Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2022).
Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and received a special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for And the Band Played On.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.3852 |
| Birthday | 1959-03-22 |
| Place of Birth | Loma Linda, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Matthew Avery Modine, |
1987
Full Metal Jacket
8.119/11378
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the...
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Full Metal Jacket
1995
Cutthroat Island
5.79/613
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by...
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Cutthroat Island
1993
Short Cuts
7.214/669
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...
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Short Cuts
1988
Married to the Mob
5.962/318
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...
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Married to the Mob
1994
Jacob
6.719/57
Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself dece...
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Jacob
1993
And the Band Played On
6.491/110
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On
1990
Pacific Heights
6.273/411
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights
1982
Amy and the Angel
6.667/3
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy...
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Amy and the Angel
1995
Fluke
7.083/277
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son t...
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Fluke
1985
Vision Quest
6.364/136
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge...
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Vision Quest
1984
Birdy
7.132/564
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and h...
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Birdy
1995
Bye Bye Love
5.971/76
With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi...
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Bye Bye Love
2009
Sex and Lies in Sin City
3.3/17
Ted Binion is Vegas royalty, the prince of the world famous Horseshoe Casino - rich, rowdy and randy. When he falls for Sandy Murphy at a local strip...
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Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
Garden of Eden
4.7/27
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel...
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Garden of Eden
1987
Orphans
5.7/15
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
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Orphans
1984
Mrs. Soffel
6.044/57
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting executio...
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Mrs. Soffel
1997
The Blackout
5.844/61
A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out...
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The Blackout
1999
Any Given Sunday
6.819/1796
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...
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Any Given Sunday
2005
Transporter 2
6.327/3919
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauff...
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Transporter 2
1990
Memphis Belle
6.742/420
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bomb...
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Memphis Belle
2001
In the Shadows
5.325/20
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man,...
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In the Shadows
2000
Flowers for Algernon
5.732/28
Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his drea...
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Flowers for Algernon
1992
Wind
6.179/42
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Austra...
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Wind
1998
The Real Blonde
5.379/66
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
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The Real Blonde
2007
Have Dreams, Will Travel
7.616/56
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally...
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Have Dreams, Will Travel
2004
Funky Monkey
6.242/31
A teen genius teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange, the scientist gives the tee...
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Funky Monkey
2006
Kettle of Fish
4.733/15
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy ar...
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Kettle of Fish
2005
Mary
5.679/42
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary M...
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Mary
2011
Too Big to Fail
6.967/257
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...
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Too Big to Fail
2007
The Neighbor
5.2/28
A businessman watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. A distracting battle of wills with a...
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The Neighbor
1989
Gross Anatomy
5.72/56
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughe...
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Gross Anatomy
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
7.793/24231
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...
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The Dark Knight Rises
1983
Streamers
5.661/31
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
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Streamers
2010
The Trial
5.8/35
After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assign...
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The Trial
2001
Nobody's Baby
5.197/29
Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take car...
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Nobody's Baby
1983
Private School
5.702/208
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Chris...
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Private School
1994
The Browning Version
6.448/58
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...
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The Browning Version
2009
Little Fish, Strange Pond
3.7/28
Mr. Jack and Sweet Stephen cruise aimlessly through the streets of LA speculating about life, death, divine will and the force of power that predeterm...
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Little Fish, Strange Pond
2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
4.3/7
The truth can no longer be contained by those duty-bound to hide it. The truth about another intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear....
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Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2008
Go Go Tales
5.657/54
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
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Go Go Tales
2012
Girl in Progress
5.6/122
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding ins...
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Girl in Progress
2004
Hollywood North
5.118/17
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his...
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Hollywood North
1997
The Maker
5.324/17
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
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The Maker
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
6.409/22
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco...
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What the Deaf Man Heard
2005
Opa!
6/12
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
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Opa!
2004
The Winning Season
6.333/3
THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the f...
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The Winning Season
2001
The Shipment
5.143/7
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
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The Shipment
2023
Retribution
6.538/1352
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of...
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Retribution
1992
Equinox
5.656/16
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer...
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Equinox
2013
Jobs
6.1/2590
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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Jobs
2013
Family Weekend
6.29/224
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
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Family Weekend
2008
Cowboy
5/1
Lost in the urban jungle of Manhattan, Cowboy discovers that sometimes things aren't always what they seem.
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Cowboy
2002
Redeemer
7.1/5
When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch...
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Redeemer
1999
If... Dog... Rabbit
4.5/9
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live...
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If... Dog... Rabbit
2023
The Martini Shot
6.5/6
This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as...
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The Martini Shot
2010
Mulberry St.
6/8
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's...
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Mulberry St.
1983
Baby It's You
5.925/40
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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Baby It's You
2024
Hard Miles
6.771/35
A strong-willed social worker at a youth prison assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile ride. Inspir...
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Hard Miles
2014
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
10/1
How Bizarre starts with Pauly at the height of his fame, appearing twice on the UK music show “Top of the Pops”, sharing the stage with Cher, the Spic...
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How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
1988
The Gamble
3.4/5
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost ever...
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The Gamble
2021
Against the Current
0/0
Against the Current is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the journey of South African endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson, as she attempts to...
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Against the Current
2023
Oppenheimer
8.032/11648
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Oppenheimer
2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2/1
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, c...
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
2014
Altar
4.9/115
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
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Altar
1998
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
8/17
Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
2005
Odyssey in Rome
7/1
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagi...
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Odyssey in Rome
2015
Unity
7.5/34
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
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Unity
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
4.818/45
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2014
Guests
6/3
When Charlie and his family move to a warmer climate for the sake of his father's illness, he finds himself teetering between battles of the thought o...
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Guests
2016
The Confirmation
6.4/196
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
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The Confirmation
2017
47 Meters Down
5.805/2843
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling...
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47 Meters Down
2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
6.3/24
A filmmaker examines the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her father, whose immersion in it radicalized him and rocked the foundation of t...
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The Brainwashing of My Dad
2017
The Hippopotamus
6.374/119
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
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The Hippopotamus
2011
Jesus Was a Commie
0/0
Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical journey. The film challenges the viewer to seek thei...
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Jesus Was a Commie
2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
6.8/243
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2000
Bamboozled
6.281/155
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 2...
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Bamboozled
2008
I Think I Thought
0/0
Joe (Matthew Modine) is a thinker in a world that doesn't tolerate analytical thinking. His wife, boss, and friends threaten to divorce, fire, and aba...
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I Think I Thought
2000
Very Mean Men
5.333/6
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, t...
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Very Mean Men
2003
Overnight
6.343/67
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...
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Overnight
2008
Santa: The Fascist Years
5.6/7
We all think of Santa as "Jolly old St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores...
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Santa: The Fascist Years
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
6.94/4002
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
1998
The American
5.429/7
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get...
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The American
2018
Backtrace
4.986/251
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
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Backtrace
2018
Speed Kills
5.4/145
Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
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Speed Kills
2018
Filmworker
7.1/77
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
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Filmworker
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
7.412/198
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
5.4/15
From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a...
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My Love Affair with Marriage
1999
Notting Hill
7.267/6684
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romanc...
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Notting Hill
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
8/4
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
2019
Miss Virginia
8.1/9
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she l...
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Miss Virginia
2016
Army of One
5.212/333
Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Arm...
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Army of One
2021
Wrong Turn
5.945/1306
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into l...
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Wrong Turn
2014
Kubrick Remembered
6.5/13
An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Arch...
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Kubrick Remembered
2015
Merry Xmas
6.5/2
The story of a mischievous father who calls his very busy kids to tell them that, after 55 years of marriage, he and their mom are getting divorced. H...
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Merry Xmas
2020
Guardians of Life
5.3/10
This environmental short subject was made in collaboration of the protest group, Extinction Rebellion.
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Guardians of Life
2020
Chance
5.7/9
A true story of a teenage love triangle leading to one of the two boys' tragic death - told through the lens of elite youth baseball.
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Chance
1993
The Tree
4/2
An apple tree set on a rural ridge, is where we glimpse the boy mature, fall in love, go to war, return with his own son, and finally pay his last res...
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The Tree
2003
Le Divorce
4.944/162
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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Le Divorce
2019
Foster Boy
6.7/28
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his yo...
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Foster Boy
2016
Revengeance
5.5/16
A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler tur...
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Revengeance
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
6.5/4
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
5.872/219
An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his b...
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Breaking News in Yuba County
1998
Surviving the Dust Bowl
9/1
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept acros...
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Surviving the Dust Bowl
2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
6.823/144
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2...
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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
5.647/129
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events chang...
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The Hotel New Hampshire
1989
The Lemon Sisters
5.111/9
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
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The Lemon Sisters
2009
PoliWood
6.5/4
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
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PoliWood
1997
Ecce Pirate
8/1
A young boy's life is changed when he's kidnapped by sea pirates. A prisoner on board their ship, he learns to accept that his life will never be the...
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Ecce Pirate
2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
0/0
Features several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending th...
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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
0/0
Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, West Lothian to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, wher...
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Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
2026
Protector
6.4/40
Former war hero Nikki's peaceful life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and milita...
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Protector
A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
0/0
An in-depth documentary on the 1987 classic Full Metal Jacket, shaped around over thirty new interviews with Kubrick collaborators, including Modine,...
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A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story of Full Metal Jacket
2002
World Birth Day
0/0
July 5, 2001 babies are born in cities around the world: In the US, UK, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Germany, China and Mexico. World Birth Day chronicles...
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World Birth Day
2026
Accidental Truth: Next - Beyond UFO Disclosure
0/0
An amazing cast takes you on a journey beyond UFO Disclosure. It starts within the cement walls of Washington DC, and then guides you beyond your imag...
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