Sam Robards

Sam Robards

Sam Prideaux Robards (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for his film roles in American Beauty (1999) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). For his performance in the Broadway production of The Man Who Had All the Luck, he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Robards, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Sam Robards
  • Popularity: 1.8149
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1961-12-16
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Sam Robards Movies

  • 1999
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    American Beauty

    American Beauty

    8 1999 HD

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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  • 2001
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    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    7.054 2001 HD

    David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

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  • 1994
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    Prêt-à-Porter

    Prêt-à-Porter

    5.2 1994 HD

    During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

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  • 1985
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    Fandango

    Fandango

    6.672 1985 HD

    In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

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  • 2004
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    Catch That Kid

    Catch That Kid

    5.594 2004 HD

    A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills and teamwork to navigate the challenge.

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  • 2009
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    The Rebound

    The Rebound

    6.505 2009 HD

    Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?

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  • 2001
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    Life as a House

    Life as a House

    7.091 2001 HD

    When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

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  • 1994
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    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

    5.8 1994 HD

    Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

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  • 1988
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    Bird

    Bird

    6.841 1988 HD

    Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

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  • 2009
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    Perestroika

    Perestroika

    3.8 2009 HD

    Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis

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

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

    1 1983 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    The Ballad of Little Jo

    The Ballad of Little Jo

    5.8 1993 HD

    After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

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  • 1985
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    Not Quite Paradise

    Not Quite Paradise

    4.8 1985 HD

    Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or search for themselves. But when American pre-med student Mike falls for tough kibbutz woman Gila he must make the most difficult choice of his life. In a land of clashing cultures, remarkable possibilities and shocking dangers, can real love survive the most surprising challenge of them all?

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  • 1999
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    Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

    6.8 1999 HD

    After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.

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  • 1998
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    Love from Ground Zero

    Love from Ground Zero

    1 1998 HD

    Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.

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  • 2007
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    Awake

    Awake

    6.542 2007 HD

    While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

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  • 2014
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    Grand Street

    Grand Street

    5 2014 HD

    Camilla Reilly’s elegant life has come undone. Once a fast-track film executive living in a luxurious SoHo loft, she finds herself unemployed, broke, single and suddenly homeless. Just as her cool, steely façade gives way to quiet desperation, she meets Amory, a brash young writer whose deeply personal screenplay she rejected a year earlier. Though Camilla doesn’t remember him, “Amo” has never forgotten. Over of the course of the next 24 hours, the two share a sleepless journey through the teeming streets and shadowy scenes of late night Manhattan. From downtown demimonde to uptown refinement, they edge closer to discovering their secret connection, until, ultimately, their whirlwind love story takes a fateful turn.

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  • 2022
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    Isle of Hope

    Isle of Hope

    1 2022 HD

    A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.

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  • 2002
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    Obsessed

    Obsessed

    5.2 2002 HD

    A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.

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  • 1988
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    Pancho Barnes

    Pancho Barnes

    5 1988 HD

    Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

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  • 2001
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    On Golden Pond

    On Golden Pond

    8.3 2001 HD

    Character-driven story about an elderly man coming to terms with his age, and the nearing of death; a middle-aged woman attempting to enter into a father-daughter relationship with her dad, whom she has never known closely; and a young teenager dealing with parental divorce. Ethel and Norman Thayer are an old couple living "On Golden Pond". Their daughter, Chelsea, is 42 years old, and has never been married. She is dating a 45 year old dentist, and brings him up to Golden Pond to meet her parents. Her boyfriend, Bill, has a 14 year old son named Billy, who comes along. Young Billy has been virtually raised by his mother, who is newly divorced from his father. The troubled child is left with the elderly Thayers for some time, as his father and Chelsea take off for a tour of Europe.

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  • 1988
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    Bright Lights, Big City

    Bright Lights, Big City

    5.673 1988 HD

    A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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  • 2008
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    Che: Part One

    Che: Part One

    6.801 2008 HD

    Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

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  • 2000
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    Bounce

    Bounce

    5.804 2000 HD

    Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a pretty Dallas businesswoman. When the plane goes down, killing all aboard, Buddy's guilt soon turns into an alcohol problem. As part of his 12-step program, Buddy seeks atonement and decides to seek out the woman he thinks he's left a widow.

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  • 2024
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    Space Cadet

    Space Cadet

    5.479 2024 HD

    Tiffany "Rex" Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, and her "doctored" application lands her in NASA's ultra-competitive astronaut training program. In over her head, can this Florida girl rely on her quick wits, moxie and determination to get through training and into the cosmos before she blows her cover?

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  • 1996
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    Beautiful Girls

    Beautiful Girls

    6.641 1996 HD

    During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.

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  • 2025
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    Isle Child

    Isle Child

    1 2025 HD

    When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his vague past.

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  • 2018
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    Where Is Kyra?

    Where Is Kyra?

    5.574 2018 HD

    Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.

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  • 2001
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    The Warden

    The Warden

    7 2001 HD

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  • 2011
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    The Art of Getting By

    The Art of Getting By

    6.562 2011 HD

    George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

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  • 1996
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    The Man Who Captured Eichmann

    The Man Who Captured Eichmann

    5.9 1996 HD

    Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.

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  • 1985
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    Into Thin Air

    Into Thin Air

    7 1985 HD

    Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.

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  • 1995
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    Donor Unknown

    Donor Unknown

    8 1995 HD

    Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murdered so Nick could live.

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  • 2016
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    The Late Bloomer

    The Late Bloomer

    5.421 2016 HD

    A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

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  • 2000
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    3.8 2000 HD

    A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.

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  • 1997
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    Dinner and Driving

    Dinner and Driving

    6.5 1997 HD

    A newly married couple faces problems in the form of siblings, friends and exes.

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  • 2008
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    The Other Side of the Tracks

    The Other Side of the Tracks

    4.2 2008 HD

    A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.

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  • 1982
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    Tempest

    Tempest

    5.9 1982 HD

    A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.

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  • 2004
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    The Blackwater Lightship

    The Blackwater Lightship

    5.923 2004 HD

    A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

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  • 2004
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    Surviving Eden

    Surviving Eden

    1 2004 HD

    A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his short-lived stint with fame and fortune.

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  • 1989
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    Casualties of War

    Casualties of War

    7.139 1989 HD

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

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  • 2004
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    Marmalade

    Marmalade

    1 2004 HD

    Marmalade is a romantic comedy about a fashion model who gets too old to continue her work. Her demise in her professional life happens as her personal life falls completely apart.

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  • 1997
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    The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

    The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

    5.8 1997 HD

    David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.

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  • 2016
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    Her Secret Sessions

    Her Secret Sessions

    1 2016 HD

    After losing her daughter and a difficult divorce, an attractive woman finds herself exploring the world of online dating, but her adventures lead her into a web of lies and risky behavior.

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  • 2025
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    Punch

    Punch

    1 2025 HD

    As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal mistake that lands him in prison. As he struggles to accept the consequences and build a new life, he finds an unusual source of salvation, the parents of the boy he killed. Based on a remarkable true story, Punch is two-time Olivier Award winner from playwright James Graham.

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  • 2005
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    Manderlay

    Manderlay

    6.88 2005 HD

    In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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  • 2007
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    Gossip Girl

    Gossip Girl

    8.174 2007 HD

    An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.331 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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  • 1985
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    Spenser: For Hire

    Spenser: For Hire

    6.7 1985 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    CSI: Miami

    CSI: Miami

    7.706 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 counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

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  • 1996
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    Spin City

    Spin City

    7.048 1996 HD

    Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

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  • 1998
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    Maximum Bob

    Maximum Bob

    6.5 1998 HD

    Maximum Bob is a short-lived television series that debuted in 1998 on ABC TV. Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel with the same title.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.6 1951 HD

    Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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  • 1990
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    Get a Life

    Get a Life

    7.381 1990 HD

    Surreal, twisted and hilariously funny, Get a Life is the ultimate anti-sitcom. Chris Peterson is a 30-year-old paperboy who still lives with his parents and who seems to have an ever decreasing grip on reality.

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  • 2004
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    Clubhouse

    Clubhouse

    3.5 2004 HD

    For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. Until now, he's been the golden boy while his rebellious older sister, Betsy, has always been in the doghouse. Pete attends a strict Catholic high school where he hangs out with his best friend, Mike, who hopes to cash in on his friend's new position in life. On the job, Pete becomes a member of a new family that includes Conrad Dean, the team's captain and star third baseman and one of the boy's all-time idols, who takes on the role of an older brother. Also in the clubhouse are Pete's boss, Lou Russo, a gruff but fair equipment manager who becomes a much-needed father figure; Carlos Tavares, a rookie who believes that Pete is his good luck charm, and Jose Marquez, the Empires' territorial head batboy. Pete is over the moon at being part of his favorite team but he must still balance life at home and life in the big leagues as he faces the moral dilemmas and curve balls that are thrown his way.

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  • 1988
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    TV 101

    TV 101

    5 1988 HD

    Recently divorced Kevin Keegan is a photo journalist who quits his job and returns to alma mater, Roosevelt High School, to teach journalism. He then teaches his class how to produce a television news program instead of a traditional school newspaper... TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series stars Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc. The music for this show was created and produced by Todd Rundgren.

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  • 1995
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    The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

    7.695 1995 HD

    Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

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  • 2011
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    Body of Proof

    Body of Proof

    7.057 2011 HD

    Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.

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  • 2010
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    Blue Bloods

    Blue Bloods

    7.78 2010 HD

    A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.

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  • 1999
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    The West Wing

    The West Wing

    8.246 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 presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

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  • 2013
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    Twisted

    Twisted

    7.365 2013 HD

    A one-hour mystery full of twists and turns that follows Danny Desai, a charismatic 16-year-old with a troubled past who returns to his hometown after spending five years in juvenile detention. Immediately branded an outcast, Danny attempts to reconnect with his two childhood best friends, Jo and Lacey. But when a fellow student is found dead in her home, Danny instantly becomes the prime suspect and town spirals into a frenzy of suspicion and mystery. Jo and Lacey must decide if their childhood friend is unforgivable, or if he's really a victim being persecuted for his own twisted secrets.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.331 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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  • 1998
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    Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

    7.388 1998 HD

    Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 

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  • 2021
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    Y: The Last Man

    Y: The Last Man

    6.778 2021 HD

    Traverse a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. Follow the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.

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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.591 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.

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  • 2009
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    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.59 2009 HD

    Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

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  • 2010
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    Treme

    Treme

    7.575 2010 HD

    Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

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  • 2022
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    Carmen Curlers

    Carmen Curlers

    6.868 2022 HD

    In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

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