Michael Shannon
Also Known As: Mike Shannon, Μάικλ Σάνον, 마이클 섀넌, Michael Corbett Shannon, مایکل شنون
Biography: Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Birthday: August 07, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 335
IMDb-Id: nm0788335
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Known For
8 Mile
Overview: For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Groundhog Day
Overview: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-11
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Pearl Harbor
Overview: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Genres: War History Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-21
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World Trade Center
Overview: Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-09
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Vanilla Sky
Overview: David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Drama Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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Revolutionary Road
Overview: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-19
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Jonah Hex
Overview: Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.
Genres: Action Western Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-18
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Abandoned
Overview: After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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High Crimes
Overview: A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Overview: Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Overview: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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McCarthy
Overview: A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti-communist and anti-homosexual U.S. political sentiment during the Cold War.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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Bad Boys II
Overview: Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-18
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Shotgun Stories
Overview: Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Jesus' Son
Overview: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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Let's Go to Prison
Overview: When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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The Runaways
Overview: Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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Bug
Overview: In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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The Woodsman
Overview: After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-24
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The Missing Person
Overview: John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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The End
Overview: Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-20
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Overview: Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-08
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13
Overview: A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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The Flash
Overview: When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-13
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Machine Gun Preacher
Overview: The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Take Shelter
Overview: Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Man of Steel
Overview: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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Premium Rush
Overview: In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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The Iceman
Overview: The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Dead Birds
Overview: Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Genres: Horror Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-19
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Return
Overview: Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-10
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The Broken Tower
Overview: Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Night's End
Overview: An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism which takes a horrific turn.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-31
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Mud
Overview: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Chicago Cab
Overview: A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of his passengers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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They Came Together
Overview: A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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The Photographer
Overview: A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-15
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Blackbird
Overview: In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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Young Ones
Overview: In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
Genres: Western Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-29
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Mullitt
Overview: Two roommates late on rent have to come up with a quick way to get money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-20
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The Harvest
Overview: After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s strong objections. Her persistence leads to a friendship, but during secret visits, she uncovers dark secrets in the boy's home.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-10
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Midnight Special
Overview: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-18
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Choose You
Overview: This is what it looks like when Lena Dunham, Spike Jonze, Avicii, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Shannon get together. Dunham wrote a short film for Sunday night's YouTube Music Awards about a heartbroken guy (Nick Lashaway) whose ex-girlfriend (Hudgens) is hooking up with a daft DJ (Shannon). Things start to look up for the protagonist when he meets an impetuous young woman (Dree Hemingway), but the pleasure is only fleeting thanks to the film's finale, which was chosen by the viewing audience: "a double tragedy" in the vein of "Romeo & Juliet" set to the beat of Avicii's "Wake Me Up" and played for laughs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-03
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Dead Guy
Overview: When an abrasive old man suddenly dies in the apartment of a neighbor, an absurd game of hot potato begins with the not-so-dearly departed, as neighbors and building workers each pass the body along, in the hopes of not being linked to the old man’s demise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Cecil B. Demented
Overview: A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-02
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Herbert White
Overview: Michael Shannon stars in the role of Herbert White, a character based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart. The story follows Herbert as he works in the lumber industry, supports his family, and stalks and murders women he picks up in town. While Herbert is not exactly sympathetic, viewers are allowed to enter the mind of a serial killer, and realize that most of the time he behaves like everyone else. Movies like “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” have done this before, but to successfully position the audience inside the mind of a complex human monster in 14 short minutes is quite a feat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-13
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99 Homes
Overview: After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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The Bikeriders
Overview: After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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Nuremberg
Overview: American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Göring.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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Grand Theft Parsons
Overview: There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times... Gram Parsons was one of the most influential musicians of his time; a bitter, brilliant, genius who knew Elvis, tripped with the Stones and fatally overdosed on morphine and tequila in 1973. And from his dying came a story. A story from deep within folklore; a story of friendship, honour and adventure; a story so extraordinary that if it didn't really happen, no one would believe it. Two men, a hearse, a dead rock star, five gallons of petrol, and a promise. And the most extraordinary chase of modern times.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-18
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Kangaroo Jack
Overview: Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Freeheld
Overview: New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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Elvis & Nixon
Overview: In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-22
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Overview: Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-07
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A Different Man
Overview: Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-24
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The Young King
Overview: In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make her debut performance in America’s biggest drag king revue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Frank & Lola
Overview: A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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She's Funny That Way
Overview: On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-22
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State Like Sleep
Overview: Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spouse’s mysterious last days alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Nocturnal Animals
Overview: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Salt and Fire
Overview: A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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Chain Reaction
Overview: At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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The Night Before
Overview: In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-20
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Loving
Overview: The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Poor Boy
Overview: Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up an epic con to finally leave their dusty town and sail off on a beam of sunshine to California.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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Complete Unknown
Overview: Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Touch of Evil
Overview: Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-06
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Wolves
Overview: Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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Criminal
Overview: Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Shape of Water
Overview: An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Zamboni Man
Overview: Zamboni Man is a short story that peers into the lives of two unique and unlikely characters: Walt, a Zamboni driver and Tyler, a young graceful figure skater. The story takes place in the quietness of a vacant ice rink during a late night, after hours, practice session where Tyler rehearses her current skating program. On the evening of our story we witness their improbable and ironic relationship. What these two share by story's end reminds us of the power of imagination and delivers an unexpected message of hope.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-26
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The Greatest
Overview: Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Marvelous
Overview: After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her to make mechanical objects work again and also healing powers. As news of this travels they find themselves pursued by the press and people and take refuge in the home of a wealthy elderly woman cured by Gwen. Gwen is disturbed by all the publicity, but Queenie relishes it and claims she has is a medium.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Tigerland
Overview: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Pottersville
Overview: Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The sightings set off an international Bigfoot media spectacle and a windfall of tourism dollars for a simple American town hit by hard times. When Brock Masterson, reality TV’s “Monster Hunter,” arrives to hunt the beast, Maynard agonizes over whether to come clean, destroying the rebirth of his beloved town, or perpetuate the inadvertent hoax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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New Port South
Overview: A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Lucky You
Overview: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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The Ride
Overview: Three men steal a car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Happy Hour
Overview: When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Overexposed
Overview: Convinced that her husband Norm is being unfaithful, Ann Demski has an affair with family friend Nick. When she realizes that Nick contrived the evidence of Norm's unfaithfulness in order to seduce her, she breaks off the affair. Nick then launches an unrelenting campaign to destroy Ann's life.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-11
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Water
Overview: On an East Coast Island off season, a woman's naked and badly beaten body washes ashore. Jessy Turner , the sister of the murdered woman, comes to the island to identify her sister's body and to investigate her murder. In the course of the investigation she becomes involved in a passionate relationship with the local sheriff. Together, they unearth an even more evil secret from the Island Community's past...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-25
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The Current War
Overview: Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Overview: Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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12 Strong
Overview: A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Genres: War Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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What They Had
Overview: A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Fahrenheit 451
Overview: In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
Overview: This very special film consists of truly electrifying video footage from Bob Dylan’s “born again” period, shot on the last leg of his ’79-’80 tour, much of it thought to have been lost for years and all newly restored.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-02
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Friedkin Uncut
Overview: An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A. and Killer Joe. For the first time Friedkin opens up, guiding the audience on a fascinating journey through the themes and the stories that have influenced his life and his artistic career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-05
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Long Way Back Home
Overview: A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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Knives Out
Overview: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Echo Boomers
Overview: Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to themselves.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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The Quarry
Overview: A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-17
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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Overview: Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and his craft. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done was inspired by the true story of an actor who committed in reality the crime he was supposed to enact on stage: murdering his mother. With longtime friend Herbert Golder behind the lens, Herzog reveals the privacy and deep solitude that defines the director and his art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Overview: A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of the Mueller Report. Robert Schenkkan is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, and the live cast includes Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben Mckenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn, with additional participation by Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mark Hamill and more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-24
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Heart of Champions
Overview: During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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13 Scarier Movie Moments
Overview: Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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A Little White Lie
Overview: A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote address.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-03
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Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
Overview: Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma sorority sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-22
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Bullet Train
Overview: Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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Amsterdam
Overview: In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Overview: Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzog's beginning as a filmmaker, the new film is a sequel titled "I am my films, part 2 - 30 years later" in which Weisenborn talks about Werner Herzog as a documentarian of the past 30 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-28
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