Chris Messina

Chris Messina

Christopher Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Danny Castellano in the series The Mindy Project (2012–2017), which earned him two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He has appeared in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Devil (2010), Argo (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Cake (2014), Birds of Prey (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Call Jane (2022), Air (2023) and The Boogeyman (2023). Messina wrote, executive produced, and starred in the comedy film Fairhaven (2012). He also directed and starred in the drama film Alex of Venice (2014). On television, Messina appeared as Ted Fairwell in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2005), Chris Sanchez in the Audience Network legal thriller series Damages (2011–2012), Reese Lansing in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014), Richard Willis in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), Nick Haas in the USA Network crime drama series The Sinner (2020), Angelo Lano in the Starz political miniseries Gaslit (2022), and as Nathan Bartlett in the Peacock comedy thriller Based on a True Story (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Messina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Popularity : 11.529
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1974-08-11
  • Place of Birth : New York City, New York, USA
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Chris Messina Movies

  • 2008
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    Made of Honor

    Made of Honor

    6.4 2008 HD

    Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is...

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  • 2008
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    Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    6.799 2008 HD

    Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous...

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  • 2023
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    Dreamin' Wild

    Dreamin' Wild

    5.9 2023 HD

    “Dreamin’ Wild” tells the true story of the Emerson family and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk...

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  • 2009
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    Julie & Julia

    Julie & Julia

    6.7 2009 HD

    Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women...

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  • 2010
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    Greenberg

    Greenberg

    5.871 2010 HD

    A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.

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  • 2000
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    Turn It Up

    Turn It Up

    5 2000 HD

    Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying...

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  • 2009
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    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

    5.1 2009 HD

    After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is...

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  • 2008
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    Humboldt County

    Humboldt County

    5.5 2008 HD

    Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer...

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  • 2011
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    Like Crazy

    Like Crazy

    6.378 2011 HD

    A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

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  • 2006
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    Ira & Abby

    Ira & Abby

    5.8 2006 HD

    A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the...

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  • 2010
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    Devil

    Devil

    6.083 2010 HD

    A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

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  • 2012
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    Argo

    Argo

    7.3 2012 HD

    As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...

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  • 2009
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    Away We Go

    Away We Go

    6.6 2009 HD

    Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide...

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  • 2023
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    The Boogeyman

    The Boogeyman

    6.414 2023 HD

    Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their...

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  • 2010
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    Monogamy

    Monogamy

    4.1 2010 HD

    Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on...

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  • 2018
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    Too Long at the Fair

    Too Long at the Fair

    1 2018 HD

    Charlie and Val are best friends and owners of a fledgeling Princess party business in Los Angeles. After a mishap at a client’s party, the two...

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  • 2012
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    28 Hotel Rooms

    28 Hotel Rooms

    5.5 2012 HD

    While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s...

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  • 2012
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    Celeste & Jesse Forever

    Celeste & Jesse Forever

    6.4 2012 HD

    Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever...

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  • 2010
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    An Invisible Sign

    An Invisible Sign

    5.2 2010 HD

    Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject...

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  • 2012
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    The Giant Mechanical Man

    The Giant Mechanical Man

    6.507 2012 HD

    An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.

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  • 2012
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    Ruby Sparks

    Ruby Sparks

    7.1 2012 HD

    Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic...

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  • 2013
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    Fairhaven

    Fairhaven

    5.1 2013 HD

    Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.

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  • 2022
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    The Aviary

    The Aviary

    5.5 2022 HD

    A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of...

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  • 2012
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    Denise

    Denise

    7 2012 HD

    A girl helps a guy untangle his web of lies.

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  • 2009
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    Anatomy of Hope

    Anatomy of Hope

    1 2009 HD

    Medical drama based on the lives of cancer patients. Based on Jerome Groopman's "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness."

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  • 2023
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    Air

    Air

    7.346 2023 HD

    Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the...

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  • 2015
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    Manglehorn

    Manglehorn

    5.415 2015 HD

    AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday,...

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  • 2014
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    Showing Up

    Showing Up

    9.2 2014 HD

    An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...

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  • 2015
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    Alex of Venice

    Alex of Venice

    5.921 2015 HD

    After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing...

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  • 1970
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    We're Just Married

    We're Just Married

    1 1970 HD

    A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.

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  • 2008
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    Towelhead

    Towelhead

    6.2 2008 HD

    A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

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  • 2024
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    Juror #2

    Juror #2

    6.975 2024 HD

    While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he...

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  • 2015
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    Digging for Fire

    Digging for Fire

    5.1 2015 HD

    Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and...

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  • 2014
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    Cake

    Cake

    6.264 2014 HD

    After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the...

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  • 2014
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    Palo Alto

    Palo Alto

    6.1 2014 HD

    A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.

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  • 1998
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    Rounders

    Rounders

    7 1998 HD

    A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

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  • 2019
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    Zeroville

    Zeroville

    5.1 2019 HD

    A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.

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  • 2011
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    The Trouble With Bliss

    The Trouble With Bliss

    5.074 2011 HD

    35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects,...

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  • 2014
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    The Oven

    The Oven

    6 2014 HD

    A young couple get into a fight before a very important party. Little do they know an outsider has tuned into their conversation.

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  • 2016
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    Ordinary World

    Ordinary World

    5.8 2016 HD

    Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to...

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  • 2017
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    The Sweet Life

    The Sweet Life

    6 2017 HD

    Kenny is an ice cream vendor in Chicago with a crisp white uniform and an apathetic heart. When he encounters Lolita, a sharp-tongued but despondent...

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  • 2016
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    Live by Night

    Live by Night

    6.2 2016 HD

    A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

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  • 1998
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    You've Got Mail

    You've Got Mail

    6.7 1998 HD

    Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully...

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  • 1970
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    Lear Rex

    Lear Rex

    1 1970 HD

    An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.

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  • 2018
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    Blame

    Blame

    6.688 2018 HD

    A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within...

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  • 2009
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    Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia

    Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia

    6.3 2009 HD

    Behind the scenes of 'Julie & Julia'.

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  • 2019
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    The True Adventures of Wolfboy

    The True Adventures of Wolfboy

    5.9 2019 HD

    Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.

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  • 2020
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    Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

    Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

    6.9 2020 HD

    Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare...

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  • 2021
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    I Care a Lot

    I Care a Lot

    6.597 2021 HD

    A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

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  • 2020
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    The Secrets We Keep

    The Secrets We Keep

    6 2020 HD

    In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous...

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  • 2021
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    Love is Love is Love

    Love is Love is Love

    4.6 2021 HD

    Three sto­ries that explore love, com­mit­ment, and loy­al­ty between cou­ples and friends. "Two for Din­ner" where a...

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  • 1998
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    The Siege

    The Siege

    6.3 1998 HD

    The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...

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  • 2020
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    She Dies Tomorrow

    She Dies Tomorrow

    5.2 2020 HD

    Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane...

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  • 2024
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    I.S.S.

    I.S.S.

    5.8 2024 HD

    Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive...

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  • 2022
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    Call Jane

    Call Jane

    6.6 2022 HD

    A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women...

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  • 1970
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    Pressure

    Pressure

    1 1970 HD

    In the seventy-two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element: the British weather. Britain's chief...

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  • 2015
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    Alex of Venice

    Alex of Venice

    5.921 2015 HD

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  • 2019
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    Light of My Life

    Light of My Life

    6.4 2019 HD

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  • 2012
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    28 Hotel Rooms

    28 Hotel Rooms

    5.5 2012 HD

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  • 2013
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    Fairhaven

    Fairhaven

    5.1 2013 HD

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  • 2005
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    Medium

    Medium

    7.5 2005 HD

    Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to...

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  • 2001
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    Six Feet Under

    Six Feet Under

    8.111 2001 HD

    When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least...

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  • 2007
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    Damages

    Damages

    7.438 2007 HD

    Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A....

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  • 2012
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    The Mindy Project

    The Mindy Project

    6.3 2012 HD

    Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical...

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  • 2022
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    Gaslit

    Gaslit

    7.025 2022 HD

    A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.

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  • 2015
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    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    5.413 2015 HD

    Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and...

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  • 2018
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    Sharp Objects

    Sharp Objects

    7.7 2018 HD

    Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 1997
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    The View

    The View

    4.5 1997 HD

    ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 2023
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    Based on a True Story

    Based on a True Story

    7.3 2023 HD

    The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the...

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  • 2014
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    Off Camera with Sam Jones

    Off Camera with Sam Jones

    4 2014 HD

    Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for...

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  • 2012
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    The Newsroom

    The Newsroom

    8.1 2012 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the...

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  • 1999
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    Third Watch

    Third Watch

    7.9 1999 HD

    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...

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