Lawrence Pressman
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Biography: Lawrence Pressman was born on July 10, 1939 in Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for 9 to 5 (1980), American Pie (1999) and Shaft (1971).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA
Birthday: July 10, 1939
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Gender: Male
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Shaft
Overview: Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Very Bad Things
Overview: Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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The Late Shift
Overview: David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-24
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The Snoop Sisters
Overview: A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-18
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Like Mom, Like Me
Overview: A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-22
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The Gathering, Part II
Overview: Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed by a courtly financier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-17
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Nine Lives
Overview: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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The Far Side of Jericho
Overview: Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-10
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My Giant
Overview: Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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The Hellstrom Chronicle
Overview: A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Trial and Error
Overview: An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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The Man in the Glass Booth
Overview: Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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Alex in Wonder
Overview: A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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The Hanoi Hilton
Overview: Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) is dragged off to be tortured.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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The Maker
Overview: Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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Man From Atlantis
Overview: A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Overview: A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Walk Proud
Overview: A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Mulligan's Stew
Overview: Pilot TV-Movie for the sitcom Mulligan's Stew. Michael and Jane Mulligan have three children: Mark, Melinda and Jimmy. They find making ends meet difficult, but manageable. Things get tighter moneywise and spacewise when the Mulligans take in their nephews after their parents die in a plane crash.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-20
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Cry for the Strangers
Overview: The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don't seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysterious death occurs... Could an ancient Indian legend of ghostly tribes and human sacrifice have anything to do with it?
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-11
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The Gathering
Overview: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature and he hasn't spoken to his youngest son after having an argument with him which he was in the wrong but only realize after his son left and has not been heard from since. But he goes to her to help him find him. But when his doctor says that it won't be good for him to travel, she suggests that they invite them all for Christmas. While most of them come, Adam's attempt at reconciliation won't be easy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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The Uninvited
Overview: A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena. She finds it playful at first, but as it grows increasingly malevolent, she is unable to convince her husband of it, and she must contend with it to protect her family from its influence.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-29
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The Guardian Angel
Overview: In July 1944, with the Allies landed at Normandy but unable to push past German forces, a young German soldier is enlisted for a spy mission by a mysterious American OSS officer named Harry which could turn the tide of the war.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
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The Enemy Within
Overview: A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-24
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
Overview: This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Fire and Rain
Overview: This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Overview: Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Winter Kill
Overview: Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Overview: A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-13
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Beyond the Heavens
Overview: Oliver is a bright 12-year-old who lives in the shadow of his parents' loss of their first son. His family appears fine on the outside, but is broken behind closed doors. As they work out their faith, Oliver is left to grapple with his own belief in God and the answers to life's biggest questions: Why am I here? What happens after death? Who made us? An angel disguised as a quirky traveler is sent to help him bring the pieces of the puzzle together. As Oliver's struggles cause him to look to science for answers, he discovers God is found by faith not by sight.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-01
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She Cried No
Overview: A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-23
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Overview: The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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Mighty Joe Young
Overview: As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.
Genres: Adventure Family Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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6 RMS RIV VU
Overview: Two strangers meet when they respond to an ad in The New York Times for a river view apartment. Paul Friedman is a married advertising copywriter; Ann Miller a discontented housewife. They view the apartment, but before they can leave discover that the door has accidentally been locked and they are now trapped inside together. A connection quickly forms between them as they begin sharing things about their lives, and they find themselves attracted to one another.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-17
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Murder by Proxy
Overview: The president of an electronic's corporation dies and a mysterious caller tells officials at his company that they will be dead soon too.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-23
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Overview: After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Cannon
Overview: In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Overview: Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-08
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For Love or Money
Overview: A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-20
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Little Girl Lost
Overview: This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-25
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
Overview: A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story
Overview: Before stalking was a well-known crime in North America, there was Theresa Saldana's story. A drifter from the U.K., Arthur Jackson, flies to the U.S. to seek Saldana out. His twisted mission: Jackson planned to murder Saldana, then request the death sentence for himself so he "could join her in paradise." The psychopathic Jackson confronts Saldana on the street in front of her home and stabs her violently several times. No one comes to Theresa's aid except water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, who overpowers Jackson and gets the knife away from him. Jackson is arrested & charged with attempted murder...and Theresa Saldana tells her story of terror and survival as herself in this TV movie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-12
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Nine to Five
Overview: Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house, they assume control of his department, and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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She Knows Too Much
Overview: In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-29
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Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Overview: A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-09
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American Pie
Overview: At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-09
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American Dreamz
Overview: The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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A Fighting Choice
Overview: Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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The Deliberate Stranger
Overview: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-04
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Mentor
Overview: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Rehearsal for Murder
Overview: A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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Dr. Dolittle 2
Overview: A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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Honor Bound
Overview: US soldier gets involved in Cold War shenanigans in East Germany.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Case for Life
Overview: To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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Totem
Overview: A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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Tickling Leo
Overview: Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) made to join Rudolph Kasztner's controversial freedom train out of Hungary. - Lawrence Pressman, Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Mother and Child
Overview: The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-07
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Making It
Overview: A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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The Sunchaser
Overview: A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-29
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Breaking Point
Overview: With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike (Corbin Bernsen), is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he's recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany. His doctor (John Glover) and nurse (Joanna Pacula) head an elite Nazi psychological team that attempt to convince Pike into revealing the top secret. But as time slips away, Pike's captors decide he must reach his BREAKING POINT... or die.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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Murder Without Conviction
Overview: Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Angus
Overview: Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
Overview: When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-05
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American Wedding
Overview: With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is reliable as ever, doling out advice no one wants to hear.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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To My Daughter With Love
Overview: Joey and Alice have hardly enough to keep their heads above water. Alice's wealthy parents disapproved of their daughter marrying Joey but after a while, they had to admit that, together with Emily, their 6 year old little girl, they were a happy family. After Alice's sudden death, Joey takes care of Emily the best he can but doesn't manage too well. After losing his job, he reluctantly agrees with Emily going to live with her grandparents. But Emily isn't happy. When Joey finally realizes this, he fights back.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-24
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Saving Paradise
Overview: A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which is the heart and soul of the depressed community. With the foreclosure deadline looming, he must decide to either let it close, or join the community's fight to save it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Snowbird
Overview: A self-taught rocket scientist invites a big city journalist out into the desert to cover a launch that will prove, once and for all, that the Earth is flat.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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