Mark Margolis
Mark Margolis (November 26, 1939 – August 3, 2023) was an American actor, who had been making films since 1976.
Margolis went to Temple University briefly before moving to New York City, where he studied drama with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. He was perhaps most famous for his supporting roles in Scarface and the films of Darren Aronofsky: π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. Aronofsky wrote the role of Father Avila in The Fountain specifically for Margolis.
He had recurring roles on numerous TV shows, including The Equalizer, HBO's Oz, Law And Order, Crossing Jordan and most recently Showtime's Californication and Breaking Bad. He also appeared in a first season episode of Quantum Leap.
In 1991, he also played Helmut Dieter in soap opera Santa Barbara.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.369 |
| Birthday | 1939-11-26 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As |
1983
Scarface
8.165/11935
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl...
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Scarface
1999
The Thomas Crown Affair
6.746/1182
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Bann...
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The Thomas Crown Affair
1998
Pi
7.118/2242
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
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Pi
2006
The Fountain
6.922/2792
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence...
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The Fountain
2000
Requiem for a Dream
8/10036
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Requiem for a Dream
1999
18 Shades of Dust
0/0
Two gangsters threaten the owner of an upscale restaurant after his son can't pay a gambling debt.
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18 Shades of Dust
1999
Jakob the Liar
6.7/367
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German...
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Jakob the Liar
2001
The Tailor of Panama
6/487
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a ne...
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The Tailor of Panama
2007
Gone Baby Gone
7.304/3781
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hi...
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Gone Baby Gone
1990
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
6.2/377
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1980
A Jury of Her Peers
6.2/4
A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film directed by Sally Heckel, adapted from the story by Susan Glaspell. A farm woman is accused of murdering her...
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A Jury of Her Peers
1980
Dressed to Kill
6.952/966
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police t...
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Dressed to Kill
1996
The Pallbearer
4.925/123
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never m...
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The Pallbearer
2008
The Wrestler
7.5/3649
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly bru...
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The Wrestler
1982
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
0/0
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
2005
Headspace
5.3/38
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so...
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Headspace
1980
Christmas Evil
5.4/176
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 hi...
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Christmas Evil
1982
Diner
6.833/282
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating deta...
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Diner
1999
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
7.5/8
A collection of Madonna's favorite videos from 1993-1999. Contains the 14 videos: Bad Girl, Fever, Rain, Secret, Take A Bow, Bedtime Story, Human Natu...
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Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
2007
The Girl Next Door
6.654/713
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's...
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The Girl Next Door
2010
Black Swan
7.687/14547
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She...
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Black Swan
2001
Starwater
0/0
Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.
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Starwater
1991
The Pit and the Pendulum
5.6/127
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror a...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
1976
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
7/33
Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to transform Misty from a hooker into sensuous instrumen...
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The Opening of Misty Beethoven
1983
Eddie Macon's Run
5.8/31
Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the...
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Eddie Macon's Run
1982
The Avenging
4/1
Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned in Mexico.
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The Avenging
1984
Far from Poland
5/3
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the o...
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Far from Poland
2014
Noah
5.672/6228
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
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Noah
2012
The Courier
5/120
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
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The Courier
2016
One Fall
6/2
Set in the rustic Midwestern town of One Fall, the film tells the story of a man, James (Marcus Dean Fuller), who miraculously survived a horrific fal...
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One Fall
2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
5.988/1003
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
2012
Stand Up Guys
6.005/936
After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in cri...
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Stand Up Guys
2002
Angela
5.2/3
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe h...
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Angela
1989
White Hot
2/2
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been a...
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White Hot
1998
Above Freezing
7/1
A commitment-phobic flower shop wholesale worker struggles with his live-in girl friend in this standard sitcom-styled film.
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Above Freezing
1979
The Other Side of Victory
0/0
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fig...
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The Other Side of Victory
2012
Dig
0/0
Twenty years following his exodus from Europe, a young, Jewish Holocaust survivor comes face to face with the Nazi responsible for his family's death....
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Dig
2013
Beneath
3.7/128
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed...
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Beneath
1990
Descending Angel
5/4
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murder...
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Descending Angel
1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
6.7/40
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
2003
Particles of Truth
5.5/3
Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison...
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Particles of Truth
2001
Queenie in Love
5.9/8
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
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Queenie in Love
1985
Doubletake
5.2/5
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investiga...
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Doubletake
2002
Infested
4.5/19
Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out.
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Infested
1985
I Want To Go Home
0/0
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.
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I Want To Go Home
2004
2BPerfectlyHonest
4.5/4
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly mo...
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2BPerfectlyHonest
1992
1492: Conquest of Paradise
6.3/833
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
2005
Stay
6.6/1327
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and...
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Stay
1981
Arthur
6.5/429
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Arthur
2015
Nasty Baby
5.2/50
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...
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Nasty Baby
2005
House of D
6.2/140
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappa...
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House of D
1999
End of Days
6.094/1867
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by comi...
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End of Days
2008
Haber
7/3
At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's popula...
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Haber
2022
Every Last Secret
3.4/6
A war veteran suffering from PTSD befriends a teenage girl.
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Every Last Secret
2011
Carl(a)
7.2/4
Carla is a transgender person living in NYC who aspires to be a fashion designer. Making a living as a on-line sex worker Carla must deal with a fami...
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Carl(a)
2003
Daredevil
5.266/5095
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
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Daredevil
2008
Defiance
6.8/1735
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet par...
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Defiance
2015
The Abandoned
4.794/124
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury...
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The Abandoned
1998
Pants on Fire
0/0
Two teachers - Julie and Barry are having an affair. When Barry confesses about his lover to his wife Dierdre, he also forces Julie to tell all about...
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Pants on Fire
2016
A Remarkable Life
3.2/12
There are many things in life that could do a number on a man's masculinity. Lenny Babbitt has his identity and manhood challenged when his wife Tracy...
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A Remarkable Life
1988
Lady Mobster
4.8/5
Television account of a young woman who becomes her mobster godfather's staunchest defender.
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Lady Mobster
1994
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
6.565/5831
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e...
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
2004
Camp Hollywood
0/0
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legend...
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Camp Hollywood
2017
Valley of Bones
4.714/14
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.
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Valley of Bones
2001
Hardball
6.481/491
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Ch...
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Hardball
2020
Abe
7/50
A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.
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Abe
1990
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
5.414/204
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
2001
Hannibal
6.776/4759
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh...
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Hannibal
1977
Short Eyes
6.814/35
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find ou...
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Short Eyes
1998
Side Streets
7/3
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
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Side Streets
1999
Flawless
6.178/264
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the...
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Flawless
2018
Baja
5.8/16
Four 22 year-olds on a Mexican road trip seem bound for disaster until they, and their trip, are unexpectedly redeemed by a series of miraculous event...
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Baja
2015
Northern Borders
6.4/5
In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-feste...
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Northern Borders
2001
Boss of Bosses
5.6/20
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
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Boss of Bosses
1989
Glory
7.472/1625
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Glory
2000
Fast Food Fast Women
6.3/34
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul...
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Fast Food Fast Women
2000
Dinner Rush
7.2/68
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to h...
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Dinner Rush
1997
Absolute Power
6.646/1100
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...
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Absolute Power
1979
Going in Style
6.9/51
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up w...
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Going in Style
1987
The Bedroom Window
6.357/126
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...
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The Bedroom Window
2002
Bridget
5.5/6
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When s...
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Bridget
1984
The Cotton Club
6.51/403
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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The Cotton Club
2007
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
8.2/4
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.
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Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
2020
Minyan
4.9/11
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcila...
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Minyan
1987
The Secret of My Success
6.5/625
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and gir...
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The Secret of My Success
2015
You Bury Your Own
4.2/4
A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent death.
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You Bury Your Own
2009
Nobody
7.5/11
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other.
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Nobody
1987
The Rosary Murders
5.5/31
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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The Rosary Murders
1989
Memories of Manon
7.5/2
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she belie...
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Memories of Manon
1999
Mickey Blue Eyes
5.685/552
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
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Mickey Blue Eyes
1996
I Shot Andy Warhol
6.181/83
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...
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I Shot Andy Warhol
2011
Immortals
6.016/2596
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that...
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Immortals
1997
Trouble on the Corner
2/1
Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in...
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Trouble on the Corner
2006
Umney's Last Case
7/2
It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns...
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