Gena Rowlands
Also Known As: 珍娜·羅蘭, Virginia Cathryn Rowlands, جنا رولندز
Biography: Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: June 19, 1930
Deathday: August 14, 2024
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Night on Earth
Overview: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-12
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Light of Day
Overview: Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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Faces
Overview: Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the couple and those around them confront a seemingly futile search for what they've lost -- love, excitement, passion -- this classic American independent film explores themes of aging and alienation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-24
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Playing by Heart
Overview: In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Paris Je T'aime
Overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Gloria
Overview: When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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The Notebook
Overview: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-25
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Taking Lives
Overview: Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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Another Woman
Overview: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Two-Minute Warning
Overview: A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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Minnie and Moskowitz
Overview: Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Brink's Job
Overview: In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Tony Rome
Overview: Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-10
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Hope Floats
Overview: Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's faced with petty old acquaintances who are thrilled to see Birdee unhappy -- except for her friend Justin. As he helps Birdee get back on her feet, love begins to blossom.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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Opening Night
Overview: Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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The Mighty
Overview: Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Broken English
Overview: Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-22
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The Skeleton Key
Overview: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Paulie
Overview: Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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A Woman Under the Influence
Overview: Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-18
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Lonely are the Brave
Overview: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Hysterical Blindness
Overview: Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Machine Gun McCain
Overview: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Once Around
Overview: Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, especially her beloved father Joe, leaving Renata trapped in the middle.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Unhook the Stars
Overview: Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home. Though Mildred thinks she's found her purpose when her neighbor, overworked single mother Monica, asks her to look after her little boy, she has great difficulty learning to strike a healthy balance between giving selflessly to others and remembering to take care of herself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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The Neon Bible
Overview: During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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Tempest
Overview: A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Something to Talk About
Overview: Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Wild Iris
Overview: A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Love Streams
Overview: Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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Charms for the Easy Life
Overview: The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-18
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1001 Nights
Overview: Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the ground-breaking "Filmharmonic" project, which presents original compositions created by pairs of A-list film composers and directors.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-30
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An Early Frost
Overview: Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-01
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Yellow
Overview: A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing about bizarre parallel realities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-08
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What If God Were the Sun?
Overview: A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-14
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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A Child Is Waiting
Overview: Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-13
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Crazy in Love
Overview: Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-10
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
Overview: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-30
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Silent Cries
Overview: In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-08
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Anything for John
Overview: An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-depth, candid interviews with his wife and muse Gena Rowlands as well as his most trusted friends and co-workers like Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, etc. Clips from Cassavetes' greatest films, and many rare photos illustrate this touching documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-09-06
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John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1996-01-28
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The Spiral Road
Overview: A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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The High Cost of Loving
Overview: Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-16
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The Weekend
Overview: Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who had also been Lyle`s lover. Marian, who is still inconsolable after losing Tony to AIDS, is upset when Lyle brings his new boyfriend, a young artist, Robert. Meanwhile, the situation is just as tense at the Kerr`s neighbors' house, where oft-widowed, free spirit Laura Ponti gets a surprise visit from her resentful, angry daughter, Nina, and her married lover, Thierry. Matters worsen when the battling mother-daughter duo joins the Kerr household for a dinner party, where the pain-riddled diners engage in a messy emotional showdown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-28
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The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Overview: Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter Jacey in the hospital, she’s shocked to discover that she’s half black, but conceals her misgivings and decides to raise her by herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-19
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The Betty Ford Story
Overview: This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-02
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Overview: A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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Face of a Stranger
Overview: After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-29
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Parts Per Billion
Overview: The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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Edge of Outside
Overview: An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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Olive
Overview: A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people who learn to embrace life once again.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-16
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Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Overview: Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood's most gifted and enigmatic stars.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-03
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Overview: A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Parallel Lives
Overview: A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a long list of stars.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-04
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Nick Quarry
Overview: A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Question of Love
Overview: A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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Faces
Overview: James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As Benning explains, he’s reconstructed Cassavetes’s Faces in such a way that it’s comprised entirely of shots of single faces, each actor and actress is on screen as long as he or she is in the original and each scene is exactly as long as it is in the original. This reconstruction, he notes, remains steadfastly true to its title
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Unfortunate Circumstances
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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Nederland C
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1985-01-16
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Thursday's Child
Overview: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
Overview: Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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Best Friends for Life
Overview: Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had children within the same year and now find themselves facing uncertain futures after the sudden deaths of their husbands. Though they have much in common, Sarah is a relaxed nature lover, while Harriet is intense and set in her ways. Sarah has been able to move on with her life with the help of her mother, her maid Katie and Will, the new man in her life. Harriet is unable to cope with her loss and her relationship with her daughter Pammy is strained. When Harriet is diagnosed with a serious illness, she and Sarah learn a lesson about love and friendship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-18
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Grace & Glorie
Overview: When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-13
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Montana
Overview: Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and Hoyce wants to sell while Bess hopes to keep the land in the family for future generations.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Light Keeps Me Company
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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A Constant Forge
Overview: One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmmaker invented a realist style of unadorned narrative films heavily influenced by documentaries. This in-depth analysis of Cassavetes' life and work features interviews with key collaborators and ensemble regulars, and explores the making of classics like "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night" and "A Woman Under the Influence."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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She's So Lovely
Overview: After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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Cannes: All Access
Overview: From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red carpet event of the year. Filmmaker Richard Schickel's fascinating documentary captures the glitz and glamour of the festival's incredible 60-year run with archival footage and unforgettable moments. Hollywood's biggest names including Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein talk about the politics, madness, and thrills of competing for one of the industry's highest honors - the coveted Palme d'Or - and what it's like to be at the most fabulous festival by the sea.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Hollywood Mavericks
Overview: A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese..
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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Making 'Faces'
Overview: A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and cinematographer Al Ruban, in which they recall how John Cassavetes' Faces came to exist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Watching Gena Rowlands
Overview: Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Overview: An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Rapunzel
Overview: A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair. Wonders and dangers occur when the girl meets a handsome prince.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Shadows
Overview: The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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Husbands
Overview: A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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Ted & Venus
Overview: Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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