Izabella Miko
Also Known As: Izabela Mikołajczak, イザベラ・マイコ, ایزابللا میکو
Biography: Born to a pair of Polish actors, Grazyna Dylag and Aleksander Mikolajczak, Izabella Anna Mikolajczak made her first appearance in Lodz, Poland on January 21, 1981 at 3:15 a.m. When she was ten years old she auditioned for the National Ballet School in Warsaw. At the age of 14 Izabella left Warsaw for Biennale to study ballet in a summer workshop, where an American choreographer discovered her, and invited her to NYC to study ballet on a scholarship. On her fifteenth birthday Izabella left Warsaw, Poland, for New York, New York. Izabella auditioned for the highly acclaimed SAB (School of American Ballet) and, soon after her acceptance, moved into the SAB dormitory. After two and one-half years at the SAB Izabella suffered an injury to her vertebrae. She quit dancing and returned to Poland. Casting directors calling with jobs for her parents offered Izabella a role in a silent made for television movie called Lithuania You Are My Motherland directed by Tadeusz Bystram. The movie was shot on location in Poland, Russia and Lithuania. Izabella rejoiced. Acting filled the void that dancing had left behind. Izabella studied acting at Strassberg and began modeling with Q models, but acting lessons and modeling does not an actor make. To act one needs an agent and agents live in LA. Once in the City of Angels, Izabella became a prisoner of public transportation and her snickers - walking to almost all of her appointments. While in Los Angeles She began to work unofficially with a huge agent, this in turn led to her first audition for Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly. Slew of films followed in years ahead, utilizing Izabella's "all or nothing" attitude. Izabella lives in Los Angeles and New York respectively.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
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Double Identity
Overview: In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-18
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Coyote Ugly
Overview: Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-30
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The Forsaken
Overview: A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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Flakes
Overview: Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Save the Last Dance 2
Overview: Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommates, Zoe and Miles, who teach hip-hop classes. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique Delacroix that she idolizes - Monique requires full commitment, discipline and hard work from her students. When Miles, who is a composer, invites Sara to help him compose the music for the dance choreography Sara's passion for hip-hop is sparked and she also falls in love with Miles. When she is assigned to perform Giselle in an important event, she feels divided between the technique of the ballet and the creative work offered by Miles.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-10
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Love and Dance
Overview: Hania (Izabella Miko) is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ...
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-03-06
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Bye Bye Blackbird
Overview: A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Park
Overview: Park takes place all in one day in a public park in Los Angeles, as 11 disaffected Angelenos find both love and loss in unexpected ways
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-12
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Age of Heroes
Overview: The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-19
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Clash of the Titans
Overview: Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Crashing
Overview: It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray out into the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-23
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Dark Streets
Overview: Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town--if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded by the sumptuous blues music he adores, and with his pick of the gorgeous women who perform their sensual dance numbers onstage every night, Chaz is the envy of every man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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The House of Usher
Overview: Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her funeral. Conflicted, Jill returns to the house of Usher, a remote New England enclave. Her love affair with Rick is rekindled as she learns he suffers from the same malady that robbed his twin sister, Maddy, of her sharp mind before taking her life. His affliction is manifested in a rare nerve condition, which renders him hyper-sensitive. Under the watchful eye of the caretaker, Nurse Thatcher, Jill appears to be haunted by the ghost of Maddy, and the secret of the house of Usher is exposed.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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2 Jacks
Overview: Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-23
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Make Your Move
Overview: A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-07
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Step Up All In
Overview: All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-16
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Starving in Suburbia
Overview: When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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The Frontier
Overview: A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing after a large robbery. With nothing to lose, and all to gain, she hatches a plan to steal their loot.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-08
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Repo
Overview: Leon and TJ are best friends and repo men. After ten years, with a high school reunion looming, Leon wants out of the repo business. TJ has concocted a hair-brained scheme to steal all the cars they've repoed. When the plan fails, it falls to Leon to save TJ from his own plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Mundane Goddess
Overview: Hera, Queen of the Greek gods, is forced to live a mundane existence among modern day humans. In an effort to cope with this reality she visits a therapist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Gramercy Park
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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The Rake
Overview: Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-05
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The Shore
Overview: Hungering for some quality alone time with her new boyfriend, Ray, single mother Kaliope Harris leaves her young daughter, Anna, in the care of loving grandmother Mrs. Harris. An idyllic day at the beach turns to tragedy for the Harris family, however, when in the blink of an eye the precious young Anna seemingly disappears into the vast sand. While Mrs. Harris struggles to accept the startling disappearance, her enraged husband hounds the authorities to step up their search and Kaliope and Ray comb the beach in a desperate bid to retrace Anna's every step on that fateful and tragic day.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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An Almost Perfect Scam
Overview: Central Investigation Bureau officers enter the local underworld after a large quantity of marijuana goes missing from the Podhale police station.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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