Saul Rubinek

Saul Rubinek

Birthday: 1948-07-02

Place of Birth: Wolfratshausen, Germany

Biography: Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13, Donny Douglas on Frasier, Lon Cohen on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven (1992), Nixon (1995), True Romance (1993), The Express (2008), Barney's Version (2010), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Germany, in 1948. His parents were Polish Jews who had been hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. They immigrated to Canada after the war. Rubinek began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille. He made his television debut in 1977, with a guest appearance on the series Baretta. In 1984, Rubinek starred in the film Against All Odds. He followed that up with roles in the films Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Unforgiven (1992). In 1995, Rubinek starred in the film Nixon. He received critical acclaim for his performance, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. In 1998, Rubinek directed his first feature film, Jerry and Tom. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. From 2009 to 2014, Rubinek starred as Artie Nielsen on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series was a critical and commercial success, and it ran for five seasons. In 2013, Rubinek starred as Louis B. Mayer on the Amazon Prime series The Last Tycoon. The series was based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981). He is also a two-time Gemini Award nominee. Rubinek is married to Elinor Reid, a playwright and producer. They have two children.

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Unforgiven
Unforgiven

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help suppo...

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True Romance
True Romance

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh...

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War
War

FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mys...

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I Love Trouble
I Love Trouble

Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck con...

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The Family Man
The Family Man

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery stor...

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Against All Odds
Against All Odds

Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in despera...

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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Jesse Stone: Night Passage

A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police...

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The Brady Bunch in the White House
The Brady Bunch in the White House

Mike Brady becomes the President of the United States and names Carol as his V.P.!...

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Julia
Julia

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...

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Clock
Clock

On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock....

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A Broken Life
A Broken Life

Max Walker is a suicidal man who selects an aspiring young filmmaker to record the end of his life. ...

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Death Ship
Death Ship

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of...

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Santa's Slay
Santa's Slay

Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and hap...

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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotli...

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Half a Lifetime
Half a Lifetime

A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and ...

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Grierson and Gouzenko
Grierson and Gouzenko

This rarely-screened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canada’s Red Sc...

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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Death Wish V: The Face of Death

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threaten...

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Baadasssss!
Baadasssss!

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971...

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Getting Even with Dad
Getting Even with Dad

Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy une...

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I Am Normal
I Am Normal

A sane woman fakes the symptoms of a mentally unstable patient to be admitted into a mental institut...

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Kill Me Please
Kill Me Please

Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of ...

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Dick
Dick

Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard N...

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The Trotsky
The Trotsky

Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his pee...

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Young Doctors in Love
Young Doctors in Love

An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight o...

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Sweet Liberty
Sweet Liberty

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hol...

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Seer Was Here
Seer Was Here

Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dram...

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The Wordsmith
The Wordsmith

Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as...

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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against ...

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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss

The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los A...

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play...

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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost

Jesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arro...

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Lakeboat
Lakeboat

A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea....

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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to...

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Past Perfect
Past Perfect

In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dea...

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Soup for One
Soup for One

A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her...

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Martin's Day
Martin's Day

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He ...

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Agency
Agency

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, ...

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Gleason
Gleason

The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary ...

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Memory Run
Memory Run

The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has fin...

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Hostile Intent
Hostile Intent

Paint-ball playing computer geeks who invent a computer chip which can keep the government or any ag...

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Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal

Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to pr...

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The Quarrel
The Quarrel

Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he...

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Wall Street
Wall Street

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on ...

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BlackBerry
BlackBerry

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsi...

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White Coats
White Coats

Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with th...

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Highpoint
Highpoint

James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabblin...

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The Contender
The Contender

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contes...

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36 Hours to Die
36 Hours to Die

Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under wh...

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By Design
By Design

Angie and Helen are in love. They live and work together designing women's evening wear in Vancouver...

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Ticket to Heaven
Ticket to Heaven

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing ...

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SHTTL
SHTTL

In one continuous shot, SHTTL shows the lives, loves, and inner conflicts within a Yiddish speaking ...

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Pale Saints
Pale Saints

Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they...

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The Android Affair
The Android Affair

Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an a...

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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a...

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The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories th...

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Knucklehead
Knucklehead

A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break...

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A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con

This fast-paced Documentary was filmed inside America's biggest Comics/Film Convention and includes ...

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Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife....

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Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television
Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television

TJFF pays tribute to the beloved and influential actor/writer/director. In addition to the special i...

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The Song of Names
The Song of Names

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who...

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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into a...

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Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Jesse Stone: No Remorse

Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting...

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Hollywood North
Hollywood North

The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is f...

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Man Trouble
Man Trouble

A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from...

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Trump Unauthorized
Trump Unauthorized

A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump....

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Blackout
Blackout

BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Broo...

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The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find thems...

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Gridlocked
Gridlocked

Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along...

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Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his ...

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Toe Tags
Toe Tags

The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just go...

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The Bookfair Murders
The Bookfair Murders

Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade...

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Nixon
Nixon

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

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Camp Hollywood
Camp Hollywood

A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a f...

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Rainbow
Rainbow

Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. ...

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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'

As NBC's hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" proves a long-running hit for a network desperately in need ...

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Liberace: Behind the Music
Liberace: Behind the Music

A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with ...

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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine...

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Friday Night Adventure
Friday Night Adventure

A young homosexual's encounter with a gay salesman leads the youth to a crucial decision about his o...

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A Magical Journey
A Magical Journey

11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and w...

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Hitting Home
Hitting Home

Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hi...

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Falling Over Backwards
Falling Over Backwards

All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinde...

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Barney's Version
Barney's Version

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, i...

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil Wa...

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Clown White
Clown White

The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away....

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Sanctuary of Fear
Sanctuary of Fear

A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is bec...

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The Song of Names
The Song of Names

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who...

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Jerry and Tom
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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Blackjack
Blackjack

After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strang...

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Partner(s)
Partner(s)

An enterprising lawyer, acting on a report that a female colleague is up to make partner, plays up t...

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Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excite...

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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!
Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!

Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they do so, thei...

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Slow Run
Slow Run

After 14 months of living a Bohemian life in New York City, a young Canadian becomes anxious that he...

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Taking Care
Taking Care

A Canadian nurse (Kate Lynch) investigates hospital-patient deaths for which another nurse (Janet Am...

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The Express
The Express

Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to wi...

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The Suicide Murders
The Suicide Murders

The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman ...

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Murder Sees the Light
Murder Sees the Light

Private detective Benny Cooperman is hired to keep an eye on a controversial preacher who is in hidi...

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Undercover Blues
Undercover Blues

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a specia...

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The Terry Fox Story
The Terry Fox Story

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero, who decided to run across Canada on only one ...

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So Many Miracles
So Many Miracles

A documentary that follows Israel and Frania Rubinek on their emotional return journey to Poland to ...

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Open Season
Open Season

When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenl...

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And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific commu...

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Triggermen
Triggermen

Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival g...

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Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. ...

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Bleacher Bums
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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Color of Justice
Color of Justice

Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case becau...

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The Washingtonians
The Washingtonians

A family man unearths an old letter, claiming that historical figure George Washington was a canniba...

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First Shift: Vengeance
First Shift: Vengeance

The second installment in Uwe Boll's police drama trilogy. Plot TBA....

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First Shift: Redemption
First Shift: Redemption

The third and final installment in Uwe Boll's police drama trilogy. Plot TBA....

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