Charles Durning
Birthday: 1923-02-28
Place of Birth: Highland Falls, New York, USA
Biography: Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor. He best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor two times: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983).
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relent...
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Dog Day Afternoon
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son...
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The Front Page
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn...
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Desperation
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell ...
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Spy Hard
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Ste...
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Local Color
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A tale...
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P.O.P.
A magazine editor battles her ex-con husband when he returns to the scene after a 21-year absence....
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The Man with One Red Shoe
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe....
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Tough Guys
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have bee...
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The Muppet Movie
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...
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Deal
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pu...
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State and Main
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for show...
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To Be or Not to Be
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World Wa...
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One Fine Day
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father ...
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When a Stranger Calls Back
A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed....
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Sisters
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Dan...
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Jesus, Mary and Joey
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American fa...
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Breakheart Pass
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a ...
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The Hudsucker Proxy
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...
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Cop
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area...
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The Final Countdown
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strang...
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True Confessions
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute....
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Stick
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rain...
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Home for the Holidays
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter ...
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A Boyfriend for Christmas
Holly Grant has learned a long time ago not to rely on Santa Claus leaving Mr. Right in her Christma...
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Tilt
Tilt is the story of a precocious young girl who is a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on wi...
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The Sting
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pul...
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The Fury
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father mana...
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Two of a Kind
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all ov...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the ...
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Tootsie
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...
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The Last Supper
A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pund...
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Kinky Killers
Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being mu...
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Etoile
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent t...
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Cat Chaser
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed ge...
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North Dallas Forty
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowb...
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V.I. Warshawski
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boy...
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Solarbabies
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly ...
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Hi, Mom!
Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in th...
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Sharky's Machine
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous consp...
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Good Dick
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, ...
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Mr. St. Nick
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a n...
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Dirty Deeds
According to a high school's lore, the "Dirty Deeds" are a daunting list of dares almost no student ...
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The Golden Boys
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes...
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The Greek Tycoon
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president....
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When a Stranger Calls
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasin...
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The Grass Harp
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi...
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The Hindenburg
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the ...
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The Music of Chance
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league....
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Brenda Starr
Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the...
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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It Nearly Wasn't Christmas
Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selfles...
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The Butter Battle Book
The Zooks and the Yooks are at war over the butter and bread - on which side should one spread?...
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A Constant Forge
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...
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The Water Engine
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to ge...
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Miracle Dogs Too
Zack, a young boy, finds two Cocker Spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Si...
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Starting Over
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teache...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo n...
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Jerry and Tom
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a...
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Mother Ghost
Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until ...
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Big Trouble
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet ...
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The Great Fight
A disgraced police man is sent to work security at a local high school and ends up training an autis...
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An Enemy of the People
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeuti...
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Hi-Life
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash...
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The Drum Beats Twice
Left helpless after a vicious attack, Vietnam veteran and cop John Carreck suffers another blow when...
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Far North
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope w...
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The Best Little Girl in the World
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physica...
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Mass Appeal
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor....
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The Rosary Murders
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesse...
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River's End
Corbin plays a fictional Menard County sheriff who uses country savvy and cowboy logic to straighten...
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Happy New Year
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Us...
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th cent...
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Hard Time
Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, a veteran, tough cop who likes to see justice done by his own way...
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The Judge
When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando ...
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The Gambler: The Legend Continues
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their ...
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Lakeboat
A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea....
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Crisis at Central High
The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, A...
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Never Look Back
Jailed ex-fighter Donavan Wallace strikes a deal with the prison warden for early parole - he is to ...
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The Connection
An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insuran...
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The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chapl...
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Stand Alone
A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborh...
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Project Alien
In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot rep...
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Attica
Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica St...
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Roommates
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-w...
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her...
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The Life Zone
Kidnapped by a mysterious figure, three women find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital. Held...
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Casey Stengel
Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one...
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The Last Producer
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules....
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I Walk the Line
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize ...
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Shelter
A US Treasury Agent finds himself in opposition with his fellow agents who are involved in gun runni...
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Switch
In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private invest...
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Mister Roberts
Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Rober...
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Forget About It
Welcome to Sunrise Village, a little piece of trailer park heaven where retired war vets Sam, Carl a...
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Die Laughing
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for tur...
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Hadley's Rebellion
After he transfers to a new school, Hadley is victimized and ostracized by his too-cool classmates. ...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much...
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The Art of 'The Sting'
An inside look into how a great original screenplay was turned into a classic film that still has an...
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Where the River Runs Black
An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who ...
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on h...
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Hard Time: The Premonition
Logan McQueen is an ex-cop serving a prison term for a bust that had gone awry. During his stint, he...
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Justice
A lawyer and her partner run from the Colombian Mafia and the corrupt U.S. marshals and attorneys as...
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The L.A. Riot Spectacular
The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L...
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Bleacher Bums
They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
A cocky Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Berkeley to Boston. His girlfriend gets...
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A Very Married Christmas
Lighthearted Christmas TV Movie about a man whose quiet, boring life begins to unravel when he finds...
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Scarface
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana s...
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Hard Time: Hostage Hotel
A California congressman's wife and daughter are abducted and held hostage in a historic hotel. Loga...
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Unbeatable Harold
A wannabe Elvis meets his true love, the best waitress in the West.....
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Prime Target
A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to s...
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The Password Is Courage
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War...
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Scavenger Killers
Bonnie and Clyde are reinvented in SCAVENGER KILLERS, where a charming judge and a hot criminal defe...
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Amazing Stories: The Movie III
Culled from Steven Spielberg's Emmy-winning series are four wacky tales full of adventure and laught...
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Three Chris's
A film about Jesus, Santa Claus and a guy named Chris, all living together....
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Special Olympics
A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectu...
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I.Q.
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret...
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Deadhead Miles
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18...
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When...
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain ga...
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
LA's finest have crossed the thin blue line between Cop and Criminal. Based on a true story....
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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is grante...
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Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave the...
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Bleeding Hearts
An undercover journalist travels to small-town Mansionville attempting to expose its dark secrets. H...
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Death and Texas
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die f...
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Turn of Faith
The story of three friends who grew up in the same tough neighborhood and chose three very different...
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Unholy Matrimony
Drama based on the true story of a police detective's relentless investigation into an insurance fra...
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Very Mean Men
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the ba...
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Rogue Assassin
A band of black water operatives get wiped out while in Northern Iraq. The sole survivor is left alo...
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iMurders
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esqu...
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The Secret Life of Algernon
Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making ...
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Dick Tracy
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...
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Naked Run
Eve Malone runs against a crooked Congressman...but does it in the nude! Starring Academy Award nomi...
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The Waiter
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul....
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A Perfect Match
A successful fashion designer who learns that she has a mysterious illness that threatens her life s...
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Descansos
A highly controversial film about a man who tears down roadside memorials in his quest to bury a dar...
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Dinner at Eight
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious ...
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Mrs. Santa Claus
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out...
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Doomsday Voyage
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor ...
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Working
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing th...
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The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."...
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LA DA Story
Los Angeles District Attorney’s office professes to protect the residents of Los Angeles County by p...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane becomes the headmaster at a schoolhouse. He falls for Katrina Van Tassel but she has a...
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Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominatio...
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The Autopsy
A documentary about the making of Brian De Palma's 1973 film "Sisters" including interviews with the...
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Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet
Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet is a 1970 short film directed by John D. Hancock. It follows a g...
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Case Closed
As an action packed thriller, it has it's own good moments. Best of all is Charles Durning, a man wh...
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An Affirmative Act
"An Affirmative Act" is pro-gay marriage film, starring Charles Durning, Eric Etebari, Costas Mandyl...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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The World of Jim Henson
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explor...
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietr...
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Break
A terminally ill crime boss, known only as "The Man", hires a hit man named Frank to carry out his o...
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young marrie...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...
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Stiletto
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decide...
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Harvey Middleman, Fireman
Harvey Middleman (Eugene Troobnick), a New York fireman, lives a very ordinary life with his wife (A...
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Look Homeward, Angel
The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the ear...
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The Return of Eliot Ness
Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder wit...
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The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
When Littlefoot grandfather falls ill, The dinosaurs only way to cure him is a flower in the forbidd...
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The Story Lady
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful i...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honey...
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Amazing Racer
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her...
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Recon
A troubled detective enters a simulation of the last few minutes of a woman's life in order to catch...
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The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of ...
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According to Dom
This is life according to comic actor Dom DeLuise. We share some rare but casual moments with his fr...
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Rx for the Defense
The story of Zach Clinton, a doctor turned attorney who works for a law firm that specializes in cas...
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A Chance of Snow
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and dau...
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