Lilia Skala
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Biography: Lilia Skala (née Sofer; 28 November 1896 – 18 December 1994) was an Austrian-American architect and actress known for her role in the film Lilies of the Field (1963), for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination. During her career, Skala was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lilia Skala, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Birthday: November 28, 1896
Deathday: December 18, 1994
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Gender: Female
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Flashdance
Overview: Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dream.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-14
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Ship of Fools
Overview: Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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Charly
Overview: An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-23
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Caprice
Overview: Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-18
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Call Me Madam
Overview: Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-25
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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Heartland
Overview: Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart, a rancher. The work is back-breaking and the isolation is brutal, particularly as winter arrives. Elinor begins to think about homesteading her own property near Stewart's ranch, but Stewart tries to dissuade her with explanations about the killing conditions and poor rewards, especially for a woman with no man to help her ranch. Although their temperaments are different and little affection exists, Elinor and Stewart agree to marry and combine homesteads. What lies ahead is the severest test of all.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-22
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Unentschuldigte Stunde
Overview: When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Roseland
Overview: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-02
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Probe
Overview: That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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The Sunshine Patriot
Overview: An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-16
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The End of August
Overview: In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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Sooner or Later
Overview: Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
Genres: Drama Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-25
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Deadly Hero
Overview: Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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Purple and True Blue
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-04
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Testament
Overview: It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Men Of Respect
Overview: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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We Need No Money
Overview: In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Ironside
Overview: Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives, has been shot and left for dead while vacationing at his friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat. Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has damaged nerves in his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. Unable to gain reinstatement as chief of detectives, Ironside gets permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen volunteer. With the assistance of two former protegees, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown and Officer Eve Whitfield, and a newly-hired aide/driver, Mark Sanger, Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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House of Games
Overview: A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-11
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Split Second to an Epitaph
Overview: In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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