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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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TV Show: The Kids in the Hall ( 1988 )
Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style! The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1984 when McCulloch and McKinney, who had worked together in Calgary as part of a group named the Audience, teamed up with Foley and McDonald's Toronto-based group, KITH. Thompson officially joined in January 1985. That same year, McCulloch and McKinney were hired as writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live after a talent scout saw KITH in performance. Significantly, SNL had also been created by Michaels, himself an ex-patriate Canadian living and producing in New York. Still in 1985, Foley appeared in the film High Stakes, and Thompson and McDonald toured with...
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Movie: A Touch of the Poet ( 1974 )
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
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Movie: Radio City Christmas Spectacular ( 2007 )
Santa Flies to New York. Jump right into Santa's sleigh as ti zooms over the frozen North, pas internationl borders, and right to the doors of Radio City Music Hall.
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Movie: Suckers ( 2001 )
Ever bought a used car from a dealer before? Want to know what REALLY happens behind the scenes? This movie offers some insight through the eyes of one of the dealers.
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Movie: Christmas Movie Magic ( 2021 )
Follows Alli Blakeman, an entertainment writer who learns that movie magic isn't always just on-screen after she discovers the mysterious origins of a classic Christmas movie.
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Movie: The Three Gifts ( 2009 )
Jack Green inherited a southern Californian horse ranch and an all-natural toy factory in the barn. With his wife Cherie, he accepts taking in the three 'holy terrors' from his bossy aunt Rita's orphanage during renovations, until the holidays. Resourceful Mike and his buddies, Henry and Ray, prove handfuls, but Jack proves father-potential. The trio even goes on best behavior after overhearing the couple considers adopting, but that also means rivaling, resulting in trouble for everyone.
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Movie: Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo) (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
Nicole takes the stage at the Gramercy Theatre for a HOT new set, discussing everything from how she basically is a vegan (she's just doing her part), what she's looking for in a man, and just how crazy this past year-and-a-half has been.
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Movie: Silence Like Glass ( 1989 )
Fact-based story of a 19 year old ballerina (Gertz) whose collapse on stage leads to the discovery that she has cancer. Transferred to a specialty clinic, she rooms with a working class girl who is directly in conflict with the more refined girl. With both facing their potential deaths, an unlikely bond is formed.
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Movie: Mysteries ( 1978 )
A wealthy visitor to a small town befriends a midget and gets involved with two women as his behaviour becoming ever stranger.
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Movie: She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal ( 1995 )
This film tells the story of Lt. Paula Coughlin when she was assigned as an Admiral's assistant at the annual US Navy convention called Tailhook. During that convention, which often had predominately male officers partying wildly, she was subjected to "The Guantlet" in which she was sexually man-handled and harassed relentlessly by the male officers attending. Abused and humiliated by this collective affront to her, she sought to bring charges on her attackers. However, she found that she must not only confront her attackers, but more importantly, the male military mentality and profound sexism that permitted this kind of outrage in the first place.
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Movie: The Man Who Used to Be Me ( 2000 )
A former policeman gets the opportunity to travel back in time to catch his father's murderer and in so doing runs into his younger self.
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Movie: Unhook the Stars ( 1997 )
After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.
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Movie: The Enchanted Christmas Cake ( 2021 )
Gwen recently lost her grandmother and she is struggling to run their bakery and regain the Christmas spirit, and figure out her grandmother's magical recipe for the town's legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake.
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Movie: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge ( 1991 )
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
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Movie: You're Only Young Once ( 1937 )
On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him.
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Movie: Sket ( 2011 )
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.
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Movie: Flag Day ( 2021 )
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
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Movie: Lamb ( 2021 )
A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.
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Movie: Exception to the Rule ( 1997 )
A married jewel trader is seduced by a beautiful woman while on a business trip. Upon returning home, he receives a video tape in the mail of his tryst and a threat to ruin his marriage if he doesn't turn a shipment of diamonds over to the woman.
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Movie: Quick ( 1993 )
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
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Movie: First Daughter ( 1999 )
After an agent saves the US president by not following procedure, she's "demoted" to looking after the teenage first daughter on a wilderness tour with other teenagers. Problems arise.
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Movie: Murder One ( 1988 )
Fresly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.
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Movie: She Knows Too Much ( 1989 )
A master cat burglar, Samantha White, is released from prison into custody of bumbling S.O.B. agent Harry. She has to help his agency solve a string of murders tied to a Manchurian Candidate scenario.
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Movie: A Face to Die For ( 1996 )
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
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Movie: The Night of the Headless Horseman ( 1999 )
In this classic tale based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Ichabod Crane, the town's new schoolmaster, is instantly enamored with Katrina Van Tassel, but he must compete for her love with Brom Bones, who will stop at nothing to win her. Ichabod thinks that Brom is his biggest obstacle, but to his surprise, there is someone -- or something -- else out there who will change his life forever.
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Movie: A Ghost in Monte Carlo ( 1990 )
Weary of her very public life in Paris, an aging courtesan takes her orphaned niece from her convent home and relocates to Monte Carlo to begin a new life. Determined to bury the past, the courtesan Madame Bluet becomes the respectable Countess de Secret, and her niece Mistral, Mademoiselle Phantome. Soon, the secretive Countess and the beautiful Mlle. Phantome are the talk of Monte Carlo. Mistral finds herself surrounded by admirers - some with less than honorable intentions, while her aunt plots a long-awaited revenge. Will Mistral's chance for happiness be destroyed when her aunt's plot and past are revealed?
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Movie: Redux Riding Hood (Short 1997) ( 1997 )
Years after failing to catch Little Red Riding Hood, the obsessed Wolf tries again.
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Movie: Don't Touch My Daughter ( 1991 )
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Movie: Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
Kelly Clarkson hosts this holiday spectacular filled with singing, dancing and celebrity guests.
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Movie: Michael Buble's Christmas in the City (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
Michael Bublé takes the stage for special performances and comedy sketches along with some other artists.
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Movie: Take Me Home: The John Denver Story ( 2000 )
John Denver achieved fame, fortune, and acclaim for his iconic country-pop music, but his sunny personality masked private pain and dark secrets that his celebrity could never heal.
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Movie: The Prince and the Pauper ( 2000 )
The King and a poor boy swap places.
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Movie: Lovelines ( 1984 )
Greed, lust, dirty tricks and bloody fist fights... All those things that make life worth living. When Piper and Rick, the two hottest properties in the Battle of the Bands want to make it, only one thing stands in their way. They're from opposing High Schools. And Malibu High's 6'6" muscle-bound monster Godzilla is going to do everything and anything stop his sweet l...Read all
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Movie: Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 ( 1990 )
When a passenger plane crashes after a bomb scare, there are many unanswered questions, which can only be attributed to "pilot error". The pilot's wife, Diane Halstead, is convinced her husband could never have caused the disaster, but nobody will listen to her.
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Movie: Free Fall ( 1999 )
An NTSB investigator (Jaclyn Smith) and her boyfriend (Bruce Boxleitner), who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.
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Movie: I Will... I Will... For Now ( 1976 )
Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton take out a lease on love with an option to buy in this glossy romantic comedy costarring Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal and Candy Clark. Unhappily divorced after 10 years of marriage, Les Bingham (Gould) finally convinces his ex-wife Katie (Keaton) to give him another shot. Reluctantly agreeing to a legal arrangement instead of a wedding vow, Les signs a six-month contract, unaware his lawyer (Sorvino) also loves Katie and plans to use the wiles of their sexy neighbor (Principal) to bust up the Binghams for good. Cowritten and directed by Norman Panama (How to Commit Marriage), I Will... I Will... For Now was produced by George Barrie, CEO of Fabergé. A musician-turned-businessman, Barrie would produce over a dozen films, earning Oscar nominations for "All That Love Went to Waste" (A Touch of Class, 1973) and "Now That We're in Love" (Whiffs, 1975), two songs he wrote with Sammy Cahn.
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Movie: The Assassination File ( 1996 )
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate.
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Movie: Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure ( 1998 )
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
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Movie: Sparks: The Price of Passion ( 1990 )
A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer (Ted Wass) turns out to be the stranger. Ralph Waite shows up as a friend of the mayor pressuring her for the development. Elaine Stritch plays her mother, Hector Elizondo is the city attorney, and William Lucking is the police chief.
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Movie: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom ( 1993 )
Wanda Holloway tries to hire a hitman (through her ex's brother) to kill either or both a cheerleader and her mother. With the intended victims out of the way, Wanda's daughter gets the chance to become a cheerleader. When the media get hold of the story, Wanda's trial turns into a media circus.
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Movie: Sugartime ( 1995 )
Purportedly true story of the affair between singer Phyllis McGuire, and Mafia boss Sam Giancana, famous for his alleged connections to John F Kennedy and Frank Sinatra.
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Movie: Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture ( 1990 )
Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman. After seven years of appeals are exhausted, the date of his execution arrives. His last request is that his execution be photographed. Eames selects Paul Marish, a jaded Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, who is convinced by his agent to visit the small town in Georgia. Sensing a big story, Marish's agent sends in a reporter from Time magazine, and together they begin to investigate the events surrounding the murder, in a small town where emotions are high and opinions are fixed.
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Movie: The Gathering Storm ( 2002 )
Sir Winston Churchill's (Albert Finney's) years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.
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Movie: Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl ( 2006 )
Actor Robert Wuhl examines facts and myths in American history.
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Movie: As You Like It ( 2006 )
A daughter of the powerful Duke must show her courage and inventiveness to be with the man she loves.
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Movie: Warm Springs ( 2005 )
The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
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Movie: Into the Storm ( 2009 )
Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.
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Movie: Behind the Candelabra ( 2013 )
A chronicle of the tempestuous six year romance between megastar singer, Liberace, and his young lover, Scott Thorson.
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Movie: 61* ( 2001 )
Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.
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Movie: Wit ( 2001 )
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
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Movie: The Notorious Bettie Page ( 2006 )
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.
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Movie: Citizen Cohn ( 1992 )
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
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Movie: Citizen X ( 1995 )
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
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Movie: Truman ( 1995 )
Harry S. Truman, a failed farmer, haberdasher, oil prospector, lead miner, banker, law student and county politician, was President of the United States during the country's most troubled times. Widely criticized and constantly embroiled in political battles, Truman departed office in 1952 with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president. However, his intelligence, integrity and decisiveness had a profound effect on world events that continues even now. He faced his trials with homespun candor, humour and wisdom, and a humble belief in hard work. Harry S. Truman - an honest and extraordinary ordinary man, unchanged by power and circumstances, a man that History has now judged one of America's greatest leaders.
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Movie: The Cold Equations ( 1996 )
Lt. John Barton is sent on a special mission to deliver a special vaccine to a distant mining colony. He is infuriated to find Lee, a stowaway aboard his spacecraft. Barton has only enough fuel to carry himself and his precious cargo, and Lee's added weight insures that they will crash if she stays on board. They have gone too far to turn back, and Barton's superiors make it clear: the mission takes precedence and Lee has to be dumped into space. But she won't go quietly.
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Movie: A Case for Murder ( 1993 )
Jack Hammett is an aggressive young defence attorney on the rise up the corporate ladder. In the courtroom he's known as the "Hail Mary Kid" for his ability to win the unwinnable cases. When one of the firm's lawyers, Darren Gaines, is murdered and Gaines' wife is charged, Hammett is assigned as her attorney. Hammett asks Kate Weldon, a recently hired lawyer, to assist him. Together they discover some inconsistencies in the case as well as a possible connection to the recent murder of a judge.
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Movie: Moonlight Becomes You ( 1998 )
At a party Maggie Holloway, a photographer, is delighted to see again her mother in law after such a long time. Shortly after, the old lady is found murdered. Maggie decides to investigate strange incidents surrounding a retirement home.
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Movie: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 )
Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) appears on a television talk show with actor Bryan Martin (Lee Horsley), who is making an action detective movie with Jane Wilkinson (Faye Dunaway). He also meets impressionist Carlotta Adams (Faye Dunaway). They all go to a party and Jane asks him and Captain Arthur Hastings (Jonathan Cecil) to go and meet her husband, Lord Edgware (John Barron) in regards to a divorce. They do so, to discover that the Lord had already granted her a divorce. Jane is delighted, but drops hints that she could have killed the Lord if he didn't grant her the divorce. The next day, Lord Edgware is found dead, and all of the staff at the Lord's house swear that Jane was the one who did it, but witnesses at another Lord's party swear that Jane was with them. Carlotta then dies, and Poirot must investigate, as Inspector Japp (David Suchet) is determined to put Jane away.
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Movie: Max Q ( 1998 )
A shuttle is launched into space to release a new satellite. When an explosion occurs the crew has to think of a way to get back to Earth without atmospheric pressure (max q) crushing the damaged shuttle.
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Movie: Crime Zone ( 1988 )
Helen and Bone live in a repressive futuristic dystopian society they badly want to escape from. Mysterious Jason hires them to steal a disc for him. It's practically a suicide mission, but he claims he can smuggle them out, in return.
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Movie: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst ( 2005 )
February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Heart, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who first demanded a prisoner swap for Hearst, then, as it failed, demanded $6 million worth of food for the poor of the Bay Area.
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Movie: The Batman Shootings ( 2012 )
Documentary on the July 20 Aurora, Colorado shooting that took the lives of 12 people during a Dark Knight Rises screening.
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Movie: When the Bough Breaks ( 1986 )
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
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Movie: Ruby ( 1992 )
An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip club in Dallas, and does what he can for credibility, both by giving information to the FBI and by doing the odd favor for his mafia contacts. When hitman Action Jackson is hit, Louie Vitali asks him to help get crime boss Santos out of a Cuban jail. When they get back, the bosses take his headliner Candy Cane under their wing to develop her career in Vegas. A mysterious government man named Maxwell expresses his displeasure to Ruby over his Cuban activities. Slowly all the pieces of a massive conspiracy begin to emerge to Ruby, who can do nothing to stop it.
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Movie: Based on an Untrue Story ( 1993 )
Perfume creator Satin Chow is about to reveal her new designer scent 'Puppy' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia which robs her of her sense of smell, and could even kill her. With time fast running out, she begins a frantic search for the only people who can provide the tissue-donations she desperately needs: her long-lost sisters Couderoy and Velour.
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Movie: The Passion of Ayn Rand ( 1999 )
Upon the death of Ayn Rand (Dame Helen Mirren), Barbara Branden (Julie Delpy) recounts the story of her dealings with the enigmatic twentieth century philosopher and author. Barbara and her husband, Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz), meet Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor (Peter Fonda) and immediately establish a rapport. Rand takes the youthful Nathaniel under her wing and begins to show a non-platonic interest in her protégé. Barbara must sit by as the two begin what becomes a long, tumultuous affair.
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Movie: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1989 )
After a horse accident, Karen wakes up to find herself in past Britain, close to Camelot, the famous castle of King Arthur.
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Movie: Shadow of a Stranger ( 1992 )
Ted and Sarah Clinton notice a boat being violently hurled around by a storm just off their beach-house and go out to help the occupants, a young teacher called Vanessa and her boyfriend Shawn. But when it turns out that the boat belongs to an old couple who have just mysteriously disappeared, they find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue and murder.
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Movie: Sooner or Later ( 1979 )
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
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TV Show: The Secrets of Lake Success ( 1993 )
Lake Success is an idyllic location on which a fabulously wealthy family lives. However, all is not well in the family, with illicit sexual affairs, power struggles, and a whole lot more going on behind the scenes.
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Movie: Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders ( 1989 )
Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.
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Movie: For Better and for Worse ( 1992 )
A young Catholic couple contemplating marriage gets divided by their separate heritage--she's rich, he's the son of a butcher. However, the real pressure comes when a publicity stunt to lure the Pope to their wedding as a symbol of the unity of the Catholic Church goes awry when the Pope actually accepts. This sets the press on their heels and increases the pressure on them until they consider calling off the whole wedding.
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TV Show: Meteor ( 2009 )
When an unparalleled series of meteorites plummet to Earth, a scientist and his assistant race against time to provide vital information to Dr. Chetwyn, the only one who has the power to prevent the impending destruction. Amidst the chaos, Detective Jack Crowe desperately searches for his psychotic ex-partner Stark before the madman seeks revenge against his father Police Chief Crowe who is dealing with subsiding the panic in his small town as the meteor storm continues…
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TV Show: Pandora's Clock ( 1996 )
Quantum Airlines flight 66 has just taken off from Frankfurt, Germany bound for New York's JFK International Airport with 247 passengers aboard. After take-off, a man infected with a Doomsday Virus passes out while a flight attendant and doctor try to save the man. The pilot tries to land the plane but can't because the people on the ground know about the virus. An ambassador and his secretary help the pilot struggle through the government's secret attempt to shoot flight 66 out of the air. And if the plane does land, Doomsday has arrived on earth.
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TV Show: Atomic Train ( 1999 )
A train carrying a Russian atomic weapon is on a runaway course with disaster - and time's running out! Only John Seger, a renegade investigator for the NTSB, can stop the speeding locomotive.
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Movie: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'The Facts of Life' and 'Diff'rent Strokes' (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
A re-creation of classic episodes of "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes."
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Movie: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' (TV Special 2019) ( 2019 )
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
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Movie: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (TV Special 2019) ( 2019 )
A one-night-only sitcom special hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear featuring live performances of two of Lear's most popular shows, 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'.
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TV Show: 704 Hauser ( 1994 )
Controversial show about a politically correct multi-ethnic family who moves into Archie Bunker's old house.
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Movie: 9/11: I Was There ( 2021 )
Intimate portrayal of the events captured by the ordinary people on September 11.
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Movie: The Jammed ( 2007 )
A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.
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Movie: Murder at the World Series ( 1977 )
A disturbed young man, who had tried out for the Houston Astros baseball team and been rejected, plots to take his revenge by a series of kidnappings.
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Movie: Revenge of the Stepford Wives ( 1980 )
A TV reporter arrives in Stepford to do a story on the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates and the tightest real-estate market (no one ever leaves). She needs an assistant, and after interviewing the seemingly-plastic women of Stepford, jumps at the chance to hire the down-to-earth Megan, who's married to a newly-hired cop who hasn't yet moved into the town. Four times a day a siren sounds and every woman in town takes a pill (they each claim it's a thyroid condition). Accidents start to happen, Megan disappears for a couple of days, and the reporter realizes something is amiss. When Megan returns as a full-fledged Stepford wife, it's time for action.
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Movie: The Perfect Husband ( 1993 )
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her. She becomes pregnant. Is it his?
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Movie: Mania: The Intruder ( 1986 )
Anthology of four horror stories. In "See No Evil", a murder witness is framed for the murder by the killer. In "Intruder", a man is so terrified of his wife's guard dog that he tries to poison it. However, he soon realizes that he's misjudged the animal. In "Have a Nice Day", a blackmailer threatens a woman that she'll never see her young daughter again, unless she pays ransom. However, things are not what they seem. In "The Good Samaritan", a man saves a woman from a seeming attacker and lives to regret it.
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Movie: The Unforgivable ( 2021 )
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Movie: Back to the Outback ( 2021 )
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they're monsters, a group of Australia's deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback.
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Movie: Mr. Saturday Night ( 2021 )
The untold story of Robert Stigwood and how he amped the disco era.
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Movie: West Side Story ( 2021 )
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
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Movie: Famous ( 2021 )
Driven by a devastating need to expose the truth, celebrity Jason Mast pushes the boundaries of friendship to reveal the true cost of fame. What appears to be a night of celebration turns out to be an intricate plan to confront his past.
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Movie: A Christmas Proposal ( 2021 )
Chef who dreams of having own food trucks, agrees to pose as girlfriend of an attorney. Working together, they try to prove he's the ideal candidate to take over the family firm, but is complicated as real sparks begin to fly.
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Movie: The Last Son ( 2021 )
An outlaw attempts to end his evil family line.
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Movie: The Hating Game ( 2021 )
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
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Movie: Ricky Powell: The Individualist ( 2020 )
Ricky Powell boasts a quintessential New York story, rising to fame as a street photographer in the 80's and 90's and touring with the Beastie Boys, capturing some of the wildest moments in popular culture.
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Movie: Under Crystal Lake ( 1990 )
A small California farming community is caught up in the bloody grip of big city crime and corrupted. Two magnetic personalities come to the fore in this action-filled, dramatic tale of good versus evil; Mitchell Swan, who hides his malevolent perversities and greed behind a mask of 'all-American; good looks and respectability. Young Bobby, a high school drop out and social misfit, must overcome his own problems before he can pick up the battle standard for a close friend, who has fallen victim to the crime barons of Crystal Lake. Now a band of courageous young adults must seek to expose and destroy the ingenious drug ring using the town as a center for its distribution and money laundering operations.
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Movie: Pen-Hi Grad ( 1975 )
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Movie: The Summer of '67 ( 1994 )
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Movie: Examined Life ( 2009 )
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's posh boutiques. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West - perhaps America's best-known public intellectual - compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
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Movie: Mansion of the Living Dead ( 1985 )
Living in a town near Munich, four waitresses at a topless joint decide to take a few days off work to visit the sunny Gran Canaria. Following the travel agency's recommendation, they finally arrive at this dream hotel by the beach, filled with high expectations of having a good time; however, right from the start, the girls sense a strange vibe. Why is this hotel completely vacant, and the beach mysteriously deserted? After the initial disappointment, the secretive director of the hotel, Carlo Savonarola, shows them to their rooms, but soon, the wailing sound of the wind blowing, and the echoes from the empty corridors that bring chills down the spine, will demand answers. Is this situation linked somehow to the grim history of this hotel? What lies hidden behind the thick stone walls of the nearby abandoned convent which dates back to 1749?
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Movie: Knights of the Round Table ( 1954 )
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she also loves Lancelot and though Lancelot repeatedly fights it, he loves her, too. Treachery is brewing as the evil Morgan le Fay and her knight Sir Modred work to trap them. So begins the decline and eventual fall of Arthur and Camelot.