Bruce Boa
Also Known As: Andrew Bruce Boa
Biography: Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Birthday: July 10, 1930
Deathday: April 17, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Full Metal Jacket
Overview: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Octopussy
Overview: James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Water
Overview: The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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The Forgotten
Overview: Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-26
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The Wreck on the Highway
Overview: In Edinburgh washed up country-and-western singer John McGuire is broke and his family is emigrating. He and grandson Billy share the same dreams. They run away together in search of John's wealthy American ex-co-star Betsy Hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-02
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Ballade vom roten Mohn
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-14
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
Overview: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-19
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Man in the Moon
Overview: William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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The Ninth Configuration
Overview: Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Hawks
Overview: Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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Mister Jerico
Overview: Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-03
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Haunted: The Ferryman
Overview: A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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The Neighbor
Overview: A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous psychopath and that Mary reminds him of his dead mother. Mary begins to wonder about Myron's odd behaviour, but everybody thinks Mary's fears are due to her being pregnant.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Claudia
Overview: Eager to escape her high-society life among the English Elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however has other plans for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-12
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The Cherry Picker
Overview: American V.I.P James Burn II finds his son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) leading a giant "sleep-in" that has taken over Windsor Castle. He hires Nancy (Lulu) to get him out of the castle and into work. With the help of her crazy eccentric father, (Wilfred Hyde-White) who believes in working day and night and producing nothing and uses a fantastic astro-telescope for casual bird watching, she does just that !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Franchise Trail
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Murder Story
Overview: Aspiring young novelist Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee). Together, they pick through random newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up... an international scandal... and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller... he's writing his own obituary.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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Three Wishes for Jamie
Overview: Adapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th Century young man named Jamie McGrew, the three wishes granted to him in a dream by a fairy queen, and the unusual way they come true. His first is for travel (he goes from Ireland to a life of horse trading in Georgia); his second, to marry the girl of his dreams; the third, a son with the gift of poetry and the ability to speak in the ancient Gaelic tongue.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-09
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Man in the Middle
Overview: In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-27
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Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Overview: A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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The Empire Strikes Back
Overview: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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The Adding Machine
Overview: An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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A Woman Called Golda
Overview: The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-26
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Ping Pong
Overview: After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-17
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Carry On Emmannuelle
Overview: The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-12
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For the Moment
Overview: This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.
Genres: War Drama Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Overview: Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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The London Connection
Overview: A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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A Man Called Intrepid
Overview: During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-07
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Lace 2
Overview: While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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The Pueblo Affair
Overview: A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific Fleet but they are out of range at this time. The play concerns Captain Bucher and his crew left on their own to deal with duty, their own lives and preventing another Korean War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-19
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The Switch
Overview: South Vietnam. Working as the head of voluntary relief team Henry Martin objects to the use of torture on prisoners. Martin's principles are tested when his young son is kidnapped and a prisoner may have information on his whereabouts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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One Fine Day
Overview: Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Overview: The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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White Light
Overview: A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Silver Dream Racer
Overview: David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Overview: An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-16
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Come Back, Little Sheba
Overview: An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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The Vision
Overview: Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Overview: First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-19
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Gulag
Overview: Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Scream for Help
Overview: A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Genres: Horror Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-03
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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Between the Anvil and the Hammer
Overview: A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Return to Oz
Overview: Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-21
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Screamers
Overview: SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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The Serpent of Death
Overview: An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-06
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Stop-over Forever
Overview: The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-31
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Who?
Overview: After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
Genres: Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-18
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Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
Overview: After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Who Killed Lamb?
Overview: A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Virginia Fly is Drowning
Overview: Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-04
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