Zach Grenier
Also Known As: James Hampton Grenier, Zachary Grenier, Zack Grenier
Biography: Zach Grenier is an American character actor of film, television and stage. He is best known for his roles in films such as Fight Club, Tommy Boy, and Twister and for his roles in television such as David Lee in The Good Wife and Andy Cramed in Deadwood.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Fight Club
Overview: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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Twister
Overview: An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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The Man Without a Face
Overview: Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Also suspected of being a paedophile, he is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicions and hostility to be ignited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-25
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Maximum Risk
Overview: Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Swordfish
Overview: Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Rescue Dawn
Overview: A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Pulse
Overview: When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Working Girl
Overview: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-20
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Liebestraum
Overview: A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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Gang in Blue
Overview: A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-08
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Drunks
Overview: At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Overview: The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Earthwork
Overview: In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Turks & Caicos
Overview: The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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Donnie Brasco
Overview: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-27
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White Lies
Overview: A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Mother Night
Overview: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Free the Nipple
Overview: An army of passionate women launch a revolution to "Free the Nipple" and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national publicity stunts, invade New York City to protest the backwards censorship laws in the USA.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Talk Radio
Overview: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Zodiac
Overview: The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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She Said
Overview: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Overview: Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Problem Child 2
Overview: Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-03
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Manhattan Romance
Overview: Danny, a commercial editor and documentary filmmaker attempts to finish his film, a study on relationship while navigating the relationships in his own life. Will he continue to chase the unattainable Theresa a hippy new age dancer(Caitlin Fitzgerald) or will he finally admit he's in love with his best friend Carla (Katherine Waterston) who is in an unfulfilling relationship with a political strategist(Gaby Hoffman). Manhattan Romance is a funny insightful look at contemporary life in Manhattan. It explores new age ideas and open relationship as well as true friendship and connection.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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The Whistle-Blower
Overview: A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-04-14
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Delirious
Overview: A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Overview: The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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Crown Heights
Overview: When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-25
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Tommy Boy
Overview: To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Chasing Sleep
Overview: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-16
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Overview: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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RoboCop
Overview: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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Cliffhanger
Overview: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Ride with the Devil
Overview: Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.
Genres: Drama War Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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A Shock to the System
Overview: Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Shaft
Overview: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-15
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Off in the Far Away Somewhere: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii
Overview: An original short film narrated by Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver featuring excerpts from Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal letters to her husband written during her journey to and around the Hawaiian Islands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Normandy: The Great Crusade
Overview: Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots, period music and vintage radio broadcasts and newsreels.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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J. Edgar
Overview: As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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The Kid Brother
Overview: Going through life without legs, 12-year-old Kenny is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs. He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny’s parents, brother, and absentee sister bring long-simmering tensions to the surface, shaking Kenny’s delicate sense of balance. Determined to better understand his place in the world, he hits the road for a daring journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-11
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Reckless
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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These Little Ones Perish
Overview: The gripping story begins after a young altar boy's tragic death by suicide in a local church. Father Frye (Colin Bates) discovers the body, only to face resistance from the church hierarchy, the local police and the surrounding community. His investigation is driven by the grief and distrust of the boy’s older sister, Siobhan (Ella Kennedy Davis), as well as the church’s apparent urgency to bury the truth. Together, Frye and Siobhan—united by their shared loss but divided by Frye’s unwavering loyalty to the institution—uncover dark secrets buried within the church. As they dig deeper, Frye’s faith and career are put to the test, especially as his superior, the bishop, and his former mentor, the Monsignor, will do whatever it takes to stop the truth from surfacing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Cafe Society
Overview: New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-18
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