Al Waxman

Al Waxman

Al Waxman was a prolific actor and director, leaving a mark on over 1000 productions in radio, television, film, and theatre. His role in "King of Kensington" stood out as a highlight among his successful Canadian TV series. Additionally, he starred in acclaimed series like "Cagney & Lacey," "Missing Treasures," and "Twice in a Lifetime." His theatrical ventures spanned from off-Broadway in New York to the West End in London, earning praise at the Stratford Festival for his performance as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" and his direction of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Waxman's accolades included ACTRA and Gemini awards for acting, and recognition from organizations like the American Women in Film for his directorial prowess. His commitment to various charitable causes, including the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart & Stroke Foundation, showcased his dedication to social impact. His contributions were honoured with distinctions such as the Order of Ontario in 1996 and the Order of Canada in 1997.

  • Popularity : 3.63
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1935-03-02
  • Place of Birth : Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Al Waxman Movies

  • 1989
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    Millennium

    Millennium

    5.4 1989 HD

    An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth...

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  • 1982
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    Class of 1984

    Class of 1984

    6.4 1982 HD

    Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place...

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  • 1980
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    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

    6.8 1980 HD

    In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs...

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  • 1991
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    The Hitman

    The Hitman

    5.3 1991 HD

    After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going...

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  • 1981
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    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

    6.5 1981 HD

    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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  • 1986
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    Meatballs III: Summer Job

    Meatballs III: Summer Job

    4.4 1986 HD

    The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

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  • 1995
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    Iron Eagle on the Attack

    Iron Eagle on the Attack

    3.3 1995 HD

    While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to...

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  • 1997
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    The Assignment

    The Assignment

    6.3 1997 HD

    Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for...

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  • 1999
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    In the Company of Spies

    In the Company of Spies

    2 1999 HD

    An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to protect national security, decide to bring an old...

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  • 1998
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    Naked City: A Killer Christmas

    Naked City: A Killer Christmas

    3 1998 HD

    An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..

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  • 1997
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    Critical Care

    Critical Care

    6.4 1997 HD

    Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their...

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  • 1972
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    When Michael Calls

    When Michael Calls

    5.6 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 2001
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    What Makes a Family

    What Makes a Family

    6.5 2001 HD

    Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to...

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  • 1989
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    Collision Course

    Collision Course

    4.1 1989 HD

    A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

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  • 1991
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    Scream of Stone

    Scream of Stone

    6.3 1991 HD

    A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which...

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  • 1999
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    A Saintly Switch

    A Saintly Switch

    7.1 1999 HD

    The story is about a married couple with children on the verge of divorce. Their imminent divorce, like many, is due to their mutual lack of respect...

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  • 1996
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    Gotti

    Gotti

    6.4 1996 HD

    John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the...

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  • 1995
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    The Shamrock Conspiracy

    The Shamrock Conspiracy

    4 1995 HD

    A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York.

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  • 1995
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    Net Worth

    Net Worth

    5.6 1995 HD

    The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of...

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  • 1992
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    Quiet Killer

    Quiet Killer

    5.2 1992 HD

    On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

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  • 1994
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    I Know My Son Is Alive

    I Know My Son Is Alive

    3 1994 HD

    A couple's life is torn apart by the disappearance of their new-born son.

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  • 1991
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    The Soulmates in the Gift of Light

    The Soulmates in the Gift of Light

    5 1991 HD

    Wicked Angris McBragg sets out to ruin Christmas by undermining the forces of good. Santa Claus abandons his workshop and Comet, his head reindeer,...

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  • 1979
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    Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

    Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

    7 1979 HD

    With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age...

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  • 1988
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    Malarek

    Malarek

    4 1988 HD

    Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the...

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  • 1983
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    Spasms

    Spasms

    4.6 1983 HD

    A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.

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  • 1969
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    The Dowry

    The Dowry

    1 1969 HD

    A little drama, almost a love triangle, filmed on the Canadian Atlantic coast, about a fisherman, his girl, and his boat. The boat needs a new engine...

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  • 1974
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    Sunday in the Country

    Sunday in the Country

    6.4 1974 HD

    Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is...

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  • 1976
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    The Clown Murders

    The Clown Murders

    3 1976 HD

    A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major...

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  • 1979
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    Wild Horse Hank

    Wild Horse Hank

    4.4 1979 HD

    A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest...

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  • 1994
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    Operation Golden Phoenix

    Operation Golden Phoenix

    3.3 1994 HD

    A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it...

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  • 1999
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    The Hurricane

    The Hurricane

    7.419 1999 HD

    The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

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  • 1991
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    I Still Dream of Jeannie

    I Still Dream of Jeannie

    6 1991 HD

    Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home (temporarily) to hear their son's important academic...

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  • 1962
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    The War Lover

    The War Lover

    6 1962 HD

    Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most...

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  • 1964
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    Man in the Middle

    Man in the Middle

    6.4 1964 HD

    In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood....

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  • 1996
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    Holiday Affair

    Holiday Affair

    5.6 1996 HD

    "Meeting cute" while Jodie's son Timmy enthuses over a model train set, Jodie and the raffish but likeable Steve immediately hit it off, but she is...

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  • 1996
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    Noah's Magic Ark

    Noah's Magic Ark

    1 1996 HD

    Family / Adventure - Children and parents alike will love this captivating and charming version of the story of Noah's ark and the great flood,...

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  • 1980
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    Double Negative

    Double Negative

    3.5 1980 HD

    Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.

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  • 1981
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    Tulips

    Tulips

    3.5 1981 HD

    A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love.

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  • 1968
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    Isabel

    Isabel

    5.2 1968 HD

    A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits.

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  • 1989
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    Mob Story

    Mob Story

    1 1989 HD

    On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano (John Vernon) flees to his Canadian hometown and old flame Dolores (Margot...

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  • 1992
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    Live Wire

    Live Wire

    5.3 1992 HD

    Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within...

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  • 1974
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    Child Under A Leaf

    Child Under A Leaf

    3.8 1974 HD

    A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.

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  • 2000
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    The Thin Blue Lie

    The Thin Blue Lie

    6 2000 HD

    Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick...

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  • 1995
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    Death Junction

    Death Junction

    3.5 1995 HD

    A small-time drug pusher is caught in the middle of a war between rival Jamaican drug lords, and is accused of stealing a major shipment.

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  • 1997
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    Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

    Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

    7 1997 HD

    First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of...

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  • 1988
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    Switching Channels

    Switching Channels

    6.1 1988 HD

    A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

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  • 1994
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    Cagney & Lacey: The Return

    Cagney & Lacey: The Return

    8.7 1994 HD

    1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.

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  • 1996
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    Bogus

    Bogus

    5.8 1996 HD

    Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant,...

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  • 1972
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    The Sloane Affair

    The Sloane Affair

    1 1972 HD

    The investigation of a suspected tax fraud, based on actual case files of the Department of National Revenue.

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  • 1998
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    At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

    At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

    1 1998 HD

    Based on a true story of Sue Rodriguez who campaigned for the right to die with dignity, opening a controversial ethical debate throughout Canada.

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  • 1992
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    Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

    Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

    5.3 1992 HD

    For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him....

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  • 1975
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    The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days

    The Heat Wave Lasted Four Days

    1 1975 HD

    A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.

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  • 1971
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    The Crowd Inside

    The Crowd Inside

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1999
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    Something from Nothing

    Something from Nothing

    1 1999 HD

    A holiday special based on Phoebe Gilman's award-winning book, this is the heartwarming story of a boy named Joseph, his beloved Grandfather and his...

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  • 2000
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    The Ride

    The Ride

    2 2000 HD

    Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follows the daily lives of drivers for an urban cab...

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  • 1975
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    My Pleasure Is My Business

    My Pleasure Is My Business

    2 1975 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Crowd Inside

    The Crowd Inside

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Crowd Inside

    The Crowd Inside

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Crowd Inside

    The Crowd Inside

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1993
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    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan

    Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1991
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    White Light

    White Light

    3 1991 HD

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  • 1992
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    The Diamond Fleece

    The Diamond Fleece

    5 1992 HD

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  • 1995
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    Death Junction

    Death Junction

    3.5 1995 HD

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1994
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    Due South

    Due South

    7.6 1994 HD

    Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police...

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  • 1985
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    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.3 1985 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

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  • 1982
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    Cagney & Lacey

    Cagney & Lacey

    6.9 1982 HD

    Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to...

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  • 1999
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    Twice in a Lifetime

    Twice in a Lifetime

    5.5 1999 HD

    Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.

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  • 1998
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    Power Play

    Power Play

    10 1998 HD

    Power Play was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton,...

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  • 1975
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    King of Kensington

    King of Kensington

    4.8 1975 HD

    King of Kensington is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1980. The show starred Al Waxman as Larry King, a...

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  • 1987
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    Street Legal

    Street Legal

    7 1987 HD

    Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994. It was revived for an additional season in 2019.

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  • 1961
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    Ben Casey

    Ben Casey

    5.7 1961 HD

    Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

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  • 1983
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    Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

    Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

    6.6 1983 HD

    Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on...

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  • 1975
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    Sidestreet

    Sidestreet

    5 1975 HD

    Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police...

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  • 2001
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    Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

    Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

    6.9 2001 HD

    Chronicles the life of Judy Garland, from her first public performance in 1924 until her death.

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  • 1977
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    For The Record

    For The Record

    1 1977 HD

    For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired...

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  • 1998
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    Twitch City

    Twitch City

    8.4 1998 HD

    Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses...

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  • 1994
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    Due South

    Due South

    7.6 1994 HD

    Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police...

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  • 1995
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    4.827 1995 HD

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6.9 1970 HD

    Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6.9 1970 HD

    My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    7.3 1970 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6 1970 HD

    Hard Time on Planet Earth is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in 1989. Airing for 13 episodes, the...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    3 1970 HD

    The professional and private lives of the predominantly female staff of the Women's Medical Arts, a progressive clinic with a mandate to breathe new...

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  • 1970
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    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

    6.9 1970 HD

    The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first...

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