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Paul Lazar is an American actor, director, and teacher. As an actor he is best known for his collaborations with Jonathan Demme, having appeared in six of Demme’s films including The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In addition to his film work, he is co-founder of Big Dance Theatre and an associate member of The Wooster Group, and currently teaches theater at Harvard.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Act like Pilcher
event1991 star_border 8.3
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Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Sweet Relief
Act like Mr. McDaniel
event2023
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A woman's dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town.
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
Act like Ad Man
event1991 star_border 4
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Three short stories about women & men relationship.
On the Run
Act like Cabbie
event1999 star_border 5.3
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Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
Six Ways to Sunday
Act like Hyman
event1999 star_border 6.1
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Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).
Memories
event2021 star_border 7
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I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word means "sea". Marin was born as the daughter of the king of Aska. She was supposed to live a bright life as a lovely princess, but she soon closed her heart and began to wish for the end of the world.
From Other Worlds
Act like Larry
event2004 star_border 4.4
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FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.
The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
Act like Bill Allen
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Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into their Auntie's house while a toxic hurricane threatens New York City.
Suits
Act like Mitchell Mitnick
event1999
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A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan. The advertising satire follows the New York firm of Cranston & Co. as they fight rival Hoffman & Partners. Cranston fires his creative director which puts a young copywriter with a literature degree on the front line, even though he doesn't want to be. The contest comes down to a schmaltzy campaign by Hoffman with music by Air Supply that uses the tagline "Vorcan: your own personal air supply." or a more down to earth campaign from Cranston of "The pad ain't bad!"
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Act like Seymour
event1995 star_border 6.1
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The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Henry Fool
Act like Doctor
event1998 star_border 6.7
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An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
The Favor
Act like Mr. Smith
event2007 star_border 4.3
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A troubled teenager, left alone after his mother's sudden death, is befriended and offered a home by his mom's former boyfriend.
The Debt
Act like The Salesman
event1993 star_border 6
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In the midst of the current recession, a series of disastrous telephone messages triggers a major domestic crisis fro the Kosnicks, a yuppie couple at the end of their rope. In the height of their despair, a door-to-door salesman tries to sell them a book about positive thinking, but for the Kosnicks it may be too late...
Married to the Mob
Act like Tommy Boyle
event1988 star_border 5.9
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Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Philadelphia
Act like Dr. Klenstein
event1993 star_border 7.7
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Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Mickey Blue Eyes
Act like Ritchie Vitale
event1999 star_border 5.7
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An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Money Kings
Act like Rocky
event1998 star_border 6.1
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Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
Snowpiercer
Act like Paul
event2013 star_border 6.9
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In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Los Locos
Act like Buck
event1997 star_border 3
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In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.
Ghostwritten
Act like Mark Brooks
event2022
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Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.
Experimenter
Act like Paul Errara
event2015 star_border 6.5
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Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Trapped in Paradise
Act like Timmy
event1994 star_border 5.6
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Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Silent Street
event2016
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Crosby Street Hotel, an outsider becomes an insider. Finding what’s been missing for so long, up in the penthouse. A poetry of past and present.
Toe Tags
Act like Coroner's Assistant
event1996
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The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives. Detectives Kate Wagner and Mark Weiss arrive to begin the investigation, but every time they get close to capturing the lunatic murderer, a suspect is found murdered. Bodies are piling up in the morgue with one thing in common: missing toe tags.
All the Words on the Page
Act like Paul
event2024
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When a script is unexpectedly switched, a dyslexic actor struggles to navigate his conservatory audition. Mixing the Greek myth of Chiron and the textures of off-off-Broadway theater, "All the Words on the Page " is an anxious tale about wrestling with an invisible disability.
Cymbeline
Act like Quarry Cop 1
event2014 star_border 3.9
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War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
10 Crosby
Act like Older Doorman
event2016
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A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.
Another Telepathic Thing
event2015
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A live performance film documenting Big Dance Theater's production Another Telepathic Thing, a piece partially inspired by Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger."
How to Seduce Difficult Women
Act like Sam
event2009 star_border 4.6
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Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
Act like The Baker
event2013
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In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding night.
Starring Austin Pendleton
Act like Self
event2016 star_border 6.7
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A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Streamers
Act like MP Lieutenant
event1983 star_border 5.9
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Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
Beloved
Act like General Store Proprietor
event1998 star_border 5.7
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
No Such Thing
Act like Fred
event2002 star_border 5.9
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A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
Taking the Heat
Act like Chucky
event1993 star_border 4.8
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When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.
Lorenzo's Oil
Act like Professor Duncan
event1992 star_border 7.1
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Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Subway Stories
Act like Mr. Nervous (segment "Subway Car from Hell")
event1997 star_border 6
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An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Anamorph
Act like Medical Examiner
event2007 star_border 5.1
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A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
29th Street
Act like Needle Nose Nipton
event1991 star_border 7.1
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After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Act like Drunk
event2020 star_border 6.5
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Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's evil plot. It's your move: What should Kimmy do next?
The Host
Act like American Doctor
event2006 star_border 7
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A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Brace Up!
Act like Fyodor Ilyich Kulygin
event1993 star_border 10
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The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe. This presentation of the 2003 production of BRACE UP!, designed by Ken Kobland and LeCompte, incorporates close-up recordings of the performers simultaneously with continuous wide-angle footage.
The Manchurian Candidate
Act like Gillespie
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Rachel Getting Married
Act like Rehearsal Dinner Guest
event2008 star_border 6.3
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A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Speechless
Act like Harry
event1994 star_border 5.9
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In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
The Substitute 2: School's Out
Act like Mack Weathers
event1998 star_border 5.9
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When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall's murder.
Queens Supreme
(1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 3.2
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Queens Supreme is an American courtroom dramedy television series which aired on CBS in January 2003. The series starred Oliver Platt in his first major television role as New York judge Jack Moran who, with his equally eccentric and colorful as colleagues, preside over court cases as the real-life Queens Supreme Court in Long Island City, Queens. The series had a strong cast and considerable financial backing, especially from Julia Roberts's Shoelace Productions, Spelling Television and Revolution Studios, however poor ratings forced its cancellation after three episodes.
The idea for the series came about when two New York attorneys, twin brothers Dan and Peter Thomas, were discussing courtroom stories based on their shared experiences in Queens while on a plane flight to California in 2001. One of the passengers, a Hollywood producer, was sitting next to them and mentioned that they could be the basis for a television series. Indeed, the producer brought the idea to screenwriter Kevin Fox who later successfully pitched it to CBS. Fox was initially hesitant in becoming involved, feeling there were too many courtroom dramas already, but agreed after spending time at the New York Supreme Court himself.
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Act like Dave Baker (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 8
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The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
Lisey's Story
Act like Thomas Fenton (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 5.9
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This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Act like Sid Gabbert (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.9
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In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Act like Donald (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.6
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The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Wonderland
Act like Willie Watches (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 10
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Wonderland is a short-lived and controversial 2000 ABC television drama directed by Peter Berg. It depicted daily life in a mental institution, from the perspectives of both the doctors and patients. Only two episodes aired on ABC during its original run in 2000. DirecTV aired all eight episodes on its channel The 101 Network starting January 14, 2009.
The show had many controversial positions on the mental health crisis and its treatment.
TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
Third Watch
Act like Erik (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.9
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The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
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