Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas
Date of Birth: 25 Sep 1944
Country: USA
Biography: Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009. He is the son of actor Kirk Douglas. (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 66 (Actor)
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The American President
The world's most powerful man has met his match! Michael Douglas is the widower President wooing environmental lobbyist Annette Bening in this romantic hit by Rob Reiner. (Warner Bros.)
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Basic Instinct
A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger. Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone co-star in this thriller about a man who finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival. [Artisan]
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Don\
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group and take off with the precious stone.
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The Game
Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.
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In Search of Peace Part One: 1948-1967
Chronicles the first two decades of Israel's existence, offering new insights in the origins of the Middle East conflict. (Moriah Films)
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The In-Laws
When prospective fathers-in-law Steve Tobias (Douglas) and Jerry Peyser (Brooks) meet for the first time to celebrate their children's upcoming marriage, the cake hits the fan. (Warner Bros.)
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It Runs in the Family
A story about the loving, frustrating, reassuring, insane, and ultimately inescapable bonds of family. (MGM)
One Day in September
The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation. (imdb)
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One Night at McCool\
It all started one night at McCool's....three unsuspecting men and one woman with a dream are brought together by lust, mayhem, bingo, DVDs, and the finer points of home decorating. (USA Films)
A Perfect Murder
A powerful husband. An unfaithful wife. A jealous lover. All of them have a motive. Each of them has a plan. (Warner Bros.)
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Tell Them Who You Are
Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illutrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics.
Traffic
Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger. (USA Films)
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The War of the Roses
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.. (imdb)
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Wonder Boys
Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, his most gifted writing student James Leer (Maguire). (Paramount Pictures)
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Falling Down
An unemployed defence worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. (imdb)
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The Ghost and the Darkness
Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period... (imdb)
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Black Rain
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. (imdb)
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A Chorus Line
Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical. (imdb)
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Fatal Attraction
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. (imdb)
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Coma
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas (imdb)
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The China Syndrome
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. (imdb)
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Wall Street
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. (imdb)
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Romancing the Stone
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. (imdb)
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Disclosure
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life. (imdb)
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The Jewel of the Nile
This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life (imdb)
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The Sentinel
Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that a Neo-Nazi Aryan Disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First Lady Sarah Ballentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison won't stop in trying to prove his innocence, and save the life of the President. While attempting to uncover the person behind it all, he comes into confrontation with his protege, Agent Breckinridge. (imdb)
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Shining Through
Ed Leland is an American spymaster who needs to spy on a high level German Army officer during World War II. Because of her pastry-baking skills, he decides to send in his secretary, Linda Voss. (imdb)
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You, Me and Dupree
The wildly comic story of a suburban couple (Dillon, Hudson) who are just trying to make their new marriage work when her and me unexpectedly becomes You, Me and Dupree (Wilson). (Universal Pictures)
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The Star Chamber
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty. (imdb)
Running
American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him. He sets out on his task with determination and hope that his success will resolve his personal problems. (imdb)
King of California
An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia. (imdb)
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Trumbo
TRUMBO focuses on the writer's own indelible words, the film features performances of some of his extraordinary letters, clips from his films and, archival and contemporary interviews with those who knew him best. Forced to write underground, letter writing became the chief repository of Trumbo's extraordinary talents and they serve as a wonderfully entertaining testament to his boundless intellect, acerbic humor,and staggering resilience.
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Cast a Giant Shadow
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins. (imdb)
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Forever Hollywood
Produced by the American Cinematheque, the film celebrates a century of movie-making history and the eternal allure of Hollywood glamour. The unique story of Hollywood, the bountiful farming suburb, turned movie capital of the world, is told through interviews with some of today's best known stars and filmmakers. (americancinematheque.com)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
A bachelor is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends at his younger brother's wedding
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a corrupt district attorney takes an unexpected turn.
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Solitary Man
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
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Milos Forman: Co te nezabije...
A documentary about Milos Forman's career.
Haywire
A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission. (imdb)
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It\
A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend (Grodin), between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration. (imdb)
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Fog City Mavericks
A look at the careers of famous San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers, specifically those of Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, and George Lucas.
Dinosaurs Alive
This program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico. (imdb)
Summertree
Jerry, not a member of the "protest generation" but is instead, an "All American boy," is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam. (imdb)
Hail, Hero!
Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. (allrovi.com)
Behind the Candelabra
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted. (imdb)
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Adam at 6 A.M.
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go. (imdb)
Last Vegas
Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. (imdb)
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
A documentary on legendary Hollywood insider Shep Gordon, who fell into artist management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college.
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And So It Goes
A self-centered realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home. (IMDb)
Beyond the Reach
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert. (imdb)
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Noise & Resistance
This documentary pictures a globally interconnected and political music scene, built on autonomy and solidarity, which has declared war on capitalism and the mainstream culture. Whether it s squatters in Barcelona, antifascists in Moscow, inhabitants of self-governed trailer parks or activists of the CRASS collective - they can all be brought down to one common denominator: their protest and music as means and tool to express it. (youtube.com)
Ant-Man
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. (imdb)
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The Streets of San Francisco
A veteran cop with more than 20 years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco. (imdb)
Verhoeven versus Verhoeven
In his career, spanning nearly fifty years, Paul Verhoeven managed to fascinate audiences time and again with movies in which the themes sex and violence play first fiddle. For director Elisabeth Van Zijll Langhout, Verhoeven's first French film Elle forms the starting point of an extensive exploration of this director's work. In an interview, Verhoeven looks back on his oeuvre, from Floris (1969) to Turks Fruit (1973) and from Basic Instinct (1992) to Zwartboek (2006). (filmfestival.nl)
Napoleon and Samantha
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend. (imdb)
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Unlocked
A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack. (imdb)
Grand Prix Driver
Grand Prix Driver goes inside the secretive world of Formula 1 by offering never-before-granted access to the inner workings of McLaren. Narrated by Michael Douglas. (imdb)
Ant-Man and the Wasp
As Scott Lang balances being both a superhero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
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Animal world
A man finds himself deep in debt and is coerced to board a ship that hosts a risky gambling party.
The Kominsky Method
An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
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Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable celebration at The Dolby Theater. (imdb)
Green Eggs and Ham
An animated series based on the popular Dr. Seuss story "Green Eggs and Ham." (imdb)
Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall
Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60's. (imdb)
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with strange creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible (imdb.com).
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Franklin
Franklin (2024) - TV Mini-Series
Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778. (imdb)