James Purcell
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Steeltown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Gender: Male
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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Overview: Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Overview: After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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Bad Dreams
Overview: Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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Raw Tunes
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story
Overview: Before stalking was a well-known crime in North America, there was Theresa Saldana's story. A drifter from the U.K., Arthur Jackson, flies to the U.S. to seek Saldana out. His twisted mission: Jackson planned to murder Saldana, then request the death sentence for himself so he "could join her in paradise." The psychopathic Jackson confronts Saldana on the street in front of her home and stabs her violently several times. No one comes to Theresa's aid except water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, who overpowers Jackson and gets the knife away from him. Jackson is arrested & charged with attempted murder...and Theresa Saldana tells her story of terror and survival as herself in this TV movie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-12
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Fools Die Fast
Overview: A story set in the 1950s about two people who find a way out of their respective problems through the love they develop for one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-21
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Where Are the Children?
Overview: In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Devil Winds
Overview: A brilliant meteorologist returns to his hometown in Oklahoma to try to stop the biggest tornado ever.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Dead Meat
Overview: An encounter between a drug addict and a hit man on the Toronto streets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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The Long Way Home
Overview: A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Gypsy Angels
Overview: Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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No Contest
Overview: A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-02
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The Hitman
Overview: After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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White Light
Overview: A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Overview: Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-05
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Undue Influence
Overview: When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from the death of his wife, takes on the case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-15
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Delusion
Overview: Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid named Ivar Langrock. Cooped up in Langrock's stately country mansion, Meredith quickly suspects that someone sinister is lurking in the manor's dark halls only to discover that Ivar's demented and violent son has been locked away in a hidden room. Shortly thereafter, Ivar's grandson Gabriel also moves into the house and with his arrival a mysterious killer soon begins murdering members of the Langrock family along with their live-in staff.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-23
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To Save the Children
Overview: Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is shattered when a former police officer comes unglued, builds a bomb and takes Jake's class hostage. The heroism of his true story unfolds as the hostage drama takes many surprising turns towards the phenomenal conclusion.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-05
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Betrayal of Silence
Overview: A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Harlequin: Another Woman
Overview: After Lisa Temple is brutally attacked and suffers from amnesia, it seems her bitter character has changed for the better, which causes her estranged husband Paul to have second thoughts about leaving her. As she rebuilds her life, Lisa and Paul fall in love again. However; there is danger lurking and one last angry memory waiting to surface. Will their love survive?
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-02
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Level 16
Overview: The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-20
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Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: A single blind date suffices for handsome gentleman Scott Peterson, a traveling salesman, to seduce Amber Frey all the way. When a colleague finds out about his marriage, she believes him to be a widower. Later however it becomes clear his wife was alive and pregnant, but is missing. Pregnant herself, Amber hears his wife and baby's corpses were found and records his phone calls for the police. Ultimately she's the key witness is his murder trial.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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On the 2nd Day of Christmas
Overview: Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallets, they run into a little snag - a department store security guard named Bert catches them in the act. The store owner wants them arrested, but decides to wait until Christmas is over. To ensure they don't make a run for it, he entrusts their care to Bert. With jail on the horizon, Trish and Patsy are scared for their future. But as the holiday nears its end, it looks as though a budding romance might just save them after all.
Genres: Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-08
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Playroom
Overview: An archaeologist is haunted by a nightmare in which his family is murdered.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-06
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Overview: A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier. An investigation into the plastic surgeon grows more bizarre by the minute, as the prosecutor unravels a ten year old mystery involving betrayal and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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Bloodwork
Overview: A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Totally Awesome
Overview: Do you prefer to wax on or wax off? Preacher won't let you dance? Well then, put Baby in the corner and come on down, 'cause VH1 is bringing back more of the'80s you love in this feature-length film, Totally Awesome. The Gundersons have just moved across the country and the kids - Charlie, Lori, and Max - are trying their best to acclimate themselves into a new school and all kinds of dilemmas therein: the need to dance, the pitfalls of young love, the quest for popularity, scientific genius and of course the quirky but loveable Japanese gardener. Totally Awesome takes all your favorite '80s-flick mainstays and weaves them into the biggest and baddest plotline ever conceived. Tot say it is radical would be an understatement.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-07
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To Kill a Cop
Overview: Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Family Sins
Overview: Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children and she kept a woman enslaved and imprisoned in the basement for over twenty years until the woman's daughter managed to get to Rhode Island Attorney General David Morwitz and expose the horrors taking place in the Burt household.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-07
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Absolute Zero
Overview: INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is blasted with snow and ice. Evacuation routes are jammed. The only chance David, his old flame Bryn, and a few other hopeful survivors have is to hole themselves up in a special chamber at INTER SCI. A desperate race for survival is ignited as nature's fury rages and the temperature plunges toward -459.67° F...ABSOLUTE ZERO!
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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