Laura Linney
Also Known As: 로라 리니, לורה ליני, 蘿拉·琳妮, لورا لینی
Biography: Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before going on to receive Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible, the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004), Time Stands Still (2010), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2020), and the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–04) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark. Linney is also an established film actress. She made her film debut with a minor role in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for the dramas You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), and The Savages (2007). She's also known for her performances in Primal Fear (1996), The Truman Show (1998), Mystic River and Love Actually (both 2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), The Nanny Diaries (2007), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Mr. Holmes (2015), Sully and Nocturnal Animals (both 2016).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: February 05, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Female
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Absolute Power
Overview: A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Mystic River
Overview: The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-07
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Primal Fear
Overview: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Congo
Overview: Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Wildcat
Overview: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-03
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Lorenzo's Oil
Overview: Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-30
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The Mothman Prophecies
Overview: Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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The Squid and the Whale
Overview: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Breach
Overview: Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to gain Hanssen's trust and find proof that he is a traitor to the country. Determined to draw the suspected double-agent out of deep cover, O'Neill finds himself in a lethal game of spy vs. spy, where nothing is as it seems.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-12
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Jindabyne
Overview: Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Kinsey
Overview: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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Bonnie
Overview: A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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Driving Lessons
Overview: A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The Life of David Gale
Overview: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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The Savages
Overview: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Overview: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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P.S.
Overview: Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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The House of Mirth
Overview: In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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The Nanny Diaries
Overview: A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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Man of the Year
Overview: The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-09
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Overview: A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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You Can Count on Me
Overview: A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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The City of Your Final Destination
Overview: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-21
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The Truman Show
Overview: Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-04
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A Simple Twist of Fate
Overview: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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The Other Man
Overview: The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Wild Iris
Overview: A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Laramie Project
Overview: "The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-10
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Arthur Christmas
Overview: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
Genres: Drama Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Sympathy for Delicious
Overview: A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Hyde Park on Hudson
Overview: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Class of '61
Overview: Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-12
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Lush
Overview: Among the rich in New Orleans, it's the lush life for Lionel Exley, a golf hustler and heavy drinker. Released from an Arkansas jail, "Ex" returns to the Big Easy and starts a friendship with another heavy drinker, attorney Firman Carter. Often waking with no memory of how he got to bed, Ex becomes the object of affection of two wealthy sisters, Rachel and Ashley Van Dyke. Ex also keeps bumping into various local oddballs, pals of the eccentric Carter. When Carter goes missing and the police suspect Ex of foul play, it may be time for him to put down his glass and sort out reality from the haze.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Woodrow Wilson
Overview: A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, he led America into World War I, threatening all that he cherished. This film recalls the transformation of a history professor into one of America's greatest presidents, brought down by his stubborn search for peace and an incapacitating stroke.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-06
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Maze
Overview: Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend Callie. She leans on Lyle for help, and before long he's Lamaze coach, pinch-hitting father-to-be and in love with Callie.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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The Fifth Estate
Overview: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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A Farewell to Ozark
Overview: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Mary Pickford
Overview: It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world's most celebrated actress. Known as America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford was famous for playing darling girls and feisty young women in wildly popular films seen around the globe. Her love affair with Hollywood's leading man, Douglas Fairbanks, turned her into an icon of glamour and romance, the Hollywood dream come true. But, as Mary would learn in the most painful way, fame is fickle and life at the top is precarious.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-04
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Morning
Overview: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark and Alice Munroe as they circle each other in a heart-breaking pas-de-deux of grief before finally coming to grips with their shared loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Overview: Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's assassination. Based on a book by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Blind Spot
Overview: Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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Love Letters
Overview: An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kept in contact with only through correspondence.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-12
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Mr. Holmes
Overview: In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
Genres: Drama Crime Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-19
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Suncoast
Overview: While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-02
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Running Mates
Overview: A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-13
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Genius
Overview: New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-10
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Mon Clown
Overview: Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the 2007 film 'La Vie en Rose', also featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the film.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Overview: ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the special looks at how the film became a beloved Christmas tradition and a global sensation, with new insight into behind-the-scenes secrets and iconic scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-29
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Sully
Overview: On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Overview: After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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The Dinner
Overview: Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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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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Red Nose Day Actually
Overview: Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
Overview: The violent love between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Annie Oakley
Overview: This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century rural Pennsylvania to her death in 1926. Many myths are overturned and the program also features a little known trial when Annie Oakley had to sue The Hearst Newspaper chain all throughout the country for libel when they reported the activities of someone who was impersonating the famed sharpshooter and besmirching her reputation.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-08
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Overview: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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The Armenian Genocide
Overview: Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during and since World War I, but also takes a direct look at the genocide denial maintained by Turkey to the present day.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-17
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The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Overview: A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Olympia
Overview: Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-11
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The Roads Not Taken
Overview: The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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Falling
Overview: John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
Overview: What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied under Moni Yakim at Juilliard, United States' greatest performing arts school. This compelling portrait of the master teacher - the sole remaining founder of the school's legendary Drama Division - takes us inside the drama classes where Moni and his wife Mina pour their love and passion into preparing the next generation of actors for the spotlight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Overview: An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Overview: The dreams that all came true for Scott Fitzgerald - once he was in his grave.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-14
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We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Overview: A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington D.C., on January 18, 2009.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-18
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The Miracle Club
Overview: Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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The Details
Overview: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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The Hottest State
Overview: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-27
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