Ione Skye
Also Known As: Ione Skye Leitch
Biography: Ione Skye Lee (née Leitch; born September 4, 1970) is a British-born American actress, author, and painter. She made her film debut in the thriller River's Edge (1986) before gaining mainstream exposure for her starring role in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989). She continued to appear in films throughout the 1990s, with notable roles in Gas Food Lodging (1992), Wayne's World (1992) and One Night Stand (1997). Other film credits include the comedy Fever Pitch (2005) and an uncredited role in Zodiac (2007). Skye also guest-starred on several television series, including The Twilight Zone (2002), Private Practice (2008), and a recurring role on Arrested Development (2005–2018). In addition to acting, Skye also works as a painter, and has authored several children's books. In 2006, VH1 ranked her number 84 on its list of the 100 Greatest Teen Stars. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ione Skye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Birthday: September 04, 1970
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Gender: Female
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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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Say Anything...
Overview: Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced Dad disapproves and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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River's Edge
Overview: A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Fever Pitch
Overview: When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-06
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Guncrazy
Overview: California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classmates. This all changes when a pen-pal school project connects her with convict Howard. Anita secures Howard's parole and violently squares off against Rooney after he rapes her. Soon enough, the gun-crazy teen is on the run with Howard, with his parole officer in pursuit.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Dream for an Insomniac
Overview: A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-18
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Cityscrapes: Los Angeles
Overview: "CITYSCRAPES" takes you on a 24-hour voyeuristic journey through the bedrooms, bathrooms, bars, cars, clubs, restaurants and back alleys of the lives of the young and hip in post modern Los Angeles. Ten intertwined stories follow eighteen main characters as they deal with the twists and turns of everyday life in the mega-metropolis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-11
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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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The Rachel Papers
Overview: Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Gas Food Lodging
Overview: Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Overview: A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-26
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Mindwalk
Overview: On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering that elements of her work were being applied to weapons development. Jack is an American politician attempting to make sense of his recent defeat as a presidential candidate. Tom is a poet, disillusioned former political speechwriter, and Jack's close friend. As they wander the picturesque medieval abbey, the trio engage in a wide-ranging conversation on political and social problems, exchanging their varied perspectives rooted in their different intellectual backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Tower of the First Born
Overview: Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions.
Genres: Action TV Movie Drama Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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My Father's Will
Overview: Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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12 Hours to Live
Overview: Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking on sunshine either, since this madman killed her partner when Megan hesitated to pull the trigger. Now Megan won't stop till she nails this guy, but can she save Amy before her time's up?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Messy
Overview: Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Stranded
Overview: A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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Carmilla
Overview: Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-10
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Mascara
Overview: Mascara is the story of three very different women who rediscover the value of their friendship at a time when their lives are in turmoil. Panic sets in as they approach their thirtieth birthdays and nothing is going according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-07
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Back When We Were Grownups
Overview: A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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The Santa Incident
Overview: During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must help him, so Christmas is not jeopardized.
Genres: Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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Samantha
Overview: A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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Dear Eleanor
Overview: Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-05
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The Clinic
Overview: New veterinary school graduate Dr. Andrew McDonald encounters many challanges on his first day as an intern at a rural but busy veterinary hospital. Along with the beasts, there is legendary chief veterinarian Dr. Cyrus Gachet, the cynical senior surgeon Dr. Kyle Southern, and a pretty young vet Dr. Emma Matthews. There is a ferret, a wounded cat, a St. Bernard dog, two horses, a deer and a fire to endure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-10
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Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
Overview: Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Overview: Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity and spirituality that arise when launched into the spotlight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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High School Possession
Overview: Lauren must prevent fellow students from performing an exorcism on her best friend Chloe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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The Size of Watermelons
Overview: Alex is the definition of loser. He has no, nor has he ever had, friends. His life has no direction and he has a stupid haircut. While attending the Venice Beach Art School, he meets Lizzy, Patrick and Gnome, who become his friends. When Alex figures out he should make a movie, he decides to do an "alternative political documentary in black and white" about Gnomes struggle to free Hawaii. He hires some brain dead film students and meets the girl of his dreams and he's all ready to make his movie. Until the first scheduled shooting date when Gnome, who has the budget, turns up missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-17
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Day Out of Days
Overview: In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-14
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The Lather Effect
Overview: On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-26
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Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
Overview: The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression. This groundbreaking two-disc anthology showcases eighteen videos containing alternate visual angles and multiple audio tracks. Loaded with never-before-seen footage and unreleased music tracks, this special edition also contains a trove of rare still photos and exclusive audio commentary by the band and the video directors.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-21
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Return to Babylon
Overview: Scandals and pratfalls abound in this satirical and sexy look at the silent movie era. With Jennifer Tilly, Debi Mazar, and Tippi Hedren.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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Kitty
Overview: A girl dreams of becoming a kitten.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
Overview: Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The Sounds of Science anthology, Solid Gold Hits consists only of tracks that were released as singles. Where The Sounds of Science is a double CD compilation, Solid Gold Hits contains one CD with all their singles that broke gold, plus a DVD with the respective videos of the songs. Although the standard US release of the CD/DVD has 15 songs, the Japanese release has the song and video for "Right Right Now Now" as the last song.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-08
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Cityscrapes
Overview: Over the course of a day, Pete Sakes skates his way through 5 intertwined stories in Gen-X era Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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The Perfect Mother
Overview: Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to keep control of their three sons' lives. Simpleton Dan is happy to sire the crucial heir without hesitation to keep unruly, immature wife Charlene in line, but goes to far, so she absconds pregnant. Firstborn John gave up his dream, fishery, to work in the garage. When he marries Kathryn, she starts questioning and resisting Elenie's matriarchal manipulation, but bares her a grandson. The conflict escalates, leaving John torn between loyalties.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-18
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Dry Cycle
Overview: The sun is setting and we see Dave, an artist, at the Laundromat. Fretting over his wife's ticking clock, Dave happens upon Ruby, a tempestuous beauty on the run with a mean-looking baby on her arm while toting a gun. Thus begins a series of capers that revolve around the helpless, yet, testy baby, a strapping town sheriff, a gun-loving bounty hunter and a snitching clown. All are involved in an ever-twisting plot in a quest for ownership of the baby Lloyd. The all night journey ultimately provides all characters their unsought solutions towards the lives they've been wanting.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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XOXO
Overview: XOXO follows six strangers whose lives collide in one frenetic, dream-chasing, hopelessly romantic night.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Haunt
Overview: An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just purchased.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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Monsters
Overview: Jenn lives in an underground bunker, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-28
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Heartthrob
Overview: Sam Maddox, a troubled girl whose father committed suicide, has earned a reputation at her high school for being a bit promiscuous. When Sam begins seeing brilliant, MIT-bound Henry Sinclair, the two opposites really attract. Although Sam doesn't realize it, Henry is in the grip of an insane romantic obsession, and he will kill anyone who tries to put an end to his star-crossed - and increasingly deadly - romance.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
Overview: Two young men who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend who has long since disappeared. Stories they have heard indicate that the friend has been seen in an apparently rambling, incoherent state at Coney Island. Their trip leads them to a number of adventures involving the otherworld-like life at the Park and revelations related to their own pasts including the death of one's sister, a failed past relationship, financial failings, and alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Rappin' With The Rickster
Overview: Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin' With The Rickster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Zodiac
Overview: The zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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Men Make Women Crazy Theory
Overview: What I wanted to explain in my movie was to show the pain that poeple go through when they are not sure of themselves in a relation. In this way, 'Men Make Women Crazy Theory' focuses on the pain of having to face a person whose love doesn't come up to what you have expected. - Zoe Cassavetes
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-11
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Wayne's World
Overview: The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Jump
Overview: Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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One Night Stand
Overview: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Color of Evening
Overview: An aging artist seeks his muse and a young lover in the form of a beautiful model.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Ingrid
Overview: A girl finds herself after failing her latest audition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Last Blockbuster
Overview: A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-15
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But I'm a Cheerleader
Overview: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Habit
Overview: The story of a streetwise party girl who gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out - by masquerading as a Catholic nun.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Bad Girls Behind Bars
Overview: A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-12
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Anaconda
Overview: Planned reboot.
Genres: Horror Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-25
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