Richard Edson

Richard Edson

Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician. He was born in New Rochelle, New York to a Jewish family. In 1979, Edson was a founding member of the San Francisco art rock band The Alterboys with Snuky Tate, Tono Rondone, Richard Kelly and JC Garrett, playing both drums and trumpet. From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youth's original drummer and played drums for Konk at the same time. After the release of Sonic Youth's self-titled debut EP, Edson left the band to play with Konk full-time. Edson also played trumpet with San Francisco band The Offs on the group's eponymous 1984 album. He started his acting career on screen in the feature film, Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Since then, he has been known for his roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Do The Right Thing (1989), Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Strange Days (1995). From Wikipedia.

  • Title: Richard Edson
  • Popularity: 8.576
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1954-01-01
  • Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
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Richard Edson Movies

  • 1989
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    Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

    7.7 1989 HD

    Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...

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  • 1984
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    Stranger Than Paradise

    Stranger Than Paradise

    7.2 1984 HD

    A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

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  • 2004
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    Land of Plenty

    Land of Plenty

    6.2 2004 HD

    After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

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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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  • 2009
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    Black Dynamite

    Black Dynamite

    7.1 2009 HD

    This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and...

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  • 1999
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    Purgatory

    Purgatory

    7.3 1999 HD

    An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and...

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  • 1997
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    Snide and Prejudice

    Snide and Prejudice

    1 1997 HD

    At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their...

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  • 1988
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    Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Out

    6.9 1988 HD

    Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a...

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  • 1992
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    Love Is Like That

    Love Is Like That

    5.5 1992 HD

    A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking...

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  • 2008
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    Columbus Day

    Columbus Day

    4.9 2008 HD

    A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.

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  • 2000
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    Timecode

    Timecode

    5.645 2000 HD

    A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex,...

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  • 2010
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    Happiness Runs

    Happiness Runs

    4.2 2010 HD

    The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he's...

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  • 1997
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    This World, Then the Fireworks

    This World, Then the Fireworks

    4.8 1997 HD

    In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and...

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  • 1998
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    Lulu on the Bridge

    Lulu on the Bridge

    6 1998 HD

    This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

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  • 2000
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    Cement

    Cement

    4.4 2000 HD

    Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops and the crooks. Bob Holt, a corrupt detective...

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  • 1991
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    Eyes of an Angel

    Eyes of an Angel

    6.9 1991 HD

    John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses...

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  • 1989
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    Let It Ride

    Let It Ride

    6.3 1989 HD

    An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he...

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  • 1995
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    Jury Duty

    Jury Duty

    4.404 1995 HD

    When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a...

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  • 1989
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    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    5.7 1989 HD

    This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...

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  • 1993
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    Love, Cheat & Steal

    Love, Cheat & Steal

    4.7 1993 HD

    Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her...

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  • 1994
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    Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

    Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

    4.8 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Sunshine State

    Sunshine State

    6.3 2002 HD

    A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real...

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  • 1996
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    Intimate Betrayal

    Intimate Betrayal

    1 1996 HD

    Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a...

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  • 1989
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    Shannon's Deal

    Shannon's Deal

    1 1989 HD

    A washed-up lawyer refuses to take a bribe and instead goes after the South American drug cartel that's trying to push those in its way. Pilot for...

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  • 1996
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    Wedding Bell Blues

    Wedding Bell Blues

    4 1996 HD

    Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd...

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  • 1996
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    The Winner

    The Winner

    4.4 1996 HD

    A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.

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  • 1996
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    Things I Never Told You

    Things I Never Told You

    5.3 1996 HD

    Ann, a cute video store clerk, calls a suicide hotline when her boyfriend breaks up with her. She speaks with Don, who volunteers there when he's not...

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  • 1993
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    What About Me

    What About Me

    4.3 1993 HD

    After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

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  • 2000
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    Jack of Hearts

    Jack of Hearts

    1.5 2000 HD

    A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.

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  • 1997
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    Double Tap

    Double Tap

    5.2 1997 HD

    A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

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  • 1996
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    Scorpion Spring

    Scorpion Spring

    7.5 1996 HD

    On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

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  • 2002
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    Apartment #5C

    Apartment #5C

    5 2002 HD

    Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very modest Brooklyn appartment. One night, during...

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  • 2005
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    The Kid & I

    The Kid & I

    5.7 2005 HD

    Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his...

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  • 1999
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    Thick as Thieves

    Thick as Thieves

    5.9 1999 HD

    Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his...

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  • 2001
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    Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician

    Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician

    4 2001 HD

    Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and...

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  • 2000
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    Desperate But Not Serious

    Desperate But Not Serious

    5.7 2000 HD

    Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding reception with Jonathan, a handsome entomologist who also...

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  • 2014
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    Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

    Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

    4.1 2014 HD

    A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

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  • 1991
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    Murder in High Places

    Murder in High Places

    1 1991 HD

    A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former...

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  • 2001
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    I am Josh Polonski's Brother

    I am Josh Polonski's Brother

    6.6 2001 HD

    Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until one day when Josh is killed in front of Abe's eyes....

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  • 2014
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    Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

    Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

    5.6 2014 HD

    An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

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  • 1987
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    Walker

    Walker

    6.3 1987 HD

    William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

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  • 1988
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    Tougher Than Leather

    Tougher Than Leather

    5.3 1988 HD

    Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they...

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  • 2014
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    Dark Hearts

    Dark Hearts

    3.8 2014 HD

    When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception...

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  • 2013
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    Space Cadet

    Space Cadet

    1 2013 HD

    Paul, a preoccupied 15-year old, tries to be helpful by cooking the family dinner, but nearly blows the place up instead. When his hippie parents...

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  • 2018
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    Dream Murder Machine

    Dream Murder Machine

    1 2018 HD

    An unstable women channels Ingrid Bergman to overcome her fears.

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  • 1993
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    Joey Breaker

    Joey Breaker

    4.2 1993 HD

    Joey is a player, a hot-shot movie agent in New York. If a deal can be made, he'll make it. If a rising talent can be snapped up, he'll be the first...

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  • 1993
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    Super Mario Bros.

    Super Mario Bros.

    4.4 1993 HD

    Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only...

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  • 2007
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    The Astronaut Farmer

    The Astronaut Farmer

    6.2 2007 HD

    Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank....

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  • 1997
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    Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

    Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

    5 1997 HD

    In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.

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  • 1986
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    Howard the Duck

    Howard the Duck

    5.4 1986 HD

    A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard...

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  • 2016
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    Where is Rocky II?

    Where is Rocky II?

    5 2016 HD

    Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.

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  • 1983
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    Stranger Than Paradise

    Stranger Than Paradise

    7.5 1983 HD

    30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger...

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  • 2024
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    The Code

    The Code

    7 2024 HD

    A sexless couple, paranoid about the status of their relationship, embraces surveillance, spying and performance as a means to fall in love again, in...

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  • 1989
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    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    6.7 1989 HD

    The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

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  • 2004
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    Starsky & Hutch

    Starsky & Hutch

    5.8 2004 HD

    Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must...

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  • 1985
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    Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan

    6.1 1985 HD

    A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken...

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  • 1995
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    Strange Days

    Strange Days

    7 1995 HD

    Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...

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  • 2018
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    Burning Shadow

    Burning Shadow

    6.2 2018 HD

    Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie...

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  • 2000
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    The Million Dollar Hotel

    The Million Dollar Hotel

    5.889 2000 HD

    A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

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  • 2009
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    The Greims

    The Greims

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1986
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    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    7.6 1986 HD

    After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures...

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  • 1986
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    Platoon

    Platoon

    7.741 1986 HD

    As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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  • 1991
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    Fourth Story

    Fourth Story

    5.6 1991 HD

    Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a...

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  • 1992
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    Crossing the Bridge

    Crossing the Bridge

    5.893 1992 HD

    A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running...

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  • 2019
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    3 from Hell

    3 from Hell

    5.8 2019 HD

    After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot...

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  • 1989
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    China Lake

    China Lake

    1 1989 HD

    Edmond, a compulsive TV-watcher, and his apathetic son Scooter live in a caravan in the Nevada desert. One of the highlights of Edmond's life is when...

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  • 2008
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    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    6.2 2008 HD

    An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

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  • 2004
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    Goodnight, Joseph Parker

    Goodnight, Joseph Parker

    6 2004 HD

    Unapologetically brash in dialogue and texture GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER is the classic love story brought to a no-pleasantries bar room. Girl loves...

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  • 1996
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    An Occasional Hell

    An Occasional Hell

    3.6 1996 HD

    A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of...

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  • 1995
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    Destiny Turns on the Radio

    Destiny Turns on the Radio

    5.2 1995 HD

    Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things...

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  • 2009
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    Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    7 2009 HD

    In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a...

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  • 1993
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    Posse

    Posse

    5.4 1993 HD

    A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches...

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  • 2019
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    To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

    To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

    7.3 2019 HD

    A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.

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  • 2004
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    Frankenfish

    Frankenfish

    5.7 2004 HD

    When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the...

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  • 1988
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    The Chair

    The Chair

    3.2 1988 HD

    A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

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  • 2006
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    Hard Scrambled

    Hard Scrambled

    5 2006 HD

    When the owner of a venerable diner in the wrong part of town has an "accident" the men in her life scheme and fight for control of the establishment.

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  • 1984
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    Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

    Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

    6.5 1984 HD

    Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from...

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  • 2015
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    Dutch Book

    Dutch Book

    6 2015 HD

    A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.

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  • 2001
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    Some Days in January, 1984

    Some Days in January, 1984

    1 2001 HD

    A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming...

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  • 1994
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    Motorcycle Gang

    Motorcycle Gang

    5 1994 HD

    Cal and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a motorcycle gang along the highway.

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  • 1999
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    The Shade

    The Shade

    5.7 1999 HD

    The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une...

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  • 1982
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    Vortex

    Vortex

    6.4 1982 HD

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  • 1996
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    Nash Bridges

    Nash Bridges

    6.6 1996 HD

    Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his...

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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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  • 1995
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    American Gothic

    American Gothic

    7.275 1995 HD

    Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to...

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  • 2003
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    Cold Case

    Cold Case

    7.8 2003 HD

    The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly...

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  • 1993
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    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    8 1993 HD

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  • 1994
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    Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

    7.2 1994 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

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  • 1994
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    ER

    ER

    7.8 1994 HD

    ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

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  • 1990
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    Shannon's Deal

    Shannon's Deal

    8 1990 HD

    Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and...

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  • 2012
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    Perception

    Perception

    7.2 2012 HD

    Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human...

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  • 2002
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    CSI: Miami

    CSI: Miami

    7.73 2002 HD

    CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas...

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story

    Crime Story

    8 1986 HD

    The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

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  • 2011
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    Happy Endings

    Happy Endings

    7.029 2011 HD

    A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together...

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  • 1984
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    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.467 1984 HD

    The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

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