconnect emotionally when they take in Emily, a 9-year-old orphaned in a car accident similar to the one that killed Sean. At the same time Dr. Nathan Andrews is trying to find the parents of a boy who died in the ER, and Mark is trying to help one of his son's friends.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-13
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Saving Milly
Overview: True story based on the best-selling book by Mort Kondracke.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-13
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The Deerslayer
Overview: Frontiersman Hawkeye and his blood brother Chingachgook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe in this adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tale" of 1841.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-18
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Val
Overview: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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