Karen Allen
Also Known As: Karen Jane Allen , کارن آلن
Biography: Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Carrollton, Illinois, USA
Birthday: October 05, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Overview: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Overview: Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-21
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The Wanderers
Overview: The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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The Perfect Storm
Overview: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-29
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Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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In the Bedroom
Overview: Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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The Sandlot
Overview: During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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The Turning
Overview: Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Now he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Animal House
Overview: At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-28
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King of the Hill
Overview: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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'Til There Was You
Overview: Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Scrooged
Overview: Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Starman
Overview: When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-13
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Cruising
Overview: When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Ghost in the Machine
Overview: After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
Overview: A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Plain Dirty
Overview: Inez Macbeth is a pretty young woman married to Edgar, a moody and unstable felon. When Inez becomes interested in the sensitive and wealthy lawyer Druden Hunt, Edgar derails their budding romance by keeping her captive in their home. With his scruffy buddy, Flowers, on hand to watch Inez, Edgar continues to hold her prisoner, but eventually she devises a way to escape that tests the loyalty of Flowers and leads to murder.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-20
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Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
Overview: The saga of legendary African warrior Shaka Zulu comes to the screen in this continuation of the timeless tale from original miniseries creator Joshua Sinclair. From the moment he was born, Shaka Zulu was bound for greatness. When his homeland of Africa begins to fall prey to England's rapidly expanding empire, Shaka Zulu leads a bloody struggle to keep his people free. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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November Christmas
Overview: A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-21
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Shoot the Moon
Overview: After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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Split Image
Overview: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-03
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Until September
Overview: American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms prove hard to resist, and Mo succumbs, though her conscience weighs heavy. Soon their bickering romance of convenience takes a serious turn, and, in spite of himself, Xavier finds he's falling in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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The Glass Menagerie
Overview: An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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The Basket
Overview: Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The Basket is "a hoop dream movie with a whole lot of heart" (Dallas Morning News)! In 1918, when the wheat-farming townspeople of Waterville, Washington, welcome home their first wounded son from WWI, they'restruck by the harsh reality of war. And just as bigotry and hatred toward two German orphans dividethe close-knit community, a new schoolteacher, Martin (Coyote), rolls into town with some strange ideas and an even stranger leather ball. Through the brand-new game called basketball, Martin strivesto bring harmony to the town...before it tears itself apart!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Falling Sky
Overview: Pulling up stakes for a fresh start in Las Vegas, aspiring singer Reese and daughter Emily are looking forward to the future with optimism. But mom's problem drinking and her struggles to pay the bills threaten the pair's plans for a better life. Frequently cast in the role of mothering her own mother, teenage Emily must learn to hold on to hope in this poignant coming-of-age drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-01
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Challenger
Overview: A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-25
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Overview: Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-25
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Terminus
Overview: An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fails, she ends up in uncharted territories and encounters leather-clad hoods who torture her. Meanwhile, a mysterious doctor seems to have another plan in mind.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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White Irish Drinkers
Overview: A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert. The sensitive younger brother, Brian, ultimately has a choice: remain loyal to the brother with whom he shares a powerful love-hate bond, or use his hidden talent as an artist as his own ticket out of their dead-end existence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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World Traveler
Overview: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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A Small Circle of Friends
Overview: In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-12
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Unsinkable: Titanic Untold
Overview: The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-10
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Voyage
Overview: Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and live on the boat for a year. They have bought some real estate with an old ruin of a hotel on it, which they are going to rebuild. A few days before they are about to start, they meet Gil and Ronnie Freeland. They would give anything to join them for a couple of days on the sea, and no sooner said than done, all four of them are enjoying the sweet life on the boat. The Norvells soon discover that it was a big mistake to invite them on board...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Backfire
Overview: Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-21
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Sweet Talker
Overview: When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes
Overview: This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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Nonsense and Lullabyes: Poems
Overview: This animated anthology is comprised of eighteen updated nursery rhymes and features such celebrity narrators as Eli Wallach, Linda Hunt and Karen Allen.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-10
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Manhattan
Overview: Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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A Stage of Twilight
Overview: When Barry receives fatal news, he makes a decision to rent a trailer home in the middle of the woods where he can die alone. As the days wind down to his departure, his wife Cora is driven to make a critical decision for them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Overview: A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
Overview: Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is court. Will she win?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-27
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The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones
Overview: Greg James and Maisie Adam will team up to tackle some of the classic Indiana Jones stunts – we’re talking dodging poisonous darts, outrunning giant boulders and surviving fireballs. Alex Brooker explores the franchise’s famous filming locations and meets iconic cast members to hear their favourite on-set stories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-01
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Bad Hurt
Overview: Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is suffering from the physical and psychological effects of war; his younger brother takes it upon himself to bring him peace and relief. Meanwhile, their special needs daughter brings another kind of chaos to the family. Even though Ed and Elaine explore options for her care, they’re really just hanging on to hope that things improve somehow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
Overview: An in-depth look at an incredible moment in film history when Steven Spielberg and George Lucas assembled an amazing creative team to collaborate on another cinematic benchmark featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, James Mangold, and many others as well.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Overview: A documentary hosted by Harrison Ford about the stunts of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Overview: One of the first 'Making of...' movies to become a hit in its own right.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Wind River
Overview: The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-07
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Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs
Overview: "Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Aztecs" is an Indiana Jones fan film created by the Oliver Springs Music Club (Formally the Parkview Music Club). Set in 1958, Indiana Jones takes up an unfinished quest from his late father-in-law, Abner Ravenwood, which turns into a race against time to find a powerful Aztec treasure before the Soviets do. The film is a tribute to the Indiana Jones franchise, and has a cameo from Actress Karen Allen, reprising her role as Marion from the Indiana Jones films.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-05
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When Will I Be Loved
Overview: Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-06
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Year by the Sea
Overview: Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-16
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The Easy Kind
Overview: A rollicking journey toward true self-expression for Elizabeth Cook, as she breaks through the constraints of country music to become the artist that she's meant to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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A Dog Year
Overview: Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-03
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A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Overview: Set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947, a young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of personal heartbreak and loss, and of his hard won understanding of the nature of love
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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All the Winters that Have Been
Overview: Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-21
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Rapture
Overview: A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-11
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Colewell
Overview: In tiny Colewell, Pennsylvania, the residents gather at the post office for mail and gossip, while the days pass quiet and serene. That is until news comes that the office is to close, and beloved clerk Nora is left to fight for her job and reflect on the choices she has made that kept her in Colewell for so many years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-13
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Animal Behavior
Overview: Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Secret Weapon
Overview: Fact-based story of an Israeli government agent assigned to use her beauty as well as intelligence to snag a man on the run with atomic secrets.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-19
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The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
Overview: This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew behind the making of the film. There's even some archive footage of John Belushi, and many hilarious behind the scenes stories are told. Its evident that they had a great time creating this classic, and memorable comedic landmark of a film.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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Animal House: The Inside Story
Overview: Documentary about the making of Animal House
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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My Horrible Year!
Overview: A teenage girl plots to keep her parents' marriage together, erroneously thinking they're considering divorce.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Poster Boy
Overview: The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying the hypocritical campaign.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-08
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Things Heard & Seen
Overview: Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-29
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Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Overview: Hawaii, May 1977. After the success of Star Wars, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg meet to find a new project to work on together, the former as producer, the latter as director. The story of how the charismatic archaeologist Indiana Jones was born and how his first adventure, released in 1981, triumphed at box offices around the world.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Overview: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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