John Amos
Also Known As: Jon Amos, Johnny Amos, John A. Amos Jr.
Biography: John Amos (December 27, 1939 – August 21, 2024) was an American actor and retired football player. He is best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries "Roots" and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times." He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award. On film, he played numerous supporting roles in movies such as "The Beastmaster" (1982), "Coming to America" (1988), "Lock Up" (1989), "Die Hard 2" (1990) and "Coming 2 America" (2021). Prior to acting, he played on the Colorado State Rams football team and in 1964, he signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Denver Broncos and in 1967 signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. Both of these contracts did not land him a spot on the teams and played a final season in the Continental Football League with the Victoria Steelers before pursuing acting.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: December 27, 1939
Deathday: August 21, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Die Hard 2
Overview: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-03
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The Truth About Santa Claus
Overview: A man does not want children but after a “run-in” with Santa finds the true “gift” of Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-21
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Vanishing Point
Overview: Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Ricochet
Overview: An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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The World's Greatest Athlete
Overview: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Coming to America
Overview: An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-29
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Lock Up
Overview: Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-04
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Let's Do It Again
Overview: Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-11
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Two Evil Eyes
Overview: A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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The Beastmaster
Overview: Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he's the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-16
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Dr. Dolittle 3
Overview: Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-25
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Shadowboxing
Overview: Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Countdown
Overview: A terrorist organization known as "Ansar Allah" is preparing to turn the city of Rome into a City of the Dead. But the heroism of Smolin, the professionalism of Catherine Stone, and the help of Umar together with the cooperation of Russian and Western special forces will save the world from evil terrorists.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Madea's Witness Protection
Overview: For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-29
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Against Time
Overview: About to finish high school, budding inventor Z.T. (Ean Mering) dreams of escaping both his sleepy town and his gloomy, widowed Dad, COLE (Craig T. Nelson). But his ambitions get a stunning reality check with the arrival of ZACK (Robert Loggia), a raving, 68 year-old drunk claiming to be the boy's older self. Suspiciously unable to recall the exact details, Zack is desperate to avert a single, tiny mistake he claims sent the rest of his years into a tragic spiral. As the two forge a shaky alliance to piece together the old man's fragile memory, Z.T. deals with the pressure from his well-meaning Coach (John Amos) and courts a new love, DELENA (Emilie Jacobs). After a devastating confession from Z.T.'s father, Zack's visit takes on new gravity, as one man, split in two by fifty lost years, realizes that both his future and past now hang perilously, in a race AGAINST TIME.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-12
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Zombie Hamlet
Overview: Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester Beauchamps offer to fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back. But when Hester dies in mid shoot, Osric dresses up as Hester to cash the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police and ambitious local news reporter Shine Reynolds. Inspired by an actual incident.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-14
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For Better or Worse
Overview: A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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The President's Plane Is Missing
Overview: When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-23
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Devotion
Overview: A pastor bumps into an old trainer and begins boxing after his wife retires from MMA fighting.
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Original Language: en
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Dance of the Dwarfs
Overview: An anthropologist and an alcoholic helicopter pilot discover a race of predatory reptile men in the jungles of South America.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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Block Party
Overview: Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers that her once super-sharp Grandma Janice is showing early signs of dementia, Keke puts her career at stake in order to save her Grandma's block party, and in the process, Keke falls back in love with her hometown and its people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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American Lowrider
Overview: Lefty-a hard working, light hearted man is looking to make a decent buck. But when a simple bet goes horribly wrong, Lefty is stuck between a rock and gangster who's dead set on collecting his money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-17
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Touched by Love
Overview: A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Cops and Robin
Overview: A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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Me Time
Overview: With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-26
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Uncut Gems
Overview: A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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Bad Asses on the Bayou
Overview: The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Night Trap
Overview: A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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The Watermelon Heist
Overview: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Shark's Paradise
Overview: A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-13
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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Overview: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison. Serving a 99-year sentence for a gas station holdup and murder, Carnes makes periodic attempts to escape, the final attempt being the most violent. Many of the subordinate characters are fictional (as are most of the details concerning Carnes' escape efforts); the one exception is Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", here portrayed by Art Carney as a gentle, kindly philosopher. Telly Savalas, a costar of the Burt Lancaster vehicle Birdman of Alcatraz, also guest starred in the 1980 film. Originally titled Alcatraz and Clarence Carnes, this made-for-TV movie wavers between gritty realism and "I'm bustin' outta here!" artifice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-05
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Countdown
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
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The Last Rifleman
Overview: A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Ascension Day
Overview: A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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Christmas in Miami
Overview: Akpos jets off with his family to the exotic city of Miami, Florida to represent Nigeria at the Intercontinental Christmas Fiesta, which is a unifying Fiesta that will bring together 6 families from 6 very diverse nations across 5 continents, to spend the week leading up to Christmas together, on an exotic island in Miami, USA. This 'mini' Olympics of Christmas is a multi-ethnic story of unity in diversity. It celebrates how we are all different, but the same, or how we are all 'same difference'. It reminds that Christmas transcends skin colour and racial barriers. It's a rib-tickling comedy that aims to unite borders by helping each of the nations represented to also debunk long-held negative stereotypes and perceptions that the general public always had about them. And of course, somewhere in between all of these, we are treated to endless servings of Akpos' mis-adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-24
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Bonanza: The Next Generation
Overview: This is the continuing saga of the Cartwrights, only none of the original Cartwrights are here anymore but their sons. Ben and Hoss have passed on, and Little Joe is MIA; he went with Teddy Roosevelt and is currently missing. Ben's brother, Aaron is now in charge of the Ponderosa, and Little Joe's wife Annie also lives there. His son, Benjamin has come back fom the East. Charlie Poke is a man who owes his life to Ben Cartwright and is now the ranch foreman, and is not exactly on good terms with Aaron. Aaron has allowed a mining company access to mine on the Ponderosa, but the man in charge has other ideas. And Hoss' son Josh whom no one has seen before, has come to the Ponderosa to kill Hoss cause he thinks Hoss deserted him and his mother not knowing that Hoss died before he could go back to bring his mother back to the Ponderosa.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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Future Cop
Overview: A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been programmed by the police lab.
Genres: TV Movie Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Overview: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-31
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Something to Sing About
Overview: Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Overview: Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Overview: Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers. Moore’s own 50-plus-year career has spanned award-winning films and Broadway shows, as well as two beloved television series that broke ground and continue to entertain viewers. This one-hour special includes highlights from a recent interview with Mary Tyler Moore, tributes from her co-stars and clips from iconic moments throughout her career. The program looks at her breakthrough role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, her iconic turn as TV's first independent career woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her Academy Award-nominated work on Ordinary People.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-13
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Hologram Man
Overview: Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineered by his cronies transforms the criminal into a living hologram with god-like powers. Now, stopping him is up to Kurt Decoda, the man who as a police rookie was responsible for arresting Galagher.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-27
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The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda
Overview: After a quiet fishing trip, Rockford is tricked into taking over a fellow PI's case involving alleged Police misconduct, which lands him in the hospital, hounded by a beautiful reporter, and out of favor with the entire Police Deapartment. Meanwhile Angel tries to cash in on the publicity by selling a movie about Rockford's life.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Act of Faith
Overview: After the death of his beloved wife, Mr. Brady struggles to maintain a neighborhood diner in Atlanta Georgia. His few faithful waitresses have become his only family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-08
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Voodoo Moon
Overview: Voodoo Moon takes place in the mid-west United States, where a demonic figure murders the entire population of a small town, save for one young boy and his sister. Twenty years later, the boy has been consumed with trying to track the devil down and now he thinks he's found him. His sister is now an artist who has developed psychic abilities which enable her to sense disaster, visions she expresses in her art. The two siblings work together in fighting the devil, and also get the assistance of several people they have helped over the years
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-04
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Mercy for Angels
Overview: Runaway Tracy is snatched from a dangerous L.A. neighborhood by sadistic thugs while searching for her homeless boyfriend. Her police detective mom races against time to rescue Tracy from the big money, high crime world of sex trafficking.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Overview: Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The interviews accompany clips from groundbreaking shows and performances by entertainment pioneers that create a timeline of the portrayal of African Americans throughout TV history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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American Flyers
Overview: When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Disappearing Acts
Overview: A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-09
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Mac
Overview: Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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My Baby's Daddy
Overview: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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Willa
Overview: A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her to embark on a new career as a trucker in the rig her late father used to drive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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Coming 2 America
Overview: Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wish to groom this son as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America once again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-04
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Overview: Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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The Players Club
Overview: Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Christmas Belles
Overview: Despite being successful in their careers, two 30-something BFFs never stop hearing that they both need a man before it's too late. When a handsome pastor arrives just in time to kick off the Christmas season, both ladies try to make a move-but as their hilarious attempts to one up each other keep growing, it will be up to their family to remind them what the holiday season is truly about.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Tamales and Gumbo
Overview: A beautiful Latina and a lovable African-American try to survive the crazy cultural clashes between their families, as their wedding day nears.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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The Beastmaster Chronicles
Overview: Documentary about the making of the film The Beastmaster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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Because of Charley
Overview: Two estranged stepfamilies reluctantly gather at a Central Florida home for an anniversary party, fully intending to keep the visit brief - but Hurricane Charley takes an unexpected turn that changes everything.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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Future Cop: Cops and Robin
Overview: To protect his former partner's widow, a veteran cop teams up with an android to keep her safe.
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Original Language: en
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