Michael Pressman

Michael Pressman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Graudian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series. He is an alumni of Camp Rising Sun and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.

  • Title: Michael Pressman
  • Popularity: 3.522
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1950-07-01
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Michael Pressman Movies

  • 1991
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mania: Behind the Shells — The Making of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mania: Behind the Shells — The Making of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

    6.1 1991 HD

    This short documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film...

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  • 2003
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    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    6 2003 HD

    Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their...

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  • 1991
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    6.14 1991 HD

    The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create...

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  • 2016
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    Detours

    Detours

    5 2016 HD

    A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a...

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  • 2004
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    Mackendrick on Film

    Mackendrick on Film

    1 2004 HD

    Mackendrick on Film is an educational project constructed around the film teachings of legendary pedagogue Alexander Mackendrick. Taking as its...

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  • 1989
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    The Revenge of Al Capone

    The Revenge of Al Capone

    5.7 1989 HD

    After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.

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  • 1973
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    The Sound Sleeper

    The Sound Sleeper

    1 1973 HD

    A woman has a late night tryst with a dark turn

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  • 1991
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    6.14 1991 HD

    The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create...

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  • 1996
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    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

    5.462 1996 HD

    David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks...

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  • 1983
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    Doctor Detroit

    Doctor Detroit

    5.088 1983 HD

    A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in...

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  • 1999
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    Lake Placid

    Lake Placid

    5.9 1999 HD

    When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the...

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  • 1982
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    Some Kind of Hero

    Some Kind of Hero

    5.5 1982 HD

    A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in...

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  • 1976
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    The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

    The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

    5.2 1976 HD

    Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage,...

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  • 1977
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    The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

    The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

    5.825 1977 HD

    A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged...

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  • 1979
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    Boulevard Nights

    Boulevard Nights

    7.102 1979 HD

    A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of...

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  • 1980
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    Those Lips, Those Eyes

    Those Lips, Those Eyes

    3 1980 HD

    A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

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  • 1986
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    The Christmas Gift

    The Christmas Gift

    5.733 1986 HD

    A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone...

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  • 1989
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    Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders

    Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders

    5.5 1989 HD

    Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.

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  • 1989
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    The Revenge of Al Capone

    The Revenge of Al Capone

    5.7 1989 HD

    After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.

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  • 1988
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    To Heal a Nation

    To Heal a Nation

    4 1988 HD

    The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky,...

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  • 1988
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    Shootdown

    Shootdown

    5.2 1988 HD

    Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the...

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  • 2003
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    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    6 2003 HD

    Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their...

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  • 2003
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    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    Frankie and Johnny Are Married

    6 2003 HD

    Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their...

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  • 1992
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    Quicksand: No Escape

    Quicksand: No Escape

    5.875 1992 HD

    A hard-working architect is pulled into intrigue when his wife hires a private investigator to make sure he's just working late. The private eye sees...

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  • 2021
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    Becoming Helen Keller

    Becoming Helen Keller

    8 2021 HD

    The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and...

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  • 1987
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    Haunted by Her Past

    Haunted by Her Past

    5 1987 HD

    While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an...

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  • 1998
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    Saint Maybe

    Saint Maybe

    6.25 1998 HD

    A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his...

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  • 1985
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    Final Jeopardy

    Final Jeopardy

    6.286 1985 HD

    A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of...

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  • 1999
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    A Season for Miracles

    A Season for Miracles

    7.383 1999 HD

    A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's...

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  • 1989
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    Incident at Dark River

    Incident at Dark River

    1 1989 HD

    When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns...

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  • 1973
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    The Sound Sleeper

    The Sound Sleeper

    1 1973 HD

    A woman has a late night tryst with a dark turn

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  • 1990
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    Joshua's Heart

    Joshua's Heart

    5.5 1990 HD

    A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded.

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  • 1985
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    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

    10 1985 HD

    Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

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  • 1978
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    Like Mom, Like Me

    Like Mom, Like Me

    1 1978 HD

    A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.

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  • 1984
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    The Impostor

    The Impostor

    6 1984 HD

    After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get...

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  • 1980
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    Those Lips, Those Eyes

    Those Lips, Those Eyes

    3 1980 HD

    A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

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  • 1985
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    Private Sessions

    Private Sessions

    2 1985 HD

    A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently...

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  • 1993
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    Miracle Child

    Miracle Child

    6 1993 HD

    A despairing young widow who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a man who's fighting to reclaim his own son are drawn together. A...

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  • 1970
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    7.679 1970 HD

    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.

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  • 1970
    imgS8 E13

    7.5 1970 HD

    After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.

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  • 1970
    imgS8 E22

    7.708 1970 HD

    A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its...

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  • 1970
    imgS6 E13

    7.6 1970 HD

    Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier...

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  • 1970
    imgS23 E13

    7.4 1970 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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  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    8.048 1970 HD

    The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E22

    6.8 1970 HD

    Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E22

    6.8 1970 HD

    Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E5

    1 1970 HD

    The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire is an American drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on CBS. The show offers the typical...

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  • 1970
    imgS6 E22

    7.215 1970 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

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  • 1970
    imgS6 E22

    7.215 1970 HD

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

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  • 1970
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    6.483 1970 HD

    After a car crash, police detective Sam Tyler mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective.

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  • 1970
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    8.2 1970 HD

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

    To Have & to Hold is a short-lived American television series that aired on CBS during the fall of 1998. The drama series starred Moira Kelly as...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    7.2 1970 HD

    Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The...

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  • 1970
    imgS7 E21

    7.9 1970 HD

    Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile...

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  • 1970
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    7.9 1970 HD

    Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E12

    5.7 1970 HD

    The $treet is an American television drama series about a small brokerage house called Belmont Stevens located in New York and the lives of its...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E7

    5.8 1970 HD

    Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their...

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  • 1970
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    5.8 1970 HD

    Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their...

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  • 1970
    imgS5 E10

    7.431 1970 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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  • 1970
    imgS61 E1

    8.8 1970 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1970
    imgS4 E24

    7.652 1970 HD

    Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an...

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  • 1970
    imgS7 E13

    7.601 1970 HD

    A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in...

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  • 1970
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    7.8 1970 HD

    A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E13

    6.878 1970 HD

    When Emery was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town. Whether they came in peace or with more sinister intentions didn't...

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  • 1970
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    8.307 1970 HD

    An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together....

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  • 1970
    imgS4 E13

    7.2 1970 HD

    Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember...

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  • 1970
    imgS25 E13

    7.92 1970 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 1970
    imgS3 E10

    7.486 1970 HD

    A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting”...

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  • 1970
    imgS9 E13

    8.307 1970 HD

    An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together....

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E8

    7.418 1970 HD

    An anthology series that delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the...

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