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Big & Small Screen Entertainment (#2) That You Should Check-out (In My Opinion)
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“Big & Small Screen Entertainment (#2) That You Should Check-out (In My Opinion)” These are items of entertainment I believe you should at least check-out once in you life, just to see if you like. This will be a constant updating list with every sort of rating & genre. Enjoy!_Please be sure to look at my other “playlists” Thanks For Stopping! Be Safe & Happy!


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Movie: Rat ( 2000 )
Dublin deliveryman Hubert Flynn feels peaked. Home from the pub, he lies down; while his nagging wife Conchita looks on, he turns into a rat. She's chafed at how inconsiderate he is: hardly touching his food the next morning and leaving droppings on the good doilies. With curiosity seekers outside the flat and a writer at the door offering to help Conchita turn her story into a book, she calls a family meeting. Her seminary-bound son Pius wants to kill the rat; other family members are ambivalent. They opt to hurl Hubert over the fence of a maggot farm. Christmas approaches; an exorcism is in the cards, and the book becomes the Holy Grail. What of Hubert's conversion?
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TV Show: Titans ( 2000 )
This short-lived prime-time soap from Aaron Spelling focused on the travails of the wealthy but extremely dysfunctional Williams family, which runs a successful aviation company. Fighter pilot Chandler Williams meets a mysterious woman named Heather while on leave in Hawaii, and the two begin a passionate affair. They plan a life together, but Heather suddenly vanishes. Chandler returns home months later and is stunned when his father, Richard, introduces him to his new fiancé...Heather! She claims to love Richard, but constantly makes her feelings for Chandler known. She also drops another bombshell on him just as he is about to walk her down the aisle. Meanwhile, Heather feels threatened by the close friendship that Richard maintains with his ex-wife, Gwen. Chandler's brother, Peter, is determined to expose Heather's schemes.
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Movie: The Eyes of Tammy Faye ( 2000 )
Twelve years after the scandalous collapse of the multimillion dollar Christian empire built by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, "The Eyes Of Tammy Faye" tells the fascinating inside story of the rise, fall and resurrection of "the Queen of the Eyelashes." One of the most adored and reviled women of her time, the film follows her amazing tale from her love at first sight encounter with Jim, through the glory days of PTL, to the scandal that brought both their empire and their family tumbling down.
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Movie: The Specials ( 2000 )
America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.
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Movie: Shadow of the Vampire ( 2000 )
The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
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Movie: Witchblade ( 2000 )
Witchblade is the story of New York detective, Sara Pezzini, whose search for justice leads her to an arcane weapon that grants her the power to battle Earth's darkest evil forces.
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Movie: Sunset Strip ( 2000 )
A comedy that takes place over twenty-four hours on the Sunset Strip, in 1972.
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Movie: Who Killed Atlanta's Children? ( 2000 )
In the early 1980s, there was someone killing the children of Atlanta. Eventually a single man was caught and convicted in one of the largest manhunts in our nation's history. Ever since, the case has been closed until four years later two reporters investigate charges that the original investigation was filled with errors and tainted evidence. They seek to find the truth behind the Atlanta child murders.
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Movie: The Man Who Used to Be Me ( 2000 )
A former policeman gets the opportunity to travel back in time to catch his father's murderer and in so doing runs into his younger self.
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Movie: American Virgin ( 2000 )
A woman, fed up with her father's double standards, decides to lose her virginity.
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Movie: Dirty Pictures ( 2000 )
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Movie: Geppetto ( 2000 )
The lonely woodcarver Geppetto gets his wish for a child of his own granted when the Blue Fairy brings one of his marionettes to life; however, being a parent is not as easy as he had expected.
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Movie: Take Me Home: The John Denver Story ( 2000 )
John Denver achieved fame, fortune, and acclaim for his iconic country-pop music, but his sunny personality masked private pain and dark secrets that his celebrity could never heal.
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Movie: The Audrey Hepburn Story ( 2000 )
Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywood's most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn, spaning from her early childhood to the 1960's which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina, coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a movie actress and the emotional trials that follow her with it.
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Movie: Water Drops on Burning Rocks ( 2000 )
In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.
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Movie: Beat ( 2000 )
Two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation.
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Movie: Longitude ( 2000 )
In the eighteenth century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. This movie's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon). He built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the twentieth century story of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.
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Movie: The Ultimate Guide: Submarines ( 2000 )
This program provides an overview of many aspect of submarine technology including; the various types of submarines, their missions, design considerations, history, operations, training, rescue methods and new design concepts.
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Movie: Brotherhood of Murder ( 1999 )
Based on a true story, it is about a struggling young father (Baldwin) who can no longer support his wife and family, falling in with a beginning group of white supremacists led by a man (Gallagher) who is obsessed with the "takeover of the Country by whites." All goes well until the shooting starts and this moves Baldwin to turn against the group.
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Movie: The Insider ( 1999 )
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.
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Movie: The Night of the Headless Horseman ( 1999 )
In this classic tale based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Ichabod Crane, the town's new schoolmaster, is instantly enamored with Katrina Van Tassel, but he must compete for her love with Brom Bones, who will stop at nothing to win her. Ichabod thinks that Brom is his biggest obstacle, but to his surprise, there is someone -- or something -- else out there who will change his life forever.
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Movie: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ( 1999 )
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
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Movie: P.T. Barnum ( 1999 )
This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses, his family life is troubled and marred by tragedy. All the while, events lead to his greatest creation, the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Movie: First Daughter ( 1999 )
After an agent saves the US president by not following procedure, she's "demoted" to looking after the teenage first daughter on a wilderness tour with other teenagers. Problems arise.
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Movie: New World Disorder ( 1999 )
A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop (McCarthy) are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
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Movie: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill ( 1999 )
Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream. Along the way, he dramatizes Dr. Heimlich's search for a maneuver, the naming of Engelbert Humperdinck, Scooby and Shaggy as archetypes, Neil Armstrong on the moon, society's tolerance of mass murderers, how we sing anthems and carols, Hollywood adapting British films, JFK's trip to Berlin, thoughts on puberty, and how to work schoolbook-French phrases into Parisian conversation. Closeups catch the glint in his eye and his carefully-applied make-up.
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Movie: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? ( 1999 )
This sequel to the New Zealand-set drama "Once Were Warriors" revisits alcoholic Maori man Jake Heke (Temuera Morrison) and his wife, Beth (Rena Owen), who have separated, largely due to his excessive drinking. When their older son, Nig (Julian Arahanga), is killed in a gang fight, his brother, Sonny (Clint Eruera), becomes determined to avenge his death. Attempting to change his life for the better, Jake tries to help Sonny avoid Nig's tragic fate.
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TV Show: Joan of Arc ( 1999 )
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.
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TV Show: Atomic Train ( 1999 )
A train carrying a Russian atomic weapon is on a runaway course with disaster - and time's running out! Only John Seger, a renegade investigator for the NTSB, can stop the speeding locomotive.
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Movie: Modern Vampires ( 1999 )
A borderline fascistic Dr. Van Helsing unwittingly hires crack smoking gang-bangers to pursue the decadent vampires who secretly control Hollywood and the United States.
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TV Show: Il commissario Montalbano ( 1999 )
Salvo Montalbano is the police commissioner of Vigàta, a gruff character who is responsible and serious at work, but often also open and friendly with people he knows he can trust. Montalbano finds he must investigate various criminal acts in his area, for which - thanks to his great intelligence and the help of numerous assistants, even outside the police - he always manages to reconstruct the exact events and to find a solution. Among his colleagues are his deputy, Mimi Augello, inspector Giuseppe Fazio, the awkward policeman, Agatino Catarella and other officers of the police station. Otherwise, among his external collaborators are his friend Ingrid Sjostrom, the journalist Niccolò Zito and, more rarely, Adelina his cook. In his private life, Salvo carries on a long-distance relationship with Livia Burlando, with whom he has a sometimes tempestuous relationship, but in which love always prevails.
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Movie: Bloodthirsty ( 1999 )
A beautiful young woman develops a fetish for drinking blood from the veins of her roommate.
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Movie: Murder in Mind ( 1999 )
A woman undergoes hypnosis to determine who murdered her husband, a crime for which she is the chief suspect.
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Movie: True Crime ( 1999 )
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
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Movie: Angel's Dance ( 1999 )
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
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Movie: The Darklings ( 1999 )
Three pre-teens, convinced that the man across the street has murdered his wife, pester their way into finding the truth... even if it means invading the man's home to look for clues.
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Movie: The Passion of Ayn Rand ( 1999 )
Upon the death of Ayn Rand (Dame Helen Mirren), Barbara Branden (Julie Delpy) recounts the story of her dealings with the enigmatic twentieth century philosopher and author. Barbara and her husband, Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz), meet Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor (Peter Fonda) and immediately establish a rapport. Rand takes the youthful Nathaniel under her wing and begins to show a non-platonic interest in her protégé. Barbara must sit by as the two begin what becomes a long, tumultuous affair.
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Movie: Free Fall ( 1999 )
An NTSB investigator (Jaclyn Smith) and her boyfriend (Bruce Boxleitner), who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.
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Movie: Voyeur ( 1999 )
Andy works in the night-shift making copies of videotape. His best friend Lou got the job for him, and asks Andy to make nine copies of a porn video. Andy becomes obsessed by the star, affecting his personal life with his girlfriend Kris Foster. When Andy incidentally meets the woman, she tells that she is Gina Porter, the daughter of a senator, and she had been drugged and videotaped and later blackmailed by the powerful Melrose. Andy gets involved with the situation, and when he meets Melrose, he listens to a different version of the story, becoming confused.
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Movie: The Beatles Celebration ( 1999 )
A visual and cultural history of the Beatles. Packed with dozens of never before seen film clips, ultra rare photographs and exclusive interviews, John, Paul, George and Ringo come alive in this intelligent, compelling, inside glimpse into the inner-circle of the greatest music group ever. Included in this all-star production are not only the Beatles themselves, but other well known insiders like Lennon Intimates; Frederic Seaman and Yoko Ono. Also lending their exclusive insights are former Beatle Pete Best, The Maharishi and Eric Clapton. Also included is, Beatlemania!, a rare newsreel documenting the Beatles arrival in London after their triumphant U.S. tour. For the casual fan, committed Beatlemaniac or serious student of pop culture, this program is a magical mystery tour of sights and sounds of an era whose incredible force is still being felt today. This program contains no music by the Beatles and is not an authorized product by their firm Apple Corp Ltd. or any of their associated companies or concerns. All interviews and archival material have been processed using the latest digital technology to insure optimal reproduction.
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Movie: American History X ( 1998 )
Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
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Movie: Max Q ( 1998 )
A shuttle is launched into space to release a new satellite. When an explosion occurs the crew has to think of a way to get back to Earth without atmospheric pressure (max q) crushing the damaged shuttle.
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Movie: Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night ( 1998 )
Animated story about the creation of the song "Silent Night".
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Movie: Forever Love ( 1998 )
Forever Love is a poignant new television movie about a woman who awakens from a 20-year-long coma and begins her life all over again. In the drama, suggested by a true story, Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a fairy tale young couple, wildly in love and the parents of a little girl, Emma. Then, without warning, 24-year-old Lizzie suffers a stoke. At the hospital, doctors tell Alex that his young wife has slipped into a deep coma and there is nothing to do but wait to see if she comes out of it. Alex, determined to keep his vow to love Lizzie in sickness and in health, decides to bring her home and take care of her. Alex is helped and consoled by Gail, Lizzie's best friend. Gail not only offers a loving friendship to Alex, she fills in for Lizzie with young Emma as well. When Gail's husband is killed in a car crash, Alex, Gail and Emma form a de facto family unit of their own until, 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie wakes up. Miraculously, Lizzie is pronounced perfectly healthy and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed. Emma, who is about to be married, is thrilled to have her mother back, as are Alex and Gail. But, Lizzie's presence is also confusing for all of them as she attempts to move back into the place she rightfully occupies in their lives. It's a journey of challenge and discovery for all of them as they grow, change, and begin to embrace each other again.
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Movie: Someone to Love Me ( 1998 )
A promiscuous girl is raped by a fellow student.
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Movie: Rounders ( 1998 )
A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
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Movie: What Rats Won't Do ( 1998 )
Soon-to-be-married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
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Movie: The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 )
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?
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Movie: Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure ( 1998 )
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
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Movie: Twilight ( 1998 )
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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Movie: Playing to Win: A Moment of Truth Movie ( 1998 )
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
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Movie: Montana ( 1998 )
Claire is a tough gang member that has to find the Boss' mistress, Kitty, who ran away from him. She is accompanied by Boss' trigger-happy son Jimmy. Claire's colleague gangster Nick is terminally ill and cancer starts to take over him.
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Movie: Moonlight Becomes You ( 1998 )
At a party Maggie Holloway, a photographer, is delighted to see again her mother in law after such a long time. Shortly after, the old lady is found murdered. Maggie decides to investigate strange incidents surrounding a retirement home.
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Movie: The Ghosts of Dickens' Past ( 1998 )
In the 19th century, young Charles Dickens is a promising young writer who is obsessed with material success in his career. His misguided priorities are soon challenged when he encounters a mysterious little girl. That girl takes Dickens on a strange and moving journey in which he is shown the future he could have if he doesn't change his ways and, more importantly, he is shown a better purpose for his writing as a way of speaking for the oppressed who need his help. It is these events and lessons that would inspire Dickens to write an extraordinary Christmas tale that would become his greatest work, A Christmas Carol.
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Movie: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ( 1997 )
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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Movie: Medusa's Child ( 1997 )
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.
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Movie: The Big Fall ( 1997 )
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
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Movie: Final Descent ( 1997 )
A commercial pilot is forced to keep a plane aloft that was struck in midair by another plane to keep it from ripping apart even as the fuel is running out and the air and cabin pressure is dropping.
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Movie: Redux Riding Hood (Short 1997) ( 1997 )
Years after failing to catch Little Red Riding Hood, the obsessed Wolf tries again.
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Movie: The Pale Horse ( 1997 )
When Mark Easterbrook is accused of murdering a priest, he sets out to prove his innocence. In the process, he discovers a series of deaths, seemingly from natural causes, that may also be involved.
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Movie: Ripe ( 1997 )
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet falls for him, Rosie becomes increasingly angry and hostile, and the sisters' childhood bond is eventually destroyed forever.
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Movie: Exception to the Rule ( 1997 )
A married jewel trader is seduced by a beautiful woman while on a business trip. Upon returning home, he receives a video tape in the mail of his tryst and a threat to ruin his marriage if he doesn't turn a shipment of diamonds over to the woman.
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Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1997 )
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
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Movie: Sudden Manhattan ( 1997 )
Donna witnesses identical murders on the same street on different days. Is this a supernatural conspiracy or is she merely cracking up?
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Movie: Unhook the Stars ( 1997 )
After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.
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Movie: Live Nude Shakespeare ( 1997 )
Shakespeare's plays were intended not to be performed by men only, it turns out, but rather by buxom young women in various stages of undress. Such is the premise of this low-budget vehicle which alternates between scenes of women stripping while performing scenes from the Bard's works and mock interviews with the cast and crew.
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Movie: The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue ( 1996 )
When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are determined to get him out of jail in time for Christmas and they decide to enlist the help of "the most powerful man in the world" - President Hoover. En route to the White House, they meet an array of colorful characters.
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Movie: The Cold Equations ( 1996 )
Lt. John Barton is sent on a special mission to deliver a special vaccine to a distant mining colony. He is infuriated to find Lee, a stowaway aboard his spacecraft. Barton has only enough fuel to carry himself and his precious cargo, and Lee's added weight insures that they will crash if she stays on board. They have gone too far to turn back, and Barton's superiors make it clear: the mission takes precedence and Lee has to be dumped into space. But she won't go quietly.
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TV Show: Pandora's Clock ( 1996 )
Quantum Airlines flight 66 has just taken off from Frankfurt, Germany bound for New York's JFK International Airport with 247 passengers aboard. After take-off, a man infected with a Doomsday Virus passes out while a flight attendant and doctor try to save the man. The pilot tries to land the plane but can't because the people on the ground know about the virus. An ambassador and his secretary help the pilot struggle through the government's secret attempt to shoot flight 66 out of the air. And if the plane does land, Doomsday has arrived on earth.
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Movie: Sweet Dreams ( 1996 )
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how it should be and someone is out to get her.
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Movie: Miami Hustle ( 1996 )
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
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Movie: Maybe... Maybe Not ( 1996 )
The handsome young Axel is always on the hunt for women although he already has a girlfriend named Doro. One day Doro catches Axel in the act with another woman. She ends their relationship and throws him out of her apartment. Seeking a new home, Axel is introduced to Walter, a homosexual, who finds Axel quite attractive. Walter takes Axel to a gay party where they meet Norbert, who has a big apartment and is more than willing to let Axel stay for a while because he thinks he can seduce him. Meanwhile, Doro finds out that she is pregnant with Axel's child and now she tries to get him back, not knowing that he lives among homosexuals. This makes for a lot of funny incidents between the gay world and the straight world. But will Doro get Axel back or will he stay with Norbert instead?
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Movie: The Assassination File ( 1996 )
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate.
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Movie: Nightjohn ( 1996 )
Facing a life of servitude in the Antebellum South, a young slave named Sarny meets Nightjohn. He teaches her to read and write, and together they set to free other slaves - until one planned escape is discovered.
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Movie: The Stepford Husbands ( 1996 )
A husband and wife think they have made the move of a lifetime when they buy a house in a quiet leafy town. At first it appears to be perfect because there is no noise, no crime and no action especially from the male fraternity of the town. Is this just a bizarre place or is there something sinister going on?
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Movie: Catherine the Great ( 1996 )
In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's inexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive nephew and heir of the Russian czarina Elizabeth. From Elizabeth she learns the cynical ropes of wielding absolute imperial power at any cost, including sacrificing her lover, young guards officer Saltykov, who must give her an heir that Peter can't and is then sent abroad. After Elizabeth's death, she quickly moves to seize power with military and court support. She then works to enlarge and modernize the empire, again putting statesmanship ahead of her lover, a military genius who defeats the Ottomans and governs the conquered territories for her.
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Movie: A Face to Die For ( 1996 )
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
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TV Show: The Lazarus Man ( 1996 )
Set during American Civil War times, this series is the story of a man that awakens to find himself buried alive. He claws his way out of the makeshift grave and then sets about trying to discover his identity as he has lost his memory. The clues he finds are confusing as he was in Southern territory, wearing Southern clothing, but carrying Northern gold and a Northern gun. His only memories are those of a beautiful woman, being beaten and being present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He decides to call himself Lazarus, after the man that was raised from death by Christ.
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Movie: Così fan tutte ( 1996 )
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Movie: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1995 )
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
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Movie: Sugartime ( 1995 )
Purportedly true story of the affair between singer Phyllis McGuire, and Mafia boss Sam Giancana, famous for his alleged connections to John F Kennedy and Frank Sinatra.
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TV Show: Nancy Drew ( 1995 )
A young girl, Nancy Drew, solves crimes.
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Movie: Frankie Starlight ( 1995 )
This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life. In flashbacks, we see how he was conceived to a woman (Parillaud) at the end of WWII as she attempts to smuggle herself to America on a troop ship. Caught, she is put ashore back in her homeland of Ireland where she struggles to bring up her dwarfed child. Then comes an ongoing affair with a man (Byrne) who becomes a surrogate father to the boy, teaching him about the stars and planets... and calling him "Frankie Starlight." After that affair she meets with a man (Dillon) who takes her and the boy to America, but they are misfits in the prairie lands of the West and soon return home to Ireland where the boy grows to manhood as a writer.
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Movie: Truman ( 1995 )
Harry S. Truman, a failed farmer, haberdasher, oil prospector, lead miner, banker, law student and county politician, was President of the United States during the country's most troubled times. Widely criticized and constantly embroiled in political battles, Truman departed office in 1952 with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president. However, his intelligence, integrity and decisiveness had a profound effect on world events that continues even now. He faced his trials with homespun candor, humour and wisdom, and a humble belief in hard work. Harry S. Truman - an honest and extraordinary ordinary man, unchanged by power and circumstances, a man that History has now judged one of America's greatest leaders.
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Movie: Last of the Dogmen ( 1995 )
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
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Movie: Perfect Alibi ( 1995 )
Melanie is married to Keith Bauers, she has two beautiful children and she is rich. She decides to engage a girl au pair, Janine, who arrives from France. Everything seems to run perfectly. Janine looks shy and timid and well disposed towards the family. But casually Paula, Melanies's sister, finds out that Janine and Keith are lovers and afterwards she dies in an accident.
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Movie: Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey ( 1995 )
A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.
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Movie: The Tin Soldier ( 1995 )
A boy trying to cope with his father's death much-needed guidance when his new toy soldier springs to life. So later the boy becomes friend's with a gang called the Pack 13 which is at war with another gang called the Snakes he soon gets caught in the mixed between both gangs. And his come to life toy soldier teaches him real true honor. Leading it to an all-out gang-war fight between the Pack 13 and Snakes.
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Movie: She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal ( 1995 )
This film tells the story of Lt. Paula Coughlin when she was assigned as an Admiral's assistant at the annual US Navy convention called Tailhook. During that convention, which often had predominately male officers partying wildly, she was subjected to "The Guantlet" in which she was sexually man-handled and harassed relentlessly by the male officers attending. Abused and humiliated by this collective affront to her, she sought to bring charges on her attackers. However, she found that she must not only confront her attackers, but more importantly, the male military mentality and profound sexism that permitted this kind of outrage in the first place.
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Movie: Vanished ( 1995 )
Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy-the mysterious abduction of their son.
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Movie: Once Were Warriors ( 1995 )
A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
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Movie: Citizen X ( 1995 )
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
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Movie: Rumble in the Bronx ( 1995 )
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
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TV Show: Women of the House ( 1995 )
Suzanne Sugarbaker goes to Washington, D.C., to fill the congressional seat of her late husband, Ray, as a favor to the governor. To help her feel more at home, Suzanne brings along Jim, her mentally challenged brother, and her adopted daughter, Desiree. Her staff is a diverse bunch: uptight and brittle administrative assistant Natalie Hollingsworth, press secretary (and recovering alcoholic) Sissy Emerson and Jennifer Malone, a fragile housewife trying to recover from being abandoned by her husband. Later, new intern Veda Walkman joins the team.
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Movie: Provocation ( 1995 )
In this sexually charged period drama set in the 1920s, and centering on the tenuous relationship between a tyrannical inn owner and his carnally curious grandson. Carlo is the insensitive owner of a popular country inn. Along with his grandson Gianni, the temperamental owner does his best to keep up the inn and ensure that their guests are content. But lately Carlo's wife has been feeling rejected, and she can't help but being drawn to handsome guest Rolando. Meanwhile, the sexually inexperienced Gianni gets vicarious thrills by secretly spying on his grandfather's sexual conquests. When the incredibly attractive Marilena arrives at the inn, her provocative behavior drives both Gianni and the guests into a blinding frenzy of lust and desire. But what is the secret that drives Marilena's irresistible sensuality, and is she in fact Gianni's distant cousin? Only time will tell what debauched secrets this prurient mystery holds.
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Movie: Riverdance: The Show ( 1995 )
Riverdance is rooted in a three-part suite of baroque-influenced traditional music called Timedance composed, recorded and performed for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, which was hosted by Ireland.
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Movie: In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King ( 1995 )
Al is hired by an acquaintance who happens to be the local mob boss to track down his own brother who's wanted by the mafia for the murder of an important gangster figure. Is blood thicker than water?
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Movie: Eagles: Hell Freezes Over ( 1994 )
The Eagles perform in concert, in celebration of the group's reunion, which was supposed to occur "when hell freezes over."
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Movie: The Scout ( 1994 )
The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.