Michael Douglas — Actor (39)
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The Day After Peace (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Day After Peace
director: Jeremy Gilley actor: Jeremy Gilley / Jude Law …
Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspire an actual ceasefire and silence the cynics by proving the day can actually save lives?
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Get Bruce! (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Get Bruce!
director: Andrew J. Kuehn actor: Whoopi Goldberg / Bette Midler …
other title: Get Bruce - Mit der Lizenz zum Lachen / Get Bruce
Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearances, from Oscar hosts and award recipients to Presidents. We meet his mom and see photos of his childhood; in Chicago, he writes for the Tribune and then heads West. Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Bette Midler talk with him and to the camera about working with Bruce, and we also watch Bruce help others prepare for Liz Taylor's 60th, Bill Clinton's 50th, and an AIDS awards banquet where the hirsute, rotund Vilanch lets his emotions show.
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A Chorus Line (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Chorus Line
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Michael Douglas / Alyson Reed …
other title: Chorus Line / A chorus line
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.
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When Michael Calls (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
When Michael Calls
director: Philip Leacock actor: Ben Gazzara / Elizabeth Ashley …
other title: Silêncio Mortal / Nightfall - Anrufe aus dem Jenseits …
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
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Summertree (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Summertree
director: Anthony Newley actor: Michael Douglas / Jack Warden …
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.
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Hail, Hero! (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hail, Hero!
director: David Miller actor: Arthur Kennedy / Teresa Wright …
other title: ¡Hail, héroe!
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
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One Day in September (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
One Day in September
director: Kevin Macdonald actor: Michael Douglas / Ankie Spitzer …
other title: Un giorno a settembre / Ein Tag im September …
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.
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The Drivetime (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Drivetime
director: Antero Alli actor: Michael Taylor Donovan / Michael Douglas …
A bemused time-traveling librarian named Flux from the serenity of 2023 to the chaos of Seattle in 1999, where he uncovers video footage from a riot that triggered the city's collapse. Society's obsession with communications technology has created the near-extinction of conversation. People communicate via e-mail and videofax; the film's few face-to-face encounters have a sourish, sitcom-type sting.
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Wonder Boys (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB NeoDB
Wonder Boys
director: Curtis Hanson actor: Michael Douglas / Tobey Maguire …
other title: Wonder Boys - Prodígios / Die WonderBoys …
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 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
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Trumbo (2007) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
Trumbo
director: Peter Askin actor: Joan Allen / Michael Douglas …
other title: Trumbo y la lista negra
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture. Written by
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Franklin (2024) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Franklin
actor: Michael Douglas / Noah Jupe …
other title: Benjamin Franklin
In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
director: Stanley Nelson actor: Carl Hart / Koe Rodriguez …
other title: Crack: Kokain, Korruption und Konspiration / Crack : Cocaïne, corruption et conspiration …
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Jewel of the Nile
director: Lewis Teague actor: Michael Douglas / Kathleen Turner …
other title: Il gioiello del Nilo / Jagten på Nilens juvel …
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
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Don't Say a Word (2001) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban NeoDB
Don't Say a Word
director: Gary Fleder actor: Michael Douglas / Sean Bean …
other title: Ikke et ord / Nem uma Palavra …
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.
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The Star Chamber (1983) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
The Star Chamber
director: Peter Hyams actor: Michael Douglas / Hal Holbrook …
other title: Condannato a morte per mancanza di indizi / O Esquadrão da Justiça …
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
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The American President (1995) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
The American President
director: Rob Reiner actor: Michael Douglas / Annette Bening …
other title: Il presidente - Una storia d'amore / Præsident på frierfødder …
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) [Movie] TMDB
The Ghost and the Darkness
director: Stephen Hopkins actor: Michael Douglas / Val Kilmer …
other title: Spiriti nelle tenebre / Caçadores na Noite …
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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The China Syndrome (1979) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The China Syndrome
director: James Bridges actor: Jane Fonda / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Sindrome cinese / Kina syndromet …
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.