Miguel Sandoval
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Biography: Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., USA
Birthday: November 16, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blow
Overview: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-04
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Overview: In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Air Bud: World Pup
Overview: In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer player and fatherhood. Loaded with laughs and cool soccer action, Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's soccer greats.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-16
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Dancing with Danger
Overview: A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-22
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Get Shorty
Overview: Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Death and the Compass
Overview: In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Overview: Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-17
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Clear and Present Danger
Overview: Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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Straight to Hell
Overview: A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
Genres: Action Western Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Overview: Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Mrs. Winterbourne
Overview: Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Repo Man
Overview: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Walker
Overview: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Girls in Prison
Overview: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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Crazylove
Overview: Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly the pressure of Letty's world overwhelms her and she suffers a devastating nervous breakdown. Institutionalized, she meets Michael, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of hospitals his entire life. Although major obstacles exist, Letty and Michael throw caution to the wind to pursue an intense new love as Letty finds herself torn between a safe past and a daring future...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Nine Lives
Overview: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale
Overview: Originally produced for PBS's Great Performances Series, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ Child. We see the tale through the eyes of a modern young girl, the oldest child in a large rural Tex-Mex family. During a surrealistic dream, which brings to mind "The Wizard of Oz," the young chicana makes a fantastical journey with the shepherds and along the way; witnesses the triumph of God's Angels over Satan's diablo's. Full of drama, comedy, fantasy and wonderful music; this is a rare film the whole family can enjoy together.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-23
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Spoken Word
Overview: A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-17
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White Sands
Overview: A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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Wild Iris
Overview: A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Crew
Overview: Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-21
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Tortilla Heaven
Overview: Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-14
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Repo Chick
Overview: As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles. Sequel to Alex Cox's 1984 cult film 'Repo Man.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Three Businessmen
Overview: An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Flight of Fancy
Overview: A young single mother, Mercedes, is about to marry solid, dependable Frank, when a dashing aviator, Clay, comes into her life. But when pilot Clay crash-lands on a small, remote island he sends the inhabitants into a tailspin.
Genres: Drama Romance Family Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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Oculus
Overview: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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Thin Air
Overview: Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help locate her, who begins to piece together her complete life story while submerged in the Latino shadow world of the town of Proctor.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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It's Nothing Personal
Overview: An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-01
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Scorpion Spring
Overview: On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Gotta Kick It Up!
Overview: This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. Bartlett, agrees to be the coach. Now the girls need to prove that they are ready to compete and are able to win; not only to themselves, but to their parents and coach. Using the chant "si, se puede" or "yes, I can" the Dance team builds their confidence to perform.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-26
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The Gumshoe Kid
Overview: Originally bound for Harvard, Jeff joins the family detective business to save his mother and sister from eviction. He learns the ropes quickly when a gangster hires him to find out if his bombshell fiancee is two-timing him. Shadowing her every movement - and eyeing her every curve - Jeff lands in real hot water, not to mention a hot shower, when thugs kidnap her lover and try to get him. Now they're both on the run - from the mob, from the police (who might be working with the mob), and from his mother (who might pose the biggest danger of them all)!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Deep Blue Breath
Overview: A boy goes into surgery and battles his disease, which has morphed into a monster in an animated world.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-30
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Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Overview: A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
Genres: Crime Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-14
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Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
Overview: An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-21
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Breach of Trust
Overview: For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Route 9
Overview: During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Collateral Damage
Overview: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Tales of Masked Men
Overview: Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploration of the colorful, fascinating and mysterious world of lucha libre Mexican wrestling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Fair Game
Overview: Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-03
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The Fixer
Overview: Jack Killoran is a lawyer who can 'fix' any situation for his wealthy clients, usually by bribing or blackmailing corrupt officials. Killoran runs afoul of some of his clients when he has a crisis of conscience after miraculously surviving a riding accident.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Overview: Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
Genres: Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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The Book of Life
Overview: The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Jurassic Park
Overview: A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-11
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Black Point
Overview: In an Alaskan fishing town, a local crime boss suspects a local fisherman knows where his stolen money is, but this fisherman is no regular Joe.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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A Scent of Paradise
Overview: Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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Blood Father
Overview: An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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Red Wind
Overview: In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pearl necklace. He must also deal with a racist cop that's investigating the murders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-26
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Do the Right Thing
Overview: Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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Quick
Overview: A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-30
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Real Steel
Overview: Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-28
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Jungle Fever
Overview: A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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El Diablo
Overview: When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger (Joe Pantoliano) and a no-nonsense cowboy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo (Robert Beltran).
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-22
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Where's Marlowe?
Overview: After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of Boone and Murphy, private investigators. Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks, however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients, Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business, the filmmakers must resort to a more hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure the completion of their movie.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Sid and Nancy
Overview: January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Panic
Overview: Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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Howard the Duck
Overview: A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Sun Belt Express
Overview: A down-on-his-luck ethics professor ends up on a completely unhinged run across the Mexican border with his teenage daughter in tow - and four undocumented immigrants in the trunk.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-06
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Bottle Shock
Overview: Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Brüno
Overview: Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Green Dolphin Beat
Overview: Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-27
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Overview: Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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The Apartment Complex
Overview: A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Switched at Birth
Overview: This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her. Eventually she dies. And the couple most especially the mother, search for their real daughter. Eventually they suspect that it's a widower who has their child. Now while they try to find out if she is their daughter, the widower is advised by his attorney not to be so hasty to cooperate, cause if she is their daughter, he might lose her, and she is all he has.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-28
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Up Close & Personal
Overview: Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance
Overview: A San Antonio, Texas policeman must stop his best friend, a fellow officer turned vigilante.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-24
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Human Nature
Overview: Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Ricochet
Overview: An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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The Grotto
Overview: When her fiancé dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling nightclub in the California desert where she discovers eccentric performers and a heartbreaking secret.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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