Maury Chaykin — Actor (25)
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George's Island (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
George's Island
director: Paul Donovan actor: Ian Bannen / Sheila McCarthy …
other title: Fantasy Island - Die Geisterinsel / l'île des pirates disparus …
After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island, George is placed in a foster home. George and another foster child, Bonnie, flee to the island on Halloween but when they’re followed by adults Captain Kidd’s ghost is awakened.
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Death Hunt (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Death Hunt
director: Peter R. Hunt actor: Charles Bronson / Lee Marvin …
other title: Caccia selvaggia / Desperat jagt …
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
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Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
director: Douglas Williams actor: Raúl Juliá / Linda Griffiths …
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.
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Of Unknown Origin (1983) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Of Unknown Origin
director: George P. Cosmatos actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Dale …
other title: Di origine sconosciuta / Mad House …
A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.
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Love and Death on Long Island (1998) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Love and Death on Long Island
director: Richard Kwietniowski actor: John Hurt / Jason Priestley …
other title: Amore e morte a Long Island / Amor e Morte em Long Island …
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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DEFCON-4 (1985) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
DEFCON-4
director: Paul Donovan / Digby Cook actor: Lenore Zann / Maury Chaykin …
other title: Def-Con 4 - Das letzte Kommando / Def-Con 4 …
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
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Millennium (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Millennium
director: Michael Anderson actor: Kris Kristofferson / Cheryl Ladd …
other title: Milénio / Millennium - Die 4. Dimension …
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
1980s cherylladd kriskristofferson mondayactionmovie scifi
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Hero (1992) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Hero
director: Stephen Frears actor: Dustin Hoffman / Geena Davis …
other title: Eroe per caso / Den forkerte helt …
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban
Devil in a Blue Dress
director: Carl Franklin actor: Denzel Washington / Tom Sizemore …
other title: Il diavolo in blu / Djævel i blåt …
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
1990s carlfranklin denzelwashington doncheadle filmnoir
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My Cousin Vinny (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban Melon Log
My Cousin Vinny
8.0 (6 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Joe Pesci / Marisa Tomei …
other title: Mio cugino Vincenzo / Min fætter Vinny …
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
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A Life Less Ordinary (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Life Less Ordinary
director: Danny Boyle actor: Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz …
other title: Una vita esagerata / Et ikke helt almindeligt liv …
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.
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Hostage (2002) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Hostage
director: John Woo actor: Clive Owen / Maury Chaykin …
The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head before he reveals where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.
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Barney's Version (2010) [Movie] TMDB
Barney's Version
director: Richard J. Lewis actor: Paul Giamatti / Dustin Hoffman …
other title: La versione di Barney / Barneys mange liv …
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Exotica (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB
Exotica
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Bruce Greenwood / Mia Kirshner …
other title: Exótica
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
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MouseHunt (1997) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
MouseHunt
director: Gore Verbinski actor: Nathan Lane / Lee Evans …
other title: Un topolino sotto sfratto / Mus i eget hus …
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theo Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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Joan of Arc (1999) [TV] TMDB
Joan of Arc
actor: Leelee Sobieski / Chad Willett …
other title: Jeanne d'Arc - Die Frau des Jahrtausends / Jeanne d'Arc …
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.