Fran Kranz
Also Known As: 프란 크란즈
Biography: Francis Elliott "Fran" Kranz (born July 13, 1981, height 5' 10" (1,78 m)) is an American actor. He is best-known for his role as Topher Brink in Joss Whedon's sci-fi drama Dollhouse. He previously starred in the television comedy, Welcome to the Captain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fran Kranz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Birthday: July 13, 1983
Age: 41 years old
Gender: Male
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The Cabin in the Woods
Overview: A group of teens journey to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a worldwide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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The Village
Overview: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Matchstick Men
Overview: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
Overview: When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-02
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Orange County
Overview: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-11
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Careless
Overview: Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-17
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Whirlygirl
Overview: After a run in with a hot exotic dancer one wintry night straight-laced prep school student James will find himself on the ride of his life. Risking his future he follows this mysterious woman to New York City - ditching school dodging cops and partying at hot nightclubs along the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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Wieners
Overview: A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-03
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The TV Set
Overview: As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every crass suggestion Lenny makes improves the show's response from test audiences and brings the show a step closer to getting on the air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Admissions
Overview: A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems destined. Dad Harry spends all his time building model trains in the basement, while workaholic mom Martha depends on Evie to take care of her other daughter, developmentally challenged Emily. When she's not busy reading poetry to her sister Emily, Evie hangs out with James (Fran Kranz), the sensitive boy next door, whose romantic overtures prove too confusing to acknowledge. College also seems too daunting, so Evie deliberately blows one university interview after another in the hopes of staying at home as her sister's keeper. Meanwhile, Evie begins passing off her own poems as Emily's, fuelling the belief that her brain-damaged sister is actually a literary savant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-28
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Shades of Ray
Overview: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Lust for Love
Overview: Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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It's Not You, It's Me
Overview: A young woman's relationship takes a dark turn when every sound her boyfriend makes starts to annoy her. We don't want to spoil the ending for you, but things get a little messy.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-10
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Doc of the Dead
Overview: The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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Silk
Overview: In this short narrative nod to the classic film Gaslight, gifted aerialist Cara falls hard for Sol, the lighting designer on her upcoming high-stakes solo show. When safety and communication issues plague rehearsals, Cara begins to doubt her perceptions and grows more and more dependent on Sol. With the outside perspective of good friends, Cara is forced to consider that her anxiety and growing insecurities have been planted in her mind by Sol in an effort to control her.
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Original Language: en
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Murder of a Cat
Overview: When someone murders his beloved cat, Clinton, an adult child, demands justice. Taking it upon himself to solve the case, he teams up with an unlikely ally, Greta, and the two set out to find the culprit lurking in their small suburban town. But as Clinton searches for the truth, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that goes far deeper than he anticipated.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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The Lord of Catan
Overview: The Lord of Catan stars Amy Acker and Fran Kranz as a young married couple whose friendly game of Settlers of Catan plunges them into a vortex of madness and despair.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-22
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Mojave
Overview: A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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Bloodsucking Bastards
Overview: A down on his luck cubicle worker and his slacker best friend discover their new boss is a vampire who is turning their coworkers into the un-dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-28
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Rise: Blood Hunter
Overview: A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-28
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Overview: Wimpy Greg Heffley, now in seventh grade, thinks he has it all together. He has mastered middle school and gotten rid of the Cheese Touch. However, Greg's older brother, Rodrick, is itching to cut him down to size. He gets the perfect opportunity when their mother tries to force the boys to bond. Rodrick may be Greg's chief tormentor, but he feels his constant pranks are just what his little brother needs to prepare him for life's hard knocks.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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The Night of the White Pants
Overview: The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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Putzel
Overview: For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who starts a relationship with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. In order to secure his future, Walter attempts to thwart the budding romance and falls for Sally too - throwing everyone's lives into hilarious chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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Rebirth
Overview: A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-17
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The Five Stages of Grief
Overview: Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Last Weekend
Overview: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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Homeland
Overview: Lcpl Arne Christenson has three days left to try to understand what he's been through and find something worth coming home to.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-02
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The Truth About Lies
Overview: Gilby finds himself in a tangled web of lies when the truth proves to be too much to admit and even harder to accept.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy and reality collide. It’s set in a world where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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Swordswallowers and Thin Men
Overview: Zak is a smart, good-looking nice guy whose heretofore charmed life starts coming apart as his longtime romance with Samantha, a painter whom he finds increasingly intimidating, begins to crumble; impending graduation makes it clear to her that that she's ready to move on.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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The Dark Tower
Overview: A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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Seven Lovers
Overview: A young woman cycles through seven relationships, each one depicted in a distinct cinematic style. As she adapts all-too-seamlessly to the world of each new partner, she begins to ask herself the question: who am I when I'm not in love?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Hitch
Overview: Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Bloodloss
Overview: A reporter infiltrates a secret society of people who worship the vampire myths.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
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You Might Be the Killer
Overview: Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert Chuck to discuss his options.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-21
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A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Overview: During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Training Day
Overview: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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Fanboy
Overview: A video store employee from South Carolina travels to Hollywood when he learns that his favorite director is holding auditions for his next big film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Long Lost
Overview: When Seth receives a mysterious letter inviting him to spend the weekend at a secluded mansion in the country, he soon realizes the people inside the house may know him better than he knows himself.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-29
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Don't Fade Away
Overview: Life was easy for Jackson White. With looks, brains, and athletic ability,the world's possibilities seemed limitless. But, when he came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music industry, he was so seduced by money and status that he lost track of who he was. Now, with both his personal and professional lives on the edge of ruin, he's been called home to care for his dying father. While in North Carolina, he'll have to confront the friends he lost track of and the girl he never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-02
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Donnie Darko
Overview: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Seasick Sailor
Overview: A lonely teenager working as a debt collector for an underground gambling ring in Los Angeles tries to fit in with a new group of friends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-24
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Jungleland
Overview: Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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They Whisper
Overview: A young boy emerges from a coma after a fall down an abandoned mine shaft. His family is confronted by dark, threatening spirits and the possibility that the child in their home might no longer be their son.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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The Living
Overview: After beating his wife in an alcohol-fueled rage, a man (Fran Kranz) tries to redeem himself, while his brother-in-law (Kenny Wormald) hires a hit man to kill him.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-26
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Half Lives
Overview: This comedic psychological thriller, which is based on the novella “The Bunker” by Garrett Moe, explores the lengths one must go to survive in a subterranean bunker during an apocalypse. For months, Luke Marikos’ elegantly constructed bunker has acted as a haven for his small group of survivors, but living behind the sealed doors for so long can drive anyone mad.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Overview: Livestreamed from the penultimate show at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this stage adaptation of George Clooney's 2005 film follows the story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-07
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