Allen Garfield

Allen Garfield

Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz (November 22, 1939 - April 7, 2020), was an American film and television actor. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz.A graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He studied acting at The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked in stage before film. Garfield was a quirky and prolific actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He was known for playing nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Garfield had one sister, Lois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Garfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Allen Garfield
  • Popularity: 3.968
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1939-11-22
  • Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: Alan Garfield, Alen Garfield, Allan Goorwitz, Allen Goorwitz
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Allen Garfield Movies

  • 1987
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    Beverly Hills Cop II

    Beverly Hills Cop II

    6.5 1987 HD

    Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of...

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  • 1974
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    The Front Page

    The Front Page

    7.247 1974 HD

    A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

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  • 1974
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    The Conversation

    The Conversation

    7.5 1974 HD

    A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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  • 1999
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    The Ninth Gate

    The Ninth Gate

    6.5 1999 HD

    An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer...

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  • 1975
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    Nashville

    Nashville

    7.2 1975 HD

    The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in...

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  • 1987
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    My Best Friend's Birthday

    My Best Friend's Birthday

    5.5 1987 HD

    My Best Friend's Birthday is a partially lost black-and-white amateur film. The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36...

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  • 1996
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    Diabolique

    Diabolique

    5.5 1996 HD

    The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the...

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  • 2001
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    The Majestic

    The Majestic

    6.7 2001 HD

    Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a...

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  • 1982
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    The State of Things

    The State of Things

    6.5 1982 HD

    On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

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  • 2002
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    White Boy

    White Boy

    2 2002 HD

    An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being...

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  • 1972
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    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    6.46 1972 HD

    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

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  • 1984
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    Teachers

    Teachers

    5.6 1984 HD

    A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still...

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  • 1978
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    The Brink's Job

    The Brink's Job

    6 1978 HD

    In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe...

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  • 1983
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    The Black Stallion Returns

    The Black Stallion Returns

    6.4 1983 HD

    "Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the...

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  • 1969
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    Putney Swope

    Putney Swope

    6.5 1969 HD

    Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

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  • 1981
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    Continental Divide

    Continental Divide

    6 1981 HD

    A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

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  • 1996
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    Wild Side

    Wild Side

    5.7 1996 HD

    A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his...

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  • 1972
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    Footsteps

    Footsteps

    1 1972 HD

    A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the...

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  • 1983
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    Get Crazy

    Get Crazy

    6.5 1983 HD

    Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie...

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  • 1980
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    One Trick Pony

    One Trick Pony

    5.3 1980 HD

    An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's...

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  • 1980
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    The Stunt Man

    The Stunt Man

    6.6 1980 HD

    A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while...

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  • 1970
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    Hi, Mom!

    Hi, Mom!

    6.293 1970 HD

    Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom'...

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  • 1970
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    The Owl and the Pussycat

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    6.3 1970 HD

    Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him....

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  • 1993
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    Cyborg 2

    Cyborg 2

    4.333 1993 HD

    In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are...

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  • 1984
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    Irreconcilable Differences

    Irreconcilable Differences

    5.6 1984 HD

    Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

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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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  • 1999
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    Absence of the Good

    Absence of the Good

    4.2 1999 HD

    Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack a string of serial killings that have been...

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  • 1971
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    The Organization

    The Organization

    5.976 1971 HD

    After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street,...

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  • 1992
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    Miracle Beach

    Miracle Beach

    5.7 1992 HD

    A romantic comedy set in the Southern California beach scene. Down on his luck, Scotty McKay becomes the master of a very lonely genie, who brings...

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  • 1974
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    Busting

    Busting

    6.2 1974 HD

    Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

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  • 1971
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    Believe in Me

    Believe in Me

    5.2 1971 HD

    Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot...

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  • 1987
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    You Ruined My Life

    You Ruined My Life

    5.3 1987 HD

    "You Ruined My Life" was a cute TV movie (from the Wonderful World of Disney movies that they show on Saturday or Sunday nights) starring Soleil Moon...

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  • 1997
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    4 1997 HD

    Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues...

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  • 1971
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    Cry Uncle!

    Cry Uncle!

    4.6 1971 HD

    Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

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  • 1972
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    Get to Know Your Rabbit

    Get to Know Your Rabbit

    5.1 1972 HD

    A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer,...

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  • 1989
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    Night Visitor

    Night Visitor

    4.3 1989 HD

    A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.

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  • 1986
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    Desert Bloom

    Desert Bloom

    5.5 1986 HD

    The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet,...

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  • 1985
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    Report from Hollywood

    Report from Hollywood

    1 1985 HD

    “It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim...

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  • 1990
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    Club Fed

    Club Fed

    3.7 1990 HD

    A powerful gangster is murdered. However, All of his holdings were in his girlfriend's name. So she is charged and sent to a minimum-security prison,...

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  • 1981
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    Leave 'Em Laughing

    Leave 'Em Laughing

    8 1981 HD

    Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in...

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  • 1995
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    Stuart Saves His Family

    Stuart Saves His Family

    5.2 1995 HD

    A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

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  • 1978
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    Nowhere to Run

    Nowhere to Run

    7 1978 HD

    Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After...

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  • 1976
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    Serpico: The Deadly Game

    Serpico: The Deadly Game

    1 1976 HD

    This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the...

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  • 1972
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    Top of the Heap

    Top of the Heap

    5.8 1972 HD

    A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by...

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  • 1976
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    The Million Dollar Rip-Off

    The Million Dollar Rip-Off

    6 1976 HD

    An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority....

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  • 1976
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    Gable and Lombard

    Gable and Lombard

    5.2 1976 HD

    A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

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  • 1984
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    The Cotton Club

    The Cotton Club

    6.5 1984 HD

    Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

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  • 1973
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    Slither

    Slither

    5.7 1973 HD

    While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being...

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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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  • 1976
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    Paco

    Paco

    1 1976 HD

    Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his...

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  • 1968
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    Orgy Girls '69

    Orgy Girls '69

    2 1968 HD

    A five-part story detailing women and sex. In "The Housewife", a door-to-door salesman makes love to a lonely housewife. In "The Roomates" a woman...

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  • 1976
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    Mother, Jugs & Speed

    Mother, Jugs & Speed

    5.5 1976 HD

    To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help...

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  • 1991
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    Until the End of the World

    Until the End of the World

    6.8 1991 HD

    In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...

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  • 1971
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    You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat

    You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat

    8.5 1971 HD

    This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New...

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  • 1974
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    Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    1 1974 HD

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?

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  • 2016
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    Chief Zabu

    Chief Zabu

    2 2016 HD

    An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by taking over a new Polynesian nation.

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  • 1979
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    Fyre

    Fyre

    4.2 1979 HD

    After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her...

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  • 1970
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    The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

    The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

    5 1970 HD

    A look into the cruelties and perversions of politicians.

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  • 1992
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    Jack and His Friends

    Jack and His Friends

    3.5 1992 HD

    Jack is a middle aged, overweight shoe store owner with a secure upper middle class lifestyle, including a beautiful, demanding trophy wife. When...

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  • 1978
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    Sketches of a Strangler

    Sketches of a Strangler

    4 1978 HD

    An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...

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  • 1994
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    The Patriots

    The Patriots

    6.6 1994 HD

    Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After...

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  • 1991
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    Grave Images

    Grave Images

    1 1991 HD

    Anthology suspense / horror film with the creepy caretaker of a cemetery introducing some of its occupants and how each was murdered. Segments...

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  • 1982
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    One from the Heart

    One from the Heart

    5.9 1982 HD

    The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

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  • 1990
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    Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy

    6.1 1990 HD

    The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy...

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  • 1983
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    Trial by Terror

    Trial by Terror

    3 1983 HD

    A couple moves into a new home and find success and happiness, but soon their dream becomes a nightmare when they hear chilling voices in the night,...

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  • 1986
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    Killer in the Mirror

    Killer in the Mirror

    5.3 1986 HD

    A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she fakes her own demise and returns from the "dead"...

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  • 1971
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    Taking Off

    Taking Off

    6.901 1971 HD

    Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose...

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  • 1974
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    Virginia Hill

    Virginia Hill

    8 1974 HD

    The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.

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  • 1968
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    Greetings

    Greetings

    5.6 1968 HD

    Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.

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  • 1992
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    Citizen Cohn

    Citizen Cohn

    6.3 1992 HD

    As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and...

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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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  • 1978
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    Ring of Passion

    Ring of Passion

    7 1978 HD

    Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies...

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  • 1971
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    March of the Spring Hare

    March of the Spring Hare

    1 1971 HD

    Henry, an apathetic file clerk at the All-State Collection Agency in New York City, spends most of his working hours sitting in the file room,...

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  • 1973
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    Incident at Vichy

    Incident at Vichy

    1 1973 HD

    Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation,...

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  • 1978
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    Skateboard

    Skateboard

    3.8 1978 HD

    A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and...

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  • 1971
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    Bananas

    Bananas

    6.7 1971 HD

    When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest...

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  • 1973
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    The Marcus-Nelson Murders

    The Marcus-Nelson Murders

    7 1973 HD

    A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

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  • 1998
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    Get a Job

    Get a Job

    1 1998 HD

    Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physically work, he fabricates an imaginary job in order...

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  • 1971
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    Cry Uncle!

    Cry Uncle!

    4.6 1971 HD

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  • 1984
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    Tales from the Darkside

    Tales from the Darkside

    7.2 1984 HD

    Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 1974
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    Rhoda

    Rhoda

    6.2 1974 HD

    Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a...

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  • 1979
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    Trapper John, M.D.

    Trapper John, M.D.

    6.3 1979 HD

    Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father...

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  • 1986
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    Matlock

    Matlock

    7.2 1986 HD

    Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced...

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  • 1972
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    The Bob Newhart Show

    The Bob Newhart Show

    7.4 1972 HD

    The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972,...

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  • 1997
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    Dharma & Greg

    Dharma & Greg

    6.4 1997 HD

    Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002. It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as...

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  • 1968
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    The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

    6.5 1968 HD

    The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23,...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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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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  • 1967
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    Ironside

    Ironside

    6.9 1967 HD

    When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to...

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  • 1973
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    Adam's Rib

    Adam's Rib

    5 1973 HD

    Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13...

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  • 1972
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    Search

    Search

    6.9 1972 HD

    Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23...

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  • 1970
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    McCloud

    McCloud

    7.1 1970 HD

    Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a...

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  • 1972
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    Banyon

    Banyon

    7 1972 HD

    The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.

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  • 1999
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    The Lot

    The Lot

    0.5 1999 HD

    The Lot is a 30 minute dramedy series that aired for 2 seasons and 16 episodes on the AMC from 1999 to 2001. It profiled the fictional studio Sylver...

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  • 1991
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    Eddie Dodd

    Eddie Dodd

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1992
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    Jack's Place

    Jack's Place

    8 1992 HD

    Jack Evans is a retired jazz musician who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start.

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  • 1986
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    Sins

    Sins

    7.2 1986 HD

    Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins. An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of...

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  • 1991
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    Palace Guard

    Palace Guard

    3.5 1991 HD

    Palace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after serving three years in prison, is released on parole and...

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  • 1999
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    The West Wing

    The West Wing

    8.3 1999 HD

    The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional...

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  • 1978
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    Taxi

    Taxi

    7.2 1978 HD

    Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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