Dennis Christopher

Dennis Christopher

Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli on December 2, 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black. His Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough role was as Dave Stohler in the coming-of-age classic Breaking Away (1979). Other roles include American track star Charlie Paddock in Chariots of Fire, and Fade to Black, science fiction movies like Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II. He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975. Television roles include "Jack of All Trades" in the Profiler TV series, Eddie Kaspbrak in Stephen King's It, Desmond Floyd in Jake Speed, and in the HBO series Deadwood. Christopher has guest starred in two Star Trek episodes: the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Search (Part II)" and the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Detained". He also guest-starred as the demon-sorcerer Cyvus Vail in three episodes of Angel. Christopher had a reunion with Breaking Away "father" Paul Dooley, again as his son, in an episode of TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The two had first played father and son in Robert Altman's A Wedding. In December 2006 he played Dr. Martin Ruber in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.

  • Title : Dennis Christopher
  • Popularity : 5.078
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1955-12-02
  • Place of Birth : 美国,宾夕法尼亚州,费城
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  • Also Known As : Dennis Carrelli , Dennis Christopher
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Dennis Christopher Movies

  • 1979
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    Breaking Away

    Breaking Away

    7.1 1979 HD

    Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the...

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  • 1990
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    Circuitry Man

    Circuitry Man

    4.9 1990 HD

    In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of...

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  • 1994
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    Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

    Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II

    3.5 1994 HD

    In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping...

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  • 1981
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    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    6.788 1981 HD

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

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  • 1996
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    The Silencers

    The Silencers

    4.3 1996 HD

    U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which suppresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from the U.S. Secret...

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  • 1980
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    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    5.6 1980 HD

    A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe...

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  • 1995
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    Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare

    Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare

    4.7 1995 HD

    When bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.

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  • 1996
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    Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

    Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

    6.2 1996 HD

    Tarzan has a tough encounter with arms dealer Nikolai who then kidnaps Colette and wants to sell her in Africa. Tarzan gets captured, escapes and...

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  • 2010
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    Queen of the Lot

    Queen of the Lot

    3.5 2010 HD

    An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two...

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  • 1993
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    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    5 1993 HD

    After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an...

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  • 2012
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    Django Unchained

    Django Unchained

    8.181 2012 HD

    With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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  • 1977
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    September 30, 1955

    September 30, 1955

    6.6 1977 HD

    A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.

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  • 1986
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    Alien Predators

    Alien Predators

    5.2 1986 HD

    Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien...

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  • 1978
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    A Wedding

    A Wedding

    6.3 1978 HD

    Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up...

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  • 1971
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    Blood and Lace

    Blood and Lace

    5.9 1971 HD

    After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage...

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  • 2006
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    Dangerous Isolation

    Dangerous Isolation

    4.7 2006 HD

    A top software engineer and her daughter are kidnapped. The kidnappers want her to decrypt sensitive government information, and they are threatening...

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  • 1970
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    Didn’t You Hear?

    Didn’t You Hear?

    7 1970 HD

    Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through at one time or another: lectures that make little - if any -...

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  • 1996
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    It's My Party

    It's My Party

    6.3 1996 HD

    Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function...

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  • 1991
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    Dead Women in Lingerie

    Dead Women in Lingerie

    5 1991 HD

    A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

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  • 1976
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    Bernice Bobs Her Hair

    Bernice Bobs Her Hair

    5.4 1976 HD

    Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern,...

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  • 1989
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    A Sinful Life

    A Sinful Life

    1 1989 HD

    A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.

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  • 1982
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    Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

    Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

    5 1982 HD

    During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart...

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  • 1987
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    Friends

    Friends

    9.5 1987 HD

    John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through...

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  • 1979
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    California Dreaming

    California Dreaming

    4.6 1979 HD

    Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the...

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  • 1994
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    Boys Life

    Boys Life

    4.8 1994 HD

    Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old...

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  • 1999
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    Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

    Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

    1 1999 HD

    The life of legendary actor Anthony Perkins is recounted by friends and family, colleagues and co-stars, revealing the man underneath Norman Bates.

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  • 1991
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    False Arrest

    False Arrest

    4.7 1991 HD

    A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal...

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  • 1986
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    Jake Speed

    Jake Speed

    4.4 1986 HD

    Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves...

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  • 2013
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    Prisoners

    Prisoners

    8.098 2013 HD

    Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as...

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  • 1997
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    Skeletons

    Skeletons

    4.8 1997 HD

    A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a...

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  • 1971
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    The Young Graduates

    The Young Graduates

    6.6 1971 HD

    Spunky and precocious high school senior Mindy Evans spurns her decent, but frustrated boyfriend Bill and has a fling with hunky married nice guy...

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  • 1979
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    Elvis

    Elvis

    6.8 1979 HD

    This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las...

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  • 1992
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    Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

    Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

    6 1992 HD

    A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.

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  • 1979
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    The Last Word

    The Last Word

    4 1979 HD

    When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police...

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  • 1993
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    Necronomicon

    Necronomicon

    6 1993 HD

    H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of...

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  • 2001
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    The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    5.3 2001 HD

    The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.

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  • 1986
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    Flight of the Spruce Goose

    Flight of the Spruce Goose

    1 1986 HD

    Drama starring Karen Black, Betsy Blair and Dennis Christopher

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  • 1983
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    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    5 1983 HD

    Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father...

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  • 2004
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    Nine Lives

    Nine Lives

    4.9 2004 HD

    Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a...

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  • 1996
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    Mind Rage

    Mind Rage

    2 1996 HD

    A serial killer's trail of dead bodies leads to the haunting past of two brothers and one woman's love for both men. The fact this features some...

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  • 1972
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    Roma

    Roma

    7.3 1972 HD

    A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

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  • 2021
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    Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

    Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

    7.603 2021 HD

    Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans...

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  • 2012
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    Jobriath A.D.

    Jobriath A.D.

    7.1 2012 HD

    Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief...

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  • 1994
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    The Disco Years

    The Disco Years

    5.1 1994 HD

    Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out...

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  • 1977
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    3 Women

    3 Women

    7.182 1977 HD

    Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

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  • 1995
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    Aurora: Operation Intercept

    Aurora: Operation Intercept

    4.9 1995 HD

    There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of...

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  • 2022
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    Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

    Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

    5.8 2022 HD

    Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare...

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  • 2016
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    Battle at Versailles

    Battle at Versailles

    10 2016 HD

    M2M's first original long-form documentary, Battle at Versailles, follows an event in 1973 at Palace of Versailles where top French designers such...

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  • 2012
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    Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

    Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

    1 2012 HD

    In an era known for protests and sit-ins, the 1973 Grand Divertissement at Versailles, made a statement of its own - a fashion statement. The...

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  • 2007
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    Inside the Lost Room

    Inside the Lost Room

    4 2007 HD

    Making of 'The Lost Room'

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.582 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 2001
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    Six Feet Under

    Six Feet Under

    8.121 2001 HD

    When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least...

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  • 2004
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    Deadwood

    Deadwood

    8.097 2004 HD

    The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people....

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  • 2001
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    Star Trek: Enterprise

    Star Trek: Enterprise

    7.576 2001 HD

    During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the...

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  • 2000
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    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    7.621 2000 HD

    A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and...

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  • 1986
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    Matlock

    Matlock

    7.2 1986 HD

    Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced...

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  • 1993
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    seaQuest DSV

    seaQuest DSV

    7 1993 HD

    In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine...

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.683 1979 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

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  • 1985
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7.506 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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  • 1999
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    Angel

    Angel

    7.9 1999 HD

    The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption....

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  • 2000
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    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    7.621 2000 HD

    A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and...

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  • 2006
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    The Lost Room

    The Lost Room

    7.728 2006 HD

    A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.

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  • 2005
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    Criminal Minds

    Criminal Minds

    8.309 2005 HD

    An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The...

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  • 1982
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    Cagney & Lacey

    Cagney & Lacey

    6.9 1982 HD

    Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to...

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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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  • 1982
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    Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

    8.421 1982 HD

    A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

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  • 1999
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    Roswell

    Roswell

    7.7 1999 HD

    Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the...

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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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  • 1995
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    The Watcher

    The Watcher

    6 1995 HD

    The Watcher is an American anthology drama series that premiered on UPN in January 1995, during the network's inaugural season. The series aired...

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  • 2000
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    FreakyLinks

    FreakyLinks

    6.2 2000 HD

    FreakyLinks is an American television show that combined elements of horror, mystery, and comedy. It aired on the Fox Network from October 2000 until...

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  • 1990
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    It

    It

    6.9 1990 HD

    In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to...

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  • 2012
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    Perception

    Perception

    7.22 2012 HD

    Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.582 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 2011
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    Unforgettable

    Unforgettable

    7.166 2011 HD

    Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember...

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  • 2016
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    Graves

    Graves

    5.2 2016 HD

    Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25...

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  • 1993
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    NYPD Blue

    NYPD Blue

    7 1993 HD

    Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically...

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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.563 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

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  • 2009
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    Celebrity Ghost Stories

    Celebrity Ghost Stories

    7.3 2009 HD

    Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour...

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  • 1993
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    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    7.9 1993 HD

    At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome...

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  • 1996
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    Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

    Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

    4.7 1996 HD

    Tarzan: The Epic Adventures is a syndicated series that aired for one season. It focuses on the character of Tarzan in his early years, after his...

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  • 1996
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    The Sentinel

    The Sentinel

    7.133 1996 HD

    The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim...

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  • 1994
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    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover

    7.156 1994 HD

    New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

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  • 2001
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    Crossing Jordan

    Crossing Jordan

    7.2 2001 HD

    Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist...

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  • 1996
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    Pacific Blue

    Pacific Blue

    5.4 1996 HD

    Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on...

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