James Karen
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James Karen (November 28, 1923 - October 23, 2018) was an American character actor of Broadway, film and television.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.923 |
| Birthday | 1923-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Jim Karen, 詹姆斯·凯伦, Jacob Karnofsky, |
1979
The China Syndrome
7.2/451
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. W...
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The China Syndrome
2001
Mulholland Drive
7.8/6175
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...
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Mulholland Drive
2006
The Pursuit of Happyness
7.9/9801
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
1965
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
4.7/36
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and k...
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Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
1995
Congo
5.5/874
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers...
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Congo
1998
The Cowboy and the Movie Star
9/2
Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan decides to drive his cattle up to their high pasture.
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The Cowboy and the Movie Star
1997
River Made to Drown In
5/9
Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is...
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River Made to Drown In
1987
Wall Street
7.163/2022
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthles...
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Wall Street
1985
The Return of the Living Dead
7.158/2039
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally...
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The Return of the Living Dead
1970
Hercules in New York
4.118/300
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
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Hercules in New York
1982
Time Walker
4.1/39
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institut...
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Time Walker
1989
Cult People
0/0
In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. In...
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Cult People
1990
Vital Signs
4.9/14
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...
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Vital Signs
1986
Invaders from Mars
5.5/243
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least...
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Invaders from Mars
1988
Return of the Living Dead Part II
6.3/605
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again r...
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
1990
The Willies
5.6/40
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narra...
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The Willies
1998
Apt Pupil
6.534/633
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...
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Apt Pupil
1990
Rich Men, Single Women
0/0
Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have temporary access. Obvious love stories follow involving...
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Rich Men, Single Women
2009
Jack and the Beanstalk
5.26/77
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his fath...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
2/1
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
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The Day the Bubble Burst
1986
Hardbodies 2
3.2/20
A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along w...
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Hardbodies 2
1965
Film
6.9/63
A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Film
1995
Tough and Deadly
5.3/20
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
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Tough and Deadly
2007
Trail of the Screaming Forehead
4.9/16
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to ex...
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead
1997
Behind Enemy Lines
4.9/16
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
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Behind Enemy Lines
1974
Amazing Grace
6.7/3
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumben...
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Amazing Grace
1990
The Heart of the Deal
0/0
Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.
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The Heart of the Deal
2014
Drew Peterson: Untouchable
5.3/34
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.
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Drew Peterson: Untouchable
2011
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
7.6/41
Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."
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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
1989
Girlfriend from Hell
4.6/13
The inventor of the condom has become God's bounty hunter and is tasked with tracking down and capturing the Devil, who has possessed the body of a hi...
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Girlfriend from Hell
1991
The Unborn
4.897/39
A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her...
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The Unborn
2012
The Butterfly Room
5.9/122
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly inn...
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The Butterfly Room
1999
One Last Flight
0/0
Ray and his grandfather love airplanes and fly their model airplanes together in the park. But when Grandpa is sent to a nursing home, Ray pilotee ens...
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One Last Flight
1972
Rivals
5.4/5
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries,...
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Rivals
1977
The Gathering
7/1
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of hi...
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The Gathering
1994
The Companion
5.5/11
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring alo...
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The Companion
1989
The Roommate
0/0
A young man, faced with eviction from his apartment, posts a “roommate wanted” notice on a college bulletin board. The bully who answers the ad not on...
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The Roommate
1995
Nixon
6.9/361
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
5.3/17
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
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Take This Job and Shove It
1980
Once Upon a Family
0/0
A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
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Once Upon a Family
1979
Topper
5/2
A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.
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Topper
1984
Sam's Son
5.9/4
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity,...
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Sam's Son
1990
The Closer
5/3
Aiello plays a powerful salesman whose world is falling apart.
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The Closer
1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
3.5/2
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after schoo...
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
1990
Thanksgiving Day
6/1
Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family and business problems around the titular holiday.
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Thanksgiving Day
1991
Absolute Strangers
0/0
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a l...
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Absolute Strangers
1993
Staying Afloat
0/0
In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con art...
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Staying Afloat
1994
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love
4.6/107
Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prev...
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Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love
2004
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
7/3
A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.
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So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
1984
The Boy Who Loved Trolls
0/0
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
1980
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
0/0
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court u...
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Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
7.5/2
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasio...
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
2013
America's Most Haunted
4.5/17
The crew of a popular ghost hunting show gets more than they bargained for when they come across a location that's actually haunted.
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America's Most Haunted
2006
Superman Returns
5.8/4156
Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on...
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Superman Returns
1979
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
6/1
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of he...
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1976
All the President's Men
7.7/1786
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
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All the President's Men
1991
Lies Before Kisses
0/0
A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accusations appear false until his own son testifies ag...
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Lies Before Kisses
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?
1977
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
7/1
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.
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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
2013
Green Briefs
2.6/5
Five family drama, gay-themed, short films. This collection includes the following short films: Pride, Directed by Marc Saltarelli; The Commitment, D...
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Green Briefs
1990
Road Lawyers and Other Briefs
2/1
A collection of short films put out on VHS by A.I.P., includes "Road Lawyers", "Escape from Heaven", "Radar Men On the Moon", and "Hairline".
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Road Lawyers and Other Briefs
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
4/2
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
1997
Joyride
5/33
A bored motel clerk and his buddies go for a little joy ride in a woman's car. They don't realize until it is too late that she is a paid assassin and...
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Joyride
1990
Shattered Dreams
5.5/4
Charlotte marries John. Things seem ok; John has a good job and he's going up in the world, working for the government. But every so often he loses hi...
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Shattered Dreams
1987
Drive-In Madness
6/2
A compilation of trailers and previews from classic low-budget sci-fi and horror films.
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Drive-In Madness
1994
Future Shock
4/15
A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.
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Future Shock
1998
Freedom Strike
4.6/11
When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon...
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Freedom Strike
1982
Poltergeist
7.145/2987
Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.
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Poltergeist
1997
Nightman
6.2/4
After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the frequency of evil. This gives him an edge for finding th...
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Nightman
1998
Universal Horror
7.2/18
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Universal Horror
1998
Girl
5/36
Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lif...
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Girl
1993
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
7.5/2
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhi...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
2003
A House on a Hill
0/0
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his...
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A House on a Hill
1999
Any Given Sunday
6.823/1617
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...
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Any Given Sunday
1999
My Last Love
5.6/5
Love and life can never be planned. That's the message of the heartwarming love story of Susan Morton, a single mother facing a terminal illness who f...
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My Last Love
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
5.9/33
A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
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Sympathy for Delicious
1994
A Kiss Goodnight
3.3/3
Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt. When Natalie returns to her boyfriend, she finds...
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A Kiss Goodnight
1995
Piranha
4.8/98
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and P...
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Piranha
1985
Jagged Edge
6.255/251
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a crimina...
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Jagged Edge
1970
I Never Sang for My Father
6.6/36
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother under...
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I Never Sang for My Father
1980
The Jazz Singer
5.9/64
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
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The Jazz Singer
1999
Mulholland Dr.
7.827/478
Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a T...
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Mulholland Dr.
1977
Something for Joey
6.2/4
This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who has leuke...
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Something for Joey
1998
Shadow of Doubt
4.5/36
An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
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Shadow of Doubt
1995
Bonanza: Under Attack
6.7/8
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the Ponderosa...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
2016
Bender
5/3
The unsettling true story of America's first serial-killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters th...
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Bender
2018
Cynthia
5.1/16
Cynthia is a horror film about the 'perfect' couple and their desperate obsession to have a child which descends into a terrifying dark comedy.
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Cynthia
2011
They Won't Stay Dead: A Look at 'Return of the Living Dead Part II'
5.7/4
Retrospective documentary about the making of "Return of the Living Dead Part II."
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They Won't Stay Dead: A Look at 'Return of the Living Dead Part II'
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
7.2/56
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style a...
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The Great Buster: A Celebration
2015
Notfilm
5/5
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical impl...
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Notfilm
2002
Fatal Kiss
0/0
A wealthy businessman wanting to get rid of his unfaithful wife gets more than he bargained for when his plans come back to bite him, literally.
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Fatal Kiss
1977
Opening Night
7.5/226
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about agin...
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Opening Night
2004
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
8/2
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."
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The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
6/1
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."
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The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
1978
F.I.S.T.
6.6/195
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...
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F.I.S.T.
2007
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
9/2
This is a "making of" documentary for the hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness". It chronicles a foreign director's perspective on The American Dream, a...
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Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
2009
Dark and Stormy Night
6.2/16
In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two...
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Dark and Stormy Night
1977
Capricorn One
6.7/446
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing....
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Capricorn One
1982
Frances
6.9/106
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Frances
2000
Thirteen Days
7.026/734
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases establishe...
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Thirteen Days
1984
Little House: The Last Farewell
7.1/14
While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero...
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Little House: The Last Farewell
1996
Up Close & Personal
6.3/218
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 tap...
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Up Close & Personal
2017
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
4.6/15
A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical teenage activity. His life is rather grim until infa...
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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
2011
Pride
2/1
On the morning of his annual gay pride party, Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who had disowned him over 20 years ago. Now suffering...
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Pride
1982
Kiss Me Goodbye
5.8/42
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But so...
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Kiss Me Goodbye
1968
Managing Time
0/0
Peter Drucker teaches you how to be an effective executive.
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Managing Time
1979
Institute for Revenge
4/1
A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseles...
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Institute for Revenge
1997
A Little Romance
2.8/2
Anne Kidwell is a sexy, free spirit and independent clothing designer who works hard and plays harder. She meets her match in photographer and serial...
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