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Tim robbins movies

The Player
The Player

1992 7.2

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

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The Player
The Player

An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: the House always wins.

Action & AdventureCrime
Short Cuts
Short Cuts

Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011.

Drama
Short Cuts
Short Cuts

1993 7.2

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

DramaComedy
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption

1994 8.7

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

DramaCrime
Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption
Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption

2004 7.4

Documentary about the movie.

Dead Again
Dead Again

1991 6.4

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

MysteryDramaCrimeThriller
Dead Again
Dead Again

2021 4.8

A VIRUS IS LOOSE. In rural village where crime is non existent, a police sergeant is retiring out of boredom. He is sent a young recruit fresh out of police school. All hell is about to break loose in this apocalyptic horror film.

ComedyHorrorScience Fiction
Robert Redford
Robert Redford

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Robert Redford: The Golden Look
Robert Redford: The Golden Look

2019 6.5

More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence, idealism, and integrity. A champion of active environmentalism and the right to openly criticize any institutional abuse, he has put his artistic work at the service of his political commitments, whether as an actor, director, producer, or founder of the Sundance Festival, a formidable forum for his struggles since 1985.

Documentary
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder

1990 7.4

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

DramaMysteryHorror
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder

2019 4.3

After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

HorrorMysteryThriller
Toys
Toys

1992 5.3

Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.

FamilyFantasyComedyScience Fiction
Toys
Toys

2011

“Stalin seemed cool to kids from my year, it was this amazing facade.” Andrzej Wolski looks at the experience of childhood in socialist Poland and at the propaganda that reached the youngest and about how, through play, attempts were made to develop specific social attitudes. The toys given to tgem prepared them for adulthood and suggested to them who they were to become in the future.

Documentary
King of the Hill
King of the Hill

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.

AnimationComedyFamily
King of the Hill
King of the Hill

1993 6.8

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

DramaHistory
Maverick
Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

ComedyWestern
Maverick
Maverick

1994 6.9

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

ActionAdventureComedyDramaWestern
While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping

Burdened with visions of the future in their dreams, a young woman and two men try to prevent horrible events before they actually happen.

Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping

1995 7.0

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

RomanceComedy