Leon
Also Known As: Leon Robinson
Biography: Leon Preston Robinson IV (usually credited as simply "Leon") is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1981.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 08, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Cool Runnings
Overview: When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Bats
Overview: Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Cliffhanger
Overview: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Overview: A rocker makes a pact to kill himself on his 37th birthday. 12 weeks before the release of his final album and the end of his life, he meets and falls in love with a woman who has a dark secret of her own.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Sole Survivor
Overview: After inexplicably surviving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. After she learns that she was actually supposed to die in the crash, the unseen specter of death starts sending its minions, people that have recently died, to collect her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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The Five Heartbeats
Overview: In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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And Then There Was You
Overview: Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. Newly divorced and soured on relationships, Natalie is picking up the pieces of her shattered world. In the process of healing, she meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-19
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B.A.P.S
Overview: Two clueless homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers, but instead find themselves scamming a dying millionaire to eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Friends & Lovers
Overview: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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The Flamingo Kid
Overview: Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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A Day to Die
Overview: A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with the city's corrupt police chief, who is working with the gang leader and double-crossed him years ago.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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Colors
Overview: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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The Price of Kissing
Overview: Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memories of her mother to her own experiences as a young woman, she struggles to find answers to life's greatest mystery. From a recommendation of a friend, she becomes the doorman at a local club. There she meets several friends who help her on her journey of discovery. Who will be there when it rains?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Mean Streak
Overview: The hitting record of Joe Di Maggio is about to broken by a black player. However a person who feels that it is sacred threatens the player if he breaks the record. Lou Mattoni, a detective who is a little racist, is assigned to the case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-27
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Spirit Lost
Overview: John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carolina coast. But they quickly discover that their quaint new house already has a long-standing tenant. Built 200 years ago by a philandering sea captain, the house is residence to the spirit of Arabella, an abandoned lover with an insatiable, centuries-old lust and a viciously jealous nature. Spirit Lost welcomes you to the dark side of Ghost - an erotic tale of the supernatural.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-24
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Mr. Rock n Roll: The Alan Freed Story
Overview: This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how amazing R&B or Rhytym & Blues is, however, the music is considered to be "BLACK" music. So, most radio stations won't play it. However, Freed believed that it's the next wave, so he fights to have it played on the air. Eventually, he went into the big time - New York, and he decided to dub this music "ROCK & ROLL". Despite his success, he still had a lot of opposition and made deals with the wrong people, which would lead to his downfall.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Little Richard
Overview: The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 1950s, to his born-again phase and brief "retirement" from rock and roll.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-20
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Side Streets
Overview: The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-05
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Madonna: Madame X
Overview: Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, hailed by sold out theatrical audiences worldwide. The unprecedented intimate streaming experience will take viewers on a journey as compelling and audacious as Madonna’s fearless persona, Madame X, a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom and bringing light to dark places.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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The Lawless Land
Overview: Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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The Father Clements Story
Overview: In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-13
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First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story
Overview: Inspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch. It charts Welch's rise from a teenager's mother to a drug dealer, she is referred to by federal prosecutors as "The First Lady of the BMF"
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Above the Rim
Overview: Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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The Temptations Le film de leur ascension vers la gloire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Friends and Lovers
Overview: Based on the best-selling novel by author Eric Jerome Dickey, this funny and insightful drama follows four African-Americans, detailing the relationship trials and tribulations they face. Stand-up comedian Leonard romances beautiful Debra -- but will her religious convictions cause their relationship to stall? Meanwhile, Debra's friend Shelby starts dating Leonard's buddy Tyrel.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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I Really Hate My Ex
Overview: How far would you go to get over your ex? After recent bad relationships with men, best friends Brea, Wendy, and Jessica want answers—so they decide to kidnap their exes and hold them hostage until they get them! After the kidnappers share their story in an internet chat room, they become a worldwide sensation, as millions cheer on their battle of the exes in this screamingly funny comedy of seduction and abduction.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-14
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Buffalo Soldiers
Overview: A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Genres: Drama Comedy War Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Band of the Hand
Overview: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-11
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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Overview: The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-03
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Streetwalkin'
Overview: Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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The Cheaters Club
Overview: Samantha, Trina and Rain are three sexy friends who form "The Cheater's Club", an agency designed to help women expose their men, who have been accused of cheating and encourage the men through unconventional methods to change their adulterous ways. Olive, played by Eva Marcille, runs the agency while the ladies execute the operation and set the traps for the un-expecting men! The ladies use their feminine wiles to expose the cheaters at almost any costs. Women hire them to answer that nagging question, "Is my man cheating"? Eventually the ladies decide to take things up a notch by kidnapping, imprisoning and torturing the men into forcing confessions. Samantha, the leader of the group, takes things too far and as she flashes back to her own personal pain and ultimately someone pays a price for their action that changes everyone forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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The Women of Brewster Place
Overview: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Overview: They have raged on for forty years, cutting a swath across continents and lighting the fuse of revolutionary thought. From the pressure-cooker ghettos of England to the mighty gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, one band has forged an enduring legacy. This is their story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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All the Right Moves
Overview: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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The Rhythm and the Blues
Overview: Blues legend Eddie Taylor struggles against financial hardship and music industry exploitation to make a name for himself and provide a better life for his family.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-06
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Cover
Overview: When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-08
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From This Day Forward
Overview: Patrice and Corrine are two sexy, confident women with great relationships, but they've got it all wrong when it comes to love. Before they drive their men crazy, they've got some tough lessons to learn about trust and fidelity, if they hope to make love last.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Her Only Choice
Overview: A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-06
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Waiting to Exhale
Overview: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Flying Blind
Overview: Melodrama set in Philadelphia, PA in 1965. Eddie Panvini (Panebianco), a teenage photographer from South Philadelphia facing the Vietnam draft joins the coffeehouse fringe in 1965 Philadelphia and struggles with several moral choices before deciding to go to Vietnam as a war photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-30
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Soul Ties
Overview: When a young woman's faith in her beloved collides head on with her faith in people, what begins as a tale of gut wrenching heartache, ends in a triumphant redemption that not only touches the soul, it leaves a welcome mat at the door of awakening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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Diary of a Single Mom
Overview: Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the problems found within. As she struggles with a new job, a new home, her own children, a difficult niece, and the issues of other tenants, all within learn something about taking action and using compassion in their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-27
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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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The Glorias
Overview: An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-18
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Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
Overview: Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-05
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Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
Overview: The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer Madonna. Released on November 13, 1990 to accompany the audio CD, it contained hits spanning 1983-1990. The collection won "Best Long Form Video" category at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Includes the following videos: 1. Lucky Star 2. Borderline 3. Like a Virgin 4. Material Girl 5. Papa Don't Preach 6. Open Your Heart 7. La Isla Bonita 8. Like a Prayer 9. Express Yourself 10. Cherish 11. Oh Father 12. Vogue 13. Vogue (1990 MTV Awards Show Performance)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-13
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Runaway Car
Overview: A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby nephew. Once on the street, they almost run over a young man. Not knowing if he is hurt, they pick up the man too. But the worst luck begins when the car brakes break down
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-01-27
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Where Children Play
Overview: A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Bad Attitude
Overview: Eddie Johnson is looking for a new line of work. He's a battle-scarred undercover cop, working in a universe where nothing seems to add up. It‘s Seattle‘s notorious Chinatown corridor, where women look like men, everyone has a hidden agenda, and anything that looks like salvation will probably pump you full of lead. When his partner is gunned down in a drug bust gone awry, Johnson is suspended for insubordination. But his thirst for the killer‘s trail remains at a lever pitch, especially when he meets Mai Lei (Gina Lim), the sexy assistant to an enigmatic preacher connected with murder. She's everything that Johnson wants; a pleasure-seeking jaguar who gets hotter near the smell of a Harley. Too bad she's a former hooker/assassin with a classified file at Army intelligence. Before he uncovers her deadly past, he'll undergo a major ATTITUDE adjustment.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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Wildcards
Overview: A jury deliberating the case of Theodore Sterling, a privileged young man accused of sexual assault of a 20-something African-American woman. The prosecution is led by Assistant State Attorney James Jones, an overworked yet determined prosecutor, who faces off against Greg Sims, a veteran defense attorney with an unbroken 25-year winning streak.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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