Bill Duke
Also Known As: William Henry Duke Jr., بیل دوک
Biography: William Henry "Bill" Duke, Jr. (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke's acting work frequently dwells within the action/crime and drama genres but also includes comedy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Duke , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 26, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Predator
Overview: A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-12
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Payback
Overview: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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Bird on a Wire
Overview: An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Overview: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-09
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Action Jackson
Overview: Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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American Gigolo
Overview: Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Exit Wounds
Overview: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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Commando
Overview: John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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National Security
Overview: Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on opposite sides of the law during a routine traffic stop that escalated out of control; now as lowly security guards they're thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Always Outnumbered
Overview: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Overview: The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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No Man's Land
Overview: A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Overview: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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Car Wash
Overview: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-22
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Yellow
Overview: Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Setting audiences afire with her erotic moves, Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction, but must finally decide between true love and realizing her dream of becoming a star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Overview: Based on the best-selling book by author Deepak Chopra, and featuring all-new music from Olivia Newton-John, this film offers life-altering perspective on the attainment of success. Beloved singer Olivia Newton-John and director/actor Bill Duke share powerful stories about challenges they've faced, which have nonetheless placed them firmly on the path towards experiencing life's fullest potential. Their compelling narratives are intertwined with Deepak's essential teachings, distilled into seven simple yet profound principles that anyone can employ to create success and abundance in all areas of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Big Bang
Overview: A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just might explain - well - everything.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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Directors on Directing
Overview: A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Susan's Plan
Overview: Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-29
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Santiago's Ark
Overview: An early ABC Afterschool Speical about an imaginative and determined 14-year-old Puerto Rican boy who builds a sailing ship to sail around Central Park. Followed in 1975 by the sequel "Santiago's America."
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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Street of No Return
Overview: A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-17
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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Overview: In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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Never Again
Overview: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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Fever
Overview: A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-16
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Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
Overview: 'Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp', examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim, Chris Rock, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, and Quincy Jones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-08
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Battledogs
Overview: When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-soldiers.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-05
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Love Is Not Enough
Overview: A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-12
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Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
Overview: From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-16
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Freaky Deaky
Overview: Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-22
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Red Dragon
Overview: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Dallas: The Early Years
Overview: Prequel to the popular "Dallas" TV series focuses on the origins of the Ewing-Barnes feud during the 1930s. Narrated by Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing, the film begins at a 1951 barbecue where “Digger” Barnes fires a shot at Jock Ewing, then flashes back to the 1930s. Jock and Digger, initially friends bonded over their ambition to find oil, become rivals as they both vie for the affections of Miss Ellie.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-23
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Henry's Crime
Overview: An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-14
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Bad Country
Overview: When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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A Fuller Life
Overview: Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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American Satan
Overview: A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
Genres: Thriller Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Mandy
Overview: The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Genres: Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Menace II Society
Overview: A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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High Flying Bird
Overview: When an NBA lockout sidelines his big rookie client, an agent hatches a bold plan to save their careers -- and disrupt the league's power structure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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The Limey
Overview: The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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In Search of the Last Action Heroes
Overview: The most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-01
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Overview: Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Love and a Bullet
Overview: Malik Bishop is the best killer in the business, but when his crimelord employer wants his girlfriend, who may be unfaithful, eliminated, Bishop doesn't count on falling in love with the woman. Now he must choose between his heart and, perhaps, his life.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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In Search of Tomorrow
Overview: A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-19
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Hollow Point
Overview: When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-13
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Restored Me
Overview: A troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his life, only to find his faith in God tested when he learns the theater he has grown to love is not what it seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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No Sudden Move
Overview: A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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The Vandal
Overview: Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the 1987 sci-fi/action film that has since become one of the modern classics, about a team of special forces soldiers who find themselves being stalked and killed by a hunter from another world. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate their experiences in bringing this film to life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-10
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Payback: Straight Up
Overview: In Brian Helgeland's new director's cut of the film, Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. Bad move, thugs. Because if you plan to double-cross Porter, you'd better make sure he's dead. Porter resurfaces, wading into a lurid urban underworld of syndicate kingpins, cops on the take, sniveling informants and deadly gangs. Porter wants his money back. And the way he sets out to get is assures that, from beginning to heart pounding end, Payback pays off big.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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