Blair Brown
Also Known As: Bonnie Blair Brown, Blaire Brown
Biography: Blair Brown is an American stage, film and television actress. She was the leading actress in feature films such as "Altered States", "Continental Divide" and "Strapless", and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", as well as supporting characters Nina Sharp "Fringe" and Judy King "Orange Is the New Black".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Birthday: April 23, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Female
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Dogville
Overview: When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-21
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Dark Shadows
Overview: The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB network but was not picked up and has never aired on television. The pilot instead premiered in 2005 at the Dark Shadows Festival in Los Angeles and has screened at various such festivals since.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-01
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The Astronaut's Wife
Overview: When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Space Cowboys
Overview: Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-04
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Altered States
Overview: A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Stealing Home
Overview: Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy reminescing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie and best friend Alan Appleby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Continental Divide
Overview: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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One Trick Pony
Overview: An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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The Buddha
Overview: This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Join the conversation and learn more about meditation, the history of Buddhism, and how to incorporate the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and mindfulness into daily life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-17
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The Paper Chase
Overview: A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Dark Matter
Overview: Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-24
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Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
Overview: The remarkable life of the immigrant christened "the most dangerous woman in America" is explored in this documentary focusing on noted birth-control advocate and anti-military conscription activist Emma Goldman. A noted Russian-born woman who became the leader of the anarchist movement upon immigrating into the United States, Goldman subsequently earned such nicknames as "Red Emma" and "Queen of the Anarchists" for her outspoken vocal attacks on the government and her staunch opposition to World War I
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-12
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In His Life: The John Lennon Story
Overview: A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Genres: History Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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Loverboy
Overview: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-24
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A Flash of Green
Overview: A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the developer's latest project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Dogville Confessions
Overview: A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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The Bad Seed
Overview: Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-07
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Strapless
Overview: An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-14
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Hamlet
Overview: A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-10
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Sister Aimee
Overview: At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-02
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Woodrow Wilson
Overview: A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, he led America into World War I, threatening all that he cherished. This film recalls the transformation of a history professor into one of America's greatest presidents, brought down by his stubborn search for peace and an incapacitating stroke.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-06
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The Skin of Our Teeth
Overview: Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-18
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Moment of Truth: To Walk Again
Overview: A marine is paralyzed after being shot during a training exercise, leaving his parents to fight to get him proper medical care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-16
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And I Alone Survived
Overview: Based on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and her struggle to get to safety despite her injuries, below-freezing temperatures and rough, and at times impassable, terrain.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-27
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The Sentinel
Overview: Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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Those Secrets
Overview: A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Overview: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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The Quinns
Overview: A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. This pilot film was not picked up to series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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Follow the Stars Home
Overview: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad brother pulls his disappearing act. Mark walks out on wife Dianne after learning that the baby they're expecting has severe genetic abnormalities. Dianne is nonetheless determined to bear her child, with support from her mother and Mark's brother David, a pediatrician whose love for Dianne is unspoken but obvious. How do they cope with the challenges of raising this little girl named Julia?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-06
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The Child Stealer
Overview: A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't help her in her efforts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-09
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The Choirboys
Overview: A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Passed Away
Overview: Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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The Day My Parents Ran Away
Overview: An irresponsible teen examines his life after his fed-up parents leave him to fend for himself.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-13
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Extreme Close-Up
Overview: Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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Griffin & Phoenix
Overview: A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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First Born
Overview: Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her see things in a different light. A creepy babysitter doesn't make things any better. She begins seeing things, trusts no one, as she goes into self-destruct mode.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-20
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Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
Overview: Real stories of five women of the Old West....
Genres: Documentary Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-10
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Brutalités amoureuses
Overview: Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She talks to David, the owner, about her past: drugs, psychiatric hospital, murder of a nurse. Her friends show up and throw a party, which gets out of hand.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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Don't Touch
Overview: A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she is being molested by a family friend when harrowing memories of her own past molestation by her uncle come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-06
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The River Ran Red
Overview: Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In the summer of 1892, a bitter conflict erupted at the Carnegie Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The nation's largest steel maker took on its most militant union with devastating consequences for American workers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Hands of a Stranger
Overview: A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Overview: A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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RFK
Overview: David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elder brother John. After JFK's assassination, he discovered his own identity in the forefront of American politics before his career was also tragically curtailed by an assassin's bullet.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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The Massie Affair
Overview: In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-18
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Convictions
Overview: It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he's not the monster she thought he was.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-10
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The Ultimate Lie
Overview: A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that he is none other than her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-18
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Dracula
Overview: This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoker's original vision for the character.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Young Dr. Freud
Overview: This documentary retraces the life of the famous Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, from his birth to the publication of his landmark book on dream interpretation. Dr. Freud revolutionary theories spawned the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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My Art
Overview: A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-05
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A Season in Purgatory
Overview: True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-05
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The School for Scandal
Overview: London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulation. When she selfishly derails the romance of Charles Surface, her scheming unexpectedly creates a ripple effect among her well-to-do acquaintances.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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Rio Shannon
Overview: A widow and her family face new challenges when they relocate to a run-down guest ranch in New Mexico.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-14
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The Speed of Thought
Overview: Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Mía Maestro) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Overview: A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh president shook up the glossy world of Washington, DC with his "common-man" methods and ideals, but also oversaw one of the most controversial events in American history: the forced removal of Indian tribes, including the Cherokees, from their homes.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-01
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Overview: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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Test Tube Babies
Overview: The world's first successful in-vitro fertilization takes place in Great Britain resulting in a live birth on July 25,1978.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-23
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The Good Policeman
Overview: Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Gift of Love
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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