Jesse Eisenberg
Also Known As: Jesse Adam Eisenberg, 제시 아이젠버그, Джесси Айзенберг, 杰西・艾森伯格, Джессі Айзенберг, جسی آیزنبرگ, 傑西艾森柏格
Biography: Jesse Adam Eisenberg (/ˈaɪzənbɜːrɡ/ EYE-zən-burg; born October 5, 1983) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Eisenberg debuted on television with the short-lived comedy-drama Get Real (1999–2000). Following his first leading role in the film Roger Dodger (2002), he starred in films such as The Squid and the Whale (2005), Adventureland(2009) and Zombieland (2009). He gained wider recognition for starring as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's film The Social Network (2010), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Eisenberg then starred in the Woody Allen films To Rome with Love (2012) and Café Society (2016), the heist films Now You See Me (2013) and its 2016 sequel, and independent dramas such as The Double (2013). He portrayed Lex Luthor in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and had a lead voice role in the animated films Rio(2011) and Rio 2 (2014). In 2022, he starred in the FX / Hulu miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble. He made his film directorial debut with the black comedy When You Finish Saving the World. He has since directed, written, and starred in A Real Pain (2024), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Eisenberg has contributed pieces to The New Yorker and McSweeney's websites. He has written and starred in three plays for the New York stage: Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils. He released his first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: and Other Stories in 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Eisenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: October 05, 1983
Age: 41 years old
Gender: Male
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Cursed
Overview: A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Becoming a Werewolf
Overview: A short mockumentary featuring actor Jesse Eisenberg as he deliberately gets bitten by a werewolf to give make-up effects artist Greg Nicotero reference to design realistic make-up effects for Wes Craven's Cursed (2005).
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-21
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The Squid and the Whale
Overview: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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The Hunting Party
Overview: A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-03
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The Semplica Girl Diaries
Overview: Family man Lloyd Turner (Ayoade) is facing up to his 40th birthday with the prospect of a new decade mouldering in debt and mediocrity. After attending yet another party hosted by the rich parents of his daughter’s friend, and in a bid to give his daughters the happiness he thinks they deserve, Lloyd and his wife Sarah (Fox) makes the financially crippling decision to invest in what has become the elite’s new favourite status symbol: a set of ‘Semplica Girls’ to decorate their front lawn. Yet when Lloyd’s youngest daughter, Ida, discovers what’s happening in her name, on her very own doorstep, she threatens to plunge her family into a chaos deeper than they’ve ever known…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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The Village
Overview: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Roger Dodger
Overview: A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-09
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Solitary Man
Overview: A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-07
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The Living Wake
Overview: A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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The Social Network
Overview: In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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30 Minutes or Less
Overview: Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and advise him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-11
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Holy Rollers
Overview: Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Camp Hell
Overview: At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the perils of the flesh, and the horror of the Devil. A charismatic priest leads them in their training. But, he unknowingly has brought something with him, something evil. What was supposed to be a safe place, a spiritual retreat has now turned into a nightmare that not even faith can end.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-13
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Adventureland
Overview: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Rio
Overview: Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Zombieland
Overview: Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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The Education of Charlie Banks
Overview: College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-27
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To Rome with Love
Overview: Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Some Boys Don't Leave
Overview: Some Boys Don't Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact that 'Girl' no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can't seem to leave their once shared apartment. 'Girl' decides to keep living her life around him; while he remains, watching at a distance. In time, each decides to go in his or her own distinctly different directions. 'Boy' soon finds that sometimes the greatest distance we are asked to travel is one within ourselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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One Day Like Rain
Overview: A teenage girl living in California suburbia devises a metaphysical experiment designed to save the world from what she sees as an impending doom...but the results of such an experiment prove to be both beneficial and destructive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Now You See Me
Overview: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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Free Samples
Overview: A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-31
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Lightning: Fire from the Sky
Overview: Overwhelmed by a disastrous lightning storm that his son predicted, a man must learn to trust his son in order to save his family and the whole community.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Addicted to Fame
Overview: A documentary that goes behind the scenes of the movie Illegal Aliens, and a filmmaker's journey from obscurity to moral blindness in the seductive glare of the media spotlight.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Night Moves
Overview: The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-23
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Why Stop Now?
Overview: When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-17
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Rio 2
Overview: It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-19
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Overview: Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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Thunder Rolls! The World of Blind Baseball
Overview: How can individuals who are blind and visually impaired play baseball? This documentary tells the story of how this is possible. When the rules of a game are changed, appropriate technologies are applied, and opportunities are opened, individuals with disabilities can play competitive sports at Olympic levels. Combines a thriller sports story with an educational message. Dramatic action centers on the quest of the Indy Thunder team to win their second World Championship. The film follows the team members and their coach, Darnell Booker, as they come together as a family. It reveals a nuanced world that involves the full range of accomplishments and engagements of the individuals portrayed. A spirited, humanistic, sports story operating on many levels of entertainment and social significance.
Genres: Family Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-07
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The End of the Tour
Overview: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-31
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American Ultra
Overview: Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-19
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A Real Pain
Overview: Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Overview: The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever captured on film.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-11-12
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Sasquatch Sunset
Overview: In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for survival as they find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Now You See Me 2
Overview: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Louder Than Bombs
Overview: Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Café Society
Overview: The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-11
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DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
Overview: A documentary special taking a look at the upcoming films making up the DC Universe. Kevin Smith hosts with Geoff Johns, as they take a look at Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, the upcoming Wonder Woman and Justice League movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-19
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The Emperor's Club
Overview: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Justice League
Overview: Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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The Art of Self-Defense
Overview: Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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The Hummingbird Project
Overview: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Resistance
Overview: The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-27
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How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Overview: This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals with the cast and crew, to the shooting itself capturing the extreme attention to detail, filming locations such as Boston and LA, and David Fincher's filmmaking process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-11
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Zombieland: Double Tap
Overview: Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
Genres: Comedy Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Vivarium
Overview: A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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Beyond All Boundaries
Overview: A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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14 Actors Acting
Overview: This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Wild Indian
Overview: Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss from the demons of his past.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Overview: Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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He's Way More Famous Than You
Overview: When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Overview: Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Manodrome
Overview: Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy
Overview: A shy woman is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role and the high-stakes world of this community theater production.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
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