Chao-Li Chi
Also Known As: 冀朝理, Chaoli Chi, Chi Chaoli
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shanxi, China
Birthday: April 05, 1927
Deathday: October 16, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Big Trouble in Little China
Overview: Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-30
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Blood Work
Overview: Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-09
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The Nutty Professor
Overview: When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-28
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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Overview: A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-12
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Seeds of Tragedy
Overview: Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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First Family
Overview: When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Damien: The Leper Priest
Overview: A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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The Joy Luck Club
Overview: Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Overview: Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Meditation on Violence
Overview: Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-24
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Still Breathing
Overview: Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Overview: The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-05
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Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
Overview: Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the American family.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Overview: A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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Warriors of Virtue
Overview: A young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team. During an initiation rite, Ryan is swept away through a whirlpool to the land of Tao. There he is hunted by the evil Lord Komodo, who desires the boy as a key to enter the real world. Ryan is rescued by the protectors of Tao, five humanoid kangaroos, each embued with the five elements and virtues. Ryan learns his valuable lesson while saving the land of Tao.
Genres: Fantasy Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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What's Cooking?
Overview: Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-20
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Extreme Days
Overview: As four lifelong friends, Will, Bryan, Matt, and Corey, are on the road trip they've been planning their whole lives, Corey's beloved grandfather unexpectedly dies. When going to claim Corey's inheritance, the gang meets Matt's beautiful cousin Jessie and embark on a hilarious, extreme sports-filled adventure.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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The Prestige
Overview: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-17
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American Dreamz
Overview: The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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The Nightingale
Overview: A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-10
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Overview: This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The Master of Disguise
Overview: After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey utilizes his supernatural ability to disguise himself in an attempt to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Eyewitness
Overview: NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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Open the Door and See all the People
Overview: Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Inspector Perez
Overview: Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-08
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The Big Brawl
Overview: A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-18
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