Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a German-American retired stage, television, and film actor. His best known roles are as The President in X-Men: The Last Stand, Senator Jessup in The Sum of All Fears, Peter Lassiter in The Family Man, Curtis Flemming in Shaft, Dr. Eaton in Patch Adams, Phelps Bowen in The Chamber, Clive Peoples Jr. in Nobody's Fool, Mr. Duckworth in The Mighty Ducks, Chief Paul Schaefer in Witness, Max Richter in Silkwood, Sam Taylor in Independence Day, Rothko in Dirty Harry, and narrator for the film Sophie's Choice.

  • Popularity : 12.415
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1934-06-26
  • Place of Birth : Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Josef Sommer Movies

  • 1971
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    Dirty Harry

    Dirty Harry

    7.452 1971 HD

    When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law...

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  • 1989
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    Chances Are

    Chances Are

    6.6 1989 HD

    Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and...

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  • 1993
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    Malice

    Malice

    6.3 1993 HD

    A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same...

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  • 1977
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    7.358 1977 HD

    After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is...

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  • 2000
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    The Next Best Thing

    The Next Best Thing

    5.3 2000 HD

    A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later,...

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  • 1998
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    Patch Adams

    Patch Adams

    7.311 1998 HD

    The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his...

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  • 1992
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    The Mighty Ducks

    The Mighty Ducks

    6.554 1992 HD

    After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has...

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  • 1994
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    Don't Drink the Water

    Don't Drink the Water

    5.582 1994 HD

    Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset...

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  • 2007
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    The Invasion

    The Invasion

    6.012 2007 HD

    Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running...

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  • 1983
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    Sparkling Cyanide

    Sparkling Cyanide

    6.1 1983 HD

    The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after...

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  • 1994
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    Nobody's Fool

    Nobody's Fool

    6.854 1994 HD

    A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young...

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  • 1996
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    The Chamber

    The Chamber

    6 1996 HD

    Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has...

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  • 2008
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    Stop-Loss

    Stop-Loss

    6.118 2008 HD

    A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return...

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  • 1985
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    Witness

    Witness

    7.1 1985 HD

    A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The...

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  • 2006
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    The Elephant King

    The Elephant King

    5.9 2006 HD

    The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with...

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  • 1983
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    Silkwood

    Silkwood

    6.947 1983 HD

    The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and...

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  • 2006
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    X-Men: The Last Stand

    X-Men: The Last Stand

    6.4 2006 HD

    When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of...

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  • 1985
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    D.A.R.Y.L.

    D.A.R.Y.L.

    6.4 1985 HD

    Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot...

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  • 1986
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    Double Image

    Double Image

    5.7 1986 HD

    This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.

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  • 1998
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    Bulworth

    Bulworth

    6.328 1998 HD

    A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...

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  • 1981
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    Rollover

    Rollover

    5.128 1981 HD

    An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

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  • 1980
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    Hide in Plain Sight

    Hide in Plain Sight

    5.3 1980 HD

    True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.

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  • 1981
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    Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice

    6.593 1981 HD

    Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...

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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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  • 1989
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    Bridge to Silence

    Bridge to Silence

    6 1989 HD

    A hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her husband and she finds herself in a struggle with her...

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  • 1989
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    Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

    Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

    6.727 1989 HD

    The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.

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  • 1992
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    An American Story

    An American Story

    5.8 1992 HD

    World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at...

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  • 1988
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    Dracula's Widow

    Dracula's Widow

    4.611 1988 HD

    Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

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  • 1979
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    Too Far to Go

    Too Far to Go

    1 1979 HD

    Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For...

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  • 1985
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    The Execution of Raymond Graham

    The Execution of Raymond Graham

    6.6 1985 HD

    A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately...

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  • 1976
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    The Front

    The Front

    6.964 1976 HD

    A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

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  • 1989
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    Money, Power, Murder.

    Money, Power, Murder.

    5.2 1989 HD

    Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.

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  • 1978
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    Oliver's Story

    Oliver's Story

    4.8 1978 HD

    Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long...

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  • 1980
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    The Henderson Monster

    The Henderson Monster

    1 1980 HD

    A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the...

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  • 1974
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    Man on a Swing

    Man on a Swing

    5.8 1974 HD

    A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is...

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  • 2002
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    Searching for Paradise

    Searching for Paradise

    4 2002 HD

    A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with whom she has become obsessed.

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  • 1983
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    Independence Day

    Independence Day

    5.5 1983 HD

    Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help...

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  • 1974
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    Enemies

    Enemies

    1 1974 HD

    In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to...

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  • 1989
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    Forced March

    Forced March

    6 1989 HD

    Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was...

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  • 1987
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    The Betty Ford Story

    The Betty Ford Story

    1 1987 HD

    This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.

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  • 1995
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    Strange Days

    Strange Days

    7.01 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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  • 1991
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    Shadows and Fog

    Shadows and Fog

    6.729 1991 HD

    With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

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  • 1990
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    When Will I Be Loved?

    When Will I Be Loved?

    1 1990 HD

    Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.

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  • 1982
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    Still of the Night

    Still of the Night

    5.7 1982 HD

    When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information....

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  • 1996
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    Mistrial

    Mistrial

    4.8 1996 HD

    When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused,...

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  • 1994
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    The Enemy Within

    The Enemy Within

    5.7 1994 HD

    A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.

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  • 1991
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    Under Cover

    Under Cover

    1 1991 HD

    A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Soviet reformer. Meanwhile, his best friend believes...

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  • 1991
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    Before the Storm

    Before the Storm

    1 1991 HD

    A follow up to Under Cover aka The Company (1991). Linda Purl is again Kate Del'Amico, National Intelligence Agent who travels to Kuwait in 1990 to...

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  • 1983
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    Saigon: Year Of The Cat

    Saigon: Year Of The Cat

    4.6 1983 HD

    The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob...

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  • 2002
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    The Sum of All Fears

    The Sum of All Fears

    6.346 2002 HD

    When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia...

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  • 1982
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    Hanky Panky

    Hanky Panky

    5.284 1982 HD

    Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's...

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  • 1985
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    Brotherly Love

    Brotherly Love

    7 1985 HD

    A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.

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  • 1992
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    Hostages

    Hostages

    6.5 1992 HD

    True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

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  • 1984
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    Iceman

    Iceman

    6.135 1984 HD

    A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to...

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  • 1994
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    Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

    Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

    6.3 1994 HD

    The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets

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  • 1995
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    Kansas

    Kansas

    5 1995 HD

    When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys...

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  • 1972
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    The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

    The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

    1 1972 HD

    A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused...

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  • 1987
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    A Special Friendship

    A Special Friendship

    1 1987 HD

    During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of...

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  • 2000
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    5.7 2000 HD

    Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...

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  • 1995
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    Letter to My Killer

    Letter to My Killer

    6 1995 HD

    A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that...

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  • 1975
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    Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    1 1975 HD

    George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

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  • 2000
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    Shaft

    Shaft

    6.017 2000 HD

    New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

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  • 1982
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    Sophie's Choice

    Sophie's Choice

    7.342 1982 HD

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he...

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  • 1981
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    Reds

    Reds

    6.875 1981 HD

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

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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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  • 1980
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    Doctor Franken

    Doctor Franken

    2 1980 HD

    This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing...

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  • 1995
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    Moonlight and Valentino

    Moonlight and Valentino

    5.6 1995 HD

    A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

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  • 2000
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    The Family Man

    The Family Man

    6.793 2000 HD

    Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning...

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  • 1976
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    Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

    Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

    6 1976 HD

    In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe...

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  • 1975
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    The Stepford Wives

    The Stepford Wives

    6.7 1975 HD

    Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the...

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  • 1985
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    Target

    Target

    5.9 1985 HD

    A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.

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  • 1987
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    The Rosary Murders

    The Rosary Murders

    5.5 1987 HD

    A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

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  • 1990
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    William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    William Shakespeare's Hamlet

    1 1990 HD

    A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.

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  • 1996
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    Hidden in America

    Hidden in America

    5.9 1996 HD

    Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that...

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  • 1999
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    The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

    The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

    5.3 1999 HD

    An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.

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  • 1997
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    Ally McBeal

    Ally McBeal

    6.6 1997 HD

    Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

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  • 1999
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    Providence

    Providence

    6.5 1999 HD

    Providence is an American television drama series.

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  • 1996
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    Early Edition

    Early Edition

    7.3 1996 HD

    Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 1983
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    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    6.4 1983 HD

    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and...

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  • 2002
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    Without a Trace

    Without a Trace

    7.294 2002 HD

    The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

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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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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1991
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    Under Cover

    Under Cover

    6 1991 HD

    Under Cover is an American secret agent drama series that premiered on ABC on January 7, 1991. The series starred Anthony John Denison and Linda Purl...

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  • 1991
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    A Woman Named Jackie

    A Woman Named Jackie

    9.2 1991 HD

    This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life...

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  • 1977
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    The Andros Targets

    The Andros Targets

    5 1977 HD

    James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.

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  • 1988
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    Hothouse

    Hothouse

    5 1988 HD

    A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.

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  • 1990
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    The Kennedys of Massachusetts

    The Kennedys of Massachusetts

    7.25 1990 HD

    The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr....

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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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  • 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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  • 1979
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    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    4.7 1979 HD

    The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is...

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  • 1978
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    1 1978 HD

    In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.

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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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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.567 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

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  • 2002
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    7 2002 HD

    The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of...

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  • 1999
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    The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

    The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

    4.7 1999 HD

    Based on true events, The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer tells the shocking story of Ira Einhorn, a respected American peace activist in 1970s America....

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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