Xander Berkeley
Date of Birth: 16 Dec 1955
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 103 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (103)
- Sanctuary (2021) - S1 E7
- The Perfect Conditions for Disaster (2021) - S1 E8
- Sons and Daughters (2021) - S1 E9
- From Simple Sources (2021) - S1 E10
- Pledge Allegiance (2021) - S1 E11
- Two Imposters (2021) - S1 E12
- The Last Rabbit (2021) - S1 E13
- Old Ego Is a Too Much Thing (2015) - S1 E13
- Revolution 1 (2016) - S2 E4
- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (2016) - S2 E5
- Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library (1986) - S1 E22
- Substitute Teacher/A Wolf in Chick's Clothing/Intensive Care (1997) - S1 E9
Wolfgang Petersen's gripping thriller about an uncompromising U.S. President (Ford) who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. (Sony)
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Based on a true story, a group of enslaved Africans aboard the slaveship La Amistad overtake the ship and attempt to return to their homeland. When the ship is seized, the captives are brought to the United States where an enthralling courtroom battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation while confronting the very foundation of the American justice system. (DreamWorks)
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Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingle, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time - and the odds - to bring them home.
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21st century. USA. The second civil war. The whole country is in a state of emergency. What was formerly called the American Congress now rules with fascistic methods. There is only one free city left, Steel Harbor, headquarter for the resistance. This is the hometown of Barb Wire, owner of the night club Hammerhead. As times aren't good, Barb has a second job. She's a bounty hunter and you probably wouldn't want her after you... (imdb)
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Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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Maria Bello stars in this IMAX film inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a fiercely independent woman who dared to take up her late husband's expedition, journeying deep into the mysterious forests of China, following his passionate quest to study the Giant Panda. (IMAX Corp.)
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An engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. (Sony)
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A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer. (imdb)
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All of San Francisco is taken hostage when a vengeful general seizes control of Alcatraz Island, threatening to launch missiles loaded with deadly poison gas. With time running out, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and a notorious federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the island fortress and defuse the lethal situation.
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A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O'Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another. (imdb)
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Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores the issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation.
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah. (imdb)
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L.A., real time. From her limo, the wealthy Lauren eavesdrops on her lover Rose's tryst with movie producer Alex Green. The assignation takes place in his company's screening room between meetings. Alex's wife walks from therapy to his office, tells him she's leaving him, weeps in a bookstore restroom, and walks home with a cocaine-sniffing actress friend for what may lead to sex... (imdb)
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Luc Devereaux, the only surviving member of the original Universal Soldier Team. He now works with Dylan Cotner, on a project to create and improve a new Universal Soldier. Their plan is for the Universal soldier or UNISOLS to be controlled by a computer they call SETH. When the government decides to terminate the project, which includes shutting down SETH. SETH, not wanting this to happen, takes steps to prevent this. He first kills Dylan. He then has himself transfered into a body... (imdb)
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A comic story of three corporate drones trapped unaware in a decrepit and crumbling third world factory that's filled with corruption and deceit. (New Deal Pictures)
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Inspired by a true story, North Country follows a woman's journey on a road that will take her farther than she ever imagined, ultimately inspiring countless others, and leading to the nation's first-ever class action lawsuit for sexual harassment. (Warner Bros.)
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Set in an affluent neighbourhood of the San Fernando Valley in 1987, the film recounts the life of a seemingly unremarkable homemaker, Carol White who develops multiple chemical sensitivity.
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Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror (imdb)
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Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen... (imdb)
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Rock Keats and Archie Moses are the best of friends and have spent the past year together performing various small time criminal acts... (imdb)
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Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. (imdb)
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Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job... (imdb)
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Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then... (imdb)
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Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.) (imdb)
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When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland (Joe Mantegna) has a one night stand with Amanda (Kelly Lynch) after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly (Naomi Watts), to obtain security codes to office of a client. (imdb)
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When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target. (imdb)
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Bowlegged cracker, Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. (imdb)
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If These Walls Could Talk (1996) - TV Movie
A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion... (imdb)
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All is not well at the local cop station as some of the colleagues of good at heart, superstitious cop Harry are on the take. He is forced to rip off local pimp and overall bad guy (Louie) to pay off gambling debts run up with "bookie" Chicago. Things do not go exactly to plan, however, and tensions build up between the other cops. Romance and relief from violence is provided by Leila, Harry's on and off girlfriend. (imdb)
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An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. (Icon Entertainment)
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When a meticulous structural engineer (Hokins) is found innocent of the attempted murder of his wife (Davidtz), the young district attorney (Gosling) who is prosecuting him becomes a crusader for justice. Fracture is packed with twists and turns that weave in and out of the courtroom as the pair try to outwit each other. (New Line Cinema)
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Based loosely on the organized crime syndicates of the 20's and 30's, Billy Bathgate is the story of a young man's rise from gopher to right hand man in Dutch Schultz' gang. Having been impressed by the youth, Schultz takes him under his wing so to speak. Billy soon finds himself in a world where wealth and fortune live next door to danger and death. (imdb)
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William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country. (imdb)
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The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities. (imdb)
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Roswell (1994) - TV Movie
Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947... (imdb)
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A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her. (imdb)
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When Nat Banyon (Lucas Black) saves the life of a man named Finch (Peter Coyote), his actions are rewarded with a job restoring Finch's crumbling motel in the small town of Deepwater. Soon Nat is consumed by his attraction to Finch's pretty young wife, Iris (Mia Maestro), and a suspicious Finch challenges Nat to a not-so-friendly boxing match. Soon Nat discovers he may have gotten in over his head and plans to escape before it is too late. (imdb)
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A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they've killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues. (imdb)
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[Originally Released in 2008] A former spy (Neeson) relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter (Grace), who has been forced into the slave trade. (imdb)
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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004) - TV Mini-Series
Film-makers, performers, genre authorities and selected high-profile fans count down the most chilling moments in cinematic history. (imdb)
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Mona Peek is jarred by delayed grief for her dead father when she finds out her childhood home has been sold. Her emotional plight is the subject of an esoteric card game played in another dimension by four animated dogs. When Mona returns to her backyard to disinter her father's relic, a piece of bone she'd buried, the game begins. Over the course of an oddly problematic but magical weekend, the dogs mystify an unknowing Mona by stealing objects, impersonating humans and intervening with fate. (thetoetactic.com)
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At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. (imdb)
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When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
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Dead to Rights (1993) - TV Movie
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past. (AllMovie)
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) - Direct-to-Video
Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite asteroid to frame Superman for the "pending destruction of the planet" and declares a $1 billion bounty on him and Batman.
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Victoria is a dealer in the most dangerous game. Playing conveniently into her hand is her husband and his partner, two of the dirtiest cops on the force. Gunning for her is a seductive lethal druglord. But in this game, Victoria's wildest card may be herself. She's falling in love with a reporter, who knows the secrets that could destroy them all. (imdb)
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A day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one thing in common. Trouble.
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Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006) - TV Movie
A scientist tries to warn the world of an impending natural disaster that could wipe out mankind, but he's met with skepticism in this action-packed sci-fi disaster film. When Peter Shepard (Xander Berkeley) notices a rise in volcanic activity around the world, he realizes that a global catastrophe is taking shape. With the help of his students, Shepard sets out to gather evidence to convince government officials to act.
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Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family. (imdb)
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An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd). (imdb)
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A mechanic at his father's garage during the late 1970s, Matt dreams about leaving his small town existence and pursuing grander ambitions... (imdb)
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On the very day he's released from a 10-year prison sentence, convicted bank robber Driver (Dwayne Johnson) hits the streets to take revenge on the men who bungled the job that got him busted and his beloved brother killed. But close on Driver's tail are a driven cop (Billy Bob Thornton) on the one hand and a flamboyant contract killer (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) on the other.
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NetForce (1999) - TV Movie
Set in the year 2005, a division of the FBI, called "NetForce" has been initiated to investigate Internet crime. A Bill Gates-type character finds a loophole in his new web browser which enables him to gain control of the Internet. Net-Force, headed by Kristofferson and Bakula's characters set out to stop him. (imdb)
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Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
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Spoiled heiress Pixxi de la Chasse gets cut off by her wealthy family and stumbles into a job as a repo chick. Whilst bounty hunting a valuable lost train, Pixxi and her friends get embroiled in a kidnapping plot by a vegan terrorist cell determined to hold L.A. to ransom until their demands are met.
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A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles. (imdb)
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An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter. (imdb)
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Winchell (1998) - TV Movie
This powerful HBO biographical drama recounts the rise and fall of Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist and reporter who changed the face of news reporting. (msn.com - Sandra Brennan, Rovi)
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After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab.
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Sparks (2009) - Short Film
An insurance investigator looks into the suspicious circumstances surrounding a burned down mansion. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel. (imdb)
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After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. (imdb)
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Within the Rock (1996) - TV Movie
A time of space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering them. (imdb)
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An ignored, small-town librarian confesses to a murder she didn't commit to get attention. (imdb)
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Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in between. Now you'll know who they are. (imdb)
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Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find. (imdb)
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Deadly Matrimony (1992) - TV Movie
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed, he beats her to death...and its up to John Reed to put him away for it, and clean up the dirty cops that want to stop him. (imdb)
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Dillinger (1991) - TV Movie
Dillinger is a messily directed, haphazardly edited TV movie, which takes a revisionist squint at the criminal career of the 1930s' Public Enemy Number One. Mark Harmon captures some of the charisma but little of the ruthlessness of John Dillinger, while Sherilyn Fenn gives an anachronistic interpretation of the gun moll who eventually betrays Johnny D. to the Feds. Vince Edwards is supposed to be FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover, but comports himself more like a grouchy crossing guard. (allmovie.com)
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Fire on the Mountain (1981) - TV Movie
A 1962 novel by Edward Abbey was the source for this 1981 TV movie. Buddy Ebsen plays a stubborn oldster who refuses to leave his mountain property when it is targeted for a government missile base. Not even a promised $100,000 compensation will induce Ebsen to leave. Young land developer Ron Howard is sent to vacate Ebsen, but soon Howard joins the older man in defying the military. Soon it boils down to a battle of wills between Ebsen and the equally bullheaded army officer Michael Conrad. (allmovie.com)
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A corporate lawyer reconsiders his career options after making friends with the staff and regulars at a cocktail lounge called The Foxes Den.
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A terminally ill scientist downloads his mind into a computer. This grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon he becomes unstoppable. (imdb)
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Son of Batman (2014) - Direct-to-Video
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group the League of Assassins. (imdb)
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A young guy decides to skip college in favor of joining his father's on the lot of his used-car business. (imdb)
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After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process. (imdb)
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Spawn 3: The Animation (1999) - TV Series
Spawn is still on his quest to return to his love, Wanda, but is still in trouble. He is guided though by Cogliostro, who is the only one who can give him his humanity back. (imdb)
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Apollo 11 (1996) - TV Movie
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster. (imdb)
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994) - TV Series
The show takes us through the struggles of life as a child monster. 3 monster friends are studying how to scare humans in school. Often their attempts don't work out as planned. (imdb)
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On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting LA cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime. (imdb)
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After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago to finally discover the shocking truth of what lies behind it. (imdb)
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Murder in High Places (1991) - TV Movie
A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former hippie. Complications ensue when soon after the election, a dead body crashes through the skylight of a local building, and the body turns out to be the new mayor's ex-wife. (imdb)
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Christina Perasso is a tough, resilient, 24-year old girl. She wakes up trapped in a room and has no idea where she is being held or who did this to her. She has been left access to her laptop. Through the use of an intermittent Wi-Fi signal, she reaches out to friends, family and the general, growing audience through social media. She lists facts, clues, pictures and videos to aid the audience in figuring out where she is, who her captor is, and why she was kidnapped. (imdb)
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The Booth at the End (2011) - TV Series
Everyone wants something. There is a mysterious figure who sits in the booth at the end, who you make a deal with to get what you want. You do the task or you don't - that is up to you, but there are no rule changes in this captivating show. (imdb)
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Thomas Luster is a man who thinks that someone is playing with his life at night, while he is asleep. When he tries to unsolve the mystery installing video cameras in his house what he discovers is very unsettling.
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Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Mary's life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
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A repressed agoraphobic's daughter meets a hardened pastor's daughter. While escaping their homes to attend the annual church youth group jamboree, they discover their worlds aren't what they once thought they were. (imdb)
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After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
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A wealthy Mexican family decides to build a wall around their ranch to stop townspeople from stealing their well water. (imdb)
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Told in 4 stories by 3 filmmakers. Three of the stories deal with married couples of various ages confronting the turning points of their relationships. A fourth story is interwoven throughout, providing bookends and context in the form of a story about ten year old twins, who, tired of sharing their bedroom set out to build a wall between their beds to create their own spaces. (imdb)
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On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family. (imdb)
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The Republic of Sarah (2021) - TV Series
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Aquarius (2015) - TV Series
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Despite his wife having just passed away, Oliver agrees to create an art installation piece. (366weirdmovies.com)
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The Twilight Zone (1985) - TV Series
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An Ivy League drop-out travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. (imdb)
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Johnny Bravo (1997) - TV Series
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