Richard Brooks
Also Known As: Richard L. Brooks, Richard Lee Brooks
Biography: Richard Brooks is an American actor
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: December 09, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Off Limits
Overview: McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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The Crow: City of Angels
Overview: A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman, he exacts revenge on his killers – only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.
Genres: Action Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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Black Rose of Harlem
Overview: A tragic love story set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1920's Chicago jazz clubs. Georgia, a beautiful black singer catches the eye of mobster Johnny Varona. But Johnny is betrothed to the daughter of mob boss Costanza, a man you don't say no to... and live! Can Johnny and Georgia find a way to fulfill their love -and- stay alive? Or will the mob prove to be an insurmountable force.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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In Too Deep
Overview: Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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Badge of the Assassin
Overview: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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The Hidden
Overview: When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Resting Place
Overview: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-27
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Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
Overview: A pandemic-era reunion special of Patrik-Ian Polk’s groundbreaking ’Noah’s Arc’ series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-29
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Saxo
Overview: A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, who he will launch successfully. But Puppet is to be murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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84C MoPic
Overview: An Army cameraman is embedded with a reconnaissance patrol and charts their mission across territory controlled by the North Vietnamese.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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The Neon Empire
Overview: New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-03
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To Sleep with Anger
Overview: An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Shakedown
Overview: When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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The Wedding
Overview: Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-22
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The Substitute
Overview: When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Code Name: Wolverine
Overview: Harry Gordini is on his way to Italy for a holiday with his family. On his way he accidentally picks up the wrong suitcase which holds in it hundreds of millions worth of new superdrug. Now the drugdealers want the drugs back and kidnap Harry's wife and son. But unfortunately Harry isn't just anyone, he's an ex-Navy SEAL and veteran of the Gulf war, code named "Wolverine". He successfully rescues his wife and kid from the drugdealers, but unfortunately their problems aren't yet over. Adolfo Jones, the head of the crime organisation, is still at large, and he's being helped by couple of dirty DEA-agents. Once again the drugdealer Jones is able to kidnap his son. So everything must come down to a final showdown between the "Wolverine" and Jones...
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-03
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Memphis
Overview: Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-27
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Chameleon
Overview: An undercover agent uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-26
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Troubled Waters
Overview: The story of a comedian, Ron Waters, who is a Richard Pryor-type of entertainer who makes commentary about the world rather than one-liners. After a self-imposed exile from Hollywood, Ron is back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-01
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Good to Go
Overview: After being misled by the police about a rape and murder near a popular Washington, D.C. Go-Go club, a jaded journalist begins digging into the establishment's racist framework.
Genres: Crime Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Shocker
Overview: About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-23
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If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely
Overview: A former music producer turned stockbroker tries to make his musical comeback with a beautiful singer/dancer from a nightclub. The pair fall in love despite the treachery of the players and gangsters that surround the music business.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-13
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Teen Wolf
Overview: When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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With Intent to Kill
Overview: A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity and placed in an institution for four years. Meanwhile, the dead girl's father, Tom Nolen, and her sister Wynn, bitterly prepare a campaign to put Nolen away in prison for life. Things come to a boil when Bo is released--and Tom and Wynn take "due process" into their own hands.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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Johnny B Good
Overview: In an effort to impress the girl he loves, an amnesiac small time hustler uncovers political corruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-04
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Terror on Highway 91
Overview: A police deputy in a small town grows more and more disgusted with the rampant corruption and brutality practiced by the sheriff and his fellow officers.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-03
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