Frances Fisher
Frances Fisher (born 11 May 1952) is a British-born American actress. She is best known for her roles as Strawberry Alice, the madame prostitute in Unforgiven (1992), directed by Clint Eastwood; and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet's character in Titanic (1997), directed by James Cameron. Both films won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
She is also known for her roles as Jane Crawford on the HBO series Watchmen, Mary Windsor in The Lincoln Lawyer, Evelyn Nolan (John Nolan's mother) on CBS's The Rookie, Barbara Schoenberg in Woman in Gold, Gwen in You're Not You, Lucille Langston on ABC's scifi drama Resurrection, Maggie Stryder in The Host (2013), Nicole Farmington on ABC's scifi drama Touch, Blanche Tipton on CBS's A Gifted Man, Elaine Flowers in The Kingdom (2007), The Mother on BBC's Torchwood, Eva Thorne on Syfy's Eureka, Connie Walsh in House of Sand and Fog, Sara Miller in Laws of Attraction, Junie in Gone in 60 Seconds, Donna Garcia in Striptease, Angie in FOX's Strange Luck, June in L.A. Story, and Rochelle Bossetti in Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.0936 |
| Birthday | 1952-05-11 |
| Place of Birth | Milford-on-the-sea, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Francis Fisher, |
1992
Unforgiven
7.913/5096
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one las...
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Unforgiven
2007
The Kingdom
6.749/1882
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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The Kingdom
2004
Laws of Attraction
5.827/468
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
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Laws of Attraction
1999
The Big Tease
5.9/25
Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the ev...
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The Big Tease
2003
House of Sand and Fog
7.147/874
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college....
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House of Sand and Fog
2024
Rust
6.824/196
Infamous outlaw Harland Rust breaks his estranged grandson Lucas out of prison, after Lucas is convicted to hang for an accidental murder. The two mus...
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Rust
2007
In the Valley of Elah
6.781/1130
A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of d...
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In the Valley of Elah
1996
Striptease
5.559/1208
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the...
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Striptease
1992
Devlin
6/4
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
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Devlin
1996
Female Perversions
5.092/65
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems i...
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Female Perversions
2000
The Audrey Hepburn Story
6.078/51
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and...
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
1989
Lost Angels
6.4/15
Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a t...
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Lost Angels
1997
Wild America
6.131/111
Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they...
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Wild America
1995
The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie
6/4
Carol (Fisher) has had a rough time - a recent divorce, 2 young boys to raise, and close call with cancer. All of this emotional strain has brought ab...
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The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie
2003
Blue Car
6.3/58
Meg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, her English teacher, recognizes her talent and enc...
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Blue Car
2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
7.207/3757
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty cro...
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The Lincoln Lawyer
1988
Patty Hearst
5.7/60
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and...
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Patty Hearst
2008
To Love and Die
5.7/9
Hildy Young, a fun-loving 30-something with abandonment issues, becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down...
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To Love and Die
2013
The Host
6.295/4130
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as...
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The Host
2010
Janie Jones
6.3/40
When a fading musician (Alessandro Nivola) learns he has a teenage daughter (Abigail Breslin) from a long-ago tryst, he’s forced to take her on tour a...
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Janie Jones
1994
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
4.7/106
When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on her cheating husband and those who look...
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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance
4.718/55
Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a wom...
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
2011
Golf in the Kingdom
3/2
In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He me...
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Golf in the Kingdom
2012
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
6.325/286
When Papi, Chloe, the pups, Uncle Pedro, and their owners move to a hotel, the smallest pup Rosa feels like she doesn't fit in, and Papi wants to make...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
2001
The Rising Place
6.667/3
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injust...
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The Rising Place
1990
Sudie and Simpson
6.875/4
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 194...
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Sudie and Simpson
2024
The King Tide
6.86/121
After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into...
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The King Tide
1987
Heart
5/5
Eddie Brennan is a down-and out fighter with nowhere to go but up... and with just the right combination of guts and spirit to become a winner. Once a...
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Heart
2011
Sedona
5.6/7
A soul-searching comedic adventure set among famous red rocks and vortexes of Sedona, Arizona, visitors to the mystical town encounter eccentric chara...
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Sedona
1995
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
6.2/18
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconv...
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1987
Broken Vows
4.8/15
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes hi...
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Broken Vows
2013
The Makeover
5.575/80
This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Bo...
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The Makeover
2012
Retribution
5.7/28
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the...
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Retribution
2011
Grow Up Already
0/0
After being dumped by his girlfriend Winnie, Andy Mott is determined to win her back -- the only problem is, he's got a LOT of growing up to do.
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Grow Up Already
2012
The Seven Year Hitch
5.982/55
Jennifer and Kevin are childhood best friends who have lived together, platonically, as adults for many years. When Jennifer decides to marry her chea...
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The Seven Year Hitch
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
3/1
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does mar...
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
2023
Reptile
6.669/1278
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, a...
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Reptile
2013
Plush
5.496/116
A young singer/songwriter, despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may be a danger...
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Plush
2013
Red Wing
5.964/14
A socially thought-provoking and stirring love story based on the French novella, 'François Le Champi' by George Sand.
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Red Wing
2014
The M Word
3/3
The 'M' Word" explores the themes of "menopause, men and menses".
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The M Word
1988
Hello Actors Studio
6.667/3
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For...
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Hello Actors Studio
2010
Backyard Wedding
6.3/16
Kim Tyler grew up loving her next-door neighbor, Evan Slauson. Now she's all set to have the wedding of her dreams to stable Jeffrey in her parents' b...
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Backyard Wedding
1989
Cold Sassy Tree
6.6/5
In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three we...
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Cold Sassy Tree
2014
You're Not You
7.37/855
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-t...
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You're Not You
1993
Praying Mantis
5.6/10
A single man thinks he has finally found a woman who loves him. The woman is charming and intelligent but holds a very dark secret which will truly te...
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Praying Mantis
1997
Trading Favors
4.636/11
A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.
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Trading Favors
1994
Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up
5.5/4
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the w...
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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.489/91
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2015
Portrait of Love
5.5/32
A prominent fashion photographer returns to her small town roots at the request of a friend. Surrounded by both memories and loved ones, she must cons...
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Portrait of Love
2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
6.474/5024
Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they ra...
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Gone in Sixty Seconds
2024
Desert Road
1/1
A young woman crashes her car and walks down the road seeking help, only to find no matter which way she walks she ends up back at her car. As night f...
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Desert Road
2023
On Sacred Ground
5.3/10
Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Da...
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On Sacred Ground
1990
A Promise to Keep
8.3/3
Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.
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A Promise to Keep
2006
The Night of the White Pants
6/5
The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend.
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The Night of the White Pants
2010
Jolene
6.232/125
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.
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Jolene
1991
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
9/1
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
0/0
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
1988
Big
7.192/4162
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has gro...
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Big
2016
Unleashing Mr. Darcy
5.59/100
Fishing for direction in life, Elizabeth gets the opportunity of showing her dog in a fancy New York dog show. The judge, Donovan Darcy, comes across...
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Unleashing Mr. Darcy
2015
Woman in Gold
7.268/1479
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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Woman in Gold
1989
Pink Cadillac
5.474/269
A skip tracer helps out a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by a group of ethno-nationalist thugs, of which her husband is a member, going by t...
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Pink Cadillac
2016
Outlaws and Angels
5.638/109
A gang of cold-blooded outlaws narrowly escapes a blood-soaked bank robbery in a grimy frontier town. With a notorious bounty hunter hot on their trai...
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Outlaws and Angels
2012
The Silent Thief
5.444/18
Brennan is an outcast drifter who threatens to destroy a family's unity by displacing their son, Mike, while he is away at college. The Silent Thief i...
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The Silent Thief
2016
Love on the Run
1/1
When Franny woke up this morning it was another day of possibilities to have all her dreams come true. Her optimism can't be silenced even when Rick t...
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Love on the Run
2016
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
0/0
A docudrama that dives into the political and economic factors of 1912 that lead to the TITANIC disaster and appalling loss of life.
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Titanic: Sinking the Myths
2016
An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
7.8/15
Set in Detroit during the Civil Rights Movement, "An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win" examines the joyful life and troubled times o...
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An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
2016
A Beautiful Day
5.8/4
Gene Thompson wakes up knowing that the decision he has made will change his life forever.
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A Beautiful Day
1990
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
6.165/109
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to de...
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
2011
The Roommate
5.391/1019
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy room...
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The Roommate
1999
True Crime
6.515/884
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row...
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True Crime
1991
Frame Up
3.5/4
In the small American town of Orton Creek, David Farmer is accidentally killed by Don Curran, son of town tyrant Will Curran, during a fraternity init...
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Frame Up
2005
Mrs. Harris
5.8/20
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean...
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Mrs. Harris
1994
Babyfever
4.5/2
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyf...
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Babyfever
1994
Molly and Gina
3.571/7
Molly is the former secretary of a murdered private detective. Gina, a budding actress, witnessed the shooting which also killed her boyfriend. Togeth...
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Molly and Gina
2017
Another Kind of Wedding
5/20
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
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Another Kind of Wedding
2008
A Single Woman
5.5/4
A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragist, peace activist and...
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A Single Woman
2018
Marrying Mr. Darcy
6.196/46
Schoolteacher Elizabeth Scott and businessman/philanthropist Donovan Darcy are blissfully in love and newly engaged. As the weeks fly by and the arran...
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Marrying Mr. Darcy
2018
Shrimp
5.786/14
Shrimp explores the strange, interwoven and often hilarious daily lives of the women and men who work and play in a Los Angeles BDSM den.
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Shrimp
2019
Run the Race
6.84/72
Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college...
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Run the Race
1996
O. Henry's Christmas
5/1
Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who recei...
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O. Henry's Christmas
2007
Sex and Death 101
6.147/316
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets wors...
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Sex and Death 101
1989
Heavy Petting
5.7/10
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffma...
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Heavy Petting
1988
Bum Rap
4.25/4
Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he go...
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Bum Rap
2020
Holidate
6.969/2398
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the w...
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Holidate
2021
Awake
5.849/1191
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jil...
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Awake
1983
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
5.875/7
Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
2001
Passion and Prejudice
8.667/3
When prim and proper New England college professor Gwen Barry (Titanic's Frances Fisher) hires handsome young prison inmate Dalton Roy (Derwin Jordan)...
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Passion and Prejudice
2009
The Perfect Game
7.321/209
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
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The Perfect Game
1991
L.A. Story
6.506/395
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make...
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L.A. Story
1994
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
7.4/10
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, f...
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
2021
Grace and Grit
4.7/6
The true love story of iconic philosopher Ken Wilber and his wife Treya in 1980s California as they fall madly in love and are faced with illness and...
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Grace and Grit
2012
Reflections on Titanic
7.161/31
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp...
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Reflections on Titanic
2021
This Is Not a War Story
6/3
A ragtag group of veterans in New York deal with the aftermath of war by creating unusual art.
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This Is Not a War Story
2012
Any Day Now
6.954/109
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the un...
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Any Day Now
2025
The Wrong Paris
6.7/339
Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachel...
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The Wrong Paris
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
5.286/7
In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
1997
Titanic
7.9/27713
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...
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Titanic
2007
My Sexiest Year
1.5/2
A romantic coming-of-age story in which the kindness bestowed by a glamorous model is returned 30 years later by the young man in whom she inspired th...
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My Sexiest Year
2025
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
9/3
A personal look at the life, work and untimely death of celebrated indie cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot and killed in a tragic accident...
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Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
2023
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
7/4
James Cameron, Jon Landau, and Kate Winslet reflect on the making of Titanic, sharing unseen footage, behind-the-scenes insights, and memories that sh...
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Titanic: Stories from the Heart
Ruby Road
0/0
A terminally ill former coal-truck and school-bus driver sets off in her yellow mini-bus through the Appalachian mountains on a final journey to recon...
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Ruby Road
2011
Obsession: The Making of "The Roommate"
0/0
This featurette explores the development, casting and production of this slick thriller, and why a college campus was the perfect setting for this sto...
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Obsession: The Making of "The Roommate"
2011
The Roommate: The Next Generation of Stars
0/0
Featurette produced for “The Roommate” DVD.
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The Roommate: The Next Generation of Stars
2025
Out of the Woods
0/0
Max reconnects with Diana, an old friend, stirring long-forgotten emotions. Her fading memory complicates matters as she grapples with her deep love f...
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Out of the Woods
The Call
0/0
When a glamorous award show party spirals into overdose and betrayal, a single dose of Narcan can only save one life. As secrets unravel and guilt tak...
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