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Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scro... more

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Allen has also had roles in films including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Cruising (1980), Starman (1984), Scrooged (1988), The Sandlot (1993), and Poster Boy (2004).

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)
Action, Adventure
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey
8.4
95%
85
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Manhattan
(1979)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Woody Allen
Cast:
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep
7.9
94%
83
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The Sandlot
(1993)
Comedy, Family
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
David M. Evans
Cast:
Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, James Earl Jones, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi
7.8
64%
55
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Malcolm X
(1992)
Drama, History
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Runtime:
202 min
Director:
Spike Lee
Cast:
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr.
7.7
89%
73
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Animal House
(1978)
Comedy
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Landis
Cast:
John Belushi, John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tim Matheson, John Vernon
7.5
90%
79
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Scrooged
(1988)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Richard Donner
Cast:
Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Glover, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait
7.0
69%
38
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023)
Action, Adventure
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the ...
Runtime:
155 min
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Mads Mikkelsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen
6.5
70%
58
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In the Bedroom
(2001)
Drama, Thriller
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 sum...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Todd Field
Cast:
Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother
7.4
93%
86
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The Perfect Storm
(2000)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adv...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen
Cast:
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly
6.4
N/A
59
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Starman
(1984)
Romance, Science Fiction
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
John Carpenter
Cast:
Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel
7.0
85%
70
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(2008)
Action, Adventure
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's...
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf
6.1
78%
65
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I Am Number Four
(2011)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his ...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
D.J. Caruso
Cast:
Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Garrett M. Brown
6.1
33%
36
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The Wanderers
(1979)
Drama
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Cast:
Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalem, Alan Rosenberg
7.4
89%
64
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Cruising
(1980)
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as a decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little so...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
William Friedkin
Cast:
Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox, Don Scardino
6.4
50%
N/A
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King of the Hill
(1993)
Drama, History
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on ...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Cast:
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray
7.6
97%
86
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Shoot the Moon
(1982)
Drama, Romance
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Alan Parker
Cast:
Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill
7.0
89%
N/A
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The Glass Menagerie
(1987)
Drama
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Runtime:
134 min
Director:
Paul Newman
Cast:
Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton
7.2
70%
N/A
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White Irish Drinkers
(2011)
Drama, Thriller
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Ro...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Gray
Cast:
Nick Thurston, Geoffrey Wigdor, Karen Allen, Stephen Lang, Peter Riegert
6.8
44%
51
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November Christmas
(2011)
Drama, TV Movie
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Robert Harmon
Cast:
Sam Elliott, John Corbett, Sarah Paulson, Karen Allen
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Poster Boy
(2004)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying the hypocritical campaign.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Zak Tucker
Cast:
Jack Noseworthy, Matthew Newton, Matt Newton, Valerie Geffner, Valerie Geffner
6.1
30%
36
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Til There Was You
(1997)
Comedy, Romance
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Scott Winant
Cast:
Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Karen Allen, Kale Browne
4.8
5%
N/A
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World Traveler
(2002)
Drama
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Bart Freundlich
Cast:
Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Cleavant Derricks, Liane Balaban, David Keith
5.5
34%
39
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Split Image
(1982)
Drama
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Ted Kotcheff
Cast:
Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Basket
(2000)
Drama
Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The Basket is "a hoop dream movie with a whole lot of heart" (Dallas Morning News)! In 1918...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Rich Cowan
Cast:
Peter Coyote, Karen Allen, Robert Burke, Amber Willenborg, Jack MacDonald
6.5
44%
53
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Until September
(1984)
Drama, Romance
American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms prove hard to resist, and Mo succumbs, though her conscience weighs heavy. Soon their bi...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Richard Marquand
Cast:
Karen Allen, Thierry Lhermitte
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Voyage
(1993)
Thriller
Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and live on the boat for a year. They have bought some real estate with an old ruin of a hotel on it, which they are going to rebuild. A few days before they are about to start, they meet Gil...
Runtime:
86 min
Cast:
Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, Connie Nielsen, Karen Allen
5.4
N/A
N/A
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Falling Sky
(1999)
Drama
Pulling up stakes for a fresh start in Las Vegas, aspiring singer Reese (Karen Allen) and daughter Emily (Brittany Murphy) are looking forward to the future with optimism. But mom's problem drinking and her struggles to pay the bills threaten the pair's plans for a better life. Frequently cast in the role of mothering her own mother, t...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Russ Brandt, Brian J. De Palma
Cast:
Karen Allen, Brittany Murphy, Jeremy Jordan, Chris Young, Patrick Renna
6.1
N/A
N/A
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A Small Circle of Friends
(1980)
Drama, Romance
In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Rob Cohen
Cast:
Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelley Long, John Friedrich
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Bad Hurt
(2016)
Drama
Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is suffering from the physical and psychological effects of war; his younger brother takes it upon himself to bring him peace and relief. Meanwhile...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Mark Kemble
Cast:
Ashley Williams, Theo Rossi, Karen Allen, Johnny Whitworth, Michael Harney
6.0
N/A
65
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Ghost in the Machine
(1993)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Rachel Talalay
Cast:
Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Rick Ducommun, Jessica Walter
4.4
13%
N/A
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Challenger
(1990)
Drama, TV Movie
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
Runtime:
140 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Backfire
(1988)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out...
Runtime:
93 min
Cast:
Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey
5.4
N/A
N/A
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Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)
Documentary, TV Movie
A documentary hosted by Harrison Ford about the stunts of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Runtime:
48 min
Director:
Robert Guenette
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Steven Spielberg
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Sweet Talker
(1991)
Comedy, Romance
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the r...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Michael Jenkins
Cast:
Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Justin Rosniak, Chris Haywood, Bill Kerr
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Shaka Zulu: The Citadel
(2005)
Drama
The saga of legendary African warrior Shaka Zulu comes to the screen in this continuation of the timeless tale from original miniseries creator Joshua Sinclair. From the moment he was born, Shaka Zulu was bound for greatness. When his homeland of Africa begins to fall prey to England's rapidly expanding empire, Shaka Zulu leads a blood...
Runtime:
179 min
Director:
Joshua Sinclair
Cast:
Henry Cele, Omar Sharif, Grace Jones, David Hasselhoff, Karen Allen
5.3
N/A
N/A
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The Turning
(1992)
Drama
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new ...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
L.A. Puopolo
Cast:
Gillian Anderson, Karen Allen, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Dolan, Tess Harper
4.6
N/A
N/A
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
(2006)
A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Dennis Vincent
Cast:
Forrest J. Ackerman, Karen Allen, Ricou Browning, Bob Burns, Veronica Carlson
8.1
N/A
N/A
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On Set With "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"
(2012)
Documentary
Witness the making of Raiders as it happened with newly revealed footage that puts you on the set during production, alongside filmmakers, cast and crew.
Runtime:
58 min
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Paul Freeman, Karen Allen
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Plain Dirty
(2003)
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Inez Macbeth is a pretty young woman married to Edgar, a moody and unstable felon. When Inez becomes interested in the sensitive and wealthy lawyer Druden Hunt, Edgar derails their budding romance by keeping her captive in their home. With his scruffy buddy, Flowers, on hand to watch Inez, Edgar continues to hold her prisoner, but even...
Runtime:
103 min
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Indiana Jones - La collezione completa - Contenuti Speciali
(2013)
Adventure
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N/A
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