Diana Scarwid

Diana Scarwid

Diana Elizabeth Scarwid is a retired American actress, best known for her portrayal of adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1980). She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Inside Moves (1980), and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Truman (1995). She has over 70 film and television credits to her name. Her films include Pretty Baby (1978), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Rumble Fish, Silkwood (both 1983), Psycho III, Heat, Extremities (all 3 in 1986), The Neon Bible (1995), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), What Lies Beneath (2000), A Guy Thing (2003), Party Monster (2003), The Clearing (2004), and Another Happy Day (2011). She's had roles in numerous TV movies including Truman (1995) as Bess Truman, The Possessed (1977), Desperate Lives (1982), A Bunny's Tale (1985), Night of the Hunter (1991), Ruby Bridges (1998), Before He Wakes (1998), Down Will Come Baby (1999), Path to War (2002), Tribute (2009), and more. She had a main role as Karen Tyler on the series Wonderfalls, and recurring role as Mother Superior on the TV series Pushing Daisies. She has also guest starred on several TV series including Starsky & Hutch, the original Hawaii Five-O, The X-Files, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Prison Break, Lost, Cold Case, Heroes, and Criminal Minds.

  • Title: Diana Scarwid
  • Popularity: 8.515
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1955-08-27
  • Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
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Diana Scarwid Movies

  • 1983
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    Rumble Fish

    Rumble Fish

    6.966 1983 HD

    Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare...

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  • 2003
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    Party Monster

    Party Monster

    5.854 2003 HD

    The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe...

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  • 2006
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    Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

    Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

    1 2006 HD

    Documentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped into the culture since that time. It is always fun to...

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  • 2006
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    Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan

    Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan

    1 2006 HD

    Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss some of the narrative beats, the performances in...

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  • 2006
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    Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan

    Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the challenge of bringing an icon to life, bringing Frank...

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  • 2000
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    What Lies Beneath

    What Lies Beneath

    6.411 2000 HD

    When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the...

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  • 1995
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    The Cure

    The Cure

    7.9 1995 HD

    Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an...

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  • 1978
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    Pretty Baby

    Pretty Baby

    6.99 1978 HD

    Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her...

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  • 2003
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    A Guy Thing

    A Guy Thing

    5.867 2003 HD

    Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked...

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  • 1986
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    Psycho III

    Psycho III

    5.598 1986 HD

    When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less...

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  • 1983
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    Silkwood

    Silkwood

    6.949 1983 HD

    The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and...

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  • 2008
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    Dream Boy

    Dream Boy

    6.1 2008 HD

    The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the...

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  • 1995
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    Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

    Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

    6.257 1995 HD

    Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage...

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  • 1996
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    If These Walls Could Talk

    If These Walls Could Talk

    6.6 1996 HD

    A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow...

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  • 1986
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    Heat

    Heat

    5.8 1986 HD

    Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together...

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  • 2011
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    Another Happy Day

    Another Happy Day

    5.6 2011 HD

    A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

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  • 2009
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    Nora Roberts' Tribute

    Nora Roberts' Tribute

    5.9 2009 HD

    A former child star buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for serenity is soon eclipsed by haunting dreams of her famous...

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  • 1981
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    Mommie Dearest

    Mommie Dearest

    6.371 1981 HD

    Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in...

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  • 1995
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    Truman

    Truman

    7.6 1995 HD

    Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his...

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  • 1983
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    Strange Invaders

    Strange Invaders

    4.9 1983 HD

    Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

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  • 1989
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    Brenda Starr

    Brenda Starr

    4.3 1989 HD

    Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the world of journalism, so she ventures deep into...

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  • 1980
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    Inside Moves

    Inside Moves

    6.4 1980 HD

    After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits....

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  • 1987
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    After the Promise

    After the Promise

    7.7 1987 HD

    Elmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife, he is...

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  • 1998
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    Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges

    6.6 1998 HD

    When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true...

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  • 1982
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    Desperate Lives

    Desperate Lives

    6 1982 HD

    A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.

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  • 2006
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    Valley of the Heart's Delight

    Valley of the Heart's Delight

    7 2006 HD

    When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the...

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  • 2000
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    Dirty Pictures

    Dirty Pictures

    5.9 2000 HD

    A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

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  • 1999
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    Down Will Come Baby

    Down Will Come Baby

    5.7 1999 HD

    Leah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband Marcus and Daughter Robin). When Robin goes to camp to...

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  • 1991
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    Night of the Hunter

    Night of the Hunter

    5.7 1991 HD

    A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.

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  • 1977
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    The Possessed

    The Possessed

    4.8 1977 HD

    A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.

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  • 1986
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    Extremities

    Extremities

    6.1 1986 HD

    A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the...

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  • 2010
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    Backyard Wedding

    Backyard Wedding

    6.3 2010 HD

    Kim Tyler grew up loving her next-door neighbor, Evan Slauson. Now she's all set to have the wedding of her dreams to stable Jeffrey in her parents'...

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  • 1993
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    Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

    Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

    5 1993 HD

    When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.

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  • 2004
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    The Clearing

    The Clearing

    5.785 2004 HD

    When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon...

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  • 2003
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    Path to War

    Path to War

    6.7 2003 HD

    A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from...

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  • 1985
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    A Bunny's Tale

    A Bunny's Tale

    4.5 1985 HD

    A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.

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  • 1995
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    The Neon Bible

    The Neon Bible

    6.2 1995 HD

    During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

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  • 2010
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    The Psycho Legacy

    The Psycho Legacy

    7 2010 HD

    The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror series, and modern masters of horror reminisce on what...

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  • 1998
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    Before He Wakes

    Before He Wakes

    3.8 1998 HD

    Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband...

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  • 1977
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    In the Glitter Palace

    In the Glitter Palace

    3.5 1977 HD

    The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.

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  • 1996
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    The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue

    The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue

    4.8 1996 HD

    When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are determined to get him out of jail in time for...

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  • 1980
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    Honeysuckle Rose

    Honeysuckle Rose

    5.6 1980 HD

    Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime...

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  • 1986
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    The Ladies Club

    The Ladies Club

    6.2 1986 HD

    A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of...

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  • 1978
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    Battered

    Battered

    1 1978 HD

    Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their...

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  • 1978
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    Forever

    Forever

    1 1978 HD

    Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him....

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  • 2002
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    The Angel Doll

    The Angel Doll

    5.5 2002 HD

    The story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and self-redemption. Young "Whitey" Black (so called because of...

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  • 1996
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    Critical Choices

    Critical Choices

    6 1996 HD

    A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday...

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  • 1982
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    Thou Shalt Not Kill

    Thou Shalt Not Kill

    6.5 1982 HD

    A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.

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  • 1996
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    Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina

    7.19 1996 HD

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her...

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  • 1975
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    Starsky & Hutch

    Starsky & Hutch

    7.243 1975 HD

    Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

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  • 2006
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    Heroes

    Heroes

    7.465 2006 HD

    Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.

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  • 1968
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    Hawaii Five-O

    Hawaii Five-O

    7.1 1968 HD

    Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired...

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  • 2003
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    Cold Case

    Cold Case

    7.763 2003 HD

    The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly...

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  • 2004
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    Wonderfalls

    Wonderfalls

    7.7 2004 HD

    Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 2005
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    Criminal Minds

    Criminal Minds

    8.311 2005 HD

    An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The...

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  • 1993
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    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    8.375 1993 HD

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena....

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  • 2004
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    Lost

    Lost

    7.946 2004 HD

    Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

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  • 2007
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    Pushing Daisies

    Pushing Daisies

    7.832 2007 HD

    A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private...

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  • 1977
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    Kingston: Confidential

    Kingston: Confidential

    5 1977 HD

    Kingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes during the spring of 1977, following the success of a...

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  • 1995
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    The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

    7.7 1995 HD

    Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were...

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  • 1976
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    Gibbsville

    Gibbsville

    1 1976 HD

    Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired on NBC from November 11 to December 30, 1976. The...

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  • 1979
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    Studs Lonigan

    Studs Lonigan

    9.5 1979 HD

    The story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930.

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  • 1998
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    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    8.141 1998 HD

    The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.

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  • 1998
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    A Will of their Own

    A Will of their Own

    7 1998 HD

    A Will of their Own is a 1998 American television mini-series directed by Karen Arthur. The film follows six generations of females within one...

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  • 1980
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    Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

    Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

    7.2 1980 HD

    The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 2005
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    Prison Break

    Prison Break

    8.1 2005 HD

    Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get...

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