Starletta DuPois
Also Known As: Starletta De Paur, Starletta Du Pois
Biography: Starletta DuPois (born July 18, 1941) is an American actress. She has appeared in a more than 90 movies and television show during her career. DuPois was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1968, and received M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She made her Broadway debut appearing in 1974 short-lived play What the Wine-Sellers Buy. Later that year she had minor roles in films Death Wish and The Gambler. In 1976 she starred in the Off-Broadway production of So Nice, They Named it Twice.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: July 18, 1941
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Gender: Female
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Overview: The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-26
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Strapped
Overview: Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes a deal with a weapons cop to turn in local gun dealers. However, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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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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Hollywood Shuffle
Overview: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Frogs!
Overview: Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles with a wicked witch, Arlo must come to the rescue, catapulting them into s series of adventure in which they both come to realize you must be true to yourself.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Waterdance
Overview: Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-13
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3 Strikes
Overview: Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, they are pulled over, and his friend shoots at police officers, and Hooks escapes. Now Hooks, a wanted man, must clear his name of having nothing to do with the shooting.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-01
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The Maker
Overview: Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-01
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Full Circle
Overview: A young woman, traumatized by rape at an early age, slowly learns to trust and love again as she struggles to avoid repeating her mother's mistakes.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Convicts
Overview: In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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A Beautiful Soul
Overview: An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes, leaving a chance for redemption in its wake. But with rebirth, first comes death.
Genres: Music Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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The Road to Galveston
Overview: Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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Soul Mates
Overview: Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Dark Exodus
Overview: Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends its sons away to a better life. Visualizing the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North in sepia tones, director Iverson White’s period film captures the atmosphere of early 20th century America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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Alone
Overview: John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-21
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Games Mother Never Taught You
Overview: Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Overview: A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-06
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Death Wish
Overview: After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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Friday After Next
Overview: Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Guest
Overview: A woman reveals her inner thoughts as she performs various chores around the bedroom.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Let's Get Bizzee
Overview: High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Overview: The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors in the 1950s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-17
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South Central
Overview: During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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First Sunday
Overview: Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Duck
Overview: An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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The Notebook
Overview: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-25
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The Thing Called Love
Overview: A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Runaway Father
Overview: A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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True to the Game
Overview: Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young girl from the projects of Philly. Quadir was able to gain the trust and love of Gena and was on his way out of the game to start a new life with his future bride when tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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The Least Among You
Overview: Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, he's close to cracking until he meets an elderly custodian who helps him navigate the trials of racism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-12
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Big Momma's House
Overview: When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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A Raisin in the Sun
Overview: A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Wolf
Overview: Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-17
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Waiting to Exhale
Overview: Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Gambler
Overview: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Odd Jobs
Overview: Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Death of a Telemarketer
Overview: A smooth-talking telemarketer finds himself at the mercy of the man he tried to swindle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Magic Max
Overview: After a tragic loss of both parents, 11-year-old Tim Hart is forced to live with his immensely immature Uncle Max, a second rate magician. and who, with the help of his nephew, tries to cultivate his last hand at love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-25
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The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
Overview: In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on protecting and clearing the names of their sons, several mothers bonded together to make their story known. This work emerges as a powerful close up of police brutality, and of power dynamics of 1960's Harlem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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No More Goodbyes
Overview: After his foster mother dies, sixteen-year-old Mark goes on the run with his foster brother Tristan, a young boy with Autism and PTSD in order for them to stay together and not become separated by the system. However, Mark finds out that keeping him and his brother together is going to be harder than it looks ...
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
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True to the Game 3
Overview: The trilogy picks right up where True 2 left us. Gena's awakes to find that her mysterious savior is Quadir. Before happily ever after, Gena has 72 hours to go back to Philly to check on Bria and Gah Git and let them know of her plans.
Genres: Romance Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Heart for the Holidays
Overview: A high-powered Los Angeles businesswoman gets moved to a small town for an emergency heart transplant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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