Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina

Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American actor. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, Cousin Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.

  • Popularity : 6.985
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1944-02-29
  • Place of Birth : Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Dennis Farina Movies

  • 2000
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    Snatch

    Snatch

    7.8 2000 HD

    Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down...

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  • 1998
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    Saving Private Ryan

    Saving Private Ryan

    8.216 1998 HD

    As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain...

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  • 1998
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    Out of Sight

    Out of Sight

    6.7 1998 HD

    Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the...

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  • 2000
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    Reindeer Games

    Reindeer Games

    5.682 2000 HD

    After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

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  • 2002
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    Big Trouble

    Big Trouble

    6.1 2002 HD

    The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street...

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  • 2007
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    Purple Violets

    Purple Violets

    5.9 2007 HD

    Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially...

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  • 1993
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    Striking Distance

    Striking Distance

    5.8 1993 HD

    Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on...

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  • 1985
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    Code of Silence

    Code of Silence

    5.9 1985 HD

    A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

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  • 1996
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    Eddie

    Eddie

    5.443 1996 HD

    Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre...

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  • 1981
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    Thief

    Thief

    7.165 1981 HD

    Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime...

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  • 2001
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    Sidewalks of New York

    Sidewalks of New York

    6.1 2001 HD

    The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on...

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  • 1994
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    Little Big League

    Little Big League

    5.7 1994 HD

    When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints...

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  • 1986
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    Manhunter

    Manhunter

    7.008 1986 HD

    FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a...

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  • 1995
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    Get Shorty

    Get Shorty

    6.5 1995 HD

    Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood...

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  • 2007
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    You Kill Me

    You Kill Me

    6.14 2007 HD

    While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return...

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  • 2007
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    Bagboy

    Bagboy

    4.1 2007 HD

    Bagboy is the "from bags to riches" story of a lowly grocery store clerk who endeavors to win the international competitive bagging championships and...

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  • 1993
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    Another Stakeout

    Another Stakeout

    5.5 1993 HD

    A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness...

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  • 1988
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    Midnight Run

    Midnight Run

    7.2 1988 HD

    A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the...

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  • 2008
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    What Happens in Vegas

    What Happens in Vegas

    6.1 2008 HD

    During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other...

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  • 2002
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    Stealing Harvard

    Stealing Harvard

    4.8 2002 HD

    John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John...

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  • 1997
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    That Old Feeling

    That Old Feeling

    6.3 1997 HD

    A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the...

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  • 1993
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    A Stranger in the Mirror

    A Stranger in the Mirror

    3.7 1993 HD

    A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the...

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  • 2008
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    Bottle Shock

    Bottle Shock

    6.4 2008 HD

    Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital....

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  • 2007
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    The Grand

    The Grand

    6 2007 HD

    The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional...

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  • 2004
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    Paparazzi

    Paparazzi

    5.311 2004 HD

    A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a...

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  • 1986
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    Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

    Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

    6.4 1986 HD

    Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related...

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  • 2010
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    Knucklehead

    Knucklehead

    5.7 2010 HD

    A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent...

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  • 1999
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    The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

    4.3 1999 HD

    Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.

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  • 1997
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    Bella Mafia

    Bella Mafia

    6.8 1997 HD

    Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance...

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  • 2000
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    Bad Seed

    Bad Seed

    5.8 2000 HD

    Preston Tylk is an ordinary guy living in Seattle. When he discovers that his wife, Emily, whom he adores, is having an affair, he is devastated....

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  • 2011
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    The Last Rites of Joe May

    The Last Rites of Joe May

    5.8 2011 HD

    Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy:...

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  • 1987
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    Six Against the Rock

    Six Against the Rock

    4.9 1987 HD

    In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five...

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  • 1985
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    Final Jeopardy

    Final Jeopardy

    6.3 1985 HD

    A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of...

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  • 1989
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    The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

    The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

    6.3 1989 HD

    The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.

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  • 1986
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    Birthday Boy

    Birthday Boy

    5 1986 HD

    A salesman in a sporting-goods store takes a cross-country trip on his birthday in order to visit his old gym coach, and sell him a supply of...

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  • 2014
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    Authors Anonymous

    Authors Anonymous

    4.7 2014 HD

    When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these...

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  • 1992
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    Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

    Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

    5 1992 HD

    This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to...

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  • 2005
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    The Making of 'Heat'

    The Making of 'Heat'

    6.5 2005 HD

    Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.

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  • 1992
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    We're Talkin' Serious Money

    We're Talkin' Serious Money

    5 1992 HD

    A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.

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  • 1990
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    People Like Us

    People Like Us

    6 1990 HD

    When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to...

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  • 2014
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    Lucky Stiff

    Lucky Stiff

    5 2014 HD

    An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the...

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  • 1988
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    Open Admissions

    Open Admissions

    1 1988 HD

    An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get...

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  • 1990
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    Men Of Respect

    Men Of Respect

    4.7 1990 HD

    In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He...

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  • 2001
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    Making 'Snatch'

    Making 'Snatch'

    6.2 2001 HD

    The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.

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  • 1984
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    Hard Knox

    Hard Knox

    8 1984 HD

    A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school...

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story: Pilot

    Crime Story: Pilot

    9 1986 HD

    One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

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  • 1994
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    One Woman's Courage

    One Woman's Courage

    1 1994 HD

    Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the...

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  • 1994
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    The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

    The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

    6 1994 HD

    The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.

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  • 1993
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    Romeo Is Bleeding

    Romeo Is Bleeding

    6.215 1993 HD

    A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.

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  • 1983
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    Through Naked Eyes

    Through Naked Eyes

    4.5 1983 HD

    A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an...

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  • 1995
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    Out of Annie's Past

    Out of Annie's Past

    5.7 1995 HD

    Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a...

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  • 1995
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    Bonanza: Under Attack

    Bonanza: Under Attack

    6.7 1995 HD

    After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the...

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  • 1984
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    The Killing Floor

    The Killing Floor

    8 1984 HD

    During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the...

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  • 1993
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    The Disappearance of Nora

    The Disappearance of Nora

    5 1993 HD

    A beautiful woman is found stranded in the desert with no recollection of who she is or how she got there, so a casino boss makes it his mission to...

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  • 2004
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    This Old Cub

    This Old Cub

    1 2004 HD

    Jeff Santo explores the life and career of his father, Chicago Cub great Ron Santo.

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  • 1992
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    Mac

    Mac

    5.8 1992 HD

    Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and...

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  • 1992
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    The American Gangster

    The American Gangster

    10 1992 HD

    They fixed the World Series. They built Las Vegas. They terrorized America with their vicious murders and fearless robberies. They are men named...

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  • 1990
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    Havana

    Havana

    5.8 1990 HD

    During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the...

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  • 1992
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    Street Crimes

    Street Crimes

    5.1 1992 HD

    When two cops start a gym to help keep kids out of the drug trade, the local crime lord schemes to keep control of the streets. Meanwhile, officer...

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  • 2006
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    Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs

    Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs

    1 2006 HD

    Using the frame of opening day, 2006, this documentary examines the Cubs' 100 years without a World Series title. Between conversations with a...

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  • 1991
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    Perfect Crimes

    Perfect Crimes

    5 1991 HD

    True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.

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  • 1984
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    The Impostor

    The Impostor

    6 1984 HD

    After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get...

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  • 1986
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    Triplecross

    Triplecross

    5.8 1986 HD

    Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private...

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  • 1988
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    Unsolved Mysteries

    Unsolved Mysteries

    7.746 1988 HD

    Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive...

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  • 1983
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    Hardcastle and McCormick

    Hardcastle and McCormick

    6.4 1983 HD

    Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The...

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  • 2001
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    Dinner for Five

    Dinner for Five

    8.2 2001 HD

    Dinner for Five is a television program in which actor/filmmaker Jon Favreau and a revolving guest list of celebrities eat, drink and talk about life...

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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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  • 1982
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    Remington Steele

    Remington Steele

    7.1 1982 HD

    Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

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  • 1984
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    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.5 1984 HD

    The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

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  • 1988
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    China Beach

    China Beach

    7.2 1988 HD

    Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and...

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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    7.957 1989 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 2005
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    Law & Order: Trial by Jury

    Law & Order: Trial by Jury

    8 2005 HD

    The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a...

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story

    Crime Story

    8 1986 HD

    The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

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  • 1984
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    Hunter

    Hunter

    7.2 1984 HD

    Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt....

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  • 1985
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    Lady Blue

    Lady Blue

    6.2 1985 HD

    Lady Blue is a crime drama starring Jamie Rose as a Chicago female homicide detective Katy Mahoney. The show was produced by MGM/UA Television and...

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  • 2002
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    In-Laws

    In-Laws

    6 2002 HD

    In-Laws is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 2002 until January 2003. Newlyweds Matt and Alex move in with her parents,...

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  • 1999
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    The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

    The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

    4.2 1999 HD

    Craig Kilborn hosted this zany talk show, which followed David Letterman's show, from 1999 until 2004. Kilborn left The Daily Show in 1999 to be this...

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  • 1998
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    Buddy Faro

    Buddy Faro

    1 1998 HD

    Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad. Twenty years later, he's brought back...

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  • 2012
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    Luck

    Luck

    6.7 2012 HD

    A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.

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  • 2004
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    Justice League Unlimited

    Justice League Unlimited

    8.263 2004 HD

    Justice League Unlimited is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network....

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  • 2011
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    New Girl

    New Girl

    7.3 2011 HD

    Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable...

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  • 1992
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    Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

    Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

    5.5 1992 HD

    A D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing anyone who opposes them, like judges and...

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  • 1990
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    Blind Faith

    Blind Faith

    5.5 1990 HD

    Successful insurance salesman Rob Marshall, his bright and devoted wife Maria, and their three sons are the perfect American family. Then the...

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  • 1992
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    Cruel Doubt

    Cruel Doubt

    5 1992 HD

    A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe her son had anything to...

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  • 2005
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    Empire Falls

    Empire Falls

    6.5 2005 HD

    The humorous, poignant story of a declining New England town and its inhabitants, whose lives are deeply rooted in and influenced by the Knox River...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.36 1962 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    MacGruder and Loud

    MacGruder and Loud

    5 1985 HD

    MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn...

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  • 2011
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    The Looney Tunes Show

    The Looney Tunes Show

    8 2011 HD

    Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the “Looney Tunes” characters are back with more adventures for a new generation of viewers. The...

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  • 1999
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    Family Guy

    Family Guy

    7.366 1999 HD

    Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter...

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