Edward Albert
Also Known As: Edward Laurence Albert, ادوارد آلبر
Biography: Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. The only son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo, he was also known as Edward Laurence Albert and Laurence Edward Albert (to further avoid confusion with his same-named father), as well as occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr. He is best remembered for his breakout starring role in Butterflies Are Free opposite Goldie Hawn, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year and was nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. He starred in over 130 films and television series, including Midway, The Greek Tycoon, Galaxy of Terror, The House Where Evil Dwells, The Yellow Rose, Falcon Crest, and Power Rangers Time Force.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: February 20, 1951
Deathday: September 22, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mimic 2
Overview: Detective Klaski investigates the death and mutilation of three men and soon crosses paths with Remy, an entomologist. Soon, he discovers that she is being stalked by a giant shape-shifting insect who is bent on taking over New York.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-13
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Guarding Tess
Overview: Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Extreme Honor
Overview: A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-12
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The Domino Principle
Overview: Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-23
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Butterfly
Overview: Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes to visit him and tells him she's his daughter. Jess finds it hard to adapt to his newfound parenting role, as a mutual attraction grows between them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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The Fool Killer
Overview: After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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Sorceress
Overview: Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic...
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-04
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Galaxy of Terror
Overview: As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Terminal Entry
Overview: The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-26
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The Rescue
Overview: A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their base. The U.S. Government will not mount a rescue mission to free the soldiers, so their teenage children take over. The kids find a way to venture into the foreign country and then must overcome many obstacles.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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40 Carats
Overview: After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Shootfighter: Fight to the Death
Overview: Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-05
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When Time Ran Out...
Overview: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Butterflies Are Free
Overview: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-06
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Space Marines
Overview: Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Death Cruise
Overview: Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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The Greek Tycoon
Overview: A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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The House Where Evil Dwells
Overview: At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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The Purple Taxi
Overview: With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Getting Even
Overview: A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-21
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A Light in the Forest
Overview: Britta, the new girl in school Highland, has reason to be jubilant this Christmas: Her sadness has served to invoke Holly Boy, the holiday spirit, waking him from his deep slumber imposed by a dark elf, King Otto. This sets off a battle earthly and supernatural fury that develop simultaneously. The Young Britta must face her fears and death defying aerial action in the holidays from school, while Holly Boy has to fight against the forces of evil. Both battles must escape to save their lives, school, and the sacred forest, although, in reality, what is really at stake is the Christmas and values.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Ablaze
Overview: The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives of a small town.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-16
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Demon Keeper
Overview: For Remy Grilland the world of the occult is nothing more than a way to swindle rich old ladies out of their money. A parlor trick. But when an expert of the supernatural comes to his seance, Remy feels obliged to summon a real spirit. In his ignorance, he brings forth a most vicious and evil demon. one known to spread misery by infiltrating the mind, playing on weakness, and leading its prey to murder. Now, locked in the house for the night, each person must find a way to evade the Demon's powers. Only the light of day will bring mercy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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Killer Bees
Overview: A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-26
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Distortions
Overview: A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and is shown the body...and that's when she starts seeing strange men at the corner of her vision, while her friend does all she can to convince her she's going insane!
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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The Other Man
Overview: Unsatisfied by her boring marriage, Christine begins an affair with a seductive, mysterious stranger named Quinn. But they get carried away with their passion, when lust becomes obsession ... and murder. It seems someone wants to frame Christine who could it be?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Night Class
Overview: When Jake, a security guard in a small hotel, inadvertently helps out a beautiful burglar, he becomes a primary suspect and is quickly fired. Jake decides to track down the burglar himself and retrieve the stolen property.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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The Squeeze
Overview: A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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The Underachievers
Overview: Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher. He joins a colorful group of characters that includes ex-cons, illegal aliens, and brain-dead baby boomers that cause more trouble than their younger counterparts. Swimming classes and wine tastings serve as background for a series of comic catastrophes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Ellie
Overview: Set in the backwoods of the deep south. Young, beautiful Ellie has just witnessed the murder of her father at the hands of her evil step-mother Cora and Cora's three lecherous sons, all hoping to get their hand's on Ellie's father's money. Vowing to avenge her father's death, Ellie plots to do in the murderers using the only weapon she has: her body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-12
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Body Language
Overview: The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-15
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Red Sun Rising
Overview: Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder. Soon they discover that Jaho is preparing a gang war and weapon smuggling ring. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-01
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The Secret Agent Club
Overview: A secret agent masquerades as a toy-seller, successfully concealing his alter ego even from his young son until, on a daring mission, he is captured by an evil arms dealer, then it falls to his inexperienced offspring to save the day.
Genres: Family Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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The Millionaire
Overview: Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-19
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The Girl From Mars
Overview: A young girl who has telekinetic powers also claims to be a visitor from Mars. The girl's father and a scientist who has befriended her try to discern exactly who she is and what is happening.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Overview: A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Mind Games
Overview: To save their marriage, Rita and Dana Lund set off on a family camping trip through California. At a campsite they meet a hitch-hiker, Eric, who befriends their son. Against Rita's wishes, Dana takes asks him to tag along with them, not knowing that he's a brutal psychopath.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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A Time to Die
Overview: A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-26
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Great Transport
Overview: This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1983-07-04
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Fist Fighter
Overview: C.J. Thunderbird, a down-on-his-luck professional fighter is informed that his old friend has been killed in an illegal fight. He finds out that the killer is a goon named Rhino and, with vengeance on his mind, tracks him down in Bolivia. The trouble is that the guy works for a local drug lord and the only way for C.J. to get to Rhino is to prove himself with his fists. However, the druglord doesn't want his best goon hurt, so he arranges for the corrupt local authorities to bust C.J. and send him to prison. The only way out is fighting the prison's monstrous colossal cage-fighting champ known as the Beast, who's never left an opponent breathing. Druglord's hot blond Caucasian girlfriend, Ellen, tired of being at the criminal's mercy, decides to help C.J. anyway she can. Even with all the odds against him, C.J. is no pushover and Rhino slowly becomes worried.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
Overview: Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Sea of Fear
Overview: College athlete Lance and his friend Tom meet Tom's girlfriend Kate and her friend Ashley in a marina to travel on a rented boat on a leisure trip. The Captain brings his navigator and first mate Joel and another unexpected passenger, Derek, along on the trip. Soon the boat is stranded and one by one the shipmates are murdered.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-22
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UnBowed
Overview: An unlikely romance develops between a Lakota warrior and a young black woman at an 1890s black college.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Daddy Can't Read
Overview: Teenage girl doesn't understand why her father is against her campaign to promote literacy at his factory. Until she discovers that her father can't read.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-16
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Some Nudity Required
Overview: A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Fighting Words
Overview: An angry coffeehouse poet meets an attractive, conservative publisher, who is interested in his work. She wants him to enter the Los Angeles Poetron, a contest where poetry is read competitively. Jake rejects the idea because he believes poetry is an art and not a competition. But the beautiful Marni sways Jake—it’s love at first sight.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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The Ice Runner
Overview: US-agent West travels to Moscow for the CIA in order to buy Russian weapons and to send them to the rebels in Afghanistan. When West gets caught he hides his identity and receives 15 years in a working camp in Siberia as penalty
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Wild Zone
Overview: Set in the outback of Africa's Okavango Delta, Wayne Garrison, a former Green Beret, dedicated to the conservation of the region, finds himself forced back into action
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Stageghost
Overview: A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Broken Trust
Overview: A young woman who inherits her late father's estate and business finds others are conspiring against her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Accidents
Overview: A research scientist discovers that his project is being secretly adapted for use by the military. When he objects, his co-workers start to die in mysterious accidents.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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Exiled in America
Overview: A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-04
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No Regrets
Overview: Cheryl and Alex Wheeler are seemingly happily married, with two beautiful daughters. But when Alex decides to look up his college sweetheart Suzanne Kennerly, he has no idea that his actions will lead to Cheryl also being reunited with her college sweetheart, Phil Welch.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-06
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Star Witness
Overview: A fictionalized account of a possible mob connection to Grace Kelly's death.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Dark Side of Hollywood
Overview: Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. B-pictures have long been the spawning ground of today's and tomorrow's stars. They started the careers of Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone among many others, as well as now super star directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron. The film examines the evolution of starry-eyed newcomers arriving in Hollywood and discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-13
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Hard Drive
Overview: Sexual encounters and criminal mayhem occur when two people meet via their computers.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Kid Cop
Overview: Eleven year old Peter Hansen is determined to follow his Dad's career example by becoming a one-boy neighborhood police force. When a local burglary is committed, Peter follows clues overlooked by the police and ends up in getting into bigger trouble than he ever imagined.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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The Work and the Glory
Overview: When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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Midway
Overview: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
Overview: 1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit. Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance explores the exploitation of Chinese workers during the building of American railroads. The workers not only spent long hours, but the work was often dangerous and fatal. The Chinaman is a fugitive on the run, and all odds are against him. While stealing a horse was a hanging offense in the Old West, our fugitive knows that killing a Chinaman is not a crime.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-14
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