James Woods
Also Known As: James H. Woods, James Howard Woods, جیمز وودز
Biography: James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in critically acclaimed films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, Hercules, and in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and has gained two Academy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Woods, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vernal, Utah, USA
Birthday: April 18, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Once Upon a Time in America
Overview: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Casino
Overview: In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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The Virgin Suicides
Overview: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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The Getaway
Overview: Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Overview: Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Romance Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-02
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Contact
Overview: A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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Videodrome
Overview: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Cat's Eye
Overview: Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-12
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The General's Daughter
Overview: When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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True Crime
Overview: Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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The Specialist
Overview: May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-07
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Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Be Cool
Overview: Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Scary Movie 2
Overview: While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Best Seller
Overview: Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Stuart Little 2
Overview: Stuart, an adorable white mouse, still lives happily with his adoptive family, the Littles, on the east side of Manhattan's Central Park. More crazy mouse adventures are in store as Stuart, his human brother, George, and their mischievous cat, Snowbell, set out to rescue a friend.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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Play It to the Bone
Overview: Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Overview: A heroic version of Lex Luthor from an alternate universe appears to recruit the Justice League to help save his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of the League. What ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that threatens both planets and, through a devious plan launched by Batman's counterpart Owlman, puts the balance of all existence in peril.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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The Hard Way
Overview: Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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Against All Odds
Overview: She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Salvador
Overview: In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Mickey's House of Villains
Overview: The villains from the popular animated Disney films are gathered at the House of Mouse with plans to take over. Soon, the villains take over the house and kick out Mickey, Donald and Goofy. It's all up to Mickey and his friends to overthrow evil and return the House of Mouse to normal--or as close to normal as it gets.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-15
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True Believer
Overview: Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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Ghosts of Mississippi
Overview: A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Eyewitness
Overview: NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Hercules
Overview: Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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John Q
Overview: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Cop
Overview: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Night Moves
Overview: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Northfork
Overview: The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Surf's Up
Overview: A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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End Game
Overview: Alex Thomas was the man in charge of protecting the president but, when the time came to fulfill his duties, everything just went wrong. His conscience haunted by a bullet, and his devotion to his country stronger than ever, Alex teams with a seasoned reporter to navigate a treacherous web of lies, unlocking a dangerous conspiracy, and enter a deadly world in which skilled assassins and highly-trained ex-special ops lurk in every shadow.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Any Given Sunday
Overview: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Vampires
Overview: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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The Onion Field
Overview: An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-09
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Footsteps
Overview: A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the team to improve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-03
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Ark
Overview: The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. Led by their priestess Amiel, the Ceveans constructed the Ark in an attempt to flee their world, but the Ark was ceased by the Storrions, enslaving some of the Ceveans and banishing the rest to the wastelands.
Genres: Action Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-27
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America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
Overview: This is a documentary about two photographers work to document and raise awareness about endangered animal and plant species in USA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-24
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Another Day in Paradise
Overview: In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Straight Talk
Overview: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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This Girl's Life
Overview: "Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Race to Space
Overview: In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
Overview: The evil space pirate Gloomius Maximus is determined that since he can't have fun, nobody else will either. Unfortunately for our heroes, an invitation to Zowie Polie's third birthday party accidentally finds its way to Gloomius's ship. Gloomius never had a birthday party himself, so he sets out to make Zowie's as miserable as possible. He tries a glum ray, kidnapping Zowie and Pappy, and ultimately towing the entire Polie Planet to the Gloomy Galaxy. Between Olie's Super Silly Ray (his present to Zowie) and some help from Saturday morning hero Space Boy the day is saved for silliness. The whole planet helps charge up the Super Silly Ray and fix Gloomius's happy gear.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-13
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My Name Is Bill W.
Overview: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-30
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The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Voices That Care
Overview: Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Fast-Walking
Overview: A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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Straw Dogs
Overview: A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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Too Big to Fail
Overview: An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Overview: The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Overview: The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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The Choirboys
Overview: A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Diggstown
Overview: Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Split Image
Overview: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-03
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Citizen Cohn
Overview: As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-22
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The American Nightmare
Overview: An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Kicked in the Head
Overview: When Redmon finds himself out of home and job, his life becomes a series of unpredictable escapades - from dodging gunfire after his uncle makes him deliver a highly suspicious package to pursuing a moody stewardess he thinks has come to save him. Soon Redmond begins to suspect his road of mishap might actually be the path to the truth he has been seeking all along.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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The Black Marble
Overview: When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involve a creepy dogcatcher, he's also given a new partner -- the pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman, who's experiencing a midlife crisis and does not welcome Valnikov's company. But as these emotionally bruised cops are drawn deeper into the bizarre world of dog shows, animal fanatics and pet cemeteries, they're also drawn to each other.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Hickey & Boggs
Overview: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Boost
Overview: Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Overview: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Immediate Family
Overview: Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy will sign away custody. Things don't go quite to plan however..
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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The Easter Egg Adventure
Overview: The idyllic Egg Town is the location for the The Easter Egg Adventure, which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate, it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale, The Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-05
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Officer Down
Overview: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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The Visitors
Overview: Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they were in the same platoon. They also became opposed parties in a court martial - for a reason that Bill never explained to Martha. What happened in Vietnam, and what is the reason for the presence of Mike and Tony ?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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...And Your Name Is Jonah
Overview: A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-28
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Next Door
Overview: Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-04
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Dean Martin: King of Cool
Overview: Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-14
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Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Overview: Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spanning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1980s to his marriage to part-time actress Donna Hanover, to his candidacy for mayor of New York City and his controversial methods to tackle the city's crime and urban problems, as well as his romance with his assistant Cristyne Lategano which lead to the failure of his marriage, to his battle with prostate cancer, all leading up to the terrible day of September 11, 2001 which Guiliani himself narrowly escaped death after suicide terrorists hijacked and crashed two passenger airliners into the twin World Trade Center towers leading to their collapse in which Guiliani's toughness and spirited personality help calm the city's residents to face the chaos on that day which made him a national hero.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-30
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The Summer of Ben Tyler
Overview: Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-15
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For Better or Worse
Overview: A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Jobs
Overview: The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Overview: The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-24
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Alex & the Gypsy
Overview: A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-03
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White House Down
Overview: Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-27
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Dirty Pictures
Overview: A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
Overview: Through the use of interviews (both vintage and new) with various cast and crew members, including Rick Baker, Bill Sturgeon, David Cronenberg, James Woods among others, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, this tells the story of how the special effects in the film were created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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The Gift of Love
Overview: Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite lovingly--sacrifices a treasured possession to buy the perfect Christmas gift for their mate.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Curse of the Starving Class
Overview: Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Joshua Then and Now
Overview: Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-17
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Free as a Dog
Overview: Jack McCoy’s latest film for Billabong! Featuring Joel Parkinson and Australian supergroms James Wood and Ellis Ericson. Narrated by Parko’s trusty hound, Trey and introducing raven-haired beauty Ashley Cheadle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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In Love and War
Overview: This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior officers, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break their wills. Back in the US, Stockdale's wife, Sybil, begins working with other POW wives to try to get information on their husbands and to inform the world on their treatment.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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The Disappearance of Aimee
Overview: In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Jamesy Boy
Overview: Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-03
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Badge of the Assassin
Overview: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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A Great American Tragedy
Overview: A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Overview: Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-26
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Once Upon a Studio
Overview: Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-24
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Overview: A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Overview: A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-16
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The Way We Were
Overview: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Overview: This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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An American Carol
Overview: A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Mary and Martha
Overview: Wealthy American housewife Mary Morgan takes her bullied son George out of school for home education,including a trip to Southern Africa. Whilst in Mozambique George is bitten by a mosquito which crawls through a hole in his net and dies of malaria. After his funeral at home Mary feels a compulsion to return to Africa where she meets English woman Martha O'Connell,whose 24 year old son Ben, a teacher with voluntary service overseas,has also died of malaria. Ben gave his net to one of his pupils,believing adults cannot catch malaria. The two women are shocked to see the high death rate caused by the disease and,whilst Martha stays in Africa as a voluntary helper,Mary petitions the American government to change things. Martha turns up at Mary's house unannounced and,helped by Mary's ex-diplomat father,they address a senate committee on health spending,persuading them to do more to combat malaria. They meet with some success though a coda states that much more can be done.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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Buddy
Overview: The story of the often contradictory and always audacious public figure, Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci, the former Mayor of Providence, RI. The film tracks Cianci's entanglements with city council opposition, union skirmishes, personal scandals, and criminal indictments. The result is a fascinating study of American local politics and a surprising tale of a man who, in the words of one commentator, "has a city as his mistress."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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All the Way Home
Overview: Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Promise
Overview: Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-21
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Overview: In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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Pretty Persuasion
Overview: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Bling
Overview: Lowly theme park mechanic Sam dreams about his childhood sweetheart Sue. With the mistaken belief that only a bling ring can win the girl of his dreams, Sam plans the most perfect night to propose to his one true love. But when super villain Oscar shows up with his own evil ring that could destroy the city, Sam’s plans are thrown into utter disarray. Mistaking each other’s rings for their own, Sam teams up with his robot super heroes to track down his engagement ring and save the city… learning that it’s not about the size of the bling, but the size of your heart.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-06
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Overview: A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Jane's House
Overview: Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When he unexpectedly falls in love with Mary, a former tennis-player, the couple decide to marry and live together. However, their lifestyles are completely different, and Mary is continuously reminded of the deceased Jane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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First Contact
Overview: After a close encounter with a UFO, a man becomes a trance channel for an extraterrestrial entity, which leads to a deeper investigation on the nature of reality and mankind's place in the cosmos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
Overview: See inside the exclusive Playboy Mansion, with parties attended by all the A-List celebrities
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-31
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Distance
Overview: ’Distance’ is an award-winning, independent feature film exploring the distance between men and women through the intertwined stories of two couples. Made by the filmmaker while he was still in his 20s, ‘Distance’ features Oscar-nominee James Woods in his first leading role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-22
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Recess: School's Out
Overview: The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A crazy former principal, Dr. Benedict, is planning to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the dire threat of year-round school, T.J. rounds up the RECESS gang and bands together with some unexpected allies — Miss Finster and Principal Prickly — in a nonstop adventure to save everyone's summer break. As the kids discover the heroes inside themselves, a platoon of wacky characters, far-out music, and sci-fi surprises turn this madcap mission into a major victory for fun!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-16
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The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
Overview: A featurette made in 1982 to promote the new film by David Cronenberg, including interviews with the cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Overview: While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-19
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The Billion Dollar Bubble
Overview: The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-08
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The Boys
Overview: When Walter's diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, because that partner is a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he also tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-15
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Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Overview: Peter makes good on another power outage at home by retelling Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-22
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Crimes of Passion
Overview: Lives are changed forever by obsession and violence in this Emmy-nominated program that examines the dark and tragic side of love.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
Overview: A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-30
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America | A Tribute to Heroes
Overview: A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercial-free by the four major television networks just 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon to raise money for the victims and their families,
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Hercules: Zero to Hero
Overview: The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the Prometheus Academy, a school for gods and mortals, which Hercules supposedly attended during the time when he was training to be a hero with his mentor, the satyr Philoctetes.
Genres: Animation Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-17
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Any Given Tuesday
Overview: Any Given Tuesday is an awareness short film about an unsuspecting teen discovered to be gay by his non-accepting parents. Subsequently, this young boy is kicked out of his family home and we follow the harrowing first seven days of homelessness that these youth statistically endure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Foster & Laurie
Overview: The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Overview: Several aspects of Ridley Scott's masterpiece Hannibal (2001) are examined through interviews with the cast and crew, and behind the scenes footage. We are even taken to two premieres and get to see some of the audience's reactions while they're watching the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-21
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Into the Valley of Death
Overview: Documentary on the making of Salvador (1986).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-05
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Hollywood on Horses
Overview: Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movie set, where you'll see first hand how Hollywood's biggest stars ride, train and discuss their passion for these magnificent animals.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Journey to Sundance
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Original Language: en
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The Making of Hercules
Overview: Behind the scene footage of Disney's 35th full length animated feature.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-15
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Salade de Fruits
Overview: A journey through friendship and its fruit.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Science Fiction Romance Mystery Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-21
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