Robert John Burke

Robert John Burke

A born-and-bred New Yorker, Robert John Burke made his film debut while in his early 20s with a small part in the drama "The Chosen" (1981), based on the Chaim Potok story. He went on to study acting at SUNY Purchase where he met aspiring filmmaker Hal Hartley, who cast him as one of the leads in his debut feature "The Unbelievable Truth," an offbeat indie tale where he played a man trying to escape his troubled past. Working with Hartley again on the charming brother-centric dark comedy "Simple Men," Burke caught a major break when Hollywood producers decided that his chiseled jawline was the right one to replace Peter Weller's in the sci-fi/action sequel "RoboCop 3." Despite Burke's efforts, the movie tanked, and he went on to smaller roles in major films, including the lauded Western "Tombstone" (1993) and the prison-break movie "Fled" (1996). Burke landed his second chance in a Hollywood starring role with the Stephen King adaptation "Thinner" (1996), but the macabre tale, which featured him under heavy makeup to depict a callous man who magically loses weight, was deemed almost universally unlikable.Though Burke's leading-man days were mostly behind him, his beastly role in Hartley's "No Such Thing" (2001) aside, he soldiered on, and began increasingly working on television with recurring roles on the grim prison drama "Oz" and the police procedural "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ). Appearing in George Clooney's first two movies as director, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002) and "Good Night, and Good Luck." (2005), Burke nonetheless became more familiar to TV audiences, particularly when he signed on to play Mickey Gavin, the ex-priest cousin of Denis Leary's lead character on the firefighter series "Rescue Me," a part that dovetailed with Burke's real-life second job as a New York State fireman.Often cast as a tough guy, the ruggedly handsome and tall actor continued to play imposing figures such as Major General James "Chaos" Mattis in the Iraq War miniseries "Generation Kill" (HBO, 2008) and Bart Bass, the controlling billionaire father of Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) on the soapy drama "Gossip Girl." Before long, he was juggling his ongoing "Law & Order: SVU" part with regular spots on the military drama "Army Wives" (Lifetime, 2007- ) and the tense crime show "Person of Interest" (CBS, 2011- ), while still finding time for supporting turns in films, including the Denzel Washington/Mark Wahlberg action movie "2 Guns" (2013).

  • Title : Robert John Burke
  • Popularity : 13.232
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1960-09-12
  • Place of Birth : New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As : John Burke , Robert Burke
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Robert John Burke Movies

  • 1996
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    Thinner

    Thinner

    5.923 1996 HD

    An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized...

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  • 2005
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    Good Night, and Good Luck.

    Good Night, and Good Luck.

    7.079 2005 HD

    The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

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  • 1993
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    Flirt

    Flirt

    1 1993 HD

    In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks...

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  • 1992
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    Dust Devil

    Dust Devil

    6.364 1992 HD

    A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

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  • 1993
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    RoboCop 3

    RoboCop 3

    4.8 1993 HD

    The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit....

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  • 2005
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    Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

    6.332 2005 HD

    David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his...

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  • 1993
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    A Far Off Place

    A Far Off Place

    6.2 1993 HD

    Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous...

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  • 1993
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    Heaven & Earth

    Heaven & Earth

    6.662 1993 HD

    In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she...

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  • 1991
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    Rambling Rose

    Rambling Rose

    6.159 1991 HD

    Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and...

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  • 2002
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    No Such Thing

    No Such Thing

    5.915 2002 HD

    A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

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  • 2004
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    Speak

    Speak

    7 2004 HD

    Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her...

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  • 1977
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    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    6.3 1977 HD

    A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual...

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  • 1990
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    The Unbelievable Truth

    The Unbelievable Truth

    6.812 1990 HD

    After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

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  • 1996
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    Fled

    Fled

    5.557 1996 HD

    During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to...

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  • 1995
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    Flirt

    Flirt

    6.1 1995 HD

    The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is...

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  • 1992
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    Simple Men

    Simple Men

    6.7 1992 HD

    Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...

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  • 2011
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    Limitless

    Limitless

    7.2 2011 HD

    The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version...

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  • 2012
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    Safe

    Safe

    6.486 2012 HD

    After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads,...

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  • 1996
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    Killer: A Journal of Murder

    Killer: A Journal of Murder

    5.88 1996 HD

    Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy...

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  • 2005
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    Munich

    Munich

    7.2 2005 HD

    During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black...

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  • 2022
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    Triggered

    Triggered

    1 2022 HD

    A US Senator faces her greatest challenge when a home invasion takes a shocking turn.

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  • 2013
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    2 Guns

    2 Guns

    6.5 2013 HD

    A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob --...

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  • 1995
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    Crazy for a Kiss

    Crazy for a Kiss

    1 1995 HD

    On a hot sunny day in Kansas, 1973, Mike Kinross's parents tell him he's going on holiday to his Uncle Dan's house. But instead they drop him off at...

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  • 2023
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    Boston Strangler

    Boston Strangler

    6.662 2023 HD

    Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the...

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  • 2015
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    True Story

    True Story

    6.3 2015 HD

    A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived...

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  • 1998
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    Midnight Flight

    Midnight Flight

    4.7 1998 HD

    An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

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  • 2015
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    Ned Rifle

    Ned Rifle

    5.84 2015 HD

    Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome...

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  • 2015
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    Bait

    Bait

    1 2015 HD

    TJ's day takes an unexpected turn when he visits his Uncle Mack at his hotel in Montauk...

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  • 2004
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    Connie and Carla

    Connie and Carla

    5.9 2004 HD

    After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers...

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  • 2022
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    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    7.1 2022 HD

    Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King...

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  • 1998
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    Somewhere in the City

    Somewhere in the City

    1 1998 HD

    The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist...

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  • 1998
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    First Love, Last Rites

    First Love, Last Rites

    4.3 1998 HD

    Passion and infatuation ignite as two lovers flounder through their "first time" in this alarmingly sexy film set in the Louisiana bayou. Joey and...

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  • 2010
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    Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences

    Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences

    1 2010 HD

    A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

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  • 2008
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    Miracle at St. Anna

    Miracle at St. Anna

    6.135 2008 HD

    Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in...

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  • 1993
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    Tombstone

    Tombstone

    7.598 1993 HD

    Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining...

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  • 2006
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    Jack's Law

    Jack's Law

    2.5 2006 HD

    Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term...

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  • 1981
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    The Chosen

    The Chosen

    7.2 1981 HD

    In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

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  • 1986
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    Nightmare Weekend

    Nightmare Weekend

    3.6 1986 HD

    A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

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  • 2002
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    State Property

    State Property

    6.4 2002 HD

    A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream.

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  • 1981
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    Gangster Wars

    Gangster Wars

    7.5 1981 HD

    The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe...

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  • 1997
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    Mayday - Flug in den Tod

    Mayday - Flug in den Tod

    5.5 1997 HD

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  • 2018
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    BlacKkKlansman

    BlacKkKlansman

    7.508 2018 HD

    Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover...

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  • 2017
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    Future '38

    Future '38

    7.05 2017 HD

    An American Agent from 1938 travels through time to hamstring Hitler! Transported to the year 2018, he hoodwinks hoodlums, infuriates the Fuhrer, ...

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  • 2017
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    Where There's Smoke

    Where There's Smoke

    1 2017 HD

    After a tragic accident, a firefighter must convince the city commissioner he's able to return to the line of duty.

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  • 2003
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    Piggie

    Piggie

    2 2003 HD

    An unbalanced young girl in upstate New York dairy country falls for a petty criminal from NYC and tries to manipulate him into being her boyfriend.

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  • 1996
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    If Lucy Fell

    If Lucy Fell

    5.1 1996 HD

    Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's...

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  • 2010
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    Brooklyn's Finest

    Brooklyn's Finest

    6.294 2010 HD

    Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's...

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  • 2018
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    Boarding School

    Boarding School

    6.397 2018 HD

    When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted...

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  • 1998
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    A Bright Shining Lie

    A Bright Shining Lie

    5.5 1998 HD

    Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military...

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  • 2018
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    We Only Know So Much

    We Only Know So Much

    5.9 2018 HD

    A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.

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  • 2020
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    Being

    Being

    4.3 2020 HD

    A festive gathering in a secluded small-town farmhouse in the mountains is brought to a halt when a bright burst of light explodes from the barn....

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  • 1997
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    Cop Land

    Cop Land

    6.784 1997 HD

    Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city...

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  • 2006
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    The Ex

    The Ex

    5.2 2006 HD

    When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to...

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  • 2002
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    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

    6.703 2002 HD

    Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited...

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  • 2006
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    The Oh in Ohio

    The Oh in Ohio

    5.3 2006 HD

    Frustrated with their relationship, Priscilla and Jack decide to take a break. While Jack moves into a new place of his own and starts dating a...

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  • 2021
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    Intrusion

    Intrusion

    6 2021 HD

    When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they...

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  • 2022
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    The Retaliators

    The Retaliators

    6 2022 HD

    An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.

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  • 2007
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    Gossip Girl

    Gossip Girl

    8.2 2007 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Person of Interest

    Person of Interest

    8.1 2011 HD

    John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York...

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  • 2006
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    7.037 2006 HD

    Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The...

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  • 2002
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    CSI: Miami

    CSI: Miami

    7.727 2002 HD

    CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas...

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  • 1997
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    Oz

    Oz

    8.011 1997 HD

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

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  • 2014
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    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    7.893 2014 HD

    A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.

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  • 2001
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    Witchblade

    Witchblade

    6.8 2001 HD

    Sara "Pez" Pezzini searches for justice which brings her into contact with the Witchblade. An ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can...

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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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  • 2004
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    Rescue Me

    Rescue Me

    7.7 2004 HD

    Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships...

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  • 2013
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    Golden Boy

    Golden Boy

    6.1 2013 HD

    Golden Boy is an American crime drama series created by Nicholas Wootton, which is produced by Berlanti Television and Warner Bros. Television. CBS...

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  • 2010
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    Blue Bloods

    Blue Bloods

    7.8 2010 HD

    A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and...

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  • 2009
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    White Collar

    White Collar

    8.3 2009 HD

    In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive...

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  • 2015
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    Allegiance

    Allegiance

    7 2015 HD

    Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about...

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  • 2019
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    Project Blue Book

    Project Blue Book

    8.1 2019 HD

    A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 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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  • 1998
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    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    8.165 1998 HD

    The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.

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  • 1990
    imgS24 E8

    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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  • 1999
    imgS6 E21

    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos

    8.6 1999 HD

    The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements...

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  • 1990
    imgS24 E8

    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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  • 1998
    imgS6 E20

    Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

    7.402 1998 HD

    Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as...

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  • 2013
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    Banshee

    Banshee

    8 2013 HD

    Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a...

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  • 2006
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    Six Degrees

    Six Degrees

    5.833 2006 HD

    Six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another—yet. A mysterious web of...

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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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