Joe Grifasi

Joe Grifasi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph G. "Joe" Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film, stage and television. Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia (née Gaglione) and Joseph J. Grifasi, a skilled laborer. Grifasi graduated from Bishop Fallon High School, a now defunct Catholic high school in Buffalo. He played football and acted in many of the school's plays. Grifasi briefly attended Canisius College in Buffalo before joining the United States Army. He went on to study at the Yale School of Drama. While at the Yale School of Drama, he met his future wife, the jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. Grifasi has played two separate members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played for the New York Yankees. In 61, set in 1961, he played Phil Rizzuto; in The Bronx Is Burning, set in 1977, he played Yogi Berra. Paul Borghese played Berra in 61, while actual 1977 broadcast recordings of Rizzuto were used in The Bronx Is Burning.

  • Title: Joe Grifasi
  • Popularity: 4.653
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1944-06-14
  • Place of Birth: Buffalo - New York - USA
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  • Also Known As: Joseph G. Grifasi, Joseph Grifasi
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Joe Grifasi Movies

  • 1991
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    City of Hope

    City of Hope

    6.7 1991 HD

    This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...

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  • 2006
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    A Crime

    A Crime

    5.7 2006 HD

    Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a...

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  • 1995
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    Batman Forever

    Batman Forever

    5.4 1995 HD

    Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.

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  • 1989
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    The Feud

    The Feud

    5.3 1989 HD

    All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between...

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  • 1989
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    Chances Are

    Chances Are

    6.6 1989 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    Will There Really Be a Morning?

    7 1983 HD

    This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

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  • 1993
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    Benny & Joon

    Benny & Joon

    7.017 1993 HD

    A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

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  • 1985
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    Brewster's Millions

    Brewster's Millions

    6.593 1985 HD

    Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days...

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  • 1990
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    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent

    6.8 1990 HD

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his...

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  • 1996
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    One Fine Day

    One Fine Day

    6.4 1996 HD

    Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one...

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  • 1978
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    The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

    8 1978 HD

    A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they...

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  • 1994
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    The Hudsucker Proxy

    The Hudsucker Proxy

    7.1 1994 HD

    A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

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  • 1982
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    Still of the Night

    Still of the Night

    5.713 1982 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    The Pope of Greenwich Village

    The Pope of Greenwich Village

    6.3 1984 HD

    Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on....

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  • 1995
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    Two Bits

    Two Bits

    5.7 1995 HD

    It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding...

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  • 1982
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    The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

    5.6 1982 HD

    A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.

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  • 2006
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    Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

    Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

    6.618 2006 HD

    Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the...

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  • 2023
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    Endgame

    Endgame

    1 2023 HD

    Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound. His only escape from his solitary...

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  • 2000
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    The Other Me

    The Other Me

    5.7 2000 HD

    When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely...

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  • 1981
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    Honky Tonk Freeway

    Honky Tonk Freeway

    5.1 1981 HD

    Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...

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  • 1980
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    Hide in Plain Sight

    Hide in Plain Sight

    5.3 1980 HD

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

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  • 2010
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    The Front

    The Front

    5.6 2010 HD

    A detective uncovers a sinister conspiracy when he is sent to research a disintegrating neighborhood for a public relations campaign.

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  • 1988
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    The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

    The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

    6.464 1988 HD

    Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an...

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  • 1998
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    The Deal

    The Deal

    5 1998 HD

    A big-idea farce about big, badass businessmen.

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  • 2022
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    The Dreams of Rene Sendam

    The Dreams of Rene Sendam

    1 2022 HD

    Rene Sendam is deeply troubled. A lonely graduate student studying poetry and an often alienating eccentric, Rene leads a fantasy life built on...

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  • 2020
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    Radium Girls

    Radium Girls

    6.757 2020 HD

    Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

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  • 1984
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    The Flamingo Kid

    The Flamingo Kid

    6 1984 HD

    Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh...

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  • 1979
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    Something Short of Paradise

    Something Short of Paradise

    3 1979 HD

    A young couple in New York are having problems with their relationship.

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  • 2010
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    The Last New Yorker

    The Last New Yorker

    6.5 2010 HD

    Lifelong friends Lenny Sugarman and Ruben Liebner , both in their 70s, both dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, barely recognize the Manhattan of their...

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  • 2001
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    Queenie in Love

    Queenie in Love

    5.9 2001 HD

    A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.

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  • 1987
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    Matewan

    Matewan

    7.3 1987 HD

    Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

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  • 1978
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    On the Yard

    On the Yard

    5.8 1978 HD

    Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's...

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  • 1984
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    Splash

    Splash

    6.253 1984 HD

    A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a...

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  • 2000
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    Looking for an Echo

    Looking for an Echo

    3.5 2000 HD

    The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.

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  • 1988
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    Big Business

    Big Business

    6.344 1988 HD

    In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor...

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  • 1988
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    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    7.254 1988 HD

    When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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  • 1986
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    F/X

    F/X

    6.6 1986 HD

    A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross...

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  • 1995
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    Heavy

    Heavy

    6.6 1995 HD

    Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a...

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  • 1994
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    Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

    Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

    6.479 1994 HD

    Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for...

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  • 2004
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    A Jersey Tale

    A Jersey Tale

    1 2004 HD

    Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's...

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  • 1995
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    Money Train

    Money Train

    5.8 1995 HD

    When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

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  • 2016
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    The American Side

    The American Side

    4.7 2016 HD

    Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic...

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  • 2014
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    6.4 2014 HD

    A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

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  • 1996
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    Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt

    5 1996 HD

    Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her...

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  • 1989
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    Kojak: Ariana

    Kojak: Ariana

    6 1989 HD

    One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash...

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  • 1992
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    Primary Motive

    Primary Motive

    7 1992 HD

    In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the...

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  • 2004
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    13 Going on 30

    13 Going on 30

    6.752 2004 HD

    A girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager Jenna wants...

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  • 1994
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    Natural Born Killers

    Natural Born Killers

    7.1 1994 HD

    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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  • 2016
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    Baked in Brooklyn

    Baked in Brooklyn

    5.2 2016 HD

    A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of...

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  • 1999
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    Switching Goals

    Switching Goals

    5.9 1999 HD

    Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.

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  • 1999
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    The Out-of-Towners

    The Out-of-Towners

    5.8 1999 HD

    The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.

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  • 1981
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    The Gentleman Bandit

    The Gentleman Bandit

    6 1981 HD

    Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.

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  • 1996
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    Undue Influence

    Undue Influence

    5.7 1996 HD

    When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from...

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  • 1987
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    Moonstruck

    Moonstruck

    6.843 1987 HD

    37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny,...

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  • 1989
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    Perfect Witness

    Perfect Witness

    7 1989 HD

    An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan...

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  • 1977
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    Secret Service

    Secret Service

    1 1977 HD

    Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

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  • 1993
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    Household Saints

    Household Saints

    6.2 1993 HD

    A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

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  • 2001
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    61*

    61*

    7 2001 HD

    In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally...

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  • 1997
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    Sunday

    Sunday

    5.2 1997 HD

    Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

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  • 2005
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    Slow Burn

    Slow Burn

    5.3 2005 HD

    A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an...

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  • 1985
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    Bad Medicine

    Bad Medicine

    5.1 1985 HD

    Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But...

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  • 1992
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    Citizen Cohn

    Citizen Cohn

    6.3 1992 HD

    As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and...

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  • 1993
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    Taking the Heat

    Taking the Heat

    4.8 1993 HD

    When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but...

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  • 2002
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    Auto Focus

    Auto Focus

    6.363 2002 HD

    A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his...

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  • 1986
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    One Police Plaza

    One Police Plaza

    1 1986 HD

    A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.

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  • 1994
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    Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

    Jack Reed: A Search for Justice

    5.5 1994 HD

    Chicago police detective Jack Reed investigates the brutal murder of a stripper while he deals with corruption and bureaucracy within his own...

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  • 1998
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    The Naked Man

    The Naked Man

    4.3 1998 HD

    A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.

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  • 2002
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    Changing Lanes

    Changing Lanes

    6.3 2002 HD

    A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two...

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  • 2021
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    Me To Play

    Me To Play

    1 2021 HD

    As their bodies give way to Parkinson's disease, two New York actors put their hearts into one final Off-Broadway production of Beckett's "Endgame,"...

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  • 1987
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    Ironweed

    Ironweed

    6.343 1987 HD

    An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.392 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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  • 1986
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    L.A. Law

    L.A. Law

    7.045 1986 HD

    L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

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  • 2003
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    Hope & Faith

    Hope & Faith

    5.3 2003 HD

    Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the...

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  • 1996
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    Early Edition

    Early Edition

    7.308 1996 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7.516 1985 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

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  • 1988
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    Roseanne

    Roseanne

    6.807 1988 HD

    A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

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  • 2000
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    Deadline

    Deadline

    1 2000 HD

    Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the...

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  • 1981
    imgS7 E22

    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

    7.611 1981 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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  • 2008
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    Canterbury's Law

    Canterbury's Law

    6.3 2008 HD

    Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when...

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  • 1993
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    Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

    7.5 1993 HD

    Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.

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  • 1994
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    Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope

    7.236 1994 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

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  • 1994
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    ER

    ER

    7.81 1994 HD

    ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

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  • 1990
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    WIOU

    WIOU

    6 1990 HD

    WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television...

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  • 1993
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    Class of '96

    Class of '96

    5 1993 HD

    Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the...

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  • 2012
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    Elementary

    Elementary

    7.6 2012 HD

    A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.933 1999 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    The Bronx Is Burning

    The Bronx Is Burning

    7.1 2007 HD

    In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife, and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big...

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  • 1992
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    Sinatra

    Sinatra

    8 1992 HD

    Sinatra is a 1992 CBS miniseries biography and drama, starring Philip Casnoff as singer Frank Sinatra, developed and executive produced by Frank's...

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  • 1990
    imgS24 E8

    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.392 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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  • 2016
    imgS6 E22

    Bull

    Bull

    7 2016 HD

    Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

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  • 2019
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    Evil

    Evil

    7.769 2019 HD

    Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed...

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  • 2000
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    The Beat

    The Beat

    2 2000 HD

    The Beat delves into the personal and professional lives of two young police recruits who patrol New York's streets. The city's daily machinations...

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  • 2003
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    Tarzan

    Tarzan

    7.5 2003 HD

    From the day two decades ago that young John Clayton's parents died and left him alone in the African jungle, he was raised by apes and has emerged...

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  • 2016
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    Bull

    Bull

    7 2016 HD

    Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

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  • 2006
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    Conviction

    Conviction

    5.75 2006 HD

    A fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant district attorneys in New York, following their career...

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  • 2017
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    The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

    7.617 2017 HD

    Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a...

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  • 2020
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    I Know This Much Is True

    I Know This Much Is True

    7.6 2020 HD

    The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the...

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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  • 2001
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    Some of My Best Friends

    Some of My Best Friends

    6.2 2001 HD

    Some of My Best Friends is an American sitcom shown on CBS from February 28 until April 11, 2001. The series was inspired by the film Kiss Me, Guido.

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  • 2018
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    Lodge 49

    Lodge 49

    6.649 2018 HD

    Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the simple, happy lifestyle he lost when his father died....

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

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

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  • 1990
    imgS1 E1

    Capital News

    Capital News

    6 1990 HD

    Capital News is a short-lived American drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. Starring Lloyd Bridges and Helen Slater, Capital News was created by...

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  • 2009
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    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.581 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...

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  • 2018
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    New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam

    8.4 2018 HD

    The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and...

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