Rutanya Alda
Also Known As: Ruth Alda, Rutanya Skrastina, Ratanya Alda
Biography: Rutanya Alda (born October 13, 1942) is a Latvian-American actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Adult: No
Birthday: October 13, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan
Overview: Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss some of the narrative beats, the performances in some of the scenes, how true-to-life the depictions were and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan
Overview: A documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the challenge of bringing an icon to life, bringing Frank Perry on to direct, trying to bring authenticity to the casting process and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
Overview: Documentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped into the culture since that time. It is always fun to hear John Waters speak on a subject he is passionate about.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Leaving Normal
Overview: Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-29
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Safe Passage
Overview: Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her children is involved in an explosion while on duty in the Middle East, Mag must rexamine everything she cherishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Zelda
Overview: Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Defense Play
Overview: Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeer's daughter Karen believe in his innocence and search for the true murderer and his motives.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Article 99
Overview: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Gross Anatomy
Overview: Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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The Deer Hunter
Overview: A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Vigilante
Overview: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Overview: An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Prancer
Overview: Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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My First Mister
Overview: Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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The Fury
Overview: When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-10
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Christmas Evil
Overview: Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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You Don't Know Jack
Overview: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Wirey Spindell
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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When a Stranger Calls
Overview: A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Racing with the Moon
Overview: In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-23
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Overview: A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-26
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Love and Kisses
Overview: Sex, sadism and snowmobiles in a wild weekend of skiing and swinging in Aroostook County, Maine, with action in the ski slopes but even more action in the ski lodge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Return
Overview: Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-10
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Girls Nite Out
Overview: The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-20
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They
Overview: A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-14
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Late Phases
Overview: When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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The Dark Half
Overview: Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Too Big to Fail
Overview: An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Overview: Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Genres: Western Drama History Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Can Ellen Be Saved?
Overview: A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Split
Overview: The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Faye
Overview: Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-15
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Steel
Overview: When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Black Widow
Overview: Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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Handsome Harry
Overview: An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-25
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The Stuff
Overview: Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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The Glass House
Overview: When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Apprentice to Murder
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Love Comes Softly
Overview: Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Widower Clark offers her a marriage of convenience: she needs food and money, and he needs someone to take care of his daughter Missie. She accepts his proposal as a temporary solution.
Genres: TV Movie Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-13
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Winnie
Overview: Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through her writing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Rainbow Drive
Overview: A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Mystery Woman: Snapshot
Overview: Amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey's latest case has her trying to figure out who killed her best friend Barbara after she was left out of her family's will and every one of the family members become suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-28
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Battered
Overview: Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-26
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Laguna Heat
Overview: Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Where Is Kyra?
Overview: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Rappin'
Overview: An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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Stolen
Overview: A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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The Long Goodbye
Overview: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Greetings
Overview: Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-15
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Blume in Love
Overview: Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-17
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Hi, Mom!
Overview: Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-27
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The Terminal Man
Overview: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-19
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Ovum
Overview: A quirky Brooklyn actress tries The Method to approach an Off Broadway role and is drawn into the shady world of egg donation clinics and the characters who populate them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-19
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American Perfekt
Overview: Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick up her flunked out sister, Alice, at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother. After being forced off the road by a mysterious assailant, however, Sandra is picked up by Jake, who's coin flipping amoral attitude quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the flip of a coin - at least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister, Alice ...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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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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Mommie Dearest
Overview: Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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Amityville II: The Possession
Overview: Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on their children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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Hotshot
Overview: The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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Deadly Hero
Overview: Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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Swashbuckler
Overview: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-29
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Scarecrow
Overview: Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Double Jeopardy
Overview: A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-30
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Overview: A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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The People Next Door
Overview: A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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Rocky II
Overview: After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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The War with Grandpa
Overview: Peter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-27
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To Find a Man
Overview: A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-20
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The Last Tycoon
Overview: Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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Executive Action
Overview: Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-07
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The Borgia Stick
Overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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The Panic in Needle Park
Overview: A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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The Ref
Overview: A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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The Scout
Overview: Sofia is a location scout for a TV show in New York City. Over the course of one day, she is invited into homes, businesses, and lives across the city, witnessing the private spaces and dramas of countless strangers, until her work takes a sudden, personal turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-05
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City Wide Fever
Overview: Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
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Rosemary's Baby
Overview: A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Gun
Overview: Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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