Kate Beckinsale
Also Known As: Kathrin Beckinsale, Kathrin Romary Beckinsale, Κάθριν Μπεκινσέιλ, Κάθριν Ρόμιρι Μπεκινσέιλ, キャスリン・ベイリー・ベッキンセイル, ケイト・ベッキンセール, کیت بکینسیل
Biography: Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is a British actress and model. She first gained notice, while a student at Oxford University, for making her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma. She started film work in the United States in the late 1990s. She appeared in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999). In 2001, she garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001). She then starred in a number of films including the romantic comedy Serendipity (2001), Tiptoes (2003), The Aviator (2004), and Click (2006). Since playing the role of Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), she has become known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). In 2016, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the period comedy film Love & Friendship, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. She returned in action films with Jolt (2021). She also starred in two television projects with The Widow (2019) and Guilty Party (2021).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chiswick, London, England, UK
Birthday: July 26, 1973
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Gender: Female
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Underworld
Overview: Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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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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Underworld: Evolution
Overview: As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Vacancy
Overview: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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The Aviator
Overview: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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Whiteout
Overview: The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Van Helsing
Overview: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Tiptoes
Overview: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-17
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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Cold Comfort Farm
Overview: In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Shooting Fish
Overview: Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Serendipity
Overview: Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Click
Overview: A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Everybody's Fine
Overview: Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Laurel Canyon
Overview: When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-07
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Snow Angels
Overview: Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter go missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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The Golden Bowl
Overview: Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep this secret from Maggie, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father's pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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Nothing But the Truth
Overview: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-19
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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Winged Creatures
Overview: A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-08
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One Against the Wind
Overview: Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Total Recall
Overview: Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-02
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The Last Days of Disco
Overview: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Brokedown Palace
Overview: Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Uncovered
Overview: While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-04
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Haunted
Overview: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Genres: Mystery Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Underworld: Awakening
Overview: Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.
Genres: Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-19
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Contraband
Overview: When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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Canary Black
Overview: Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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The Trials of Cate McCall
Overview: In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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The Face of an Angel
Overview: Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-06
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Absolutely Anything
Overview: Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Overview: A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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Anna Lee: Headcase
Overview: A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-10
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Stonehearst Asylum
Overview: An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Republicans, Get in My Vagina!
Overview: Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer and Andrea Savage "spread" the message that the one thing women really want in their vagina is the government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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Prince of Jutland
Overview: A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-23
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The Disappointments Room
Overview: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Dynamo is Dead
Overview: The world-renowned magician Dynamo is back as you've never seen him before - embarking on a transformative and soul-searching journey to explore the depths of mental health and well-being. As he grapples with his own struggles, Dynamo seeks answers from inspirational figures around the world so that he can bury his past and find a new beginning. Through candid conversations with iconic actors, musicians, sports stars, journalists, and activists, each with their own powerful stories to tell, Dynamo learns of the struggles behind their success as they open up about their own journeys and share the wisdom and tools to navigate the complexities of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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Underworld: Blood Wars
Overview: Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Love & Friendship
Overview: From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-26
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Marie-Louise ou la permission
Overview: Star crossed lovers are the focus of this French romantic comedy. Marie-Louise, an American, has come to Paris to meet her new lover, Jean-Paul who has a weekend pass from his military service post. Unfortunately they misunderstood each other's instructions and are each at different train stations. They begin desperate searches throughout the night to find each other. The are hindered by Jean-Paul's ex-lover Marie, whom he rejected. Marie will do anything to get rid of Marie-Louise and win Jean-Paul back. Marie-Louise has her own problems when Jean falls for her. Jean accidently gets her involved with the police after he is arrested on the suspicion of pickpocketing. Despite their travails, the couple still tries to find each other. In the end, they are assisted by a magical nun who finally reunites them.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-21
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Stolen Girl
Overview: In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally abducted children who promises to help her find Amina in exchange for her collaboration.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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The Patient
Overview: An amnesiac hospital patient is issued a life he doesn't remember. But soon he comes to suspect that he’s being manipulated in order to protect a powerful politician implicated in a murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Only Living Boy in New York
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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Rachel's Dream
Overview: Fantasy drama Rachel's Dream was set sometime in the future when the world is besieged by technology, young Rachel discovers that through a large bank of video screens in her sister's apartment, her wishes can come true when she brings to life the image on an anti-pollution poster. This new friend helps her to make up her mind about her own future.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Farming
Overview: Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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Fool's Paradise
Overview: A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-12
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Jolt
Overview: A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Overview: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, this magnificent star-studded tribute salutes the Fab Four. Appearing with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were guest musicians Joe Walsh, Gary Clark, Jr., Stevie Wonder, The Eurythmics, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, Dave Grohl, Katy Perry, Peter Frampton, and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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Prisoner's Daughter
Overview: Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max’s violent past comes back to haunt them all.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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