Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime show Lie to Me portraying the role of Ben Reynolds, before season 3. He was born in in Harlem, New York City, the son of Rhoda Phifer, a high school teacher; he grew up in a single-parent household with his mother. His acting career began in 1995, when Phifer attended an open casting call for director Spike Lee’s Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the fright flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. Among Phifer’s other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full, 8 Mile, opposite Eminem and Dawn of the Dead. Phifer has a son, Omikaye, with his ex-wife, actress Malinda Williams. His second son, Mekhi Thira Phifer Jr., was born to his girlfriend Oni Souratha in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007.

  • Title: Mekhi Phifer
  • Popularity: 13.253
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1974-12-29
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Mekhi Thira Phifer
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Mekhi Phifer Movies

  • 2002
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    8 Mile

    8 Mile

    7.138 2002 HD

    For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an...

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  • 2004
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    Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Dead

    7.054 2004 HD

    A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

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  • 2024
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    The Silent Hour

    The Silent Hour

    6.468 2024 HD

    While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder...

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  • 2003
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    Honey

    Honey

    6.3 2003 HD

    Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she...

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  • 1998
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    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

    5.4 1998 HD

    Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets...

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  • 2001
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    O

    O

    5.9 2001 HD

    Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the...

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  • 1995
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    Clockers

    Clockers

    6.701 1995 HD

    Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four...

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  • 2009
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    A Day in the Life

    A Day in the Life

    6.3 2009 HD

    Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime...

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  • 1995
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    The Tuskegee Airmen

    The Tuskegee Airmen

    7.052 1995 HD

    During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program....

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  • 2006
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    Puff, Puff, Pass

    Puff, Puff, Pass

    6 2006 HD

    Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a...

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  • 1996
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    High School High

    High School High

    5.503 1996 HD

    Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average...

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  • 2002
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    Paid in Full

    Paid in Full

    6.805 2002 HD

    Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he...

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  • 1999
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    Uninvited Guest

    Uninvited Guest

    5.8 1999 HD

    During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger...

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  • 1997
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    Soul Food

    Soul Food

    6.3 1997 HD

    Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox)...

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  • 2011
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    Flypaper

    Flypaper

    6.394 2011 HD

    A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

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  • 1998
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    Hell's Kitchen

    Hell's Kitchen

    5.4 1998 HD

    Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.

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  • 2001
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    Carmen: A Hip Hopera

    Carmen: A Hip Hopera

    6.3 2001 HD

    An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

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  • 2005
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    Slow Burn

    Slow Burn

    5.3 2005 HD

    A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an...

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  • 1999
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    A Lesson Before Dying

    A Lesson Before Dying

    5.2 1999 HD

    In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him...

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  • 2008
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    Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

    Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

    6 2008 HD

    Simone arrives in Los Angeles after inheriting her late aunt's hair salon where she soon clashes with the diva hairstylist who has her own ideas...

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  • 2024
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    6.9 2024 HD

    A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now...

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  • 2011
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    Last Man Standing

    Last Man Standing

    4.425 2011 HD

    Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is...

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  • 1997
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    Hav Plenty

    Hav Plenty

    5.8 1997 HD

    Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her...

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  • 2002
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    The Other Brother

    The Other Brother

    3.8 2002 HD

    A frustrated writer reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother for advice about the opposite sex.

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  • 2014
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    Divergent

    Divergent

    6.916 2014 HD

    In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers...

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  • 2013
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    The Love Section

    The Love Section

    2.5 2013 HD

    Ali (LAWRENCE ADISA), is a struggling real estate agent and ladies man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything. One night while out...

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  • 2003
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    The Making of '8 Mile'

    The Making of '8 Mile'

    10 2003 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Suspect

    The Suspect

    5.5 2013 HD

    Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However,...

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  • 2002
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    NBC 75th Anniversary Special

    NBC 75th Anniversary Special

    1 2002 HD

    A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

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  • 2015
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    Insurgent

    Insurgent

    6.361 2015 HD

    Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

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  • 2001
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    Impostor

    Impostor

    6.1 2001 HD

    A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile...

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  • 2024
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    The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

    The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

    7.2 2024 HD

    Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s...

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  • 2016
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    Pandemic

    Pandemic

    5.1 2016 HD

    After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and...

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  • 2024
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    Long Gone Heroes

    Long Gone Heroes

    5.1 2024 HD

    Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece,...

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  • 2016
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    Allegiant

    Allegiant

    6.1 2016 HD

    Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the...

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  • 2001
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    Brian's Song

    Brian's Song

    6.2 2001 HD

    The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo...

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  • 2018
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    A Talent For Trouble

    A Talent For Trouble

    1 2018 HD

    Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of...

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  • 2016
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    Chocolate City: Vegas Strip

    Chocolate City: Vegas Strip

    6.3 2016 HD

    The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the...

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  • 2007
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    This Christmas

    This Christmas

    6.5 2007 HD

    This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and...

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  • 2014
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    A Day Late and a Dollar Short

    A Day Late and a Dollar Short

    6.2 2014 HD

    When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before...

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  • 2019
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    Canal Street

    Canal Street

    7.452 2019 HD

    A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.

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  • 1996
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    Girl 6

    Girl 6

    5 1996 HD

    A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

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  • 2000
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    Shaft

    Shaft

    6 2000 HD

    New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

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  • 2019
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    6.1 2019 HD

    Before meeting George Good, Sonny Jordan was just a lost drifter with a troubled past floating from town to town, looking for work. As fate would...

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  • 1997
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    Subway Stories

    Subway Stories

    6 1997 HD

    An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

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  • 2006
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    Puff, Puff, Pass

    Puff, Puff, Pass

    6 2006 HD

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  • 2008
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    Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

    Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

    6 2008 HD

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  • 2024
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    6.9 2024 HD

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  • 2006
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    Puff, Puff, Pass

    Puff, Puff, Pass

    6 2006 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    5.777 2003 HD

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

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  • 2004
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    Best Week Ever

    Best Week Ever

    6.3 2004 HD

    Best Week Ever is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1. It started airing in 2004 and was put on hiatus in...

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  • 2006
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    Torchwood

    Torchwood

    7.3 2006 HD

    The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

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  • 2003
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    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    5.5 2003 HD

    Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

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  • 1996
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    The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

    6.4 1996 HD

    The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

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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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  • 1994
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    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover

    7.156 1994 HD

    New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

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  • 2000
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    8 2000 HD

    The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by...

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  • 1993
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    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    8 1993 HD

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  • 1993
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    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    7.095 1993 HD

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The...

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  • 1994
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    ER

    ER

    7.814 1994 HD

    ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened...

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  • 2009
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    Lie to Me

    Lie to Me

    7.909 2009 HD

    The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is...

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  • 2006
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    Psych

    Psych

    7.9 2006 HD

    Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad)....

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  • 2009
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    White Collar

    White Collar

    8.261 2009 HD

    In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive...

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  • 2003
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    Punk'd

    Punk'd

    5.1 2003 HD

    What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads?...

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  • 2016
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    Frequency

    Frequency

    7.1 2016 HD

    Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank...

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  • 2016
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    Roots

    Roots

    6.9 2016 HD

    An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

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  • 2016
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    Match Game

    Match Game

    6 2016 HD

    A modern reboot of the classic 70s game show that features two contestants attempting to match the answers of six celebrities in a game of...

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  • 2019
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    Truth Be Told

    Truth Be Told

    7.196 2019 HD

    Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.

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  • 2013
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    Hollywood Game Night

    Hollywood Game Night

    6.842 2013 HD

    Two contestants are transported from their everyday lives into a once-in-a-lifetime night of fun and celebration as they play party games with some...

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  • 2018
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    The Bobby Brown Story

    The Bobby Brown Story

    7.2 2018 HD

    The life and career of R&B singer Bobby Brown, who left the pop group New Edition to score eight consecutive top-10 pop singles as a solo artist...

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  • 2004
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    On Air with Ryan Seacrest

    On Air with Ryan Seacrest

    9.5 2004 HD

    On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated television talk show, which ran from January 12, 2004 through September 17, 2004. It was...

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  • 2016
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    Secret City

    Secret City

    6.574 2016 HD

    Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret...

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  • 2020
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    Love, Victor

    Love, Victor

    8.607 2020 HD

    Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and...

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  • 2014
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    Chicago P.D.

    Chicago P.D.

    8.4 2014 HD

    A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their...

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  • 2013
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    Beat Bobby Flay

    Beat Bobby Flay

    6.4 2013 HD

    Two talented chefs go head-to-head for the chance to Beat Bobby Flay. To get to Bobby the chefs must first face off against each other, creating a...

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