Paul Sorvino

Paul Sorvino

Birthday: 1939-04-13

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: Paul Anthony Sorvino (April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrayed authority figures on both sides of the law and was known for his roles as Paulie Cicero (based on Paul Vario) in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, and NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order. He took on supporting roles in A Touch of Class, Reds, The Rocketeer, Nixon, and Romeo + Juliet. He was the father of actors Mira Sorvino and Michael Sorvino.

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Mambo Italiano
Mambo Italiano

When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family....

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Romeo + Juliet
Romeo + Juliet

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

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GoodFellas
GoodFellas

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

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The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forc...

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The Cooler
The Cooler

Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in th...

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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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Exorcising 'Cruising'
Exorcising 'Cruising'

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it creat...

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The History of 'Cruising'
The History of 'Cruising'

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it creat...

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Kidnapped in Romania
Kidnapped in Romania

A couple of Italo-American journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania....

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The Brink's Job
The Brink's Job

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi...

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Money Talks
Money Talks

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection....

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Bulworth
Bulworth

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

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Acts of Desperation
Acts of Desperation

A desperate cop on the edge is obsessed over the fact that his beautiful but desperate wife is havin...

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The Panic in Needle Park
The Panic in Needle Park

A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York Ci...

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Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Carnera: The Walking Mountain

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight...

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Most Wanted
Most Wanted

A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops te...

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Cruising
Cruising

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's u...

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Turk 182!
Turk 182!

After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incu...

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Plan B
Plan B

A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitma...

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Pursued
Pursued

After the death of her father a young woman starts to investigate her mother’s new boyfriend, but sh...

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Don't Touch My Daughter
Don't Touch My Daughter

A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested a...

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The Day of the Dolphin
The Day of the Dolphin

A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidna...

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Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repo! The Genetic Opera

By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneC...

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Where’s Poppa?
Where’s Poppa?

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to e...

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Santa Baby 2
Santa Baby 2

Santa's in the midst of a late-life crisis -- he's tired of the responsibilities of the job and is r...

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I, the Jury
I, the Jury

Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdere...

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Knock Off
Knock Off

A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists...

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Cheaters
Cheaters

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's acad...

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The Gambler
The Gambler

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately...

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Mr. 3000
Mr. 3000

Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that h...

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See Spot Run
See Spot Run

A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to...

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Doc West
Doc West

After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search...

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Goodnight, Joseph Parker
Goodnight, Joseph Parker

Unapologetically brash in dialogue and texture GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER is the classic love story bro...

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The Stuff
The Stuff

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a ...

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Reds
Reds

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

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Kill the Irishman
Kill the Irishman

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged ...

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Greetings from the Shore
Greetings from the Shore

Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore ...

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Love Is All There Is
Love Is All There Is

The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaur...

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Doc West II : Triggerman
Doc West II : Triggerman

A legendary poker playing outlaw, Triggerman, arrives to town for the wildest gambling tournament th...

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American Perfekt
American Perfekt

Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimen...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's ...

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Harlem Aria
Harlem Aria

An aspiring opera singer from Harlem teams up with a charismatic busker and a kindhearted hustler to...

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Melanie
Melanie

A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estr...

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Chiller
Chiller

A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When...

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That Championship Season
That Championship Season

Four best friends and their basketball coach celebrate their championship twenty years ago. But thei...

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The Devil's Carnival
The Devil's Carnival

Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. What c...

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The Thin Blue Lie
The Thin Blue Lie

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its t...

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The Great American Heist
The Great American Heist

An inside look at one of the largest cash and jewel heists in American history - the 1978 Lufthansa ...

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Miller's Tale
Miller's Tale

Miller's Tale is a personal journey into the life of playwright and actor Jason Miller and his relat...

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Dog Watch
Dog Watch

A San Francisco detective goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit stan...

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Jersey Shore Shark Attack
Jersey Shore Shark Attack

Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the inf...

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Bloodbrothers
Bloodbrothers

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own....

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Escape Clause
Escape Clause

A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer a...

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Divorce Invitation
Divorce Invitation

'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school ...

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Imaginary Friend
Imaginary Friend

During her traumatic childhood with an abusive father, Emma relied on an imaginary friend for streng...

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Almost Partners
Almost Partners

Molly McCue becomes bored with her quiet, suburban life and fantasizes about becoming a detective. S...

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How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is

An alcoholic theater owner needs to put together a successful musical in order to pay off his mob de...

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Streghe verso nord
Streghe verso nord

Gallio and Teo are two witch defusers. Their task is to track them down and fight them by any means....

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God Don't Make the Laws
God Don't Make the Laws

After an accident, a town makes a deal with the devil. It is frozen in time for decades until a myst...

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Lost and Found
Lost and Found

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced Briti...

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Immigrant
Immigrant

"Immigrant" is the coming of age story of Daanyik, a nine year-old Russian boy, whose family immigra...

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4Closed
4Closed

When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidat...

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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls...

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The Bronx Bull
The Bronx Bull

A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMo...

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Angel and Big Joe
Angel and Big Joe

Angel and Big Joe is a 1975 American short drama film directed by Bert Salzman and starring Paul Sor...

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Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

"Bullets Over Hollywood" delves into America's fascination with gangsters and features historical pe...

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Dummy
Dummy

The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a pr...

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Slow Dancing In The Big City
Slow Dancing In The Big City

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina....

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Oh, God!
Oh, God!

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him...

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American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

An intimate, soul-baring new documentary covering the life and 40+ year career of actor and poet Mic...

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Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue

A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnes...

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Last I Heard
Last I Heard

Released from federal prison after 20 years due to his ailing health, a formerly powerful New York m...

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Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives

A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemi...

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Off the Wall
Off the Wall

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. Sh...

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Night of 100 Stars III
Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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Mafia Doctor
Mafia Doctor

Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing...

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Longshot
Longshot

Teen Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L.A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer. J...

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Houdini
Houdini

The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini....

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Men with Guns
Men with Guns

Three losers, Eddie, Lucas and Mamet, are sent to collect some debt at a remote farm. But the thugs ...

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Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way
Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way

Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Mana...

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Surviving
Surviving

Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is int...

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The Firm
The Firm

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...

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Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival
Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the p...

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Mr. Fix It
Mr. Fix It

Lance Valenteen makes a living as "Mr. Fix It," a man who gets hired by men that have just recently ...

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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Tell Me Where It Hurts

A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life an...

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Detours
Detours

A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her wid...

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Cold Deck
Cold Deck

When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist....

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That Championship Season
That Championship Season

It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in r...

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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his wife ...

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Chasing Gold
Chasing Gold

Alone after losing his family in a car accident, a retiring police commander attempts to help a daug...

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Without Consent
Without Consent

After being sent to an abusive psychiatric facility by her well-meaning parents, a rebellious teenag...

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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFel...

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The Bandit Hound
The Bandit Hound

A lovable dog named Bandit starts stealing cash to help his adopted family, he unwittingly sets them...

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Backstreet Justice
Backstreet Justice

A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop....

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The Brooklyn Banker
The Brooklyn Banker

The story of Santo Bastucci, a local banker with a rare gift for memorizing numbers; he is unwitting...

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Cover Me
Cover Me

Police are stymied when a serial killer begins hacking up nude models all over L.A. In desperation, ...

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I Will, I Will...For Now
I Will, I Will...For Now

Les Bingham takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie has a new love in life. What he doesn't know is tha...

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Sicilian Vampire
Sicilian Vampire

Equal parts Goodfellas and Dusk till Dawn, Sicilian Vampire tells the story of reputed mobster Sonny...

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No Deposit
No Deposit

Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With h...

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Careful What You Wish For
Careful What You Wish For

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment b...

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A Fine Mess
A Fine Mess

Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to deal ...

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Skyscraper
Skyscraper

An Adolfas Mekas directed short parodying Italian art films of the time. It was created for use in a...

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For the Love of Money
For the Love of Money

Spanning over two decades, "For the Love of Money" follows the true account of an Israeli immigrant ...

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Rules Don't Apply
Rules Don't Apply

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract...

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A Touch of Class
A Touch of Class

Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off ...

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Night Club
Night Club

Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after takin...

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Lost Cat Corona
Lost Cat Corona

A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife's missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorf...

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The Hybrids Family
The Hybrids Family

A movie about a dysfunctional family of vampires and witches, it is mostly focused on the two childr...

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Undercover Grandpa
Undercover Grandpa

When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former speci...

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Hey Arnold! The Movie
Hey Arnold! The Movie

Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from bein...

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Executor
Executor

Kyle (Markiss McFadden), one of the many orphans raised in an orphanage by Father Antonio (Paul Sorv...

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Betrayed by Innocence
Betrayed by Innocence

A married commercial filmmaker (Barry Bostwick) is charged with statutory rape when it is revealed t...

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King Lear
King Lear

James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch w...

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Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game

Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with ...

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A Winter Rose
A Winter Rose

A young singer in Los Angeles named Winter Rose (Kim Whalen) is chosen to be the successor to a worl...

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The Red Maple Leaf
The Red Maple Leaf

A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determine...

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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...

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Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

See inside the exclusive Playboy Mansion, with parties attended by all the A-List celebrities...

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Ciao America
Ciao America

Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Bo...

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Dead Broke
Dead Broke

A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn....

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Age Isn't Everything
Age Isn't Everything

Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned...

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Papa
Papa

A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills,...

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The Trouble with Cali
The Trouble with Cali

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Beneath the Leaves
Beneath the Leaves

Four small-town boys are kidnapped by James Whitley, a warm-eyed psychopath. His grotesque pursuit t...

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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
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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Made For Each Other
Made For Each Other

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship...

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Cry Uncle!
Cry Uncle!

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail....

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My Mother's Secret Life
My Mother's Secret Life

16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's add...

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The Workaday Gangster
The Workaday Gangster

A short Goodfellas documentary featuring interviews with the actors, Martin Scorsese, and Henry Hill...

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Very Close Quarters
Very Close Quarters

Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-b...

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A Question of Honor
A Question of Honor

Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to...

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Price for Freedom
Price for Freedom

“Price For Freedom” is based on the book written in 2013 by prominent NYC dental implant surgeon Dr...

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Enzian: When the Lights Go Up
Enzian: When the Lights Go Up

A documentary short taking a look at the popular independent Enzian movie theater in Maitland, Flori...

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Most Guys Are Losers
Most Guys Are Losers

College student Sandy's new boyfriend meets all the criteria for a good partner according to her dad...

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Perfume
Perfume

A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other cha...

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The Last Mile
The Last Mile

Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. T...

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Bad Impulse
Bad Impulse

In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a suburban husband and father buys a cutting edge home securi...

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Last Hour
Last Hour

In his last film, DMX is lured to a sinister home in with the promise of meeting his estranged fathe...

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The Birthday Cake
The Birthday Cake

On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a c...

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With Intent to Kill
With Intent to Kill

A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of ...

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The Amati Girls
The Amati Girls

Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family....

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Witness to 'Reds'
Witness to 'Reds'

Cast and crew of "Reds" revisit their memories and stories while making the film....

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The Wild Stallion
The Wild Stallion

C.J. and Hanna become the greatest of friends when the latter visits the former on the ranch where s...

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GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors

Documentary detailing the behind the scenes of GoodFellas....

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The History of 'Cruising'
The History of 'Cruising'

A documentary on the making of William Friedkin's Cruising....

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Welcome to Acapulco
Welcome to Acapulco

When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dang...

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As Long As We Both Shall Live
As Long As We Both Shall Live

Malcolm (Josh Helman, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD) is thrust into depression after his wife, Sarah (Yael Ston...

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