Stockard Channing
Also Known As: Стокард Ченнинг, Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
Biography: Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her roles as First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the NBC television series The West Wing; Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; Aunt Frances in Practical Magic, Cynthia Swann Griffin in The First Wives Club, Dolly in Must Love Dogs, and Ouisa Kittredge in both the stage and fim versions of Six Degrees of Separation - the film version earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She also starred as Susan Goodenow in the actor-titled series The Stockard Channing Show, and as Mickey MacElwaine in both the movie and TV series Lucan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 13, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
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Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Overview: To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Grease
Overview: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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Smoke
Overview: Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Where the Heart Is
Overview: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-27
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Anything Else
Overview: Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-27
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The First Wives Club
Overview: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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Practical Magic
Overview: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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The Business of Strangers
Overview: A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted businessman while stuck at an airport hotel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-13
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Six Degrees of Separation
Overview: The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-08
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Twilight
Overview: A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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Up Close & Personal
Overview: Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Heartburn
Overview: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Staying Together
Overview: After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with their parents and each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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The Cheap Detective
Overview: A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-23
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Death to 2021
Overview: This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-27
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Sparkle
Overview: Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Bright Young Things
Overview: During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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The Hospital
Overview: Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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The Matthew Shepard Story
Overview: In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's death—with unnerving detail. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a nation to action. Also starring Law & Order's Sam Waterston.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-16
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Life or Something Like It
Overview: A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-24
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Multiple Sarcasms
Overview: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ends in a divorce, the play is success and although his life is different than it was, he is happier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Red Mercury
Overview: Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Without a Trace
Overview: English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, a frantic Selky contacts the police. Detective Al Menetti, a father himself, takes an interest in the case that quickly turns into an obsession. As a devastated Selky struggles to come to terms with Alex's disappearance, Menetti steps out from behind the badge to continue investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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When Billie Beat Bobby
Overview: The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-16
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3 Needles
Overview: A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Overview: The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-06
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Moll Flanders
Overview: The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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The Big Bus
Overview: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Fortune
Overview: Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-20
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The Truth About Jane
Overview: Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's unaccepting mother, Janice, struggles with her surprising revelation of brought forth by her only daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-07
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Other Voices
Overview: Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Safari 3000
Overview: Reporter J.J. wants to write a story about an Afrika rallye, 3000 km across desert and steppe. Unfortunately her driver and car get lost only days before the start, so she hires ex-stuntman Eddie and buys a wreck of a car from her last money. Eddie can help her to a new motor - by stealing it from the ruthless count Borgia, who from now on is their hardest and meanest competitor in the rallye.
Genres: Action
Original Language: af
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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Isn't She Great
Overview: An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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The Men's Club
Overview: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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The Girl Most Likely To...
Overview: An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-06
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Behind the Red Door
Overview: Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arranges an assignment in Boston for a considerable sum of money. Unable to turn it down in her dire straits, Natalie takes the job -- only to find that her estranged gay brother, Roy, is the employer. Roy wants to mend their broken past, but must convince her to stay long enough to do so.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-12
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The Baby Dance
Overview: Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckmans are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, but as the birth parents and the potential adoptive parents get to know each other, fundamental differences emerge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-23
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An Unexpected Family
Overview: When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-04
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Echoes in the Darkness
Overview: Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Jack
Overview: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend's parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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The Room Upstairs
Overview: A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more ways than supplementing her income, and ultimately they become instrumental in turning her life around.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
Overview: A single Christmas tree becomes the source of cheer for the people and animals living around Mr. Willowby's estate. Based on the children's book of the same name.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-06
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Lily Dale
Overview: In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-09
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Not My Kid
Overview: A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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A Different Approach
Overview: An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Pulling Strings
Overview: Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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A Time of Destiny
Overview: World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Perfect Witness
Overview: An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-28
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David's Mother
Overview: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-10
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The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Overview: Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly's point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. This wondrous annual migration, which scientists are just beginning to fathom, is an endangered phenomenon that could dwindle to insignificance if the giant firs that the butterflies cling to during the winter disappear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-27
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Lucan
Overview: A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity. Pilot film for the short-lived series.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-22
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Edie & Pen
Overview: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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The Prosecutors
Overview: Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-02
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An Unexpected Life
Overview: A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depend on the sound of little feet and couldn't think of life without them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Overview: A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Home of the Brave
Overview: Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Angry Neighbors
Overview: When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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Meet the Applegates
Overview: Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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Must Love Dogs
Overview: Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-21
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Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
Overview: Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Bitter Moon
Overview: A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Sundays at Tiffany's
Overview: Jane, a soon-to-be-married woman, is reunited with her imaginary friend Michael who returns in a human form. Soon, Jane begins doubting her feelings for her fiance as she gets attracted to Michael.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-06
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is to steal and subsequently sell enough cars (sometimes the same car more than once) to buy a new Ferrari.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Up the Sandbox
Overview: Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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The Venice Project
Overview: Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and announces that his home and priceless collection of art have been bequeathed to the Italian government.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-09
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Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
Overview: Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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The Grease Story
Overview: The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and toning down the original show's darker elements. Plus, a look at some of the actors who could have played the roles made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-05
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Abby Singer
Overview: Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the Sundance Film Festival, Clemins' calls upon his old college chum, Kevin Prouse, giving the now drunken acting instructor in the throes of a divorce, the only clue that will salvage Clemins' rapidly deteriorating life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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Tidy Endings
Overview: A man, whose companion dies of AIDS, confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-14
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The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot
Overview: Over forty years ago, one extraordinary American family moved into the most famous house in the world and changed the nature of the Presidency forever. With glamorous Hollywood good looks and two camera friendly children, the Kennedys helped to usher in a youth culture that affected every aspect of American life. From behind closed doors in the White House to intimate family vacations, photography and television took the American public behind-the-scenes into the lives of its most regal...but just how true were the images projected? Featuring photographs that have never been shown before, and rarely seen home movies, this probing documentary captures private moments with the most well-known First Family as well as recollections from former White House staff, journalists, photographers and biographers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-20
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A Girl Thing
Overview: A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time. Hour Three is about adultery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Michael the Visitor
Overview: Stockard Channing narrates this inspiring story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's tale "Truths We Live By." Simon the shoemaker barely makes enough to get by, but that doesn't stop the kind cobbler from taking in a needy homeless man named Michael. Simon provides Michael with food, shelter and a job as his assistant. Mysteries unfold, relationships strengthen and new purpose is found as Simon slowly unravels the details of Michael's life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
Overview: Chronicles the life of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay movie star, who sacrificed his career to live openly with his lover.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-13
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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Le Divorce
Overview: While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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The Piano Man's Daughter
Overview: Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to marriage and children. Meanwhile, his grandparents (R.H. Thomson and Wendy Crewson) are debating whether to put his mother (Stockard Channing) into a mental institution. Whoopi Goldberg shares producing credits on this generational drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-22
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17th Precinct
Overview: In a modern world where magic supplanted science, the unaired pilot featured two non-intersecting stories: the death of a city executive at the hands of a wrongful convict, and the introduction of terrorists who are devoted to the destruction of magic.
Genres: Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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The Lion Roars Again
Overview: A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Lincoln
Overview: Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Overview: Narrated by the legendary Shirley Jones, this installment of the Hollywood Singing and Dancing series shines a light on the musicals of the 1970s, a time when the very look of the genre was changing. Highlights include clips from squeaky-clean family fare such as Fiddler on the Roof, as well as more envelope-pushing options like Cabaret, Grease, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-19
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Through Deaf Eyes
Overview: A look at deaf culture from the 19th century to the present.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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