David Strathairn — Actor (53)
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Twisted (2004) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Twisted
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Ashley Judd / Samuel L. Jackson …
other title: La tela dell'assassino / Blackout …
Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by solving San Francisco's latest murder? However, as Shepard and her partner, Mike Delmarco, soon discover, the victim shared a romantic connection to her. As more of Shepard's ex-lovers turn up dead, her mind starts to become unstable, and she begins to wonder if she could be the very killer she's trying to track down.
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Day One (1989) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Day One
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Brian Manion Dennehy / David Strathairn …
other title: Die Bombe / Day one
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
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Heat Wave (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Heat Wave
director: Kevin Hooks actor: Cicely Tyson / Blair Underwood …
other title: Heat Wave - Onda di fuoco / Émeutes en Californie
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Dominick and Eugene (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Dominick and Eugene
director: Robert M. Young actor: Tom Hulce / Ray Liotta …
other title: Nick & Gino / Dominick & Eugene …
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must decide between his devotion to his brother, or his need to go away to complete his training. Things are also not helped by Dominick's co-worker, or Eugene's budding romance.
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Passion Fish (1992) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Passion Fish
director: John Sayles actor: Mary McDonnell / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Amori e amicizie / Tudo Pela Vida …
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
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City of Hope (1991) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
City of Hope
director: John Sayles actor: Vincent Spano / Tony Lo Bianco …
other title: La città della speranza / Stadt der Hoffnung …
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Notorious Bettie Page
director: Mary Harron actor: Gretchen Mol / Chris Bauer …
other title: La scandalosa vita di Bettie Page / A Famosa Bettie page …
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
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Walkaway Joe (2020) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Walkaway Joe
director: Tom Wright actor: David Strathairn / Jeffrey Dean Morgan …
A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home when he meets Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he'd rather forget, who feels responsible for Dallas' safety and reluctantly takes him in.
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The Tempest (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Tempest
director: Julie Taymor actor: Helen Mirren / Felicity Jones …
other title: A Tempestade / The Tempest - Der Sturm …
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
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Cold Souls (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cold Souls
director: Sophie Barthes actor: Paul Giamatti / Emily Watson …
other title: Alma Perdida / Âmes en stock …
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
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Judgment (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Judgment
director: Tom Topor actor: Keith Carradine / Blythe Danner …
other title: Apocalipsis IV: El Juicio / Fe en la justicia
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
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A Little Prayer (2025) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Little Prayer
director: Angus MacLachlan actor: David Strathairn / Jane Levy …
A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having an affair in a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family.
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At Close Range (1986) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
At Close Range
director: James Foley actor: Sean Penn / Anna Thomson …
other title: A distanza ravvicinata / For tæt på …
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
director: David Grubin actor: Campbell Scott / Boyd Gaines …
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"
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The River Wild (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The River Wild
director: Curtis Hanson actor: Meryl Streep / David Strathairn …
other title: The River Wild - Il fiume della paura / Rio Selvagem …
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.