
Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner (June 22, 1941 – April 8, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance in Barton Fink, as well as appearing in the films Godzilla, Eight Men Out, and X-Men: Days of Future Paast.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.92 |
Birthday | 1941-06-22 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As |

1991

Barton Fink
7.5/1690
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Barton Fink

1998

Godzilla
5.628/3935
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...
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Godzilla

1995

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
4.909/11
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the...
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story

2003

Elf
6.659/4143
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's help...
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Elf

1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice
6.527/500
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice

1993

Amos & Andrew
5.419/157
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After...
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Amos & Andrew

2004

The Calcium Kid
5.6/55
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world s...
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The Calcium Kid

1972

The Candidate
6.5/158
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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The Candidate

2006

Love and Other Disasters
5.8/326
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her de...
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Love and Other Disasters

1994

Radioland Murders
6/48
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
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Radioland Murders

1980

Borderline
6/45
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of...
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Borderline

1989

Harlem Nights
6.1/314
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of...
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Harlem Nights

1982

Class Reunion
5/41
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sad...
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Class Reunion

1999

My Favorite Martian
5.6/310
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a P...
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My Favorite Martian

2006

The Last Time
5.7/61
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competit...
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The Last Time

1990

Maniac Cop 2
5.9/234
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...
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Maniac Cop 2

1988

Eight Men Out
6.927/247
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...
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Eight Men Out

2006

When Do We Eat?
5.5/15
An old school dad is as tough on his sons as his father is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys slips dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic...
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When Do We Eat?

1979

Diary of a Young Comic
0/0
A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New...
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Diary of a Young Comic

1987

Anguish
6.3/129
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's c...
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Anguish

2008

Yonkers Joe
5.1/17
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of...
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Yonkers Joe

1995

No Way Back
4.9/60
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafioso Frank Serlano believes...
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No Way Back

2012

Mirror Mirror
5.92/3166
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a...
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Mirror Mirror

1976

St. Ives
5.7/48
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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St. Ives

2004

LArceny
7.5/2
A young man from New Jersey comes to Los Angeles to visit his slightly crazy cousin and gets mistaken for a successful New York artist.
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LArceny

1998

Safe Men
5.6/51
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...
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Safe Men

1983

Strange Invaders
4.8/78
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
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Strange Invaders

1998

Tale of the Mummy
4.432/95
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evi...
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Tale of the Mummy

1997

The Beautician and the Beast
6.7/348
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
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The Beautician and the Beast

1971

What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
5.5/2
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her...
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...?

1991

Omen IV: The Awakening
4.9/240
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys.
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Omen IV: The Awakening

2007

Slipstream
4.9/84
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder my...
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Slipstream

2007

A Dennis the Menace Christmas
5.5/100
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neig...
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A Dennis the Menace Christmas

1974

Busting
6.2/40
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
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Busting

2011

Atlas Shrugged: Part I
5.4/198
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by A...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I

2002

29 Palms
4.9/30
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag change...
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29 Palms

1980

Coast to Coast
4.3/7
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the tria...
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Coast to Coast

1974

Reflections of Murder
7/6
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the...
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Reflections of Murder

1985

Movers & Shakers
3.9/12
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment....
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Movers & Shakers

2022

First Oscar
7.8/4
The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameram...
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First Oscar

1977

Outlaw Blues
4.2/4
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a countr...
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Outlaw Blues

2013

Brahmin Bulls
5/1
When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers th...
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Brahmin Bulls

1978

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
9/1
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and...
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

2013

Immigrant
0/0
"Immigrant" is the coming of age story of Daanyik, a nine year-old Russian boy, whose family immigrates to the United States in the late nineteen-seve...
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Immigrant

1978

Confessions of the D.A. Man
0/0
A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.
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Confessions of the D.A. Man

1971

Thief
7/2
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
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Thief

1975

Starsky & Hutch
6.7/12
A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. Thi...
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Starsky & Hutch

1981

Threshold
5.2/15
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Et...
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Threshold

2004

Nobody Knows Anything!
3.1/19
An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success. When...
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Nobody Knows Anything!

1975

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
5.2/11
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At fi...
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

2004

Poster Boy
5.4/25
The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying...
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Poster Boy

1972

Magic Carpet
0/0
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.
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Magic Carpet

2000

Murder at the Cannes Film Festival
0/0
A comedic murder mystery set in the middle of the Cannes Film Fest. Amidst the bumbling and drama, twists and turns emerge.
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Murder at the Cannes Film Festival

1976

Scott Free
0/0
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o...
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Scott Free

2003

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
6/1179
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, w...
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

1974

Newman's Law
6.143/7
LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty...
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Newman's Law

1995

Girl in the Cadillac
4.8/6
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
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Girl in the Cadillac

1990

Made in Hollywood
7/2
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of televisio...
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Made in Hollywood

1998

Celebrity
6/472
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment j...
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Celebrity

2010

Life During Wartime
6/131
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solond...
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Life During Wartime

1969

Three's a Crowd
6/1
An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
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Three's a Crowd

1975

A Cry for Help
6.8/5
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit su...
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A Cry for Help

1994

No Escape
6.263/426
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle is...
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No Escape

1980

Gridlock
6/1
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system...
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Gridlock

2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.529/15434
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past

1983

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
6.3/3
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

2015

Ashby
6.2/446
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That ne...
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Ashby

1987

The King of Love
0/0
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.
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The King of Love

1985

The Execution
7.3/3
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...
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The Execution

1976

Dark Victory
0/0
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
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Dark Victory

1997

For Richer or Poorer
5.9/233
Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when...
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For Richer or Poorer

1990

Framed
3.9/7
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
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Framed

1971

Marriage: Year One
6/1
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
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Marriage: Year One

2018

Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
0/0
Cowboy, a senior citizen ex-lawyer and gambler, is persuaded by his spunky seventeen year old neighbor, Rachel, to seek retribution for having been ch...
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Drive Me to Vegas and Mars

2015

iGod
0/0
People have been asking questions about God since the dawn of humankind and humanity's disagreements about the nature of God have often led to ethnic...
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iGod

2001

Mockingbird Don't Sing
6.4/32
The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly...
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Mockingbird Don't Sing

1998

Desperation Boulevard
3.8/5
An ex-child star (Judy Tenuta) tries to reclaim her former fame.
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Desperation Boulevard

2006

Art School Confidential
6.12/217
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really...
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Art School Confidential

1987

Hands of a Stranger
5.6/5
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
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Hands of a Stranger

2000

Attention Shoppers
2.5/2
An actor's promotional appearance at a new shopping centre is ruined when a popular rival shows up at a nearby store.
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Attention Shoppers

1985

This Child Is Mine
5/1
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.
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This Child Is Mine

1988

Vibes
5.7/72
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafus...
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Vibes

1973

Firehouse
5.3/3
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave...
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Firehouse

1980

This Year's Blonde
5.7/3
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be Am...
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This Year's Blonde

1975

The Dream Makers
0/0
A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
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The Dream Makers

1990

Any Man's Death
4/4
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail fo...
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Any Man's Death

1977

Killer on Board
5/6
The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
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Killer on Board

1994

Blank Check
5.9/503
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance...
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Blank Check

1977

The Other Side of Midnight
5.8/20
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri...
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The Other Side of Midnight

1974

Hangup
4.5/2
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
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Hangup

2009

A Serious Man
6.72/2126
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him....
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A Serious Man

1975

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
3.5/2
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

1991

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square
8.2/4
Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie,...
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Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

1978

Ruby and Oswald
6/1
A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated e...
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Ruby and Oswald

1994

The Road to Wellville
5.6/171
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...
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The Road to Wellville

2019

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
5.9/74
When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic, he uncovers shocking family secrets...
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Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

1992

The Comrades of Summer
4.8/4
Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) was manager of the Seattle Mariners until he had one too many shouting matches with the team's owner (Michael Lerner) and...
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The Comrades of Summer

1971

The Ski Bum
4.8/8
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
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The Ski Bum

1992

Newsies
6.8/271
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze...
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Newsies

2010

Pete Smalls Is Dead
4.8/28
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
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Pete Smalls Is Dead

2014

1000 to 1
5.905/42
Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importa...
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1000 to 1

2024

Sallywood
8/2
When Zack, a 20-something writer, moves from Maine to Hollywood to pursue his career dreams, he meets his favorite actress, Sally Kirkland, who hires...
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Sallywood

1979

Goldengirl
4.8/10
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in t...
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Goldengirl

1970

Alex in Wonderland
5.588/17
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and s...
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Alex in Wonderland

2013

Somebody Marry Me
0/0
David can inherit his father’s vast fortune on one condition: he has to get married. The problem is he only has mere hours to find his bride-to-be.
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Somebody Marry Me

2018

American Bred
0/0
In present day Detroit, where the influence of organized crime has diminished; one of the lasting crime syndicates begins to unravel when lies, myster...
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American Bred

1980

The Baltimore Bullet
5.875/12
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
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The Baltimore Bullet

1986

That Secret Sunday
6/2
A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter s...
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That Secret Sunday

2010

Wax On, Fuck Off
7.1/7
Ralph Macchio, once a former teen idol, once on top the world in the 80s. Now he is a family man with a loving wife and the nicest man in Hollywood......
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Wax On, Fuck Off

1999

The Mod Squad
4.3/122
Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.
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The Mod Squad

2016

The Shickles
0/0
The Shickles is an edgy comedy which explores the life and loves of an eccentric Jewish family following the death of their dearly beloved grandparent...
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The Shickles

2016

Internet Famous
3.8/50
A group of Internet "sensations" compete for a tv show. Parody of the Internet.
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Internet Famous

1979

Hart to Hart
0/0
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. The...
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Hart to Hart

1974

The Rockford Files
0/0
The hit 1974 series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later m...
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The Rockford Files

2010

The Bannen Way
5.3/3
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The Bannen Way

2014

2 Dead 2 Kill
3.333/3
An ex-narc finds a journal written in code, leading to the whereabouts of a stash of stolen drugs.
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2 Dead 2 Kill


Pigeon
0/0
Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and a chance encounter with a woman sitting next to h...
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