Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.

  • Title: Harvey Fierstein
  • Popularity: 8.027
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1954-06-06
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Harvey Fierstein Movies

  • 1997
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    White Lies

    White Lies

    1 1997 HD

    A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she...

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  • 2004
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    Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

    Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

    2 2004 HD

    To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, 150 leading artists of the stage, screen and music worlds deliver 150 of the Irish...

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  • 2022
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    Bros

    Bros

    6.763 2022 HD

    Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.

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  • 1999
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    Jump

    Jump

    1.5 1999 HD

    Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

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  • 1983
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    The Demon Murder Case

    The Demon Murder Case

    6 1983 HD

    A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.

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  • 1997
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    Three Little Pigs

    Three Little Pigs

    5.8 1997 HD

    A vegan wolf moves in with the Three Pigs in a parody of MTV's Real World.

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  • 2004
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    Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

    Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

    7 2004 HD

    Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities,...

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  • 2006
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    The Year Without a Santa Claus

    The Year Without a Santa Claus

    6 2006 HD

    Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the...

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  • 1994
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    Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

    Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

    1 1994 HD

    Finished a quarter century after the earth-shaking protests that forever altered the public perception of LGBTQ people in America, Stonewall 25:...

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  • 1990
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    The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

    The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

    1 1990 HD

    Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches.

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  • 1993
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    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

    An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

    1 1993 HD

    On January 22, 1993 at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Harvey Fierstein, Marga Gomez, and Lypsinka...

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  • 2004
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    Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

    Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

    3 2004 HD

    Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and...

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  • 2006
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    The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

    The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

    1 2006 HD

    The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips...

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  • 2002
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    Death to Smoochy

    Death to Smoochy

    5.9 2002 HD

    Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by...

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  • 2003
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    The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

    The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

    9.4 2003 HD

    Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan -- with a...

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  • 2012
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    Foodfight!

    Foodfight!

    1.922 2012 HD

    The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.

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  • 2019
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    Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

    Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

    6.9 2019 HD

    The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when...

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  • 2004
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    Mulan II

    Mulan II

    6.5 2004 HD

    Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily...

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  • 1998
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    Safe Men

    Safe Men

    5.6 1998 HD

    Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the...

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  • 1996
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    Everything Relative

    Everything Relative

    1.8 1996 HD

    Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones...

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  • 1994
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    Bullets Over Broadway

    Bullets Over Broadway

    7.1 1994 HD

    After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of...

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  • 1988
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    Torch Song Trilogy

    Torch Song Trilogy

    7.3 1988 HD

    Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

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  • 1988
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    MaMa's Pushcart

    MaMa's Pushcart

    1 1988 HD

    With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in 1961, where writers and actors such as Sam Shepard,...

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  • 2007
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    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

    7 2007 HD

    ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. ...

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  • 2007
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    Words and Music by Jerry Herman

    Words and Music by Jerry Herman

    1 2007 HD

    WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman...

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  • 2006
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    Farce of the Penguins

    Farce of the Penguins

    4 2006 HD

    In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best...

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  • 2000
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    Common Ground

    Common Ground

    4.7 2000 HD

    This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's...

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  • 2017
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    Animal Crackers

    Animal Crackers

    6.2 2017 HD

    A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

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  • 1998
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    Mulan

    Mulan

    7.9 1998 HD

    To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the...

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  • 1997
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    Kull the Conqueror

    Kull the Conqueror

    5.146 1997 HD

    A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain the throne, the former king's heirs resurrect...

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  • 2015
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    The Making of the Wiz Live!

    The Making of the Wiz Live!

    1 2015 HD

    Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC's "The Making of The Wiz Live!" The hour-long special will give an exclusive backstage look at this...

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  • 2016
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    Hairspray Live!

    Hairspray Live!

    7.318 2016 HD

    A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

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  • 1993
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    Mrs. Doubtfire

    Mrs. Doubtfire

    7.196 1993 HD

    Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his...

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  • 1984
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    The Times of Harvey Milk

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    7.321 1984 HD

    Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

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  • 1996
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    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

    6.2 1996 HD

    Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be...

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  • 1996
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    The Celluloid Closet

    The Celluloid Closet

    7.155 1996 HD

    What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie...

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  • 2003
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    Duplex

    Duplex

    6.1 2003 HD

    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

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  • 1996
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    Independence Day

    Independence Day

    6.9 1996 HD

    Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it...

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  • 1988
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    Tidy Endings

    Tidy Endings

    1 1988 HD

    A man, whose companion dies of AIDS, confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath...

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  • 1995
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    Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

    4.7 1995 HD

    A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as...

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  • 1993
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    The Harvest

    The Harvest

    5.2 1993 HD

    A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment,...

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  • 2005
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    Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

    Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

    7.2 2005 HD

    Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great...

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  • 2000
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    Playing Mona Lisa

    Playing Mona Lisa

    5.5 2000 HD

    A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a...

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  • 1986
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    Apology

    Apology

    4.9 1986 HD

    For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony...

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  • 1984
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    Garbo Talks

    Garbo Talks

    6.1 1984 HD

    When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish:...

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  • 1999
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    Double Platinum

    Double Platinum

    7.8 1999 HD

    The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

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  • 1999
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    The Sissy Duckling

    The Sissy Duckling

    6 1999 HD

    Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock...

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  • 1996
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    The Making of 'Independence Day'

    The Making of 'Independence Day'

    5.8 1996 HD

    We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a...

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  • 2020
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    Disarm Hate

    Disarm Hate

    1 2020 HD

    Nine LGBTQs come together after the Pulse Massacre to join one man, a hairdresser and activist from New Jersey without political experience, as he...

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  • 2014
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    Russian Broadway Shut Down

    Russian Broadway Shut Down

    1 2014 HD

    Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performances ; Russian Broadway community responds.

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  • 2001
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    Rescued from the Closet

    Rescued from the Closet

    6 2001 HD

    A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film...

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  • 2002
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    Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

    Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

    1 2002 HD

    A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy.

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  • 2017
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    Newsies

    Newsies

    8 2017 HD

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  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Torch Song Trilogy

    Torch Song Trilogy

    7.3 1988 HD

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  • 2018
    imgMovies

    Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

    8.5 2018 HD

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  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Tidy Endings

    Tidy Endings

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Tidy Endings

    Tidy Endings

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1999
    imgMovies

    The Sissy Duckling

    The Sissy Duckling

    6 1999 HD

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  • 2018
    imgMovies

    Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

    8.5 2018 HD

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  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Torch Song Trilogy

    Torch Song Trilogy

    7.3 1988 HD

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  • 2000
    imgMovies

    Common Ground

    Common Ground

    4.7 2000 HD

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  • 2016
    imgMovies

    Hairspray Live!

    Hairspray Live!

    7.318 2016 HD

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  • 2019
    imgMovies

    Kinky Boots: The Musical

    Kinky Boots: The Musical

    7.9 2019 HD

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    The Wiz Live!

    The Wiz Live!

    7.202 2015 HD

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  • 2005
    imgS9 E24

    How I Met Your Mother

    How I Met Your Mother

    8.159 2005 HD

    A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their...

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  • 2016
    imgS7 E17

    Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

    Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

    5.994 2016 HD

    Samantha Bee breaks up late-night's all-male sausage fest with her nuanced view of political and cultural issues, her sharp interview skills, her...

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  • 1999
    imgS22 E15

    Family Guy

    Family Guy

    7.37 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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  • 1993
    imgS12 E2

    Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

    4.5 1993 HD

    Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes...

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  • 1998
    imgS1 E65

    Hercules

    Hercules

    6.8 1998 HD

    Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Phil. Many of the Olympian Gods and...

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  • 1956
    imgS61 E2

    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 2014
    imgS12 E32

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    5.479 2014 HD

    Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of...

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  • 1995
    imgS3 E13

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

    6.6 1995 HD

    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

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  • 2009
    imgS21 E190

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    4.947 2009 HD

    Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

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  • 2014
    imgS6 E1

    Trailblazer Honors

    Trailblazer Honors

    7.5 2014 HD

    One-hour annual event that celebrates leaders at the forefront of LGBTQ equality.

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  • 1994
    imgS1 E3

    Daddy's Girls

    Daddy's Girls

    1 1994 HD

    Daddy's Girls is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in the fall of 1994. The series followed Dudley Walker, the owner of a New York fashion house...

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  • 1984
    imgS5 E20

    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.467 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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  • 1989
    imgS36 E7

    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

    8.014 1989 HD

    Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

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  • 1999
    imgS22 E15

    Family Guy

    Family Guy

    7.37 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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  • 2019
    imgS1 E10

    The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

    The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

    7.797 2019 HD

    Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power and set out to ignite the fires of...

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  • 1975
    imgS50 E7

    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.952 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 2012
    imgS2 E17

    Smash

    Smash

    6.6 2012 HD

    A songwriting duo tries to create a hit with a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

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  • 2014
    imgS6 E16

    BoJack Horseman

    BoJack Horseman

    8.561 2014 HD

    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's...

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  • 2017
    imgS7 E10

    Big Mouth

    Big Mouth

    7.7 2017 HD

    Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.

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  • 1982
    imgS11 E25

    Cheers

    Cheers

    7.558 1982 HD

    The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

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  • 1984
    imgS12 E24

    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Ellen

    Ellen

    6.4 1994 HD

    Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role...

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  • 2009
    imgS7 E22

    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.6 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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