Diane Baker
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Biography: Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer and educator who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 25, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
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The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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Marnie
Overview: Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-17
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The Net
Overview: Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Nine Hours to Rama
Overview: José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-30
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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The Prize
Overview: A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Baker's Hawk
Overview: When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence on his own.
Genres: Drama Action Western Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-12
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Overview: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-15
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Murder at 1600
Overview: A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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The Cable Guy
Overview: When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-10
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Strait-Jacket
Overview: After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-19
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Overview: Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-27
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Overview: Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daugther, Helen. She is absolutely fond of horses, takes riding classes and has already had decent success in some competitions. Her biggest wish is to own a horse herself, a dream her father cannot afford at all. Now Fred tries to solve both problems at once by simply combining them: A horse named "Aspercel", ridden by his daugther should bring the name of the pill into the papers and make Helen happy, too. But there's still one more obstacle: Helen and Aspercel of course have to win a few prices to make this idea work...
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-16
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The 300 Spartans
Overview: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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Krakatoa, East of Java
Overview: A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-26
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Mirage
Overview: In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-29
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Overview: Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Imaginary Crimes
Overview: A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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The Pilot
Overview: Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-26
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The Best of Everything
Overview: An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
Overview: Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead. Certainly this is a case for Perry Mason.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Overview: Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
Overview: A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-25
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About Sarah
Overview: When the matriarch of the family suddenly dies, custody of a mentally disabled mother is inherited by her normal daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-04
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A Little Game
Overview: A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-31
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Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Overview: A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-21
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Della
Overview: Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-13
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Stolen Hours
Overview: A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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The Last Survivors
Overview: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Overview: In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Overview: Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-30
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Killer by Night
Overview: A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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The Closer
Overview: Aiello plays a powerful salesman whose world is falling apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Shot
Overview: A freelance celebrity photographer tracks down his most elusive subject - a singer who went into hiding 10 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-26
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The D.A.: Murder One
Overview: A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-08
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The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Overview: This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-30
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Halfway to Danger
Overview: A woman rents a mansion to use as a halfway house for delinquent girls but a killer shows up.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-09
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Overview: Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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Tess of the Storm Country
Overview: Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-08
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Do You Take This Stranger?
Overview: A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-18
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Courage Under Fire
Overview: A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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A Face in the Dark: Diane Baker on 'Mirage'
Overview: Diane Baker discusses her acting career and participation in the film 'Mirage' (1965).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-10
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Harrison's Flowers
Overview: 1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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The Wizard of Baghdad
Overview: A genie turned mortal after his many failures is sent to Baghdad. As his last chance to prove himself he must help a prince and princess fulfill a prophecy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Overview: Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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The Dream Makers
Overview: A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
Overview: Friends and family surprise Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival with a tribute to his twenty years with the network.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-14
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The Haunted
Overview: When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-06
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Harrison Montgomery
Overview: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the details of a mission to save his neighbors from their troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopkins, as well as other members of the cast and crew, giving their views on the experience of creating this masterpiece of terror and suspense.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-21
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The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
Overview: Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Fugitive Family
Overview: To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children all living in a dream home. Nevertheless, he has really been working undercover for the Justice Department to snare a mob boss. When his cover is blown, he has to break the news to his family about the nature of his real job and, worse, that they are now in real danger! Consequently, they are forced into the federal government's Witness Relocation Program. However, the trauma to the family does not stop there, as the gangsters he double-crossed are determined he and his family shall not escape 'mob justice.'
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Sands of Beersheba
Overview: During the Palestinian War of 1948, an American falls in love with her late fiance's friend, an Israeli gunrunner.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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A Mighty Wind
Overview: Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Overview: The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
Overview: TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-06
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Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
Overview: A look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murderer just released from the mental hospital. Includes footage of the filming and interviews with several of those involved, as well as a look at the movies it was influenced by and those that were in turn influenced by it.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-02
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Trial Run
Overview: A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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Twenty Bucks
Overview: A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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The Surrogate
Overview: A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Joy Luck Club
Overview: Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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A Walton Wedding
Overview: In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two of them plan a small wedding and he invites the family and friends from Walton's Mountain to come to New York for the celebration. However, Janet's Aunt Flo has other ideas and begins to take over their wedding preparations. Added to the wedding plan stress, John-Boy is also trying to write an article about his Grandma, but decides that he needs to go home to escape the wedding preparations, as well as to reunite with his grandmother and fill in some gaps leaving Janet in New York trying to prevent her wedding from getting out of hand. But she too leaves the city and heads for Walton's Mountain to plan their wedding there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-12
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Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
Overview: A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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