Jennifer Beals
Also Known As: Дженніфер Білз, جنیفر بیلز
Biography: Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963, height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films. Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16. Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre. Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987; she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance. While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: December 19, 1963
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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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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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The Grudge 2
Overview: A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Catch That Kid
Overview: A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills and teamwork to navigate the challenge.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-06
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The Book of Eli
Overview: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-14
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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Militia
Overview: When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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Vampire's Kiss
Overview: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Overview: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Dear Diary
Overview: Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-12
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The Prophecy II
Overview: In this direct-to-video sequel, Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-20
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The Anniversary Party
Overview: While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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The Thief and the Cobbler
Overview: It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Roger Dodger
Overview: A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-09
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The Big Pardon 2
Overview: The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-09
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Dr. M
Overview: In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Genres: Crime Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-24
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The Bride
Overview: Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Troubled Waters
Overview: Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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Queen to Play
Overview: Hélène, a housekeeper at a ritzy hotel in Corsica, is devoted to her family but lacks any passion in her own life. When she sees a handsome couple play a passionate game of chess, she becomes inspired to play herself. Hélène's working-class husband and spoiled daughter are soon bewildered by her obsession with chess. They also grow suspicious of Hélène's close relationship with Dr. Kröger, her eccentric American expat tutor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-05
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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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Desolation Sound
Overview: Noir thriller from Vancouver plays out a destructive friendship between a depressed housewife and her childhood friend to an ugly conclusion.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-27
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The Last Days of Disco
Overview: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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In the Soup
Overview: An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Feast of All Saints
Overview: Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-11
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Overview: When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-20
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Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
Overview: A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-27
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Split Decisions
Overview: When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Blood and Concrete
Overview: A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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Wishful Thinking
Overview: A story told from three angles. Max meets Elizabeth; they live together, but when she talks of marriage, he balks. He becomes extremely jealous, probably without cause, and thinks she's taken up with a friend of his, Jack. Elizabeth, stung by Max's refusal to marry, catches Jack's eye, but the friendship seems innocent. Lena, who works with Max, likes him and realizes she can manipulate his jealousy and maybe engineer his split from Elizabeth. When she's sure Elizabeth is with a man, she calls Max at work, sending him home to confront the lovers. Then, Lena feels guilty and takes off for Max's apartment. What's really going on? Who's with Elizabeth?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-12
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A Night for Dying Tigers
Overview: The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party slides into a bitter fight over the bad behavior of Jack's brothers (John Pyper-Ferguson and Tygh Runyan) and sister Karen (Lauren Lee Smith). Terry Miles directs this dark comic drama.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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The Spree
Overview: A policeman becomes obsessed with a female cat burglar, who convinces him to join her in crime.
Genres: Action TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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Body and Soul
Overview: Charlie Davis, an ambitious small-town boxer with dreams of making it as a professional, travels to Reno with his unwavering friend Tiny. On his climb to the top, he loses himself and the people he cares for most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Dead on Sight
Overview: A graduate student discovers her nightmares are actually visions of real-life murders committed by a man known as the Clock Killer. Joined by an unbelieving detective, she decides she must stop the killer herself, or become his next victim.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-12
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Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
Overview: A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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My Name Is Sarah
Overview: Sarah is depressed and lonely after her best friend dies. She follows a handsome man, Charlie, into a church where he attends AA meetings. Sarah lets him believe she is an alcoholic too, but when she falls for him, she must come clean and admit that she lied and she's not an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-28
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Cinemanovels
Overview: The estranged daughter (Lauren Lee Smith) of a recently deceased filmmaker gains a new understanding of her father when she offers to create a retrospective of his work.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Break a Leg
Overview: A talented but struggling actor is willing to go to any length to get a job - including "breaking a leg" - especially those of other actors!
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Indecency
Overview: Thriller about three friends who work in an advertising agency, one of whom has a nervous breakdown. Upon her recovery, she embarks upon an affair with her former employer's husband, with deadly consequences.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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The Madonna and the Dragon
Overview: Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Runaway Jury
Overview: After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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The Gamble
Overview: When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-28
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The Twilight of the Golds
Overview: A woman discovers her unborn baby has a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, unwittingly exposing deep-seated prejudices within her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Manhattan Night
Overview: Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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Full Out
Overview: Based on the true life story of California gymnast Ariana Berlin. As she zoned in on her Olympic goals, 14 year old Ariana Berlin's life took a sharp turn when she was involved in a debilitating car accident. Gaining her confidence and movement back through learning hip hop dance, she unexpectedly found herself called back to the gymnastics world thanks to world renowned UCLA Coach Valorie Kondos Field. With Val's help, Ariana was eventually able to secure a spot on the UCLA gymnastics team and win an NCAA championship, a lifelong goal that she had always dreamed of. This is a wonderfully inspiring story of persistence, confidence, and the heart and courage to make a somewhat impossible comeback in life.
Genres: History Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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A Wife's Nightmare
Overview: Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-27
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Out of Line
Overview: Henry, a hitman hired to take out a socialite, finds himself falling for Jenny, a parole officer, instead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-20
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Let It Be Me
Overview: Right after getting engaged, a man starts taking dance lessons.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Night Owl
Overview: New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; several of Julie's friends commit suicide while listening to her voice. She fears for her husband Harry, who becomes more and more distant from her.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-19
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They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
Overview: Sloan McBride is an 1980s music star who is trying to hold on to her career. She hires Jenny as her assistant and Jenny seems to be the perfect employee. However, Jenny is actually planning her revenge because she blames Sloan for ruining her mother's career and causing her suicide.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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A House Divided
Overview: In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-30
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Before I Fall
Overview: Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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A Fuller Life
Overview: Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Cinderella
Overview: An oppressed young woman finds happiness when she secretly attends the royal ball.
Genres: Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-14
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Without Malice
Overview: Paul Venters is a self-centered plastic surgeon who is soon to be married to beautiful Susan, but doesn't get along very well with his fiancée's family, particularly Susan's brother Marty, an ex-con who is trying to stay clean after beating a nasty drug habit. To appease his future wife, Paul tries to mend fences with Marty by inviting him along for a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The White Orchid
Overview: A social services investigator helps a local sheriff solve the brutal murder of a beautiful blonde known only as The White Orchid.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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After
Overview: Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Sons
Overview: A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Something More
Overview: When Sam and his friend fall for the same woman, their friendship is put at risk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-28
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Overview: While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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That's Dancing!
Overview: A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Overview: A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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My Bodyguard
Overview: Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their "business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators - and a very special friendship with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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Hello Out There
Overview: Minnie, a young journalist who embarks on a road trip across New Mexico with her cousin, Rex, a punk rock guitarist fresh out of rehab, is trying to figure out what’s left. Their stated mission is to investigate Area 51 and unearth the truth about extraterrestrial life. But as the journey unfolds, a deeper, more personal reason for their quest comes to light.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella
Overview: Faerie Tale Theatre's "Cinderella" more than lives up to the series' stellar legacy of creative fairytale adaptations. Featuring a cast which includes Jennifer Beals, Jean Stapleton and Matthew Broderick it shines with intelligence and romance. It even subtly improves on the Disney classic by giving the prince a proper name; that of Henry. Jennifer Beals does admirable work as the title heroine, humanizing(as much as she can)one of the archetypal figures in mythical storytelling. Matthew Broderick infuses Prince Henry with undeniable charm while still maintaining a palpable shyness which perceptively suits the character as he finds true love. Jean Stapleton's boisterous Fairy Godmother befits the character's role as an agent for dynamic change in the story.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-08
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