John Heard
John Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017) was an American actor. He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). Other films include The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Big (1988), The Pelican Brief (1993), White Chicks (2004), and his role as the lead protagonist (Kevin McCallister)‘s father, Peter, in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). From 1995 to 1997, he played the role of Roy Foltrigg in the television series The Client. From 2005 to 2006, Heard played the role of Governor Frank Tancredi in Prison Break. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 31.718 |
Birthday | 1945-03-07 |
Place of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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1992
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
6.74/9220
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems f...
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1990
Home Alone
7.4/10785
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. Bu...
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Home Alone
2005
Edison
5.3/308
In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator from the district attorney's office join forces to ga...
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Edison
1988
Big
7.157/3452
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 grow...
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Big
2005
The Deal
5.6/20
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
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The Deal
1985
After Hours
7.487/1375
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
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After Hours
1990
Awakenings
7.762/2415
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patie...
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Awakenings
1992
Radio Flyer
7/185
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W...
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Radio Flyer
1997
One Eight Seven
6.625/542
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teache...
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One Eight Seven
1982
Cat People
6.059/477
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is draw...
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Cat People
2005
Sweet Land
6.2/40
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Sweet Land
2004
Mind the Gap
5.4/6
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
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Mind the Gap
1984
C.H.U.D.
5.656/266
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a...
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C.H.U.D.
1981
Cutter's Way
6.4/134
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
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Cutter's Way
1989
The Package
6.1/199
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...
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The Package
1988
Betrayed
6/115
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
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Betrayed
1998
Snake Eyes
6.155/1267
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence...
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Snake Eyes
2004
White Chicks
6.953/3742
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socia...
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White Chicks
1991
Rambling Rose
6.2/65
Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and per...
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Rambling Rose
2000
Pollock
6.667/294
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
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Pollock
2000
Animal Factory
6.351/218
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...
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Animal Factory
1993
The Pelican Brief
6.593/1474
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Pelican Brief
1988
The Milagro Beanfield War
6.4/78
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real...
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The Milagro Beanfield War
1991
Deceived
5.7/100
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a c...
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Deceived
1985
Heaven Help Us
6.3/65
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class...
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Heaven Help Us
2005
The Chumscrubber
6.5/183
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his fr...
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The Chumscrubber
2010
Formosa Betrayed
6.2/15
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web o...
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Formosa Betrayed
1999
Desert Blue
5.6/35
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an...
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Desert Blue
2006
Gamers
4.1/5
Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary......
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Gamers
1979
Chilly Scenes of Winter
6.9/20
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker w...
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
7.104/24
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive f...
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1988
Beaches
6.6/245
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
The Lucky Ones
6.415/158
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has mov...
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The Lucky Ones
2010
The Truth
5.1/19
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated...
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The Truth
1996
My Fellow Americans
6/143
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...
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My Fellow Americans
1985
The Trip to Bountiful
7.3/47
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked so...
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The Trip to Bountiful
1990
Mindwalk
6.7/45
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering...
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Mindwalk
2001
The Big Heist
4.9/10
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this...
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The Big Heist
2005
Locusts
3.9/17
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered...
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Locusts
1988
The Telephone
4.6/23
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve a...
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The Telephone
1984
Too Scared to Scream
5.4/19
A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
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Too Scared to Scream
1984
Best Revenge
0/0
When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks on a suicide mission to smuggle four million doll...
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Best Revenge
2012
A Perfect Ending
6.126/115
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecc...
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A Perfect Ending
1997
Men
3.7/6
A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.
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Men
1977
First Love
3/3
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
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First Love
2002
The Pilot's Wife
4.5/2
Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncov...
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The Pilot's Wife
1993
There Was a Little Boy
5.8/4
Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple...
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There Was a Little Boy
2013
Runner Runner
5.646/1195
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore e...
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Runner Runner
2007
Brothers Three: An American Gothic
3.3/3
Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons t...
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Brothers Three: An American Gothic
2000
The Photographer
3.5/2
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...
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The Photographer
2013
Assault on Wall Street
5.897/447
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes...
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Assault on Wall Street
1978
On the Yard
5.8/4
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's po...
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On the Yard
2002
Monday Night Mayhem
5.3/6
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...
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Monday Night Mayhem
2013
Sharknado
3.92/1524
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer...
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Sharknado
1977
Between the Lines
5/18
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of...
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Between the Lines
2007
Dead Lenny
3.4/5
A local New York City mobster named Tony Thick is expecting $5 million in cash to be delivered by Lenny Long from Los Angeles. Soon enough he realizes...
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Dead Lenny
2013
Torn
5.8/5
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
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Torn
2013
Snake & Mongoose
5.3/12
The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, combined with corporate giants t...
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Snake & Mongoose
1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?
7/2
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
2014
Animals
5.7/20
ANIMALS tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though the...
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Animals
2001
The Boys of Sunset Ridge
2.5/2
Four young friends sneak onto an exclusive country club for 18 holes of golf, and begin a tradition that will strengthen their bonds and weather the t...
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The Boys of Sunset Ridge
1997
Silent Cradle
6.5/1
A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been de...
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Silent Cradle
2014
Boys of Abu Ghraib
5.5/58
An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Ira...
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Boys of Abu Ghraib
2000
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
6.1/9
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2013
Would You Rather
5.997/874
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
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Would You Rather
1997
Executive Power
6.5/5
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an...
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Executive Power
2012
Stealing Roses
0/0
Terrified at the prospect of losing his seriously ill wife, a man plans a bank robbery to pay for her medical treatments with help from his eccentric...
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Stealing Roses
2014
Witches Blood
1/1
Mary Horror is back! She has her spell book and is ready to wreck havoc on the small town of Bernardsville. She needs the Witches blood of the four wi...
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Witches Blood
2006
Steel City
6.2/10
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county...
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Steel City
1993
Me and Veronica
1/1
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
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Me and Veronica
2013
The Insomniac
4.5/11
John Figg has a great career and a gorgeous fiancée. When he inherits a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, he finally starts to feel like his life is...
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The Insomniac
2007
The Great Debaters
7.221/584
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American...
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The Great Debaters
2014
Warren
5/2
After giving up on making it in the Chicago improv scene, a young comedian fatefully reconnects with the former love of his life one fall night while...
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Warren
2014
Sister
6.7/3
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
2001
O
5.8/252
Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoratio...
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O
2014
The Nurse
5.4/11
A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and danger...
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The Nurse
1990
The End of Innocence
0/0
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitte...
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The End of Innocence
2015
The Murder Pact
6.3/21
Four friends at a prestigious university whose promising futures are jeopardized when they become connected to the accidental death of a classmate. Wh...
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The Murder Pact
1996
Before and After
5.9/177
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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Before and After
1993
In the Line of Fire
6.973/1482
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...
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In the Line of Fire
2008
Generation Gap
7.4/4
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.
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Generation Gap
2000
The Witness
2/1
When a criminal threatens husband and wife, their family and their business, their son is the prime target. With the help of one of their employees, t...
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The Witness
2011
Too Big to Fail
7/211
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...
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Too Big to Fail
2016
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
5.3/38
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to...
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Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
1988
Necessity
4/2
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really w...
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Necessity
1983
Legs
0/0
Three hopefuls -- Shanna Reed, Deborah Geffner and Maureen Teefy -- each wants to be a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, vying for the one open spot the...
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Legs
2016
So B. It
6.5/12
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
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So B. It
1984
Violated
4/5
An actress in New York City goes against a group of gangsters who are abusing her "party girl" friends.
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Violated
2003
Word of Honor
7/4
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 1...
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Word of Honor
2016
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
6.5/13
Spurred by a gun incident at a school, the women of one Texas town lead a movement to get rid of guns by withholding sex from their husbands.
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Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
2016
After the Reality
5.6/27
The life of a contestant on a 'Bachelorette' style reality show is thrown into turmoil when the sudden death of his father forces him to quit the seri...
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After the Reality
2017
Last Rampage
5.6/53
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
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Last Rampage
1980
Heart Beat
5.7/15
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
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Heart Beat
2008
P.J.
3.5/2
Traumatized and suffering from amnesia after witnessing a terrible accident, a man who calls himself P.J. is admitted to a hospital, where psychiatris...
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P.J.
2000
The Wednesday Woman
0/0
Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traum...
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The Wednesday Woman
1988
The Seventh Sign
6.017/333
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse...
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The Seventh Sign
1999
Freak Weather
5/1
In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dangerous abusive relationship. One day, she sets out w...
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Freak Weather
1978
Rush It
2/1
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
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Rush It
2018
The Tale
7.109/413
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to sur...
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The Tale
2012
The Legends of Nethiah
3.3/3
A young boy whose parents are going through a bitter divorce, is given hope and courage through the powerful stories embellished by his grandfather. T...
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The Legends of Nethiah
2018
Living Among Us
6.3/37
Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live...
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Living Among Us
2015
Counting for Thunder
5/2
Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when Phillip Irwin Cooper, unlucky in work, money and love, went home to the Gulf Coast of Alabama...
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Counting for Thunder
2017
Searching for Fortune
0/0
With the news of his brothers death, Michael's world is turned upside down as he begins a journey of self-assessment, self-reflection, and self-discov...
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Searching for Fortune
2018
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
4.512/243
With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them...
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The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
1994
Because Mommy Works
0/0
Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may have Willie every second weekend. But when Ted marri...
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Because Mommy Works
1999
The Pact
5/4
After witnessing the killing of his parents, a teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a n...
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The Pact
2004
My Tiny Universe
5.5/2
Having failed to make it as an actor, a suicidal man torments a top film producer while holding him captive.
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My Tiny Universe
2006
The Guardian
7.1/1444
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him...
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The Guardian
2008
Justice League: The New Frontier
6.783/481
The human race is threatened by a powerful creature, and only the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter a...
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Justice League: The New Frontier
1992
Gladiator
7.581/315
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed an...
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Gladiator
2017
Pray for Rain
5.4/42
When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming comm...
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Pray for Rain
1975
Valley Forge
0/0
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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Valley Forge
1994
Spoils of War
2/1
In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.
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Spoils of War
2018
Buoyancy
3/1
Hoping to make amends with his girlfriend and turn his life around, Jake suddenly finds himself in a dangerous situation. Frank, an aging bail-bondsma...
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Buoyancy
1992
Waterland
6.1/32
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life i...
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Waterland
2005
Tracks
5/3
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw th...
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Tracks
2009
Little Hercules
2.7/7
Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.
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Little Hercules
1992
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
5.5/2
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
2015
Boiling Pot
5.8/2
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow betwee...
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Boiling Pot
1989
Virtuoso
0/0
In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later he suffers the onset of...
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Virtuoso
2007
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
7.1/381
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2019
Imprisoned
5.2/9
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him...
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Imprisoned
2013
Whisper Me a Lullaby
0/0
Though their upbringing was less than picturesque, twenty-something siblings Charlie (Christina Vinsick) and Scott (Peter Mychalcewycz), share a profo...
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