Ricco Ross
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ricco Ross (born April 16, 1960) is an American actor. Ricco was born in Chicago, Il. at Cook County Hospital, is the 5th of 8 children with three additional step sisters and another brother from his father and with his first wife. He begin acting in a local high school production. He continued with this development of a new career going to a local Community College where he majored in Theater, moving forward to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) where he received is BA in Theatre, earning a scholarship to UCLA where his career begain to develop. His first TV role was as an extra on the "Young and the Restless", then a small part on the hit series "Hill Street Blues" opening the door for more TV and Movie Roles. He played Private Frost in Aliens, and also appeared in the films Mission Impossible and Fierce Creatures. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, leading to guest appearances on Doctor Who ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy") and Jeeves and Wooster. Ross also co-starred as Nate in the film "Nate and the Colonel". He also played in Charles Bronsons "Death Wish Three", "Spies Like Us" with Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase, the "Dirty Dozen Next Mission" with Lee Marvin. "Displaced Person" and many more films. Ross is appearing in various commercials, as well as television shows shown throughout the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ricco Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Adult: No
Birthday: April 16, 1960
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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Aliens
Overview: Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-18
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Wishmaster
Overview: The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Hackers
Overview: Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Death Wish 3
Overview: Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Overview: Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-04
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Octopus
Overview: During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...
Genres: Action Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Project Shadowchaser III
Overview: It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. After one successful maneuver to avoid the Siberia, it rams Comstat 5 and the crew soon finds that the Siberia crew is dead and the reason that it has been missing for 25 years. But that reason is trying to destroy them all as it destroyed the Siberia crew.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-03
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A Christmas for Mary
Overview: In search of a story, an up-and-coming journalist goes back to her home town and uncovers a forgotten tale of young love, inspiring her to follow her heart and find her own true love.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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Family Times
Overview: A short comedy film by Mike Mckee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-23
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Passport to Murder
Overview: After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-07
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My Christmas Grandpa
Overview: The cashier at a small market is a grouchy man who never has a smile for anyone; but when a little girl asks for a Grandpa for Christmas and chooses him, he is completely transformed by the child's love and compassion.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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Opening Night
Overview: Taking place entirely during the opening night of a high school's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, OPENING NIGHT chronicles the on stage disasters and off-stage drama of a group of students, their drama teacher and a visiting B-list TV star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-06
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Timelock
Overview: In the 23rd century, a penal colony in a distant galaxy falls into anarchy when an inmate loads a virus into the computer system. While cryonic suspension was used to control the most dangerous criminals there, with the computers down these deadly men are back in circulation and determined to cause mayhem. With a gang of brilliant but dangerous inmates in control, a petty thief and the driver of the prison shuttle must stand against these lawless men for their own survival.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Proteus
Overview: Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-04
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She's In Portland
Overview: Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-16
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The Possessed
Overview: Ruby, a private detective holds a dark secret - she is a human vessel for a demon that dwells within her. When armies of darkness and the undead begin attacking New Orleans, Ruby decides to embrace and unleash it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Body Contact
Overview: In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-06
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Nate and the Colonel
Overview: The year is 1865, and the American Civil War has just ended. Former slave Nate Washington and his boyhood friend, Confederate Colonel Ben Loftin head west together from the South which lies in ruins. On the Western Plains, they encounter a band of Chippewa Indians who will forever change their lives. Along the way, they must deal with a renegade band of Union Cavalry with a score to settle.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-09
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-10
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Hidden in the Woods
Overview: The story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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The Tower of Babble
Overview: Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A corrupt cop is more interested in the money on the criminals he catches than justice; a young woman discovers she's pregnant, and her boyfriend is unfeeling; and a young man calls a prostitute it's the first time for both, and neither can go through with it. Ultimately, all the stories come together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Story of Eva
Overview: Guilt ridden mother seeks to enact her vengeance against her daughter's killers. With detectives closing in, Eva transforms into a vengeful God.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-13
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Displaced Person
Overview: Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.
Genres: Drama War Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-06
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The Legend of Catclaws Mountain
Overview: Mindy adopts Angel, a high-spirited pony that—according to legend—will lead its owner to gold hidden in the nearby mountains. When Angel is kidnapped by a mad treasure hunter, Mindy and her school friends head into the hills to rescue the pony and hunt for the lost gold. But Mindy meets a mountain man that warns her the treasure is part of an ancient curse—if they remove the gold, they'll destroy the beautiful forest.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-27
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Sleepers
Overview: Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Aliens Expanded
Overview: Exploring James Cameron’s beloved science-fiction epic from teeth to tail, Aliens Expanded is truly the most in-depth, passionate and innovative celebration of a movie ever attempted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Murder on the Moon
Overview: After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-09
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Mission: Impossible
Overview: When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-22
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A Husband for Christmas
Overview: Brooke and Roger, two graphic designers in a soon-to-be-merged company, help one another by agreeing to a loveless marriage of convenience, suggested by their new boss. In the process, Brooke gets to upstage the sister who just announced her engagement to Brooke's ex-boyfriend during the holidays. But, with their “marriage” in question, will Brooke and Roger find a spark they didn’t know existed?
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-11
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Overview: The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-14
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Bermuda Tentacles
Overview: After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Whipping Boy
Overview: A man who works as a human punching bag to relieve others of their stress gets caught up in a nourish mystery pertaining to a strange device that everyone's after.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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Crusoe
Overview: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-30
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Project: Shadowchaser
Overview: Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-02
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The Least Among You
Overview: Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, he's close to cracking until he meets an elderly custodian who helps him navigate the trials of racism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-12
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The Sandman
Overview: A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Bobbi Kristina
Overview: The untold story of Bobbi Kristina Brown is one of adventure, dreams, conflict, perseverance, faith, friendship, and love — a love between mother and daughter. A love often interrupted by success, emotional upheaval and drug addiction but an unshakable,
Genres: Drama Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-08
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Spies Like Us
Overview: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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Web of Fries
Overview: A family man (Josh Duhamel) inquires why Taco Bell doesn't serve fries, but finds he's bitten off more than he can chew when a sinister "Big Fries" conspiracy threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Stormageddon
Overview: What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-18
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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The Shinjuku Five
Overview: Intersecting stories follow a group of criminal misfits through the violent streets of Shinjuku.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-29
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Message Read
Overview: In the afterlife material possessions cease to exist. For those who can’t let go, there’s one stop before that final resting place and it’s called Firth. Message Read tells the story of a father who desperately misses his son and must decide between moving on to finality or spending another eternity stuck in Firth.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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A Brother's Honor
Overview: 3 brothers are reunited after their grandfather suffers a heart attack. The Granger men, Jace, Caden and Dalton promise their dying grandfather that they will work together to save the family's failing business, Granger Aeronautics. The we brothers also find themselves banding together to find out who really killed their mother and subsequently, free their father, Sheppard who is serving a 30 year prison sentence for her murder. Family secrets, business mismanagement, intrigue and a little romance help to make this a great story.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-18
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The Wrong Boy Next Door
Overview: After troubled teen Katie is sentenced to house arrest, Katie falls for an attractive young man named John, who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced there's more than meets the eye with John.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Overview: Everything That Rises Must Converge is a hybrid documentary/fiction film. It follows four real-life adult film performers as they start their day at home, get in their cars and drive to work in a nondescript residential house in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. In between documentary scenes, we also encounter several fictional characters whose stories revolve around the same residential house where the performers work. Shown as a grid of four simultaneous images, the film weaves scenes of everyday life with moments of beauty, as well as the strange and absurd moments of apparent convergence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Airbase
Overview: Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The arrival of the delicious Lieutenant Madeline Kohler detonates a chain reaction of deep rooted antagonism that explodes with cataclysmic consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Curse of Vandor
Overview: Michael and his friends are banished to a dark, mystical world known as Vandor. They must find a way to stop the evil forces that brought them there and also search for a way to get home. While on this journey, they will come across several magical creatures and inhabitants of Vandor. Also, Michael will discover a secret that will change his life forever.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
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I Left My Heart in Colombia
Overview: Two friends are brought to Medellin, Colombia under the guise of a pleasurable business trip by their friend who is already there to make good on a financial obligation. The man that they are all forced to meet with to settle the debt has something special planned for ALL OF THEM.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-12
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The Return of Sam McCloud
Overview: Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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