Vinessa Shaw
Also Known As: وینسا شا
Biography: Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well-known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have Eyes, as well as the 2008 romance film Two Lovers, in which she starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vinessa Shaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1976
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Female
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Eyes Wide Shut
Overview: After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-16
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Two Lovers
Overview: A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-19
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Hocus Pocus
Overview: After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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3:10 to Yuma
Overview: In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Badland
Overview: Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-30
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Stag Night
Overview: Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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The Hills Have Eyes
Overview: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Garden Party
Overview: Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-11
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L.A. Without a Map
Overview: An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Bereft
Overview: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Corky Romano
Overview: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Ladybugs
Overview: To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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Puncture
Overview: A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The 70s
Overview: Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter, Eileen, Byron and Christie find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-30
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Big Miracle
Overview: A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-02
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Side Effects
Overview: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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Come Out and Play
Overview: A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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Leave
Overview: Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry decides to go to a remote second home to begin work on his next novel, a thriller. While on his way there he encounters a strangely familiar drifter who confronts him with information that threatens to turn everything he knows to be true, upside down. Written by producer
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-03
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Siren
Overview: Leigh has lived a reclusive existence in a secluded old home on the outskirts of town for her entire adult life. You see, Leigh has excreted extremely potent pheromones.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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After the Fall
Overview: Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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Cold in July
Overview: While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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Electric Slide
Overview: A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair sophistication and a serious talent for flirt, Dodson managed to lure money from mesmerized female tellers at over 60 banks during an epic spree in the 1980s.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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Melinda and Melinda
Overview: While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Bereave
Overview: Fatally ill, Garvey thinks he has figured out how to die alone. But when his beloved wife Evelyn goes missing on their anniversary, he must live to save her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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40 Days and 40 Nights
Overview: Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Dark Around the Stars
Overview: Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Coyote Summer
Overview: Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to her sister's ranch for a dose of hard work and responsibility. Callie is sullen, at first, naturally, but perks up at the sight of a beautiful but wild black horse. When she overhears of the horse's destruction, due to his inability to be tamed, she arranges to steal the horse with a fellow ranch hand named Rafe. In hiding, the two begin to calm the horse and start his training. It works. But, will their hideaway be discovered?
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Weight of Water
Overview: A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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Nickels
Overview: A successful entrepreneur and family man is involved in a bike accident involving his neighbor's son, triggering memories of his older brother's tragic death 30 years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Wilderness
Overview: Troubled teens attend a Wilderness Therapy program in Utah's desert, navigating personal challenges amidst the harsh Outback environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Clinical
Overview: A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-13
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Birthday Suit
Overview: A spoof behind-the-scenes look at Joe Swanberg's (non-existent) new film, Birthday Suit, about a young couple's "on again, off again" sexual relationship. The (non-existent) film uses cutting edge technology developed at the WETA Workshop to create the illusion of graphic sexual content.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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Family Blood
Overview: Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. Unfortunately, new friends, a new job, and the chance of a new life, can’t keep Ellie from slipping once again. Her life changes when she meets Christopher – a different kind of addict – which forces her daughter and son to accept a new version of Ellie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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Fathers and Sons
Overview: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over 30 years. The second story centers on the affairs of an airline pilot who shares a house but not a life with his wife. He crosses paths with an unusual woman and spends an extraordinary night with his son. The final chapter follows the homecoming of Elliot to his estranged family. As his father dies, Elliot meets and falls in love with a woman who sees past his tough-guy exterior.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-02
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Sensum
Overview: A badly injured man gets new hope with and experimental procedure after losing all touch sensation in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-26
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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Overview: Join us for a night of celebration, packed with celebrity guests and Hocus Pocus throwbacks, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Genres: Music Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Wayward Son
Overview: Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.) is suddenly and inexplicably released from jail after serving part of a life sentence on a trumped up charge for murder. He heads back for Georgia to reclaim his life and finds himself staying with farmer Ben Alexander (Pete Postlethwaite). Initially, Ben's family is mistrustful of the ex-con, but slowly they begin to warm to him, particularly Ben's fragile daughter Wesley (Patricia Clarkson). After witnessing the murder of a black worker at the hands of his drunken white racist boss, Jesse vows to make things right.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-20
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12 Mighty Orphans
Overview: Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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We Need to Do Something
Overview: Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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The Blazing World
Overview: Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Long Road Home
Overview: A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-25
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