Maria Bello
Also Known As: Maria Elaina Bello, Maria Elena Bello, ماریا بلو
Biography: Maria Elena Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress and singer. She started her acting career in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals with Big Problems, and Urban Planning. Bello's big break came when producers Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar cast her as Mrs. Smith in the spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Birthday: April 18, 1967
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Female
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The Dark
Overview: In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-28
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A History of Violence
Overview: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Payback
Overview: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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Towelhead
Overview: A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Overview: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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World Trade Center
Overview: Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-09
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The Cooler
Overview: Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Overview: After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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The Jane Austen Book Club
Overview: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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Permanent Midnight
Overview: Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Overview: A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Coyote Ugly
Overview: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-30
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Assault on Precinct 13
Overview: On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Butterfly on a Wheel
Overview: A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Thank You for Smoking
Overview: Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Auto Focus
Overview: A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Flicka
Overview: Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Overview: Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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The Company Men
Overview: Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-21
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Grown Ups
Overview: After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-24
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100 Mile Rule
Overview: A dark comedy about three salesmen from Detroit who come to Los Angeles for a two week seminar and get themselves involved in a world of trouble when their 'fun' snowballs into a roller-coaster ride of secrets, guilt, peer pressure and stupidity.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-07
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The Sisters
Overview: Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-23
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Duets
Overview: Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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Silver City
Overview: The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Downloading Nancy
Overview: When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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Carjacked
Overview: A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-22
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China: The Panda Adventure
Overview: Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a fiercely independent woman who dared to take up her late husband's expedition, journeying deep into the forests of China to study the Giant Panda.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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Beautiful Boy
Overview: A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Abduction
Overview: For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the truth, he is hunted by assassins, forcing him to flee with his neighbor, Karen, the only person he can trust.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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Grown Ups 2
Overview: Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-11
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Prisoners
Overview: Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Third Person
Overview: An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Sam the Man
Overview: A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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McFarland, USA
Overview: A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-20
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Demonic
Overview: A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-12
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Max Steel
Overview: The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Big Driver
Overview: Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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The Sun Ladies
Overview: An in-depth look at the journey of the captain of the Sun Ladies, Xate Singali. From her roots as a famous singer in Kurdistan to her new life as a soldier on the front lines, risking everything to stop the violence against her people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Bravetown
Overview: After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-08
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The Confirmation
Overview: A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-18
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Femme
Overview: A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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The 5th Wave
Overview: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-14
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Lights Out
Overview: Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-21
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Hell in Paradise
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Journey Is the Destination
Overview: The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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The Late Bloomer
Overview: A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Wait Till Helen Comes
Overview: After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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In Search of Fellini
Overview: Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Every Day
Overview: 16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-22
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Secret Window
Overview: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Better Start Running
Overview: An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - preferably dead.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-28
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Too Commercial for Cannes
Overview: A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first public screening.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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Giant Little Ones
Overview: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-03
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Exit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-10
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The Water Man
Overview: Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's father Amos must immerse himself in his son's world to find them.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-13
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Unfiltered Comedy: The Making of 'Thank You For Smoking'
Overview: Behind the scenes of Thank You For Smoking (2005)
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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Payback: Straight Up
Overview: In Brian Helgeland's new director's cut of the film, Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. Bad move, thugs. Because if you plan to double-cross Porter, you'd better make sure he's dead. Porter resurfaces, wading into a lurid urban underworld of syndicate kingpins, cops on the take, sniveling informants and deadly gangs. Porter wants his money back. And the way he sets out to get is assures that, from beginning to heart pounding end, Payback pays off big.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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