Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American film, stage and television actress. McDormand began her career on stage and made her screen debut in the 1984 film Blood Simple, having since appeared in several theatrical and television roles. McDormand has been recognized for her performances in 'Mississippi Burning' (1988), 'Short Cuts' (1993), 'Fargo' (1996), 'Wonder Boys' (2000), 'Almost Famous' (2000), 'North Country' (2005), 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2012), 'Hail, Caesar!' (2016), 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' (2017), 'Nomadland' (2020) and 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' (2021). Throughout her career, she has been nominated for eight Golden Globes, five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Emmy Awards. She is one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting", winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. She won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her role as Marge Gunderson in 'Fargo'.  She also won Best Supporting Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her performance in 'Wonder Boys' (2000). McDormand returned to the stage in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People on Broadway from February 8, 2011 to April 24, 2011. In 2017, McDormand starred in 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' which earned her a second Academy Award for Best Actress. McDormand has been married to filmmaker Joel Coen since 1984, they reside in New York City along with their adopted son Pedro.

  • Title: Frances McDormand
  • Popularity: 19.905
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1957-06-23
  • Place of Birth: Gibson City, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frances Louise McDormand, 프란시스 맥도맨드, Cynthia Ann Smith, فرانسیس مک دورمند
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Frances McDormand Movies

  • 1996
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    Fargo

    Fargo

    7.9 1996 HD

    Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife...

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  • 1987
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    Raising Arizona

    Raising Arizona

    7.1 1987 HD

    When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more...

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  • 1996
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    Primal Fear

    Primal Fear

    7.66 1996 HD

    An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has...

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  • 1993
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    Short Cuts

    Short Cuts

    7.2 1993 HD

    Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a...

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  • 1988
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    Mississippi Burning

    Mississippi Burning

    7.7 1988 HD

    Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town...

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  • 2000
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    Almost Famous

    Almost Famous

    7.5 2000 HD

    In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone...

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  • 1995
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    Beyond Rangoon

    Beyond Rangoon

    6.6 1995 HD

    Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left...

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Wasn't There

    The Man Who Wasn't There

    7.525 2001 HD

    A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but...

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  • 1991
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    The Butcher's Wife

    The Butcher's Wife

    5.7 1991 HD

    A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop...

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  • 2000
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    Wonder Boys

    Wonder Boys

    6.829 2000 HD

    Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7...

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  • 2008
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    Burn After Reading

    Burn After Reading

    6.7 2008 HD

    When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money...

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  • 1984
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    Blood Simple

    Blood Simple

    7.2 1984 HD

    The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of...

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  • 1985
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    Crimewave

    Crimewave

    5.5 1985 HD

    Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man,...

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  • 2003
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    Something's Gotta Give

    Something's Gotta Give

    6.624 2003 HD

    When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the...

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  • 2005
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    Æon Flux

    Æon Flux

    5.615 2005 HD

    400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of...

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  • 2008
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    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    6.8 2008 HD

    London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile...

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  • 1990
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    Darkman

    Darkman

    6.4 1990 HD

    Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been...

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  • 1996
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    Lone Star

    Lone Star

    7 1996 HD

    When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

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  • 2005
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    North Country

    North Country

    7.2 2005 HD

    A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who...

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  • 2002
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    City by the Sea

    City by the Sea

    5.8 2002 HD

    Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but...

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  • 2003
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    Laurel Canyon

    Laurel Canyon

    6.01 2003 HD

    When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

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  • 2009
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    The Botany of Desire

    The Botany of Desire

    6.4 2009 HD

    Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant...

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  • 1998
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    Madeline

    Madeline

    6.1 1998 HD

    Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it,...

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  • 1995
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    Palookaville

    Palookaville

    5.8 1995 HD

    Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town....

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  • 2011
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    Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    6.207 2011 HD

    The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes...

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  • 1990
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    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    6.9 1990 HD

    In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British...

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  • 1986
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    Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

    Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

    5.8 1986 HD

    A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the...

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  • 2012
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    Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

    Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

    6.611 2012 HD

    Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to...

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  • 2022
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    Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth

    Crafting the Tragedy of Macbeth

    1 2022 HD

    This behind the scenes documentary split across five chapters focuses on the many aspects of the filmmaking journey and includes interviews with lead...

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  • 2011
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    This Must Be the Place

    This Must Be the Place

    7.003 2011 HD

    A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

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  • 1998
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    Talk of Angels

    Talk of Angels

    5.8 1998 HD

    This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political...

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.4 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1990
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    Chattahoochee

    Chattahoochee

    5.7 1990 HD

    In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

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  • 1992
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    Crazy in Love

    Crazy in Love

    4.4 1992 HD

    Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.

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  • 2002
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    Upheaval

    Upheaval

    6.5 2002 HD

    A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband.

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  • 2003
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    Minnesota Nice

    Minnesota Nice

    6.8 2003 HD

    A collection of cast interviews and behind-the-scenes clips from the Coen brother's Academy Award-winning film Fargo.

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  • 2012
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    Promised Land

    Promised Land

    6.3 2012 HD

    A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the...

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  • 2012
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    Moonrise Kingdom

    Moonrise Kingdom

    7.692 2012 HD

    Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make...

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  • 1996
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    Hidden in America

    Hidden in America

    5.9 1996 HD

    Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that...

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  • 1995
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    The Good Old Boys

    The Good Old Boys

    6.7 1995 HD

    An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.

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  • 2006
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    Friends with Money

    Friends with Money

    5.1 2006 HD

    As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her...

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  • 2016
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    Hail, Caesar!

    Hail, Caesar!

    5.918 2016 HD

    When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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  • 1998
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    Johnny Skidmarks

    Johnny Skidmarks

    5.8 1998 HD

    Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die...

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  • 2015
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    She's The Best Thing in It

    She's The Best Thing in It

    1 2015 HD

    Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her...

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  • 1992
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    Passed Away

    Passed Away

    5.4 1992 HD

    Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test...

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  • 2015
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    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    6.5 2015 HD

    Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of...

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  • 2015
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    The Good Dinosaur

    The Good Dinosaur

    6.735 2015 HD

    An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

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  • 1985
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    5.5 1985 HD

    The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with...

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  • 1990
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    The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

    The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

    1 1990 HD

    Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thriller starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and...

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  • 2017
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    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    8.1 2017 HD

    After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into...

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  • 2000
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    Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

    Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

    1 2000 HD

    Edwurd Fudwupper spends all his time cooking up big fibs. But one day, he tells such a humdinger that the army, the air force and the dog catcher are...

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  • 1995
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    Bleeding Hearts

    Bleeding Hearts

    5.5 1995 HD

    An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American female student.

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  • 1995
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    Talking With

    Talking With

    1 1995 HD

    Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton...

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  • 2018
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    Isle of Dogs

    Isle of Dogs

    7.852 2018 HD

    In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must...

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  • 2003
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    Sesame Street: Kid's Guide to Life: Big Bird Gets Lost

    Sesame Street: Kid's Guide to Life: Big Bird Gets Lost

    6 2003 HD

    When Big Bird and Maria go to the ABCD-Mart to buy some skates for Snuffy's birthday, Big Bird forgets all about sticking together and takes off...

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  • 1991
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    Barton Fink

    Barton Fink

    7.46 1991 HD

    A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

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  • 2021
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    The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch

    7 2021 HD

    The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student...

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  • 1993
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    Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

    Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

    6 1993 HD

    A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

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  • 2021
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    Nomadland

    Nomadland

    7.203 2021 HD

    A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a...

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  • 2021
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    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    6.933 2021 HD

    Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

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  • 2018
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    The Origins of Ebbing

    The Origins of Ebbing

    6 2018 HD

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  • 2017
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    The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

    The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

    6.605 2017 HD

    The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son...

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  • 2020
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    The Oedipus Project

    The Oedipus Project

    10 2020 HD

    The Oedipus Project is an innovative new digital initiative by Theater of War Productions that will present acclaimed actors performing scenes from...

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  • 2022
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    Women Talking

    Women Talking

    6.9 2022 HD

    A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

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  • 2002
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    Searching for Debra Winger

    Searching for Debra Winger

    6.3 2002 HD

    Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

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  • 1995
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    American Cinema

    American Cinema

    1 1995 HD

    The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that...

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  • 1990
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    Miller's Crossing

    Miller's Crossing

    7.459 1990 HD

    Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

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  • 2024
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    Wolfs

    Wolfs

    6.595 2024 HD

    Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected...

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  • 2021
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    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    6.933 2021 HD

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  • 2014
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    Every Secret Thing

    Every Secret Thing

    6.148 2014 HD

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  • 2021
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    Nomadland

    Nomadland

    7.203 2021 HD

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  • 2022
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    Women Talking

    Women Talking

    6.9 2022 HD

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  • 1989
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    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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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.7 1985 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 1981
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    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

    7.6 1981 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    Hunter

    Hunter

    7.2 1984 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Leg Work

    Leg Work

    5 1987 HD

    Leg Work is an American detective drama television series created by Frank Abatemarco that premiered on CBS on October 3, 1987. The show was...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 2014
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    Olive Kitteridge

    Olive Kitteridge

    7.5 2014 HD

    A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive,...

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  • 1956
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    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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  • 2019
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    Good Omens

    Good Omens

    8.053 2019 HD

    Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    4.9 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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  • 1970
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    7.5 1970 HD

    A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive,...

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