Gene LeBell
Also Known As: Gene Le Bell
Biography: Ivan Gene LeBell (born October 9, 1932) is an American martial artist, stunt performer, actor, and former professional wrestler. Nicknamed "the Godfather of Grappling", LeBell is widely credited with popularizing grappling in professional fighting circles, serving as a precursor to modern mixed martial arts. LeBell has also worked on over 1,000 films and TV shows and has authored 12 books. In 2000, the United States Ju-Jitsu Federation (USJJF) promoted him to 9th Dan in jujitsu and taihojutsu. On August 7, 2004, the World Martial Arts Masters Association promoted LeBell to 10th Degree and in February 2005, he was promoted to 9th Dan in Traditional Judo by the USJJF. LeBell served as an inspiration for the character of Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 09, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 2022
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Jackass: The Movie
Overview: Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Loose Cannons
Overview: Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Overview: Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Overview: Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-20
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Overview: A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Eyes of an Angel
Overview: John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-26
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From Mexico With Love
Overview: A washed-up trainer takes a self-destructive young boxer under his wing.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-15
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Running Red
Overview: Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife...
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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Cleopatra Jones
Overview: After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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Hard Time
Overview: Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, a veteran, tough cop who likes to see justice done by his own ways. Things go bad after McQueen is framed for murder. Now he has to escape from a maximum security prison, and seek, on the deadly streets of a hot and dangerous Miami, for the man who wants him down...
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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Ring of Steel
Overview: A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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Walking Tall
Overview: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Heartbeeps
Overview: Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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No Way Back
Overview: Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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Dead Heat
Overview: Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Airplane!
Overview: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-02
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Overview: After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Overview: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Batman & Robin
Overview: Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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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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Micki & Maude
Overview: TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Man on the Moon
Overview: The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Flesh & Blood
Overview: A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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Goldie and the Boxer
Overview: Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-30
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Marciano
Overview: A highly romanticized dramatization of the life of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to have retired with a perfect record.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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Ed Wood
Overview: The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-28
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Bad Guys
Overview: Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Raging Bull
Overview: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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Spider-Man 2
Overview: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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The Search for Count Dante
Overview: Count Dante's real name was John Keehan and he grew up in a posh section of Chicago. In the early 1960s he was one of the most intriguing figures in America's nascent martial arts scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
Overview: When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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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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The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father's Eyes
Overview: This documentary chronicles former Olympian and UFC champion Ronda Rousey's ascent to iconic status in the world of mixed martial arts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-16
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Rush Hour
Overview: When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Number One with a Bullet
Overview: Number One with a Bullet is a 1987 American police detective film directed by Jack Smight. A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Rapid Fire
Overview: College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece
Overview: When the Fist found a mystical gold fleece jacket, he became the biggest porn star of the 1970s. But in the ‘80s, he’s on the cusp of eviction from a run-down studio apartment, having lost his gold fleece and his mojo along with it. When a local street thug named Superfly enters the diner where Fist works, robbing his customers, Fist and friends fight back. And thus begins a wild adventure, as Superfly’s bosses come to collect from Fist, sending him on a journey that unravels a conspiracy to sell meat pumped full of estrogen, which threatens to emasculate men.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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I Am Bruce Lee
Overview: Bruce Lee is universally recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art form, and this documentary will reveal why Bruce Lee's flame burns brighter now than the day he died over three decades ago. The greatest martial artists, athletes, actors, directors, and producers in the entertainment business today will share their feelings about the one who started it all. We will interview the people whose lives, careers, and belief systems were forever altered by the legendary "Father of Martial Arts Cinema". Rarely seen archival footage and classic photos will punctuate the personal testimonials. Prepare to be inspired.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-09
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Every Which Way but Loose
Overview: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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Men in Black II
Overview: Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-03
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Rat Race
Overview: In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-17
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Overview: Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Hammer
Overview: Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-04
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Blue Hawaii
Overview: Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Melinda
Overview: A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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The Jerk
Overview: After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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The Golden Child
Overview: After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Going Ape!
Overview: When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Overview: Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-31
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Overview: If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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The One and Only
Overview: Andy Schmidt manages to win fellow student Mary’s heart, but getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected. Desperate and dreaming of stardom, he tries wrestling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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The Big Brawl
Overview: A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-18
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Black Samson
Overview: Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
Overview: In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goad Kurt's brother into the ring for a rematch.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-30
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Double Tap
Overview: A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Almost Summer
Overview: A high-school election gets nasty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-21
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The Challenge
Overview: All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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Cellular
Overview: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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Alligator 2: The Mutation
Overview: A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper
Overview: Focuses on 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, who is universally considered one of WWE's greatest villains. During his Hall of Fame career, he played the role of the antagonist against a who's who of WWE greats, while amassing more than 30 championships.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-25
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Redbelt
Overview: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-07
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M.A.N.T.I.S.
Overview: A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-24
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Americathon
Overview: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Foolin' Around
Overview: A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Blacula
Overview: An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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