Rod Steiger
Also Known As: Род Стайгер, Rodney Stephen Steiger, راد استایگر
Biography: Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Oklahoma!, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, Doctor Zhivago, and Jesus of Nazareth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rod Steiger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Westhampton, New York, USA
Birthday: April 14, 1925
Deathday: July 09, 2002
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Gender: Male
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Mars Attacks!
Overview: A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Duck, You Sucker
Overview: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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On the Waterfront
Overview: Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in love, he tries to leave the waterfront and expose his employers.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-22
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A Town Has Turned to Dust
Overview: The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.
Genres: Western Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-19
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Innocents with Dirty Hands
Overview: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-26
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In the Heat of the Night
Overview: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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The Specialist
Overview: May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-07
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The Player
Overview: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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The Magic Mountain
Overview: Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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Breakthrough
Overview: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Cry Terror!
Overview: A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-02
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The Pawnbroker
Overview: A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-20
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Modern Vampires
Overview: A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge.
Genres: Action Horror Comedy Romance Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-19
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Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Overview: Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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Carpool
Overview: A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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The Amityville Horror
Overview: George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-27
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Overview: A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Crazy in Alabama
Overview: An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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The January Man
Overview: Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, and corruption all are in the background as Nick tries to uncover the secret of where the killer will strike next, and finally must lay a trap without the police.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-13
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The Unholy Wife
Overview: A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-24
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Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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The Chosen
Overview: In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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The Illustrated Man
Overview: A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Shiloh
Overview: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to Judd Travers, a local hunter. After Shiloh is mistreated again, he runs away and returns to Marty. Knowing his father will once again make him bring Shiloh back to Judd, he makes a home for the dog in an old shed up the hill from the Prestons' house and hides him from his family. His secret is soon discovered when a stray attacks the dog one night and he must turn to his father for help.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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End of Days
Overview: On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Besuch bei Rod Steiger
Overview: Documentary about the American actor Rod Steiger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Lion of the Desert
Overview: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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Hollywood Legenden
Overview: Documentary about Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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MGM 40th Anniversary
Overview: A brief overview of stellar MGM releases from its first 40 years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Run of the Arrow
Overview: When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-05
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The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Oklahoma!
Overview: In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Genres: Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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I Love Liberty
Overview: An all-star variety special saluting America.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-21
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F.I.S.T.
Overview: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Poolhall Junkies
Overview: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-30
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No Way to Treat a Lady
Overview: Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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Jubal
Overview: Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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Al Capone
Overview: In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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The Last Four Days
Overview: In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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Love and Bullets
Overview: Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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The Loved One
Overview: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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Incognito
Overview: Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Seven Thieves
Overview: A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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Back from Eternity
Overview: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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OP Center
Overview: Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-26
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The Big Knife
Overview: Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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Animated Epics: Moby Dick
Overview: Paint-on-glass animation of the classic novel.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Kindred
Overview: Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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W.C. Fields and Me
Overview: In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Overview: A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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American Gothic
Overview: When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-17
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Portrait of a Hitman
Overview: A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Hennessy
Overview: Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Across the Bridge
Overview: In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Legacy
Overview: A photojournalist deported from a war zone in Asia meets up with a woman who is looking for her father. He offers to help her...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Hands over the City
Overview: Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-11
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Men Of Respect
Overview: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Lucky Luciano
Overview: Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-19
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Overview: Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: When Sean's macabre work begins selling from her art gallery walls, Lacy decides to meet this new up and coming artist in his small Montana town . While there, Lacy discovers the horrible answer to a town mystery and the true inspiration of Sean's work.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-11
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The Hollywood Sign
Overview: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Time of Indifference
Overview: A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-24
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Catch the Heat
Overview: Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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The Mark
Overview: A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-26
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Lolly-Madonna xxx
Overview: In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Body and Soul
Overview: Charlie Davis, an ambitious small-town boxer with dreams of making it as a professional, travels to Reno with his unwavering friend Tiny. On his climb to the top, he loses himself and the people he cares for most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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The Sergeant
Overview: THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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13 West Street
Overview: Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Overview: A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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In Pursuit of Honor
Overview: To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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The Neighbor
Overview: A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Guilty As Charged
Overview: A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his reverend friend. A politician with a shady past becomes its latest "guest". But is he guilty?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-19
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Overview: In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed, still try to help them escape from a vigorous Marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Kingdom of Shadows
Overview: Narrated by Rod Steiger, this documentary examines the frightful conventions from which the modern-day horror movie has evolved, featuring clips from classics like Dante's Inferno and Leaves from Satan's Book.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Animals with the Tollkeeper
Overview: While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-06
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The Final Contract
Overview: David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand that there are other things in life besides killing.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-02-07
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Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Overview: Three teenage boys inadvertently find themselves holding the adult world hostage in this wild comedy caper. When Slug, Mickey and Frank flee to a secret hideout to avoid their angry parents, they find an atomic bomb! Instead of turning it in, they call the President and demand that he... cancels school!
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-07
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
Overview: Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-02
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A Man Named John
Overview: Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Rod Steiger, in the central role, acts as "intermediary" between the Pope and the audience, interpreting John's words, thoughts and actions. Steiger visits the actual places in which John lived, recreating the conditions, environment, and forces that affected his development. Through this unusual technique, we are brought close to an extraordinary man - one who's able to win the love of many people of all faiths.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-19
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Teresa
Overview: An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Little Surprises
Overview: A gathering of friends and parents the night before a wedding provides a very unexpected turn of events. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Klondike Fever
Overview: This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Overview: A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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Hello Actors Studio
Overview: After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For the first time ever, filmmakers have been allowed to film their work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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On Friday at Eleven
Overview: An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-16
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Overview: Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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Forbidden City: The Great Within
Overview: Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremonial life of the Chinese emperor, unveiling the secrets and intrigues of concubines, eunuchs, and palace maids. As the West begins to influence China in the late 19th century, the dynamics within the city shift dramatically. The film highlights the preservation and restoration of invaluable treasures and paintings, culminating in the creation of the Palace Museum. With insights from renowned China scholar, Jonathan Spence, this is an intimate exploration of the rich cultural and historical tapestry that makes up the heart of ancient China.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-02
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The Naked Face
Overview: Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Overview: In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There's an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies' room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn't allowed out of the kitchen. It's a family farewell.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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The Last Producer
Overview: An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-22
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Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
Overview: Duell McCall is an outlaw on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Captured by the law and coerced into helping rescue the daughter of the evil local land baron, he finds himself drawn into an ever-deepening web of lies that threatens to cost him his life.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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The Last Tattoo
Overview: In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Real Thing
Overview: Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Hurricane
Overview: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Overview: Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
Genres: History Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-13
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That Summer of White Roses
Overview: World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Kid
Overview: Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way to the top of his division. All things appear to be on track, except for one small twist: Jimmy's parents, Don and Doreen, don't know he's a boxer...
Genres: Family Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Overview: Documentary about legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis who's credits range from Fellini's La Strada to today's Hannibal franchise. This profile follows octogenarian De Laurentiis in Hollywood and returning to Rome to set up a new film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-01
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The Heroes
Overview: Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
Genres: Comedy War Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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From Hollywood to Hanoi
Overview: In 1988, a Vietnamese-American woman returns to her homeland for the first time since childhood against the wishes of her anti-communist father and the US trade embargo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-21
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The Unforgettable Diana Dors
Overview: Short documentary profiling the life of British 'Blonde Bombshell' Diana Dors, who died of cancer in 1984. Movie clips and TV footage are mixed with celebrity interviews, including rare appearances by actor Rod Steiger and veteran director J. Lee Thompson. There is some interesting location work at Dors' lavish Sunningdale mansion and plenty of long-unseen film clips, but the documentary ultimately glosses over her scandalous, and often seedy, life.
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Original Language: en
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Out There
Overview: A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-19
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The Distant Drummer: Bridge from No Place
Overview: This film describes the 1960s drug culture. Addicts discuss their experiences in the United States and in Vietnam. Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), talks about the drug culture and the NIMH role in prevention and treatment. The tape describes growth in the use of marijuana and heroin. In 1966, the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act is the first law to give the addict a choice of treatment or jail. Synanon in California is a private, self-help, residential community that helps people deal with their addictions. New York's Daytop Village works not only with addicts on addictions, but on developing a new lifestyle. Methadone, though still experimental, has proved to be an effective treatment for heroin addiction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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The Girl and the General
Overview: A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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James Dean and Me
Overview: A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Cypress Edge
Overview: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Determined to solve the mystery, Beau uncovers a plethora of family secrets, deception, and implications of unspeakable political wrongdoings.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
Overview: "This is a kid who just said it. I'm the greatest - and he said it with poetry. And I don't mean just the poems that he wrote but with the poetic energy, the poetic spirit" - James Earl Jones. Through the eys of the world is a unique account of one of the great icons of the 20th century, told by family, friends and fans from all over the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-19
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Tennessee Nights
Overview: When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a bank robbery and murder. Pursued by the killers, he's running from the police and a young hitchhiker appears to be his only friend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-12
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
Overview: From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-12
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Tattooed Steiger
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look on the making of the movie "The Illustrated Man" featuring scenes from the movie and the design and application process of tattooing lead actor Rod Steiger by make-up artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Convicts 4
Overview: After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Wolf Lake
Overview: War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David's status as a war deserter is revealed, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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Sword of Gideon
Overview: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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The Lucky Star
Overview: In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Marty
Overview: Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-24
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Seven Sundays
Overview: Dodo, a French man living in Florida, has one goal in life: Get by without working. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
Overview: Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-08
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Contender: Mastering the Method
Overview: An in-depth analysis and celebration of the famous "I coulda been a contender" scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in the 1954 film "On the Waterfront".
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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Dalva
Overview: The sweeping story of Dalva Northridge, a young woman of part-Sioux heritage from an old, landed family on the Nebraska plains, and of her lifelong yearning for the man she loved and the son she gave up.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-03
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A Month of Sundays
Overview: The story of a teenage girl who kidnaps her grandfather to keep him from being placed in a nursing home. The getaway turns into a quest to locate a son who vanished many years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-17
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Passion and Paradise
Overview: Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before World War II.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-19
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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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Earth and the American Dream
Overview: A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The Real James Dean
Overview: Although he'd starred in just three films before his untimely death at age 24, James Dean cast a long shadow that came to define cool. Using excerpts from Dean's personal diaries, found footage from screen and wardrobe tests and interviews with those who knew him best (including Dennis Hopper, Dick Van Patten, Graham Nash and Rod Steiger), this fascinating documentary explores the screen icon's lingering mystique.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
Overview: A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-27
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Lincoln
Overview: Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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The Evil Within
Overview: Scientist perfects a chemical unleashing the beast within, but before he can create an antidote, his neglected wife accidentally is dosed when he has to rush a batch home to keep it refrigerated. Her mild resentment of his endless hours at the lab accelerates into a torrent, after she gobbles pie on which the potion dripped.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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