Anna Maria Horsford
Also Known As: Anna Horsford, Anna Marie Horsford, آنا ماریا هورسفورد
Biography: Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama The Shield playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2017. Horsford appeared in a number of movies, most notable as Craig Jones' mother Betty in 1995 comedy film Friday and its sequel Friday After Next (2002). Her other film credits include Times Square (1980), The Fan (1981), Presumed Innocent (1990), Set It Off (1996), Along Came a Spider (2001), Our Family Wedding (2010), and A Madea Christmas (2013).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 06, 1947
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Gender: Female
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Starstruck
Overview: Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
Genres: Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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Bill
Overview: Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution. He is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love and be loved for the first time in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-22
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Friday
Overview: Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Presumed Innocent
Overview: Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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Class
Overview: Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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One Fine Day
Overview: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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I Tried
Overview: What if Bone Thugs N harmony never got to audition for Eazy E. What would their outcome have been. This gritty, real tale tells the story of Krayzie, Layzie and Wish and the saga that could've happened if they never got that fateful audition with Eazy. "I Tried" is not only a classic song its also a potential state of mind....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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How High
Overview: Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-21
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Overview: The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-27
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Overview: Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Overview: A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-throat housewives, a high-stakes “Winter Ball” competition, and a sinister plot that could destroy Christmas fore-evah!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Jacked Up
Overview: A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Broken Bridges
Overview: A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Set It Off
Overview: Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-06
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Guarding Eddy
Overview: A developmentally handicapped young man comes to L.A. to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball for the Clippers.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-24
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Stone Pillow
Overview: A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes that she's the one who has much to learn.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-05
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Love Child
Overview: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Directors on Directing
Overview: A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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C'mon Man
Overview: Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-26
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An Almost Perfect Affair
Overview: An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Justice
Overview: Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica Calhoun), he quits his job, opens an inner-city law office and organizes a group of activists out to change the system. In a moment of truth, Sharice must decide whether she'll stay with her husband and fight the good fight or move to the suburbs with their two young children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-12
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A Madea Christmas
Overview: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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A Case of Deadly Force
Overview: Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Summer Switch
Overview: Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Vacation Friends
Overview: When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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C.A.T. Squad
Overview: When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, is brought in to stop the killers.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-27
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Me Time
Overview: With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-26
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Widow's Kiss
Overview: Haunted by his mother's recent death, a young man becomes suspicious of his wealthy father's sexy, new bride. When his father dies mysteriously, the boy decides to investigate.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-18
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Taken Away
Overview: A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone instead of going to a babysitter. The mother finally agrees. When the girl falls and is injured, police are called and she is taken to a hospital, the courts decide that the mother is unfit and take her daughter away. She must fight to all ends to get her back.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-04
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Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
Overview: Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy with a scholarship to Stanford U. when an unfortunate meeting with a police officer ends his life. The focus is on the four years and the events at the Academy which ultimately led to the tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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Mr. Jones
Overview: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Friday After Next
Overview: Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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St. Elmo's Fire
Overview: A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate Kevin struggles at a D.C. newspaper as he searches for the meaning of love. Jules may be an object of adoration and envy, but secretly she has problems of her own. Demure Wendy is in love with Billy—a loveable sax player and an irresponsible drunk. Alec wants it all: a career in politics and the appearance of a traditional home life. Alec’s girlfriend, Leslie, is an ambitious architect who doesn't know about his infidelity, but his new allegiance to the Republican Party is already enough to put her off marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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The Fan
Overview: A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Dear God
Overview: A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Will I See You Again?
Overview: Two former friends find themselves summoned to their late friend's estate hearing. To claim their inheritance, they must first confront their past relationship while undergoing a polygraph test.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-08
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Times Square
Overview: When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Baby Brokers
Overview: A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-21
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A Doctor's Story
Overview: A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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Who Gets the Friends?
Overview: Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the friends?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Our Family Wedding
Overview: The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Chasing the Blues
Overview: Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands them in jail, the feud festers for over 20 years until they are released from prison and get a second chance at snagging the vinyl - this time from a more formidable foe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Single AF
Overview: A plethora of single people connected through a dating app meet their judgement day based on their serendipitous sins.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-14
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Minority Report
Overview: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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A Killer Among Us
Overview: Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but can't convince the others. During the discussions, she realizes that one member of the jury knows details that he couldn't know from the trial alone. Since no one believes her suspicions, she investigates on her own.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-29
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Street Smart
Overview: A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Masquerade
Overview: After moving to LA, a young woman starts a romance with a man (Cress Williams) she met on the internet. Trouble brews when she discovers that a friend also is attracted to him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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Crackers
Overview: In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while navigating unexpected romantic entanglements that threaten to derail their heist.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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My Big Phat Hip Hop Family
Overview: Audrey is a typical music student at a large Midwestern college, interested in pursuing a career in classical music. Her apparent "normalcy," however, makes her something of a misfit in her family, made up as it is by a group of outrageous performers. Audrey's parents were funk/ R& B stars in the 1970s, while her brother currently reigns supreme on the hip hop and fashion scene, and her precocious little sister is a streetsmart MC in the manner of Lil' Kim. Audrey finds this family tree a little embarrassing, and is somewhat disdainful of the ego and trappings of pop culture entertainment, so she hides her clan from her new boyfriend. This unfortunately becomes a bit difficult to maintain when the family shows up for a visit. The campus will never be the same again!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-08
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Ganked
Overview: Aspiring songwriter Ricky Barry (Kel Mitchell) finally gets the break he's been waiting for when he enters a song in a contest and wins. But instead of being a ticket to the top, his triumph lands him nothing more than a mail room job at a record company when his tune is recorded by singing superstar Kennedy Ross (Bombay). Determined to prove Kennedy's a phony, Ricky sets out to discredit her, but his plans fall apart when he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Heartburn
Overview: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Wigger
Overview: "Wigger" is a spellbinding urban drama, which chronicles the life of a young, White, male (Brandon) who totally emulates and immerses himself in African American life and culture. Brandon is an aspiring R&B singer struggling to overcome the confines of a White racist, impoverished family headed by a neo-Nazi father who is absolutely appalled by his son's total identification with Black culture. Additionally, he is oft times reminded of his position of privilege by virtue of being White in a White, racist society despite his adamant efforts to transcend "Whiteness", institutionalized racism, and find a place for himself in a world in which he rejects Whiteness but is not always fully embraced by African American culture. Ultimately, this is the story of a young White, inner-city, male caught up in an emotional, psychological, experiential, and racial "Catch 22" determined to be granted acceptance in the life and culture with which he chooses to identify.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Benny's Place
Overview: Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-31
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Gridiron Gang
Overview: Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Along Came a Spider
Overview: After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, he is lured back into action as the kidnapper wants to deal with Alex personally. Teamed with Jezzie Flanigan, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the missing girl, Alex follows a serpentine trail of clues that leads him to a stunning discovery - the kidnapper wants more than just ransom.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Kiss the Girls
Overview: Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-29
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Hollow Image
Overview: A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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Lockdown
Overview: Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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A Kindred Soul
Overview: The impacts of having loved never leave you. A mother struggles with the loss of her son on Thanksgiving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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Gladys Brown
Overview: After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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At Face Value
Overview: Set during the day of the infamous O. J. Simpson white Bronco low-speed chase, At Face Value focuses upon Black/Asian race relations within the confines of South Central LA.
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Original Language: en
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