Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948) is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".
Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall's melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.4282 |
| Birthday | 1948-02-05 |
| Place of Birth | Hollywood, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Barbara Lynn Herzstein, |
1969
Heaven with a Gun
5.481/26
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a fe...
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Heaven with a Gun
1993
Abraham
7.125/56
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...
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Abraham
1993
Swing Kids
6.698/255
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficu...
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Swing Kids
1987
Tin Men
6.3/146
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Tin Men
1993
Splitting Heirs
5.235/85
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and the...
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Splitting Heirs
1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
7.226/1234
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -...
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The Last Temptation of Christ
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.456/1201
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
1972
Boxcar Bertha
5.755/257
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union ma...
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Boxcar Bertha
1986
Hoosiers
7.047/613
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a t...
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Hoosiers
1995
Last of the Dogmen
6.781/107
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female...
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Last of the Dogmen
1984
The Natural
6.925/692
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea...
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The Natural
1996
The Pallbearer
4.957/132
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never m...
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The Pallbearer
1982
The Entity
6.85/599
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatu...
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The Entity
1992
The Public Eye
6.2/102
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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The Public Eye
2001
Lantana
6.7/232
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detecti...
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Lantana
2004
11:14
6.805/987
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11:14
1983
The Right Stuff
7.404/1001
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...
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The Right Stuff
1999
Breakfast of Champions
5.025/122
A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day,...
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Breakfast of Champions
2004
Riding the Bullet
5.073/225
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to...
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Riding the Bullet
1980
The Stunt Man
6.6/173
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while faci...
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The Stunt Man
1991
Defenseless
4.931/29
A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.
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Defenseless
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
5.357/21
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
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Take This Job and Shove It
1990
Tune in Tomorrow...
5.468/31
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia,...
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Tune in Tomorrow...
1988
A World Apart
6.359/32
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together...
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A World Apart
1996
The Portrait of a Lady
5.949/265
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill fathe...
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The Portrait of a Lady
2008
Uncross the Stars
5/11
The Story follows Troy, a young man whose beloved wife passes away. The movie opens at her funeral, and Troy, ill-equipped to deal with this kind of g...
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Uncross the Stars
1993
Falling Down
7.399/4232
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Falling Down
1988
Beaches
6.691/286
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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Beaches
2008
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
6/18
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables...
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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
1969
Last Summer
6.2/51
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationsh...
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Last Summer
2010
Black Swan
7.683/15847
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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Black Swan
1976
The Last Hard Men
6.1/67
In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yu...
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The Last Hard Men
2009
Albert Schweitzer
6/4
1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer tel...
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Albert Schweitzer
1968
With Six You Get Eggroll
6.352/44
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter, begin dating and eventually decide to get married. But the...
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With Six You Get Eggroll
2011
Insidious
6.954/7573
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a profes...
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Insidious
1987
Shy People
6.37/27
A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.
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Shy People
1991
Paris Trout
5.5/18
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets P...
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Paris Trout
2008
The Bird Can't Fly
7/5
Melody returns to her old home to Fairlands the funeral of their daughter, June to attend. But Melody not recognize their city regains because it is a...
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The Bird Can't Fly
1998
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
6.1/24
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2013
Insidious: Chapter 2
6.701/4738
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
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Insidious: Chapter 2
2011
Answers to Nothing
3.8/22
Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they do...
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Answers to Nothing
1998
Frogs for Snakes
3.429/7
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater....
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Frogs for Snakes
1976
Trial by Combat
7.8/4
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medie...
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Trial by Combat
1990
A Killing in a Small Town
5.083/12
The gory ax-murder of one suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: se...
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A Killing in a Small Town
1971
The Pursuit of Happiness
6.176/17
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
2007
Love Comes Lately
5.2/9
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, the...
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Love Comes Lately
1993
A Dangerous Woman
5.5/33
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual...
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A Dangerous Woman
1975
Diamonds
5.3/9
Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a...
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Diamonds
1998
The Staircase
7.667/6
A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.
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The Staircase
1970
The Baby Maker
6.167/9
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the...
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The Baby Maker
2012
Left to Die
4.8/9
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison where s...
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Left to Die
1977
Flood!
5.1/15
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
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Flood!
1981
Americana
5.167/6
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
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Americana
2003
Hunger Point
4.3/15
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincide...
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Hunger Point
1987
Passion Flower
4.25/4
The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Wil...
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Passion Flower
2014
Sister
5.3/5
When unstable Connie is tragically widowed, she finds it impossible to care for her delinquent adolescent daughter, Niki, forcing her son, Bill, to t...
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Sister
1977
Just a Little Inconvenience
0/0
Jolted out of his self-pity by a friend who teaches him to ski, a wounded Vietnam vet comes to look on his double amputation not as a "handicap" but r...
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Just a Little Inconvenience
1999
Passion
4.5/6
Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, thou...
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Passion
1974
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
5.556/9
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatric...
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1972
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
5.333/6
A cocky Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Berkeley to Boston. His girlfriend gets busted with the second load. He and a friend go a...
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
2024
Strange Darling
6.861/1018
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Strange Darling
2003
The Stranger Beside Me
6.032/31
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.
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The Stranger Beside Me
2015
Childless
4.5/2
Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on their mind - and it's not all about Katherine either....
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Childless
1970
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
6.1/29
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's...
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1985
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
4.25/2
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1999
Drowning on Dry Land
4.667/9
A taxi driver picks up a fare in Manhattan. She offers the driver a large sum to drive her to the desert. While the pair drive across the country, the...
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Drowning on Dry Land
1980
Angel on My Shoulder
6.6/5
A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally...
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Angel on My Shoulder
2016
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
6.361/488
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of...
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax
1988
Mickey's 60th Birthday
6.775/20
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the ang...
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Mickey's 60th Birthday
1983
The Nightingale
5.25/4
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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The Nightingale
2010
Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
0/0
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Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen
1975
You and Me
7.25/4
A young boy and a biker become friends on the road.
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You and Me
1977
Sunshine Christmas
8/1
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas wi...
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Sunshine Christmas
1977
In the Glitter Palace
4/4
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
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In the Glitter Palace
1997
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
7.5/2
A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'.
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Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
6.278/3268
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier real...
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Insidious: The Last Key
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
9/2
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S...
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Martin Scorsese Directs
1973
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
5.429/7
The story of a free-spirited girl who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the 1920s, even the somewhat more tolerant people of the Nethe...
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Angela – Love Comes Quietly
1982
Working
4.8/5
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a s...
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Working
1992
Stay the Night
4/3
Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule...
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Stay the Night
2004
Paradise
4.143/7
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his...
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Paradise
2002
The Nature of Lantana
8/1
The making of Lantana, a 2001 Australian drama film directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara...
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The Nature of Lantana
2020
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
8/8
In a heartfelt tribute to Hollywood legend Garry Marshall, his family and friends share their favorite memories of the creative genius behind some of...
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The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
1999
Outer Space
6.522/139
A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film i...
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Outer Space
2021
The Manor
5.483/315
After suffering a stroke, Judith moves into a historic nursing home, where she begins to suspect something supernatural is preying on the residents. W...
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The Manor
2022
9 Bullets
5.3/152
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after...
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9 Bullets
2000
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
7.75/4
In 1980, The Stunt Man, starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback, became one of the most acclaimed motion pictures of the decade -- an odd mixture o...
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The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2005
The Entity Files
7/1
An interview with parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff, one of the original investigators of the Doris Bither case, the alleged haunting that inspired the...
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The Entity Files
2016
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
6/1
An average baseball film in the making comes out of seemingly nowhere to become one of the best sports films made of all time. A true testament to the...
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The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
2016
Damien: Behind the Scenes
0/0
After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ. Glenn Mazzara, Executive Producer, and the rest of the staff talk...
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Damien: Behind the Scenes
2003
Experiments in Terror
5/2
A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.
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Experiments in Terror
2003
Realizing The Right Stuff
9/1
The making of the motion picture "The Right Stuff", from the purchase of the filming rights to the end of principal photography.
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Realizing The Right Stuff
2026
Woodstockers
0/0
When his marriage collapses and his best friend dies, an aging hippie who went to Woodstock in 1969 and never left must finally reckon with a life sha...
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Woodstockers
2026
Krung Thep
10/1
Krung Thep is a dualistic journey between darkness and the dawn of a new day. The short film symbolizes the beginning of the conflicts between Thailan...
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Krung Thep
2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
0/0
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cinema from Dracula (1931) to today.
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2018
Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
0/0
A documentary special included on the special features of ABC's Once Upon a Time Season 7, with the cast and crew reminiscing in honor of the show's c...
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Once Upon a Time: And They Lived Happily Ever After
1982
Twilight Theater II
0/0
Leslie Nielsen hosts this comedy special featuring satirical sketches and a debate between G. Gordon Liddy and Moon Unit Zappa.
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Twilight Theater II
2008
Nick Nolte: No Exit
7.5/2
A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte.
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Nick Nolte: No Exit
The Last Seder
0/0
The Price daughters return to their Long Island childhood home for what their mother, Lily, secretly knows will be their last Passover Seder — the hou...
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