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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: Pink Angels ( 1971 )
Plenty of heads turn when a group of transvestite bikers wheel their way to Los Angeles.
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Movie: Winter of Our Dreams ( 1981 )
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
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Movie: The Naughty List (TV Special 2019) ( 2019 )
Mild mannered Evie Sanders works as a waitress in Colorado and is hopelessly in love with her manager , Jace Winters. Although she has been there for four years she has never made her move on Jace. This may change once she completes her anonymous "Naughty List" for her friend's sexuality class.
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Movie: The Roots of Heaven ( 1958 )
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.
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Movie: Four to Dinner ( 2022 )
In this rom-com challenging the concept of soulmates, parallel storylines portray four single friends as they pair up in different couple combinations.
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Movie: The Big Street ( 1942 )
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Pinks is a shy busboy and Gloria only goes out with men who are loaded. When she tries to dump Case for richer Reed, Case dumps her down the stairs. After months of treatment, she will never walk, but Pinks is the only one who takes care of her. He pays all her bills and sends her flowers with unsigned cards. But to Gloria, he is nothing in her eyes. When she wants to leave New York for Florida, to be with the money set, he takes her.
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Movie: Stranger on the Run ( 1967 )
Former inmate and drunkard Ben Chamberlain arrives in a railroad town looking for a woman, causing the railroad police deputies to manhunt for Ben.
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Movie: The Tin Star ( 1957 )
A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.
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Movie: The Ox-Bow Incident ( 1943 )
When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.
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TV Show: War & Peace ( 1972 )
The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as Pierre Bezuhov (a role for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA); Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova; Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky; and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families. The twenty-part serial was the vision of producer David Conroy whose principle aim was to transfer the rich characterisation and incident from Tolstoy's greatest novel to a television drama. Scripted by Jack Pulman and directed by John Davies, Conroy's War & Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Design BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences which were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
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Movie: War and Peace ( 1991 )
BBC production of 'Sergei Prokofiev (I)''s opera "War and Peace" performed by the Kirov Opera under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
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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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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: Nine Lives ( 2005 )
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
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Movie: Banana Split ( 2018 )
Over the course of a summer, two teenage girls develop the perfect kindred spirit friendship, with one big problem: one of them is dating the other's ex.
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Movie: Someone to Love Me ( 1998 )
A promiscuous girl is raped by a fellow student.
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TV Show: Gabriel's Fire ( 1990 )
Gabriel Bird was a large, intelligent black man with a thundering voice and a cross to bear. He had once been a Chicago cop. One fateful day in 1969, he was involved in a botched raid during which he was forced to shoot his white partner rather than allow the him to kill an innocent mother and child in cold blood. The jury considered this to be not an act of heroism but of murder and sent him to prison for life. After 20 years as a model prisoner, Gabriel came in contact with an aggressive attorney named Victoria, who was fascinated by his case and the many irregularities in his trial. Convinced he was innocent, she got him released but Gabriel found that life outside could be even tougher for an ex-con, especially since many on the police force still hated and distrusted him. He became a private investigator for Victoria - using to his advantage, the inside knowledge he had gained on the police force and in prison. Louis was Victoria's assistant and Empress Josephine was Gabriel's longtime friend and the proprietor of a cafe where Gabriel hung out.
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Movie: See for Me ( 2022 )
When blind former skier Sophie cat-sits in a secluded mansion, three thieves invade for the hidden safe. Sophie's only defense is army veteran Kelly. Kelly helps Sophie defend herself against the invaders to survive.
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Movie: The Mystery of Natalie Wood ( 2004 )
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner, and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death.
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Movie: Nickelodeon ( 1976 )
Buck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910).
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TV Show: Search Party ( 2016 )
Search Party is a dark comedy about five self-absorbed 20-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
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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: 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: Joshû Shiguma ( 2008 )
The prey becomes the hunter. A female prisoner must battle a force stronger than any before her.
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Movie: Chicago 10 ( 2007 )
Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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Movie: The Most Fertile Man in Ireland ( 2001 )
The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand.
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Movie: Alias Boston Blackie ( 1942 )
Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.
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Movie: Tonight's the Night ( 1987 )
The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.
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Movie: The Next Voice You Hear... ( 1950 )
"Joe Smith, American" lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant. One night Joe hears a voice cut in on a radio program: "This is God. I'll be with you for the next few days." It turns out, everyone in the world listening to any radio heard the same thing. More messages come; some people react positively, others negatively.
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Movie: The Statue ( 1971 )
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?
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Movie: Mad God ( 2021 )
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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TV Show: 40 ( 2003 )
The cliché has it that life begins at forty. It doesn't, of course. It starts much earlier than that! In this new three-part drama, seven 40-year-olds are drawn together by a disturbing school reunion. Long-standing sexual tensions and emotional conflicts come to a head as the surreal secrets of apparently normal lives are revealed. Beneath the veneer of a successful career simmers a life of quiet desperation, behind the closed doors of a happy marriage lies a disordered world of sordid sexual dysfunction. Acting as a catalyst, the reunion forces the seven friends into a re-evaluation of their past and the present - and brings about an unexpected future.
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Movie: An Angel at My Table ( 1990 )
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
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Movie: The Possession of Joel Delaney ( 1972 )
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
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Movie: #Dupe# ( 2022 )
Follows Suzanne McBride and her three adopted daughters, this looks like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique challenges that threaten to derail this special occasion.
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Movie: Frustrated Wives ( 1974 )
A pair of frustrated housewives who are bored and neglected by their husbands decide to go to a 'sex clinic' in the country.
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TV Show: Greatest Hits of the 80s ( 2021 )
A retrospective celebrating bestselling singles from across the 80s.
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Movie: Cadillac Girls ( 1993 )
A woman and her delinquent rebellious teen daughter return to their small hometown after the death of the woman's distant father. Old wounds reopen quickly but they soon find a reason to stay. Will they find peace or more scars?
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Movie: River of Diamonds ( 1990 )
An adventurer (Dack Rambo) pursues a river of gems through caverns of mystery, murder and bone-chilling excitement. He encounters lives snakes, buried-alive nazis and brutal murderers. The prize is a river of diamonds but the price could be a violent sudden death.
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Movie: Body Language ( 1992 )
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
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Movie: Black Rain ( 1989 )
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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Movie: Only When I Larf ( 1968 )
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
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Movie: How I Fell in Love with a Gangster ( 2022 )
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikos" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history.
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Movie: The Blue Iguana ( 1988 )
Two overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he arrives in Diablo, where life isn't worth a penny. It seems impossible to raid the heavily guarded bank. He has to assure himself of help of the barwoman Dakota and a little boy.
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Movie: Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania ( 2022 )
After one experiment, Johnny turns into a monster and everyone else becomes human. Now it has to be seen whether they will be able to reverse this experiment.
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Movie: Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story ( 2015 )
Follows the abduction of 16 year old girl in California in 2013.
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Movie: Speak of the Devil ( 1989 )
A phony evangelist and his nympho wife buy a house in Los Angeles with plans to turn it into "The Church of Latter Day Sin." However, the house turns out to be haunted--which doesn't stop the wife, who, unbeknownst to her husband, cuts a deal with the Devil.
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Movie: The Night God Screamed ( 1971 )
A woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they've crucified her preacher husband.
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Movie: Inside Costa Concordia: Voices of Disaster ( 2012 )
Told by some of the survivors who were on board the luxury cruiser, this is the story of a tragic wreck and of the search and rescue operation that followed it. On 13 January 2012, there were over 3200 passengers and about 1000 crew members on board the Costa Concordia. None of them expected anything else but a pleasure filled cruise with access to 13 decks of this luxurious 290 meters long ship: 5 restaurants and 13 bars, 4 swimming pools, a lavish spa and to top it all, a formula one simulator. But as the Concordia sailed past the island of Giglio in Tuscany, it hit exposed rocks which left in the hull a 70 meters gash, only a few meters shorter than the one that sank the Titanic. When the ship then run aground on an underwater reef and capsized, the terrified passengers and the crew had to be rescued off the ship. For some it was a quick but terrifying evacuation. For others it was entirely different story. Together with survivors from around the world, plunge back into the events of that night: see images they filmed, the pictures they took, as they tell the story of a deadly shipwreck.
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Movie: Story of a Woman ( 1970 )
Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry and have a daughter. David is sent to Rome. Karin meets Bruno again.
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Movie: Cyrano ( 2022 )
Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.
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Movie: Nurse on Wheels ( 1963 )
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrained mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer--at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land...Read all
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Movie: Kink ( 2013 )
Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet's largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com's directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, Kink.com upholds an ironclad set of values to foster an environment that is safe, sane, and consensual. They aim to demystify the BDSM lifestyle, and to serve as an example and an educational resource for the BDSM community. In kink, we discover not only a fascinating and often misunderstood subculture, but also, in a career far from the mainstream, a group of intelligent, charismatic, and driven people who really, truly love what they do.
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Movie: The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 )
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
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Movie: Slightly Single in L.A. ( 2013 )
Dale Squire is a hip, quirky, independent single gal living in the glossy city of Los Angeles. After several failed attempts in quasi-relationships, Dale concludes that finding a meaningful relationship in L.A. is impossible. But being anti-social is tough for any young girl in Hollywood. With Jill's frantic wedding right around the corner, Dale finds herself reflecting on the significance of marriage, and the mutual respect needed for a successful relationship. When Zach, a successful heartthrob rock star and old friend of Dale's finds his way back into her life, Dale slowly starts to think that maybe finding love in L.A. is possible - the only problem is that her realization might have come too late, leaving Dale in a silent love triangle, with no way out.
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Movie: The Great Bank Robbery ( 1969 )
Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880.
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Movie: The Perfect Pairing ( 2022 )
A food and wine critic who hits her head and loses her memory while accidentally visiting a winery she panned in the past, owned and operated by single dad Michael.
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Movie: Sudden Danger ( 1955 )
A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered, and his subsequent investigation begins to focus on the woman's son, who was blinded by her in an accident several years before.
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Movie: The Automatic Hate ( 2015 )
When chef Davis's alluring young cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father's wishes, he travels to rural, upstate New York to meet his other cousins. While wrestling with a taboo attraction to one another, he and Alexis attempt to reunite their families, uncovering the reasons behind a long-standing rift and the shocking secret that tore their fathers apart. Together, their discoveries force them to confront the temptation to keep their familial grudge going rather than end it.
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Movie: Witchslayer Gretl ( 2012 )
Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge. But there's a surprise waiting - his sister Gretel (who he thought had been killed) is the witch's protégé.
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Movie: The Love-Ins ( 1967 )
It's the 60s and every "love child" is in search of a guru to follow and lead them to enlightenment! A group of young hippies follows a much older man and soon he turns himself into their "guru" leading them astray and having his way with the young women in his "flock".
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Movie: Land of the Free ( 2004 )
A political candidate uses his office to shield his criminal activities while his campaign manager fights for the truth.
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Movie: I Know My Son Is Alive ( 1994 )
Real-life husband and wife Corbin Bernsen and Amanda Pays play a couple whose life is torn apart by the disappearance of their new-born son. When a bloodstained baby's blanket is found in the back of the wife's car, the accusations of murder begin.
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Movie: The River: A Documentary Film ( 2020 )
The River is a documentary about how communication and purpose play into the success and failures of managing the homeless encampment in Aberdeen, Washington.
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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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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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TV Show: Good & Evil ( 1991 )
Good & Evil was the saga of two sisters, one an heir to the family cosmetics empire, the other a world-class scientist, and the backstabbing, jealousy, power struggles and other travails that occurred between them.
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Movie: Of Human Bondage ( 1964 )
Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infidelity, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.
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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: Heaven ( 1987 )
A series of interviews are conducted concerning people's beliefs towards the possibility of an afterlife. The interviews are filmed against a set of strange backdrops, and are intercut with clips from classic films and a variety of stock footage.
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Movie: Mr. Write ( 1994 )
Aspiring writer (with no talent) gets a job on a TV commercial, falls for an advertising executive.
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TV Show: Little Fires Everywhere ( 2020 )
Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
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TV Show: Wisting ( 2019 )
A notorious serial killer manages to escape from the Larvik police, well helped by a mysterious accomplice who has been cheating on the police for years. Detective William Wisting and his team must now stop both, before more lives are lost.
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Movie: Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices ( 2009 )
You know him as the guy who rips everyone apart at the Comedy Central Roasts. Now watch him in his first one-hour special, Midlife Vices. Filmed in front of a raucous hometown crowd in New York City, Giraldo laments America's childhood obesity epidemic, explains why he takes umbrage with the term "happily married," and shares his favorite "only in New York" moments. Packed with unique insights only Giraldo can conjure up, Midlife Vices is sure to please.
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Movie: Lady Against the Odds ( 1992 )
A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.
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Movie: The Pack ( 1977 )
Dogs and man have been together since the prehistoric times. On a trip in the woods, the owners of the dogs would abandon their dogs and leave them in the wild. After about 3 hours of trying to find any means of survival, the dog finds a shed filled with other dogs that were also abandon by humans. Left with no other choice, the dogs resort to cannibalism and form the pack, a pack of abandon dogs out for vengeance. An old man and a kid were the first victims of these beasts. And now, a family staying in the resort must defend themselves against the pack and survive by any means possible
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Movie: Moses Storm: Trash White (TV Special 2022) ( 2022 )
In his wildly original debut special, Storm gets unflinchingly personal about his childhood spent dumpster diving in extreme poverty - despite looking like he was conceived at an Ivy League a cappella concert.
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Movie: Beth Stelling: Girl Daddy (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
Thirteen years into her career as a stand-up, Stelling has been called a "female comic" so many times that if she ever has kids they might as well call her "girl daddy." Stelling responds to her co-comedians' lazy, fear-driven #MeToo material by guiding her audience through the humorous side of tough conversations around consent, chauvinism, and women's bodily autonomy. Let your new friend Beth explain it all in her first hour-long stand-up special: a razor-sharp skewering of life today as a woman.
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Movie: Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time (TV Special 2014) ( 2014 )
Recorded in Spreckels Theater in San Diego, California, comedian Patton Oswalt returns for his 5th feature-length stand-up comedy special.
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Movie: Patton Oswalt: Annihilation ( 2017 )
Patton Oswalt, despite a personal tragedy, produces his best standup yet. Focusing on the tribulations of the Trump era and life after the loss of a loved one, Oswalt continues his journey to contribute joy to the world.
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Movie: Iliza Shlesinger: Confirmed Kills ( 2016 )
Iliza Shlesinger performs in this standup talking about dating, feminism and some of the intricacies associated with being a woman in the 21st century.
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Movie: Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady ( 2017 )
[HBO] HD. Best-known as a writer/contributor on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," Michelle Wolf makes her HBO stand-up debut.
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Movie: Dave Attell: Captain Miserable ( 2007 )
Dave Attell Performs stand up comedy at the Lincoln Theater in Washington D.C.
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Movie: WarHunt ( 2022 )
A US Army plane flies over Germany's Black Forest in 1945. It's suddenly enveloped by a swarm of crow feathers. As the aircraft plummets toward the ground, the AIRMEN glimpse the feathers converging to form a MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN BLACK.
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Movie: Phony ( 2022 )
A struggling filmmaker, unlucky in love, enlists the aid of a womanizing friend to create an exploitative documentary about online dating.
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Movie: Richard Jeni: Platypus Man (TV Special 1992) ( 1992 )
This the late Richard Jeni's non-stop joyride that won the prestigious Cable Ace Award for "Best Stand-Up Comedial Special." Highlights include: "The Bad News" with newscaster Grim Carnage, cooking shows ("Bill The Belching Gourmet"), dinner lobsters, love songs, football announcers, and "The Ref." A must for any Jeni fan!
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Movie: Career ( 1960 )
More than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal?
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Movie: Wives and Lovers ( 1963 )
Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is a struggling author, working and living in a "slum flat" on W. 87th St. in NY with his wife and daughter, Bertie and Julie. Bertie (Janet Leigh) works as a dental assistant, until Bill's novel can get published and Julie (Claire Wilcox) is seven and 3/4 and does not like any of her food to touch. They are very happy (even though Bill does not realize it.) All of a sudden, Bill's agent, Lucinda Ford (Martha Hyers) takes Bill's novel viral: there a prestigious publishing house, a Broadway play and a Hollywood studio interested in Bill's novel. Success goes straight to Bill's head; Bertie is the same level-headed, unpretentious gal she always was. They move to a lovely house in So. Connecticut where their neighbours are the lively ex-wife of a Hollywood star, Fran Cabrell (Shelley Winters) and her "companion," the occupant of her guest house, Wylie Driberg (Ray Walston). They try to show Bertie the ropes of being on the fringes of a "hit" personality and they genuinely like her and Julie. Bill spends a lot of his time with his glamorous agent. When film star, Gar Aldrich (Jeremy Slate), who stars in Bill's play, wants to spend a lot of his time with Birdie, life becomes very complicated.
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Movie: The Rainmaker ( 1956 )
During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.
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Movie: The American West of John Ford ( 1971 )
The Western films of iconic director John Ford are fondly remembered by stars James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne, with whom he shoots a scene in Monument Valley.
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Movie: For the Love of Money ( 2012 )
Spanning over two decades, "For the Love of Money" follows the true account of an Israeli immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream. The story begins in Tel Aviv in 1973, where a young Izek is raised in a seedy, gangster filled illegal casino that operates behind his family's bar. The casino is a haven for unsavory characters who seek to corrupt him to their way of life. When the violence and crime finds its way to him and his family, Izek (Yuda Levi) and his family relocate to Los Angeles. Hoping to start anew, he pursues his ambitions to become a young entrepreneur by developing small businesses, purchasing real estate, and running an auto repair shop. Success seems to find him at every turn and after falling in love with the beautiful Aline (Delphine Chaneac), luck seems to be on his side. However, it isn't long before the world of crime that Izek tried to escape so long ago continues to doggedly follow him every step of the way. Threatened by a dangerously temperamental gangster (James Caan), his criminal cousin (Oded Fehr), and even a Colombian drug lord (Steven Bauer), Izek finds that starting fresh with a clean slate is all but impossible. As those close to him fall victim to the promises of quick money by the way of the gun, violence surrounds Izek until he has no choice but to confront it. "For the Love of Money," is a true story of crime, family, love, loss, and the temptations of easy money, based upon the life of executive producer Izek Shomof.
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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: Monster ( 2008 )
Two sisters travelling to Japan to do interviews about global warming are caught in the midst of a horrendous earthquake, until they discover that it's something quite different.
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Movie: R.S.V.P. ( 2002 )
A psychology student invites a group of his friends and teacher to a drug and alcohol-fueled party where he plans to murder them all.
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Movie: The Night Hustlers ( 1968 )
Two vice detectives swap stories about their various seamy arrests. A French novelist listens to said anecdotes so he can get fresh ideas for the latest book he's writing. Meanwhile, the novelist receives a barrage of phone calls from assorted lady friends throughout the course of the evening.
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Movie: Without a Kiss Goodbye ( 1993 )
This is the story of a married couple that has a sick baby. The baby has a chemical found in anti-freeze or close to it, and the mother is the suspect. She is arrested and starts doing time for a crime she denies. As her trial nears, her husband finds new circumstantial evidence and races to prove his wife's innocence.
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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.