J.T. Walsh

J.T. Walsh

James Thomas Patrick "J. T." Walsh, born in San Francisco, California on September 28, 1943, was a highly talented American actor. He had a successful career in film, television, and theater, known for his versatility and ability to play a wide range of characters. Before becoming an actor, Walsh worked as a stagehand and set builder. He made his on-screen debut in the early 1980s and quickly gained recognition for his convincing performances, often portraying authority figures or antagonists. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Walsh's career took off with notable roles in films like "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987), "A Few Good Men" (1992), and "Sling Blade" (1996). He had a commanding and intense presence on screen, making him memorable in both lead and supporting roles. Walsh was known for his roles as "quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs" (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films and was described as "everybody's favourite scumbag" by Playboy magazine. Walsh was known for his dedication to authenticity and his meticulous approach to acting. He seamlessly transitioned between genres, showcasing his talent in drama, comedy, and suspense, earning him respect as a character actor. Sadly, J.T. Walsh's career was cut short when he passed away on February 27, 1998, at the age of 54. Despite his relatively short time in the spotlight, he left a lasting legacy, remembered for his memorable performances and the depth he brought to each character he portrayed.

  • Title: J.T. Walsh
  • Popularity: 8.908
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1943-09-28
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: J. T. Walsh, James Patrick Walsh, James Thomas Patrick Walsh, James Thomas Patrick "J. T." Walsh
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J.T. Walsh Movies

  • 1992
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    A Few Good Men

    A Few Good Men

    7.5 1992 HD

    When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing...

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  • 1990
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    The Russia House

    The Russia House

    6.1 1990 HD

    Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to...

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  • 1997
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    Breakdown

    Breakdown

    6.9 1997 HD

    When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't...

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  • 1994
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    Miracle on 34th Street

    Miracle on 34th Street

    6.7 1994 HD

    Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long...

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  • 1987
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    Good Morning, Vietnam

    Good Morning, Vietnam

    7.3 1987 HD

    A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his...

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  • 1990
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    Misery

    Misery

    7.757 1990 HD

    After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado...

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  • 1996
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    Executive Decision

    Executive Decision

    6.3 1996 HD

    Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell)...

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  • 1993
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    Needful Things

    Needful Things

    6.2 1993 HD

    A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.

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  • 1998
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    Pleasantville

    Pleasantville

    7.3 1998 HD

    Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville,"...

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  • 1988
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    Tequila Sunrise

    Tequila Sunrise

    6.061 1988 HD

    In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act,...

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  • 1992
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    Hoffa

    Hoffa

    6.2 1992 HD

    A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles...

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  • 1994
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    The Client

    The Client

    6.7 1994 HD

    A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a...

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  • 1993
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    Red Rock West

    Red Rock West

    6.7 1993 HD

    When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful...

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  • 1991
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    Backdraft

    Backdraft

    6.7 1991 HD

    Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from...

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  • 1995
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    Nixon

    Nixon

    6.9 1995 HD

    A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from...

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  • 1989
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    Dad

    Dad

    6.3 1989 HD

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and...

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  • 1990
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    Narrow Margin

    Narrow Margin

    6.3 1990 HD

    An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically...

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  • 1994
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    The Last Seduction

    The Last Seduction

    6.761 1994 HD

    A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

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  • 1993
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    Sniper

    Sniper

    6.2 1993 HD

    Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills....

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  • 1996
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    Sling Blade

    Sling Blade

    7.5 1996 HD

    Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her...

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  • 1998
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    The Negotiator

    The Negotiator

    7.1 1998 HD

    The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an...

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  • 1987
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    House of Games

    House of Games

    6.8 1987 HD

    A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings,...

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  • 1983
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    Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

    Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

    1 1983 HD

    An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

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  • 1994
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    Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

    Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

    6.7 1994 HD

    25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter...

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  • 1991
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    Defenseless

    Defenseless

    5 1991 HD

    A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.

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  • 1995
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    The Babysitter

    The Babysitter

    5.196 1995 HD

    Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a lovely teen who has been hired to baby-sit the kids of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly (Lee...

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  • 1989
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    The Big Picture

    The Big Picture

    5.8 1989 HD

    Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film....

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  • 1990
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    Crazy People

    Crazy People

    5.8 1990 HD

    A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the...

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  • 1994
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    Silent Fall

    Silent Fall

    5.2 1994 HD

    Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries...

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  • 1990
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    The Grifters

    The Grifters

    6.5 1990 HD

    A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own...

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  • 1991
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    Iron Maze

    Iron Maze

    4.4 1991 HD

    In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburgh: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an...

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  • 1995
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    Black Day Blue Night

    Black Day Blue Night

    4.9 1995 HD

    A wife's husband is cheating on her. She decides to go on a road trip with her husband's other woman. While driving the two women pick up a...

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  • 1994
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    Blue Chips

    Blue Chips

    6.1 1994 HD

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future...

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  • 1996
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    Persons Unknown

    Persons Unknown

    5.2 1996 HD

    When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction...

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  • 1991
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    True Identity

    True Identity

    5.6 1991 HD

    In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

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  • 1989
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    Wired

    Wired

    3.4 1989 HD

    The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.

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  • 1996
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    Gang in Blue

    Gang in Blue

    5 1996 HD

    A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

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  • 1990
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    Why Me?

    Why Me?

    5.5 1990 HD

    A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.

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  • 1984
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    The Beniker Gang

    The Beniker Gang

    5.8 1984 HD

    When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.

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  • 1992
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    The Prom

    The Prom

    8 1992 HD

    Marty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on...

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  • 1996
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    Crime of the Century

    Crime of the Century

    7.2 1996 HD

    In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno...

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  • 1996
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    Dark Skies

    Dark Skies

    8 1996 HD

    In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own...

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  • 1999
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    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    2.5 1999 HD

    A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and...

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  • 1992
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    Contact

    Contact

    6.5 1992 HD

    An American soldier and an Arab soldier confront each other during wartime in the desert, each hoping to kill the other. But in order to survive,...

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  • 1996
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    The Little Death

    The Little Death

    4.2 1996 HD

    A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son...

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  • 1985
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    Hard Choices

    Hard Choices

    3.5 1985 HD

    A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and,...

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  • 1985
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    Right to Kill?

    Right to Kill?

    7.3 1985 HD

    Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.

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  • 1993
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    Morning Glory

    Morning Glory

    5.2 1993 HD

    An ex-convict who is on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.

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  • 1994
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    Star Struck

    Star Struck

    5.4 1994 HD

    A farm boy (Kirk Cameron) travels to Hollywood to rekindle a romance with a childhood sweetheart (Chelsea Noble), who's now an actress on the road to...

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  • 1986
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    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

    7.5 1986 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    Charlie's Ghost Story

    Charlie's Ghost Story

    5.5 1995 HD

    Actor Anthony Edwards made his directorial debut with this comic fantasy based on a story by Mark Twain. Trenton Knight plays Charlie, a young boy...

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  • 1993
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    The American Clock

    The American Clock

    6.5 1993 HD

    Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market...

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  • 1995
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    The Low Life

    The Low Life

    5.8 1995 HD

    Yale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet.

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  • 1992
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    In the Shadow of a Killer

    In the Shadow of a Killer

    1 1992 HD

    Courtroom drama involving the mafia inspired by true events.

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  • 1988
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    Things Change

    Things Change

    6.2 1988 HD

    Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder...

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  • 1983
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    Eddie Macon's Run

    Eddie Macon's Run

    5.8 1983 HD

    Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for...

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  • 1993
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    Partners

    Partners

    4.167 1993 HD

    A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former college sweetheart.

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  • 1997
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    Hope

    Hope

    5.167 1997 HD

    The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.

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  • 1993
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    National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

    National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

    6 1993 HD

    An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before...

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  • 1995
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    Outbreak

    Outbreak

    6.6 1995 HD

    A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus...

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  • 1986
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    Power

    Power

    6 1986 HD

    Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio...

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  • 1987
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    Tin Men

    Tin Men

    6.3 1987 HD

    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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  • 1996
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    Sacred Cargo

    Sacred Cargo

    1 1996 HD

    Two brothers head to Russia to help a group of priests smuggle $200 million worth of sacred relics out of the country in order to keep them out of...

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  • 1999
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    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    2.5 1999 HD

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  • 1996
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    Dark Skies

    Dark Skies

    7.3 1996 HD

    Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a...

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  • 1985
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    Spenser: For Hire

    Spenser: For Hire

    6.6 1985 HD

    Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new...

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  • 1986
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    L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

    7.046 1986 HD

    L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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  • 1993
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    Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

    Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

    6.974 1993 HD

    A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

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  • 1982
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    Little Gloria... Happy at Last

    Little Gloria... Happy at Last

    6.8 1982 HD

    The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and...

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  • 1993
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    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    8.4 1993 HD

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena....

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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