Birthday:
10-20-1955
(69 years)
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and the war film 1917.
Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with fellow composer Alex North for the most nominations without a win. He has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. His achievements have contributed to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with fellow composer Alex North for the most nominations without a win. He has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. His achievements have contributed to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
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The Sound of 007
Act like Self
event2022 star_border 7.1
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Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time to Die.
Music by John Williams
Act like Self - Composer
event2024 star_border 8
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His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Act like Self
event2017 star_border 7.1
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Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.
Allied Forces: Making 1917
Act like Self
event2020 star_border 6.5
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Learn how the one shot, 360-degree format was executed and the pivotal role Academy Award® winner Roger Deakins served in bringing Sam Mendes’ vision to life.
Supernatural
Act like Salinger (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 8.3
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When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
The Oscars
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 7
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An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Finding Nemo
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.8
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Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Jarhead
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.7
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Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
American Beauty
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 8
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Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
The Shawshank Redemption
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 8.7
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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.
Meet Joe Black
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.3
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William Parrish, media tycoon and loving father, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, personified in human form as Joe Black. His intention was to take William with him, but accidentally, Joe and William's beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she's flirting.
The Green Mile
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 8.5
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A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
The Rapture
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 5.9
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A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
The Horse Whisperer
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 6.9
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The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Little Children
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 7.1
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The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
The Great Outdoors
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6.4
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It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
The Player
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.2
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A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Road to Perdition
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.4
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Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
Cinderella Man
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.6
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The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
In the Bedroom
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.9
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Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
Light of Day
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 5.5
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Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Towelhead
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.2
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A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
The Man with One Red Shoe
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.7
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A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6.1
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Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.
Men Don't Leave
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.5
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A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
White Oleander
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.1
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A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
WALL·E
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 8.1
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What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
The Salton Sea
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.6
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After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
How to Make an American Quilt
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6.4
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Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Brothers
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.3
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When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.8
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Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
American Buffalo
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5.5
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Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
Red Corner
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.3
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An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Scent of a Woman
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.8
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Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
Little Women
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.3
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With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
Real Genius
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.7
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When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
The Adjustment Bureau
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 6.8
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A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Skyfall
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.2
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When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Music (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7
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Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send the script to him firstly, when the first tale was finished and sent to Darabont, after reading such odd story, asking for more, so King replied "You must wait as anybody else", receiving later all other tales Frank wrote a screenplay on 8 weeks, so come up "the Green Mile"
Summer's End
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6
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10-year-old Kathy prefers pigtails to curls and runs away for the day to avoid a hair appointment. While she's off having adventures with her best pal Jeeter, her parents clash over how to handle the situation. Kathy's mother worries that her daughter doesn't "fit in" while her father believes she's "just an individual" and should be allowed to grow up at her own pace. At the end of the day, Kathy must return home to face the inevitable.
The Iron Lady
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 6.4
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A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Tolkien
Conductor (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Grandview, U.S.A.
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6
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Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Saving Mr. Banks
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.3
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Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Side Effects
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.6
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A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Whispers in the Dark
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 5
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Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
Corrina, Corrina
Music (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.7
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When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.
The Judge
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.3
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A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Spectre
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.6
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A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Operation Mincemeat
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.5
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In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
White Bird
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8
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After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
The Prince of Pennsylvania
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 5.6
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Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.
The Linguini Incident
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.7
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A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob the New York restaurant where two of them work.
Deceived
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 5.7
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The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.
Citizen Cohn
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.3
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As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Threesome
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.4
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At a sizable public college, high-minded student Eddy is forced to room with the slovenly Stuart, but the pair strike up a surprising friendship. When attractive co-ed Alex is assigned to live with the two male students because of her gender-neutral name, a roundabout love triangle ensues. Eddy secretly yearns for Stuart, who wants Alex, but she prefers Eddy. The complex situation leads to sexual experimentation and strained relationships.
The Favor
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 4.9
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On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.3
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Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Less Than Zero
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6.4
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A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Sicko
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.3
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A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
Bridge of Spies
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.2
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
The Help
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 8.2
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Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Heat Wave
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.2
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Get on Up
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6.8
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A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Dog
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.3
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An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
Rhythm Nation 1814
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 7.9
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Story about two boys, whose dreams of pursuing music careers are destroyed through substance abuse and drug trafficking.
Desperately Seeking Susan
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.1
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A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Revenge of the Nerds
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.5
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At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Finding Dory
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Reckless
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.8
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Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Prescott is reckless too. She dumps her conventional life and boring boyfriend to follow Johnny wherever his dangerous path leads.
Career Opportunities
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.9
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Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
Walking the Mile
Music (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5
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Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 7.7
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Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.2
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Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
Those Secrets
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 2.5
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A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Elemental
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.6
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In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.
Passengers
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Erin Brockovich
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.4
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A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Five Came Back
Music (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.9
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The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”
The War
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.6
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The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Up Close & Personal
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.3
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Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Mad City
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.2
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A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Josh and S.A.M.
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 4.7
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Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home?
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.1
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Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
The Execution of Wanda Jean
Music (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6
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The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era.
A Man Called Otto
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.8
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When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
The Lost Boys
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 7.1
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When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.4
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As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Revolutionary Road
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7
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A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Victoria & Abdul
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.9
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Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Thank You for Your Service
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Unstrung Heroes
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 5.9
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Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he learns how to cope with his emotions and to value his own uniqueness.
The Seduction of Gina
Music (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 4.5
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Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
Gung Ho
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6
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When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Music (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 7
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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Phenomenon
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.4
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An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
The Good German
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 5.8
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An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
The Debt
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 6.6
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Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
He Named Me Malala
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.7
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A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Gumdrop
Music (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7
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A robot's life story emerges during a casting session.
Cookie
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.2
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Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
The Highwaymen
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.7
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In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.
1917
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 8
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
Flesh and Bone
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6
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Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumatic past that eats away at him returns when he meets Kay Davies, a woman connected to the bloody event. Against all odds, Arlis and Kay fall in love; however, when his father, Roy, reappears in his life -- with the coldhearted Ginnie in tow -- Arlis must deal with his past demons.
Let Them All Talk
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.6
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A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.9
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British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Oscar and Lucinda
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.4
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After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Pay It Forward
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.3
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Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Naked Tango
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.3
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When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
The Little Things
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.3
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Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
In the Blink of an Eye
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
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An epic sci-fi drama exploring the history of the world and the nature of life, love, hope, and connection, doing so by focusing on three intersecting storylines.
The Thursday Murder Club
Original Music Composer (1 ep.)
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Four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and, led by a former spy, form the Thursday Murder Club to solve cold cases for fun. But when a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Five Came Back
Music (3 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.2
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Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.
Angels in America
Original Music Composer (6 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.6
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Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.
Boston Public
Music (15 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.7
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Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.
Amazing Stories
Music (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7.5
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A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
Ruth & Erica
Main Title Theme Composer (13 ep.)
event2012 star_border 8
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A woman struggles with her mother's reluctance to make the life changes necessary in light of her increasing frailty.
Monsters
Original Music Composer (9 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.7
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The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
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