Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress and producer. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She later received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and Short Cuts (1993).
Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). She starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner, titled Georgia. In 2001, she co-wrote and co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party. In 2002, Leigh appeared in the neo-noir crime drama film Road to Perdition. In 2007, she starred in the family drama film Margot at the Wedding. She had a recurring role on the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray. In 2015, she received critical acclaim for her voice work as Lisa in Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, and for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 2017 to 2021, she starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Atypical. Leigh starred in the science-fiction horror films, Annihilation (2018) and Possessor (2020).
For her stage work, Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1998, when she became the replacement for the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 34.355 |
| Birthday | 1962-02-05 |
| Place of Birth | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Jennifer Leigh Morrow, Jennifer Leigh, JJL, 珍妮佛·傑森·李, |
1993
Short Cuts
7.218/563
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...
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Short Cuts
1999
eXistenZ
6.795/1842
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...
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eXistenZ
1991
Backdraft
6.642/1358
Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi...
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Backdraft
2000
The King Is Alive
6/28
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...
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The King Is Alive
2002
Road to Perdition
7.351/3515
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing,...
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Road to Perdition
2004
The Machinist
7.529/5370
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to...
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The Machinist
2003
In the Cut
5.149/402
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own s...
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In the Cut
2008
Synecdoche, New York
7.6/1369
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...
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Synecdoche, New York
1991
Rush
6.709/122
Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he th...
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Rush
1996
Kansas City
6.3/79
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
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Kansas City
1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
6.05/50
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1982
Wrong Is Right
5.373/50
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...
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Wrong Is Right
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
7.087/1001
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1995
Dolores Claiborne
7.245/725
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk...
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Dolores Claiborne
2001
The Anniversary Party
5.744/73
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their...
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The Anniversary Party
1986
The Hitcher
7/864
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a...
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The Hitcher
1992
Single White Female
6.266/576
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boy...
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Single White Female
2005
The Jacket
6.894/1450
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he...
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The Jacket
1989
Last Exit to Brooklyn
6.423/97
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute...
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
1985
Flesh + Blood
6.58/356
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague...
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Flesh + Blood
2010
Greenberg
5.885/545
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
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Greenberg
1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6.809/1178
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S...
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2000
Skipped Parts
5.9/59
A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
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Skipped Parts
2007
Margot at the Wedding
5.853/283
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed...
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Margot at the Wedding
2004
Childstar
5.2/9
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
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Childstar
1990
Miami Blues
6.029/175
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds S...
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Miami Blues
1990
Buried Alive
6.61/145
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish...
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Buried Alive
1997
Washington Square
6.088/40
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must de...
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Washington Square
1989
The Big Picture
5.833/90
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Stu...
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The Big Picture
1997
A Thousand Acres
5.82/64
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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A Thousand Acres
1983
Easy Money
6.1/116
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
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Easy Money
2001
The Quickie
4.8/17
A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival...
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The Quickie
1998
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
3.5/2
An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.
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Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1984
Grandview, U.S.A.
5.9/34
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to...
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Grandview, U.S.A.
1991
Crooked Hearts
5.7/16
An upper-middle class family in Washington state deals with failures, infidelities and troubling secrets. Charley is 26 and still lives at home, despi...
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Crooked Hearts
1986
The Men's Club
4.2/13
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
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The Men's Club
1998
The Love Letter
6.16/25
20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartm...
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The Love Letter
1981
Eyes of a Stranger
5.873/59
A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.
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Eyes of a Stranger
1995
Georgia
5.875/40
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit...
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Georgia
2005
Rag Tale
3.7/3
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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Rag Tale
1987
Under Cover
4.8/5
A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for anoth...
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Under Cover
1987
Sister, Sister
4.5/23
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...
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Sister, Sister
1994
Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker
5/1
Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Park...
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Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker
1983
Girls of the White Orchid
5.2/9
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work...
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Girls of the White Orchid
1981
The Killing of Randy Webster
6/3
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and unc...
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The Killing of Randy Webster
1981
The Best Little Girl in the World
4.5/4
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self...
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The Best Little Girl in the World
2013
Kill Your Darlings
7.089/1313
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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Kill Your Darlings
2013
The Spectacular Now
6.65/2797
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in hi...
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The Spectacular Now
2002
Crossed Over
4.8/11
After her son dies in a hit-and-run accident, a woman forms an unusual friendship with a convicted killer awaiting execution.
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Crossed Over
1992
The Prom
8/2
Marty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on The...
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The Prom
2013
The Moment
4.8/14
Fearing she may be responsible, a mental patient (Jennifer Jason Leigh) tries to unravel the mystery behind her ex-lover's (Martin Henderson) disappea...
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The Moment
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8.5/4
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
2002
Hey Arnold! The Movie
6.5/342
Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed.
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Hey Arnold! The Movie
1982
The First Time
4/1
An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of...
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The First Time
2017
Amityville: The Awakening
5.349/987
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her...
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Amityville: The Awakening
2014
Me
4/1
A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe...
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Me
2014
Jake Squared
4.8/6
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.
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Jake Squared
1988
Heart of Midnight
5.8/40
A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. C...
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Heart of Midnight
2005
Palindromes
6.194/152
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper fr...
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Palindromes
2014
Hateship Loveship
5.866/138
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...
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Hateship Loveship
2014
Welcome to Me
5.857/290
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...
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Welcome to Me
2015
The Hateful Eight
7.75/13831
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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The Hateful Eight
1990
Partners in Life
10/1
During the Great Depression, a bumbling duo travels the country looking for employment. But they wind up getting into trouble every chance they get.
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Partners in Life
2017
LBJ
6.39/146
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
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LBJ
1980
Angel City
6/2
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
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Angel City
2018
Annihilation
6.412/8376
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
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Annihilation
2016
Morgan
5.789/1428
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment...
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Morgan
2018
White Boy Rick
6.331/1025
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug t...
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White Boy Rick
2017
Good Time
7.2/2733
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get...
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Good Time
2014
Open
5/4
Modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships.
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Open
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
6/2
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1981
I Think I'm Having A Baby
0/0
Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?
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I Think I'm Having A Baby
2020
Possessor
6.379/815
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...
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Possessor
2000
Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
0/0
The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a...
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Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
2006
The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
0/0
A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' as well the production history of the f...
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The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
2005
Easter Sunday
0/0
A sensitive 10-year-old girl, Viv, gets an unexpected visit from her disturbed mother. Despite some difficult feelings and emotion and confusion, Viv...
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Easter Sunday
2019
Sid & Judy
7.6/12
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n...
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Sid & Judy
2021
The Woman in the Window
6.023/1876
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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The Woman in the Window
2021
Awake
5.894/1030
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jil...
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Awake
2015
Alex of Venice
5.958/72
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing fa...
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Alex of Venice
1978
The Young Runaways
6/1
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their...
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The Young Runaways
1986
Picnic
0/0
A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents' wishes to marry a rich businessman.
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Picnic
1976
The Spy Who Never Was
6/1
A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing...
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The Spy Who Never Was
2015
Anomalisa
7.1/1644
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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Anomalisa
2016
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
0/0
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
2019
QT8: The First Eight
7.2/147
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...
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QT8: The First Eight
1996
Bastard Out of Carolina
7.4/67
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
1997
Cinema Cinema
0/0
This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers are intro...
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Cinema Cinema
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
7.534/1520
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi...
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The Man Who Wasn't There
2022
Sharp Stick
5.6/30
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she...
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Sharp Stick
2024
Poolman
5.423/13
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting...
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Poolman
1983
Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?
0/0
Two teenage girls, one rich and one middle-class, become best friends over the summer.
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Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?
2009
Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion
0/0
Documentary about the German director Uli Edel
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Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
6.214/14
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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Searching for Debra Winger
Night Always Comes
0/0
A woman risks everything to secure a future for herself and her brother by setting out on a dangerous odyssey in Portland, in doing so confronting her...
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