Also Known As: Синтия Никсон, Cynthia Ellen Nixon, 欣希雅·尼克森
Biography: Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016). Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt , Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched. On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 09, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Overview: Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Overview: The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Overview: A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-12
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Overview: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-13
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Overview: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Overview: A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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Overview: Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Overview: O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-10
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Overview: A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Overview: Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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Overview: Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Overview: Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Overview: Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they surmise that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to eschew their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-26
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Overview: Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love, and girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-26
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Overview: An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Overview: Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-30
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Overview: An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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Overview: Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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Overview: In the late ‘90s, “Sex and the City” took television by storm with its honest and hilarious perspective on love, relationships… and sex, earning legions of devoted fans. Over 20 years later, this exclusive and immersive documentary offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the new chapter, “And Just Like That…”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-03
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Overview: The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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Overview: A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost her mind.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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Overview: When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is fabulous and her relationship with a married man is totally uncomplicated. But then Missy meets Brat, who's sweet, genuine and shares her fondness for 70's sitcoms. Unfortunately, he's also dating her pal Spaz. When Missy and Brat unexpectedly fall for each other, will she lose her identity... and her best friend?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-15
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Overview: Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-11
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Overview: An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and moves to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Overview: Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Overview: Through the voices of Americans from all walks of life, The Out List explores the identities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in America. In this series of intimate interviews, a diverse group of LGBTQ personalities bring color and depth to their experiences of gender and sexuality. With wit and wisdom, this set of trailblazing individuals weaves universal themes of love, loss, trial, and triumph into the determined struggle for full equality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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Overview: Major film and television stars re-enact famous scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare .
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Overview: Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Overview: Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Overview: After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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Overview: A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Overview: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Overview: This short comedy about the love of acting features a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter in three different eras: first backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1900, then backstage at a college theater in 1956, and finally, in the make-up room of the Charlie Rose television program in 1992. One of several short pieces commissioned for the PBS television special Great Performances 20th Anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Overview: A neurotic love story.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Overview: Mary Haines's life falls apart and her social circle shatters after her husband's affair is revealed. Filmed version of the 2001 Broadway revival with the original cast reprising their roles.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-18
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Overview: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Overview: The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con artists, take up with a ragtag circus, help a freed slave buy his sister's freedom, and then see a dastardly villain get her.
Genres: Family TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-27
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Overview: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-13
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Overview: Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious gray area of memory, Stephen is led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance, the best friend who shares his history, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir of the same name.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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Overview: When Sarah begins to have doubts about her impending marriage to longtime boyfriend Jake, smooth-talker Nick makes his move. Meanwhile, Sarah's friends, Nicole and Cara, are also having romantic problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Overview: Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Overview: A TV special that celebrates the stories and music that make us who we are. Offering a unique look at the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States, the special shares real-life stories of hope, resilience and triumph from people across the country, artistically represented through thematically relevant music. Exploring the personal journeys of remarkable individuals, the program connects these heartfelt stories with the history of the LGBTQ+ movement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-04
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Overview: Arkansas furniture maker Grins Jenkins is a cheerful man and loving father to his five kids, as well as the life of every party in their small town. When his wife Sharon, who used to be the 'bad cop', slowly dies of TBC, so does Grins' sense of fun. The kids refuse to keep mourning forever, but dad practically retires from the world and turns his back, opposing them enjoying life again. Then Christmastide arrives, and son Alvin refuses to let his kid brother's dream be spoiled.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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Overview: A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-11
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Overview: Naphtali’s mother, a world-famous performance artist, disappeared suddenly seven years ago. And yet, he sees her everywhere: in the faces of friends, coworkers, the guy he’s flirting with in a dark bar. When his mother returns with few answers and a staggering request, Naphtali is forced to confront what he’s spent years trying to forget. Art imitates life and consumes it entirely in this funny, deeply human mystery about mothers and sons, coming of age, and coming apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Overview: The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Overview: A spoof created for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, combining The Matrix and "Sex in the City".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-03
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Overview: Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-16
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Overview: A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Overview: The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-02
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Overview: When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Overview: Horror films dominated the cultural conversation in 2017. From the surprise hit “Get Out” to the movie adaption of “It” to the campy “Happy Death Day,” scary movies had an unusual hold on the collective imagination during that year. Maybe it's because reality was pretty horrifying, too. To punctuate the end of a hair-raising year, The New York Times Magazine asked ten actors who gave the best performances to play a series of eerie roles.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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Overview: After another day at work, Virgílio turns on the answering machine at home and hears a disturbing message. It's a message from Clara, communicating the end of their relationship. Virgílio then listens to the message repeatedly, seeking some meaning. Breaking up is not the problem; the problem is that Virgílio has no idea who Clara is.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-14
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Overview: Poet Emily Dickinson, pigeonholed as the strange recluse since her death, takes you on a journey through the seasons of her life amid 1800s New England.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-01
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Overview: A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-24
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Overview: Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Overview: Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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Overview: Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. Originally broadcast as part of the series "American Playhouse" (season 1, episode 9).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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Overview: Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-27
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Overview: At the height of the Cold War, President Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be security risks. A vicious witch hunt ensues, ruining thousands of American lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Overview: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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Overview: Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Overview: This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, all based on real events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Overview: Documentary about the creation of the iconic Broadway show
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-19
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Overview: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Overview: A look at the subjects of Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Overview: A look at the inspiration behind Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Overview: A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-22
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Overview: A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Overview: In this alternative to a "the making of" on the super hit-sitcom "Sex and the City", which simply does not rely on special effects, various actors and other people involved in its production, writers, producers, wardrobe mistress, even celebrities appearing as themselves or just mentioned by characters (e.g. designers like Oscar De la Renta) try to fathom the success formula, supported by numerous short fragments: what did make it tick, where the pioneering boundaries were (and especially where not), what they enjoyed, inspiration from real life and especially New York...
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Original Language: en
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