Charles Napier
Also Known As: Chuck Napier
Biography: Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American character actor known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Napier (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Scottsville, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 12, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 05, 2011
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The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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The Blues Brothers
Overview: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Genres: Music Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-16
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
Overview: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Overview: As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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Dinocroc
Overview: After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Gereco lab.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-20
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Hollywood Rated 'R'
Overview: A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
Genres: Documentary Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Overview: An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-17
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Supervixens
Overview: Clint must flee after his wife is killed by a psychopathic cop, who tries to pin the murder on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
Overview: In a small border town, a sheriff and his 'associate', involved in an operation in which they divert marijuana through the border, must kill another smuggler who has gone into business for himself.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-22
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Center of the Web
Overview: An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Something Wild
Overview: A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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One-Eyed Monster
Overview: In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-11
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Body Count
Overview: A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-28
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Body Bags
Overview: A woman working the late shift at a gas station while a killer is on the loose; a man who can't stand the thought of losing his hair; a baseball player that submits to an eye transplant. An anthology of terror.
Genres: Horror Comedy TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-08
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Life Blood
Overview: Forty years ago a supernatural force vanquished Brooke and Rhea, a sexy lipstick lesbian couple, after they committed an inconceivable murder. Now, on New Year's Eve, they'll rise from the dead. Still hot and still a couple, they're back as vampires. Enamored with their newfound power, it's no longer a question of whether they will kill again, but of how.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-16
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Overview: A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-24
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The Incredible Hulk Returns
Overview: Dr. David Banner meets a former student, who has a magical hammer that summons Thor, a Norse god who is prevented from entering Valhalla. When the two superheroes stop feuding long enough to breathe, they are a team unmatched by any of their enemies.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Deep Space
Overview: Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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The Hunter's Moon
Overview: A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority threatened by the arrival of a World War I veteran and decides to hunt and kill him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-10
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Alien from the Deep
Overview: Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that wreaks havoc in the area.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-10-15
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Raw Justice
Overview: The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
Overview: Rocky, Colt and TumTum must battle an evil wealthy toxic waste dumper in order to save a local Indian tribe and their friend Joe. The 3 Ninjas must help find Joe's father and find a secret disk that contains evidence that could stop the toxic landfill that is destroying the Indian community. However the town is owned by the rich man and he controls the police and even the mayor. They must fight a motorcycle gang and renegade cowboys in this non-stop ninja adventure.
Genres: Family Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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The Outlaws
Overview: Eugene Griswold is an average, suburban nine-to-five guy tired of working long hours for his income. Then Eugene gets mixed up in his inventor friend Stanley Flynn's get-rich-quick scheme which lands them both in prison and eventually leads to a series of misadventures when they are caught up in a bizarre prison breakout made by other prisoners which they are blamed for mastermining it and now must run from the law.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Miami Blues
Overview: After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-20
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Alien Species
Overview: Huge Motherships from an alien species sneak ominously into orbit around Earth. Lethal bat-winged fighters descend on the planet. Citizens are abducted. Homes are destroyed. The invasion has begun! A small town sheriff, two deputies and a professor discover the alien plan. With the secret to destroy the attacking ships, there's a chance they could stop the alien invasion... for now!!!!
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Last Embrace
Overview: Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-04
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Second Chances
Overview: A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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The Grifters
Overview: A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-08
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Expert Witness
Overview: A ‘forensic psychologist/detective’ called Bill Wilder gets increasingly involved with characters with pretty shady pasts
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Ernest Goes to Jail
Overview: Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
Genres: Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Overview: Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Love and Kisses
Overview: Sex, sadism and snowmobiles in a wild weekend of skiing and swinging in Aroostook County, Maine, with action in the ski slopes but even more action in the ski lodge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Jury Duty
Overview: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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One Man Force
Overview: In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-21
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Wacko
Overview: Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Citizens Band
Overview: The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-18
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Future Zone
Overview: John Tucker's son travels back in time 30 years to save his father from being killed by thugs he is currently pursuing back in 1990.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Moonfire
Overview: Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Hit List
Overview: A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Eyes of the Beholder
Overview: A crazed escaped mental patient holds 2 couples hostage and terrorizes them in a Malibu beach home during a stormy night.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Suits on the Loose
Overview: Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals their car. Scrapping their military fatigues for the conservative missionaries' tags in hopes of passing through any road blocks, their guise is so good that the police insist upon escorting the escapees directly to New Harmony, the town that's been anxiously awaiting their Mormon missionaries. As the two renegades find themselves embraced by the town's hospitality, they try to map out their escape. With Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson destined to arrive, what will happen when the town of New Harmony discovers that their missionaries are actually on the lam from the law? Can they keep up the charade and fool everyone around them or will they be found out? Written by HaleStorm Entertainment
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Armstrong
Overview: The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secret video tape of Russian missiles leaving an unknown base near Moscow under the cover of darkness. Are these missiles destined to be aimed at the US or are they being smuggled to a terrorist organisation. The Americans need to know where these missiles are going, the only person who can help them discover their destination is Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) an ex buddy of Bob who now trains an elite Russian anti-terrorist squad under the command of Colonel Zukov (Richard Lynch). Zukov is from the old guard, corrupt, ruthless, and will stop at nothing to gain control.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-21
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Under Surveillance
Overview: Two insurance investigators try to find out why the ex-partner of one of them was murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Max Is Missing
Overview: A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-01
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Felony
Overview: A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters and gets killed for his efforts. Meanwhile the film commentator gets pursued by the cops, the gangsters, and some crooked FBI agents. All are after the film which he doesn't have.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-19
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The Last Match
Overview: The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of jail fail, his coach and teammates show up in full football gear and armed to the teeth, ready to free her by any means necessary.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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After the Condor
Overview: A hotshot, wisecracking New York newspaper reporter, teams up with his crippled Army buddy Steve and sexy pilot Anne in Argentina to find an airplane called Condor rumored to have been carrying Chinese treasure when it crashed into a glacier forty years earlier.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Never Look Back
Overview: Jailed ex-fighter Donavan Wallace strikes a deal with the prison warden for early parole - he is to go into a town to pick up a mysterious crate. He finds himself framed for the murder of a local waitress but before being thrown behind bars once again he is able to retrieve, and then hide, the crate. Donavan manages to break free from jail but finds himself pursued by various conspirators who are after the contents of the crate
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Macon County Jail
Overview: After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to endless acts of brutality from the guards and inmates alike. Things go from bad to worse when she's forced to defend herself against a rapist with tragic results. No longer truly "innocent," when the opportunity arises Susan flees with fellow prisoner Coley.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Instant Justice
Overview: Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him. Alone in the Madrid's streets, Scott will search for the killers, will try to reveal the reason of the murder of his dear sister, and for revenge for himself.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Black Crescent Moon
Overview: A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-15
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Lonely Hearts
Overview: Alma, a lonely woman, falls for the conman who steals her money after seducing her. Frank doesn't want Alma around him, but he cannot do anything about the situation in case she goes to the police. Hot on the trail of the two is a female private detective, working for another of Frank's victims.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Treacherous Crossing
Overview: In 1947, a passenger on an ocean liner says her husband went missing right after they boarded together, but all evidence shows she's traveling alone.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Pirates of the Plain
Overview: "Pirates of the Plain" details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young boy with an overactive imagination.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-18
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Body Shot
Overview: Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Married to the Mob
Overview: Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-19
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The Night Stalker
Overview: A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
Genres: Action Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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Cop Target
Overview: Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in dirty drug dealings. While on the island, the daughter is kidnapped by a group of seedy South American thugs and held for ransom. The cop escort gets official orders to leave the case to the FBI, but he decides to his own investigating and finds that the crime may have had political motivations.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Philadelphia
Overview: Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Frogtown II
Overview: In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone into Frogs, they also kidnap some people to test the serum on. And courageous Sam Hell will have to save them.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-03
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Fatal Pursuit
Overview: A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Mean Tricks
Overview: Charles Napier plays Hornsby, a recently retired FBI agent that goes to South America to find his former partner Mendoza. Rumor has it that Mendoza has become a criminal. Soon after Hornsby arrives at his former partner's house, Mendoza is killed by a gunman. Now Hornsby has to work together with local cop Rodriguez to find out who killed his former partner and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-07-17
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Overview: The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-27
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Silk Degrees
Overview: After she witnesses a mob murder, a woman hides out in a cabin in the woods under the protection of a pair of hardboiled federal agents.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-24
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The Kid & I
Overview: Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eighteenth birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-02
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The Flying Misfits
Overview: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-21
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The Cartier Affair
Overview: Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand so that he can steal her jewels. But he falls in love with her, which complicates things.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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Skeeter
Overview: As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Savage Land
Overview: Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time, and the pursuing baddies, this unlikely team must trek over the mountains to reach safety.
Genres: Western Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Soldier's Fortune
Overview: A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to rescue her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-04
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Original Gangstas
Overview: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created the Rebels, returns to Gary to be with his father and, with a little help from his friends, to destroy the Rebels his way.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Indio 2 - The Revolt
Overview: A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the company of its Indian problem. Sgt. Irons, a former Marine NCO, helps to unite the jungle tribes and leads them in their fight to protect their homes and their families.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-17
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Silent Fury
Overview: After his friend is caught and killed by some drug dealers, a former commander of special forces search revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Thunder and Lightning
Overview: A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-12
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Killer Instinct
Overview: An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while seducing the young attorney. It then becomes the attorney job to cover up the murder he believes he committed, while finding out the truth about the D.A.'s "niece".
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-25
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Gridlock
Overview: A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Ripper Man
Overview: A former cop who now working as a hypnotist is approached by a stranger who asks him to bring out his other identity, Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Bush Shrink
Overview: In an unstable African country, US psychiatrist Martin Cypher teams up with a street-smart poacher to save his patient and her uncle Kingsley, who runs a diamond mine, from some rebels led by white mercenaries, who took them for ransom.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Your Name Here
Overview: The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Paranoid conspiracies of the highest order, drug-fueled interdimensional shifts, and 1970's pop culture combine for the mind-bending adventure of the century.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-13
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China Lake
Overview: China Lake tells the story of motorcycle cop Donnelly, a man who spends his vacation time driving around on his Harley in the desert highways still dressed in his uniform. Clearly halfway through this short we learn that Donnelly is deeply disturbed and psychopathic after coming across a few people that have upset him in his twisted ideal of what is right and wrong.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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To Die, to Sleep
Overview: Although it appears that Phil lives the life that every teenager dreams of - endless amounts of cash, a sweet ride, and a big house he almost always has to himself - he hides a dark and deadly secret. His chance encounter with a similarly troubled youth propels him further into his cycle of debauchery, but it may just be what he needs to keep him from ending his own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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The Big Tease
Overview: Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Cypress Edge
Overview: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Determined to solve the mystery, Beau uncovers a plethora of family secrets, deception, and implications of unspeakable political wrongdoings.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The House Near the Prado
Overview: Marsha Jordan stars in this tell all tale about being a madam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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Hard Justice
Overview: When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun smuggling to name a few.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Lima: Breaking the Silence
Overview: An intense drama based on the true story of Peruvian rebels who in 1997 kidnapped several hundred high-ranking diplomats and government officials in an attempt to force the release of 400 political prisoners.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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Steel
Overview: When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Kidnapped
Overview: A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the pornographers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Ballistic
Overview: Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witness that she was supposed to protect is killed. She must now find out what happened and clear up her name.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-28
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Dragonfight
Overview: In the future, large corporations earn millions of dollars by staging gladiatorial fights to the death that are shown on worldwide television. One day, however, a fighter who is scheduled to hunt and kill an opponent in the Arizona desert decides he's had enough, and makes a run for it. His opponent is instructed to track him down and kill him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-05
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Maniac Cop 2
Overview: After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down those that wronged him.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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The Seven Minutes
Overview: To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the original publication of the book.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-23
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Swing Shift
Overview: In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Overview: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-04
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Limp Fangs: The Adventures of Count Malt Liquela
Overview: It's the late 20th Century. The streets are crawling with young, nubile women, ready to be "consumed"... But what can a 450 year-old blood-suckin' soul brother do if he has...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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Very Mean Men
Overview: A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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Melvin and Howard
Overview: The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Twisted Fate
Overview: A FBI agent going back to his home town. He have to decide if he should be true to his job or take care of his brother who is on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Overview: When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-08
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Jailbreakers
Overview: A 1950s high school cheerleader meets a leather clad rebel biker and goes out on the town with him. When he steals an item of jewellery he gets thrown in prison but not for long. He makes a desperate escape and he is determined to catch up with his lost love and re-new their criminal activities.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Riot
Overview: An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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Beloved
Overview: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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The Cable Guy
Overview: When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-10
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Centurion Force
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Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Down 'n Dirty
Overview: Dakota Smith is an experienced policeman with a problem: his partner was shot dead, and corrupt cops are responsible. Dak's investigation leads him to widespread corruption in the department, as well as a corrupt district attorney. Smith finds an unlikely ally in timid photographer Nick Gleem. While Gleem unearths clues about the bad guys, Dak fends off attacks on his own life. While he's not in gun battles with these local villains, divorced father Dak has no shortage of lady friends to keep him happy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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Shadowheart
Overview: James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-04
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Billy Lone Bear
Overview: An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy turns the table on the assassin.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Hanging of Jake Ellis
Overview: Square-Jawed future Russ Meyer regular Charles Napier stars as a cattle driver in this nudie western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-12
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels
Overview: In his first made-for-TV movie, Ned just wants to hang with the girl of his dreams. The only problem is he doesn't know if that girl is Suzie or Mose. Mose just wants to check out the world famous "Wild Boy" painting. Hopefully she can do that before it's ripped off by a group of international art thieves. And Cookie just wants to be a real life superhero. Will the gang live happily ever after?
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus
Overview: A stunt car racing team gets involved in a madcap cross-country auto race that is supposed to determine the disposition of a family fortune.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-27
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Ransom for Alice!
Overview: In 1890s Seattle, a deputy marshal and his female partner set out to bust up a ring that kidnaps teenage girls and sells them into prostitution.
Genres: Western Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-02
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Fielder's Choice
Overview: Phillip Fielder is a man who is struggling to rise up in his competitive career. Then his sister passes away leaving him custody of her 8 year old autistic son. Soon Fielder learns responsibilities of being a father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-18
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The Thief & the Stripper
Overview: When a former private investigator steals a briefcase from local mobsters, a stripper joins him on the run.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-15
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Annapolis
Overview: Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon proves sub-standard academically. Constantly challenged to his limits, repeatedly made the 'over-cocky' reason for the entire class to suffer, Jake nearly quits, but after facing his utterly un-supportive father's gloating returns just in time. Stubborn Jake finds support withs mates as well as Senor Ali, his lover-to-be, and a discipline he may excel in: the 'brigade' boxing tournament, open to all ranks.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Lords of Dogtown
Overview: The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Extreme Honor
Overview: A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-12
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Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
Overview: A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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No Small Ways
Overview: Sarah is the daughter of a wealthy man with questionable connections. Sarah and her father never see eye to eye. In her frustration she calls on the help of Michael and Stan. Together, they come up with the perfect kidnapping scheme. The reward is 3 million dollars and a carefree life South of the border.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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