Tess Harper
Also Known As: Tesa Harper, Tessie Jean Harper
Biography: Tessie Jean "Tess" Harper (née Washam; born August 15, 1950) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart. Her other film appearances include Flashpoint (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far North (1988), and No Country for Old Men (2007). She also had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010). From Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA
Birthday: August 15, 1950
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Gender: Female
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Rosebud Lane
Overview: When a middle aged Hollywood filmmaker receives an unexpected card from his young son whom he has never met, he makes the difficult decision to go see him in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Both of their lives then take a life-altering turn as drama surrounding the boy’s mother unfolds in the small mountain town.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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The Jackal
Overview: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Overview: Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Broken
Overview: A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Jesus, Mary and Joey
Overview: Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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No Country for Old Men
Overview: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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The Turning
Overview: Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Now he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Amityville 3-D
Overview: To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Ishtar
Overview: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Broken Bridges
Overview: A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Tender Mercies
Overview: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-04
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Criminal Law
Overview: Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The verdict sets Thiel free. Within 24 hours another grizzly and all-too-familiar murder has taken place with striking similarities to the first crime. Chase inexplicably agrees to act as his defense attorney; but this time it will be to gather evidence that will put away his client for good.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-28
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Overview: Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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Saving Sarah Cain
Overview: When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-19
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Kentucky Woman
Overview: A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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The Man in the Moon
Overview: Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-30
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Her Alibi
Overview: A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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Fatal Secrets
Overview: An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-03
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Flashpoint
Overview: Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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Diary of a Country Sheriff
Overview: No Country for Old Men: Diary of a Country Sheriff
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-11
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Loggerheads
Overview: A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Angel in the Family
Overview: Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Overview: Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-28
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A Summer to Remember
Overview: Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Our Almost Completely True Story
Overview: When a beautiful, tall, aging Hollywood star and a short, funny Jewish man try online dating, it's a disaster. But when they randomly meet at a bird store, what are the chances? He is immediately smitten, but she not so much. As he pursues the woman of his dreams, his charm, sense of humor, and multiple impressions win her over in their heartwarming (almost completely true) love story.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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Far North
Overview: After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Overview: H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Judy's Got a Gun
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Rising Place
Overview: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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A Stranger to Love
Overview: In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-24
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Straight A's
Overview: Pressured by his late mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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The Christmas Heart
Overview: The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-02
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Silkwood
Overview: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-14
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Sunlight Jr.
Overview: Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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The Road to Galveston
Overview: Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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Dangerous: The Short Films
Overview: Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual and musical highlights of his most recent string of hit singles. As well as extensive behind the scenes profiles of the making of Michael's state of the art short films.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-28
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My New Gun
Overview: Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-26
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Frank
Overview: A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Good Side of Bad
Overview: Three adult siblings are brought back together after a shocking diagnosis forces them to confront harsh future realities regarding the mental state of one of their own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-22
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A Child's Wish
Overview: A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-21
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Little Girl Lost
Overview: This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-25
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Unconquered
Overview: In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-15
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The In Crowd
Overview: A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Lonely Place
Overview: A menacing farmhand worms his way between a husband and wife on an old peach farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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Surprise
Overview: A mother and son confess their secrets.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-28
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A Christmas Wish
Overview: MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne'er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daughters and stepson. Martha leaves town in hopes of finding a job and a place to stay, she finally finds a job at a sleepy rural diner, formerly famous for its home-made root beer. But with her car broken down and the bills piling up, it looks like it's going to be a bleak Christmas for the Evans family. However, there are warm hearts working behind the scenes that ultimately make this the happiest holiday of Martha's life -- a real answer to her prayers
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-20
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In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Overview: Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with provisions and enough ammunition to withstand the governments siege. They are devout in their beliefs and purposes and are determined to stand up for their rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-10
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Burden
Overview: Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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The Perfect Guy
Overview: With a fulfilling career and a loving relationship, lobbyist Leah Vaughn seems to have it all. Things come crashing down when Dave, her long-term boyfriend, disagrees with her future plans for marriage and a family. The resulting painful breakup leaves Leah heartbroken, until she meets the charming and handsome Carter Duncan. Soon, the budding romance turns dangerous as Carter reveals his volatile nature, forcing Leah to break up with the man she thought was Mr. Right. She soon realizes that Carter doesn't want to let her go.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Jam
Overview: A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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Death in Small Doses
Overview: One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-16
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The Killing Secret
Overview: A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-06
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Incident at Dark River
Overview: When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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Daddy
Overview: Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-14
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Promises to Keep
Overview: An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-15
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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Overview: A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-08
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American Outlaws
Overview: Facing the possibility of prison - and in search of an idealized freedom - 3 siblings take matters in to their own hands with a cross country crime spree of epic proportions.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Crimes of the Heart
Overview: Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Reckless Disregard
Overview: Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-17
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Overview: In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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The Evening Hour
Overview: Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and identity he's so painstakingly crafted, Cole is forced to take action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-30
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Kiss the Bride
Overview: In high school, Matt and Ryan were best friends. More than friends, actually. But in the ensuing ten years, they've lost contact. So when Matt receives an invitation to Ryan's wedding he's surprised - especially that Ryan is marrying a woman!
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-23
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The Long Shadow
Overview: A young female Sheriff's Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town's old money establishment when the woman she loves - an attorney fighting to stop a rail deal that threatens to displace the town's poor - is murdered.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-20
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Overview: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series. The documentary delves into the legacy of the iconic pioneer as well as the way she transformed her early life into enduring legend, a process that involved a little-known collaboration with her daughter Rose.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-30
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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Overview: A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-21
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Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat
Overview: Boys On Film surprises and delights with films exploring relationships, dark desires, and confronting hidden secrets. Volume 13: Trick & Treat features 10 new award-winning shorts, including: Anna Österlund Nolskog's "Boygame" starring Charlie Gustafsson and Joakim Lang; Christopher Brown's "Remission" starring Teddy Nicholas, Cai Brigden, and Antony De Liseo; Lazlo & Dylan Tonk's "Caged" starring Joël Mellenberg and Josha Stradowski; Charlie Francis's "Middle Man" starring Tommy Jay Brennan and Joe Cassidy; Dan Connolly's "Vis à Vis" starring Belinda Misevski, Dan Connolly, and David Harrison; Casper Andreas's "A Last Farewell" starring Tomas von Brömssen, Iwar Wiklander, and Liv Mjönes; Neil Ely's "Mirrors" starring Jody Latham and Liam Boyle; Tim Marshall's "Followers" starring Valmai Jones and Mark Oliver; Leslie Bumgarner's "Surprise" starring Tess Harper and Austin Fryberger; and Philip J. Connell's "Kissing Drew" starring Eden Ocean Sanders, Ben Hargreaves, and Chris Handfield.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-13
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Gun
Overview: Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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