Arliss Howard
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1954-10-18
Locus Natus: Independence, Missouri, USA
Et ut:
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing...
release : 1997.05.23popularis : 2.294
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the...
release : 1987.06.26popularis : 59.134
Tequila Sunrise
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act,...
release : 1988.12.02popularis : 12.961
Amistad
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...
release : 1997.12.10popularis : 3.713
The Time Traveler's Wife
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true...
release : 2009.08.14popularis : 24.45
The Thicket
An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and...
release : 2024.09.05popularis : 24.956
Moneyball
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing...
release : 2011.09.23popularis : 25.678
Dandelion
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love...
release : 2004.01.15popularis : 2.093
The Lightship
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
release : 1985.12.14popularis : 2.158
CrissCross
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out...
release : 1992.05.08popularis : 3.737
Ruby
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
release : 1992.03.27popularis : 3.942
The Lesser Evil
Four best friends reunite in a remote cabin for the first time in two decades. They are not there to reminisce about the good old days, but rather,...
release : 1998.10.01popularis : 2.137
Sylvester
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn...
release : 1985.03.15popularis : 1.603
Wilder Napalm
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in...
release : 1993.08.20popularis : 3.87
Men Don't Leave
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
release : 1990.02.02popularis : 6.201
You Know My Name
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of...
release : 1999.08.22popularis : 3.687
The Infiltrator
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on...
release : 1995.06.24popularis : 2.026
The Killer
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
release : 2023.10.25popularis : 32.108
A Killer in the Family
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.
release : 1983.10.30popularis : 2.427
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
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...
release : 1996.11.08popularis : 3.267
Iran: Days of Crisis
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
release : 1991.09.30popularis : 1.576
Till Death Us Do Part
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put...
release : 1992.02.18popularis : 3.133
Old Man
A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives...
release : 1997.02.10popularis : 2.272
Plain Clothes
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity...
release : 1988.04.15popularis : 3.362
Those Secrets
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
release : 1992.03.16popularis : 1.408
Big Bad Love
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of...
release : 2001.10.11popularis : 1.558
The Day After
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue...
release : 1983.11.20popularis : 12.253
The Prodigal
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
release : 1983.10.14popularis : 1.337
The Sandlot
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by...
release : 1993.04.07popularis : 31.832
Beyond the Call
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...
release : 1996.06.23popularis : 2.3
A Map of the World
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property...
release : 1999.09.13popularis : 6.571
Awake
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed...
release : 2007.11.28popularis : 15.643
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of...
release : 2021.02.27popularis : 1.564
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.986
Birth
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally...
release : 2004.10.29popularis : 13.454
Word of Honor
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital...
release : 2003.12.06popularis : 1.46
Hands of a Stranger
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
release : 1987.05.10popularis : 4.22
Concussion
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic...
release : 2015.11.12popularis : 15.129
The Boy Downstairs
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
release : 2018.02.16popularis : 4.602
Butterfly in the Typewriter
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.157
Door to Door
A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning...
release : 1985.01.08popularis : 2.227
The Ladies Club
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of...
release : 1986.04.01popularis : 4.78
Wet
The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he...
release : 1994.05.04popularis : 3.727
Natural Born Killers
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
release : 1994.08.26popularis : 16.231
Johns
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night...
release : 1996.12.10popularis : 4.983
Mank
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the...
release : 2020.11.13popularis : 13.118
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When...
release : 1995.09.07popularis : 17.597
Lapsis
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles...
release : 2021.02.12popularis : 4.563
Mosaic
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials...
release : 2017.10.13popularis : 0.868
Weapons
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and...
release : 2007.01.19popularis : 2.645
Tales of Erotica
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 2.684
With/In Volume 2
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned...
release : 2021.06.14popularis : 1.789
For the Boys
On a USO tour during World War II, entertainer Eddie Sparks needs a partner to round out his act. Soon after hiring performer Dixie Leonard, Eddie...
release : 1991.11.22popularis : 5.913