
Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men (1957), and Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.343 |
Birthday | 1919-11-04 |
Place of Birth | Bronx, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Martin Henry Balsam, Мартин Болсам, |

1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's
7.6/4216
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her a...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's

1976

All the President's Men
7.649/1850
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
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All the President's Men

1960

Psycho
8.423/10249
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates...
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Psycho

1988

The Brother from Space
2.5/4
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The Brother from Space

1970

Catch-22
6.7/308
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...
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Catch-22

1974

Murder on the Orient Express
7.14/1435
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Murder on the Orient Express

1994

The Silence of the Hams
4.859/184
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
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The Silence of the Hams

1972

The Hassled Hooker
6.6/7
Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison,...
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The Hassled Hooker

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.16/550
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

Little Big Man
7.5/637
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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Little Big Man

1962

Cape Fear
7.4/584
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi...
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Cape Fear

1985

St. Elmo's Fire
6.148/549
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to...
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St. Elmo's Fire

1976

Two-Minute Warning
6.2/90
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...
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Two-Minute Warning

1964

Seven Days in May
7.3/199
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Seven Days in May

1974

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7.5/540
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1965

Harlow
5.4/18
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both...
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Harlow

1971

The Anderson Tapes
6.1/160
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the enti...
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The Anderson Tapes

1985

Death Wish 3
6.2/429
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a la...
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Death Wish 3

1975

Mitchell
3.3/42
A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his...
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Mitchell

1973

The Stone Killer
6.208/77
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
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The Stone Killer

1959

Winterset
0/0
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t...
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Winterset

1979

The Horror Show
6/2
A history of horror movies.
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The Horror Show

1967

Hombre
7.053/218
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when...
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Hombre

1990

Two Evil Eyes
6.12/284
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a stra...
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Two Evil Eyes

1965

A Thousand Clowns
7.1/28
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a...
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A Thousand Clowns

1964

The Carpetbaggers
5.8/35
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruth...
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The Carpetbaggers

1959

Al Capone
6.6/50
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny To...
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Al Capone

1977

Silver Bears
5.9/26
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ar...
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Silver Bears

1979

Cuba
5.5/49
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances...
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Cuba

1986

The Delta Force
5.9/439
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take th...
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The Delta Force

1944

Winged Victory
5.5/2
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
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Winged Victory

1957

Time Limit
7/21
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits...
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Time Limit

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man
6.7/82
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (O...
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The Six Million Dollar Man

1960

Everybody Go Home!
7.6/111
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
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Everybody Go Home!

1965

The Bedford Incident
6.9/88
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Th...
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The Bedford Incident

1977

The Sentinel
6.1/199
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a B...
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The Sentinel

1966

After the Fox
6/76
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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After the Fox

1993

24 Hour Psycho
4/2
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred...
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24 Hour Psycho

1969

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
5.4/24
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a yo...
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

1978

Eyes Behind the Stars
4.3/10
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that the...
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Eyes Behind the Stars

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
5.6/12
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationship...
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1975

Cry, Onion!
5/25
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted...
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Cry, Onion!

1980

The Love Tapes
3/1
At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients have misadventures while trying to find the right p...
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The Love Tapes

1987

P.I. Private Investigations
4.8/6
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
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P.I. Private Investigations

1979

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
6/1
A young woman volunteers to carry an embryo transplant for a couple that has tried and failed to have a baby. Soon, however, she begins to have second...
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The Seeding of Sarah Burns

1959

Middle of the Night
7.031/32
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...
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Middle of the Night

1978

Blood and Diamonds
6.5/10
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were...
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Blood and Diamonds

1975

Season For Assassins
4.7/6
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who...
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Season For Assassins

1977

Contract on Cherry Street
6.3/3
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
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Contract on Cherry Street

1975

Miles To Go Before I Sleep
6/2
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep

1976

Death Rage
5.5/22
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
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Death Rage

1981

The Salamander
5.7/22
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala...
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The Salamander

1976

Meet Him and Die
5.4/5
Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly in...
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Meet Him and Die

1971

Confessions of a Police Captain
6.8/38
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncove...
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Confessions of a Police Captain

1961

Ada
6.4/16
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha...
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Ada

1969

Me, Natalie
5.6/19
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be prett...
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Me, Natalie

1978

Siege
5.2/4
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because th...
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Siege

1990

The Last Match
5/5
The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of...
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The Last Match

1979

Gardenia
4.833/3
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
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Gardenia

1969

Trilogy
6/4
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was liste...
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Trilogy

1972

The Man
6.3/3
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, S...
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The Man

1985

Murder in Space
4.8/5
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...
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Murder in Space

1970

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
6/4
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told th...
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

1991

Cape Fear
7.3/3492
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14...
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Cape Fear

1963

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
5.8/7
TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own...
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

1973

A Brand New Life
0/0
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
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A Brand New Life

1954

On the Waterfront
7.9/1607
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...
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On the Waterfront

1955

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
0/0
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse...
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A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

1978

Rainbow
0/0
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie stu...
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Rainbow

1979

Aunt Mary
8/1
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000...
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Aunt Mary

1976

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
6.4/9
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

1981

People vs. Jean Harris
0/0
This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the refined private school headmistress who was convi...
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People vs. Jean Harris

1986

Second Serve
5.4/5
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashbac...
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Second Serve

1987

Brothers in Blood
5/1
War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. I...
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Brothers in Blood

1958

Bomber's Moon
0/0
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate lightly a youn...
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Bomber's Moon

1962

Conquered City
4.3/3
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed i...
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Conquered City

1970

Hunters Are for Killing
4.5/2
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his adoptive father, who holds him responsi...
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Hunters Are for Killing

1973

Counselor at Crime
5.6/13
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either on...
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Counselor at Crime

1972

Night of Terror
6.2/8
A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
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Night of Terror

1975

Smiling Maniacs
0/0
During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.
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Smiling Maniacs

1972

Chronicle of a Homicide
5.6/11
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating...
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Chronicle of a Homicide

1980

The Warning
5.4/7
During a high-stakes investigation into corporate and banking elites tied to organized crime, a police chief and his team are murdered for refusing a...
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The Warning

1974

Trapped Beneath the Sea
5.8/4
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-subma...
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Trapped Beneath the Sea

1978

The Millionaire
0/0
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...
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The Millionaire

1992

The Sands of Time
0/0
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
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The Sands of Time

1952

The Living Bible
6/1
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
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The Living Bible

1995

Unknown Soldier
6/1
In 1943, a group of Italian and Allied soldiers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned villa. When they discover that they are in fact dead and t...
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Unknown Soldier

1958

Marjorie Morningstar
6.2/20
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at...
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Marjorie Morningstar

1977

The Storyteller
0/0
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
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The Storyteller

1980

There Goes The Bride
0/0
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't...
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There Goes The Bride

1984

The Goodbye People
0/0
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he...
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The Goodbye People

1984

Innocent Prey
4/4
A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes.
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Innocent Prey

1979

The House on Garibaldi Street
5.5/2
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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The House on Garibaldi Street

1997

Legend of the Spirit Dog
0/0
A young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
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Legend of the Spirit Dog

1973

La colonna infame
6/1
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
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La colonna infame

1987

Kids Like These
0/0
Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises them to give the child away, not to "waste their time...
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Kids Like These

1996

O. Henry's Christmas
0/0
Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who recei...
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O. Henry's Christmas

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
6.5/14
After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he takes up an friendly offer of a holiday in...
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The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

1976

Raid on Entebbe
6/54
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane la...
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Raid on Entebbe

1968

Around the World of Mike Todd
6/2
"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous be...
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Around the World of Mike Todd

1993

La Classe américaine
7.6/230
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
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La Classe américaine

1957

12 Angry Men
8.5/8954
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of m...
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12 Angry Men

1988

The Child Saver
0/0
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
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The Child Saver

1983

I Want to Live
4/2
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her partici...
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I Want to Live

1970

The Enemy Before Us
0/0
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
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The Enemy Before Us

1949

Concerning a Woman of Sin
0/0
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that t...
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Concerning a Woman of Sin

1957

The Defender (Studio One)
7.2/2
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments...
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The Defender (Studio One)

1982

Night of 100 Stars
6.5/2
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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