Michael Lerner
Michael Charles 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 Elf, Godzilla, Eight Men Out, and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1047 |
| Birthday | 1941-06-22 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Michael Charles Lerner, |
1991
Barton Fink
7.466/1868
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
5.6/4203
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
5.25/16
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
6.666/4512
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
6.51/557
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
5.445/177
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
5.533/61
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
6.505/182
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
5.744/346
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
5.929/56
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
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Radioland Murders
1980
Borderline
6/52
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
6.05/343
'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
4.955/44
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
5.641/343
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
5.767/72
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
5.919/264
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
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Maniac Cop 2
1988
Eight Men Out
6.881/270
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?
5.25/20
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
7/1
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
6.317/150
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
5.1/18
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
4.847/68
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
5.914/3277
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
5.719/57
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
7.333/3
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
5.518/57
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
4.845/84
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
4.716/116
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
6.741/370
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...?
6.25/4
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
5.02/270
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
4.921/95
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
5.6/107
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
6.198/53
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
5.456/215
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
4.684/38
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
5/9
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
6.75/8
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
3.867/15
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
6.4/5
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
4.8/5
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
9.5/2
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
7.375/4
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
6.929/14
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
5.278/18
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!
3.688/24
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she mee...
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Nobody Knows Anything!
1975
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
5.654/13
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
5.333/27
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
9/1
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
8/1
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
7/1
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
6.031/1232
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
6.556/9
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
4.8/10
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
7.333/3
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
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Made in Hollywood
1998
Celebrity
5.995/505
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
5.9/146
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
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Life During Wartime
1969
Three's a Crowd
6.667/3
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
7.438/8
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
6.236/479
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
7.5/2
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
7.5/16178
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
7/4
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
2015
Ashby
6.2/465
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
6.006/254
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
4.667/9
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
6/2
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
6.389/36
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
4.714/7
An ex-child star (Judy Tenuta) tries to reclaim her former fame.
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Desperation Boulevard
2006
Art School Confidential
6.12/233
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
4.875/8
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
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Hands of a Stranger
2000
Attention Shoppers
4.333/3
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
7.667/3
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
5.701/82
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
5/6
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
6.25/4
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
7/1
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
4.429/7
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
5.857/7
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
5.971/533
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially their frugality. But he gets his...
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Blank Check
1977
The Other Side of Midnight
6.02/25
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
5.333/3
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
6.703/2343
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
4/4
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
8.5/6
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
8/2
The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Ruby and Oswald
1994
The Road to Wellville
5.579/191
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
5.8/79
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
5.833/6
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
4.778/9
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
6.739/296
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
4.6/33
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
5.8/46
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
Inspired by movies of Oscar nominated actress Sally Kirkland, a young writer moves to Hollywood to pursue his dreams. In a chance meeting with Sally,...
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Sallywood
1979
Goldengirl
5.364/11
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
5.524/21
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
1/1
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
5.7/15
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
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The Baltimore Bullet
1986
That Secret Sunday
6.75/4
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
7.4/8
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
4.414/134
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
3.8/53
A group of Internet "sensations" compete for a tv show. Parody of the Internet.
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Internet Famous
1979
Hart to Hart
8/3
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: Backlash of the Hunter
10/1
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: Backlash of the Hunter
2010
The Bannen Way
5.3/3
A charming con-man navigates a complex life between his police chief father and mob boss uncle while struggling to leave his criminal past behind.
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The Bannen Way
2014
2 Dead 2 Kill
3.5/4
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
8/1
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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Pigeon
2001
The Omen Legacy
7/5
The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This do...
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The Omen Legacy
1995
Picture Windows: Language of the Heart
10/1
Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," "Language of the Heart" brings Degas’ painting The Rehearsal to life in a 1920s ballet hall, where a y...
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Picture Windows: Language of the Heart
2012
Burning Man: Metropolis
0/0
The Visual Adventure into the Minds and Hearts of 50,000 Burners coming together and living in Harmony for one week in the Black Rock City desert. Cap...
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