Yaphet Kotto
Also Known As: Yaphet Frederick Kotto, 耶佛·哥圖
Biography: Yaphet Frederick Kotto (November 16, 1939 – March 15, 2021) was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction and horror film Alien (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction and action film The Running Man (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller Midnight Run (1988) as FBI Agent Alonzo Mosley.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.A
Birthday: November 16, 1939
Deathday: March 15, 2021
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Gender: Male
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Live and Let Die
Overview: James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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The Running Man
Overview: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Overview: Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-26
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Brubaker
Overview: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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5 Card Stud
Overview: The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-28
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Homicide: The Movie
Overview: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-13
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Overview: Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-05
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Truck Turner
Overview: Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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Across 110th Street
Overview: In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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The Puppet Masters
Overview: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Midnight Run
Overview: A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-20
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Bone
Overview: A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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The Star Chamber
Overview: As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Warning Sign
Overview: An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Eye of the Tiger
Overview: Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-07
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Terminal Entry
Overview: The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-26
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Report to the Commissioner
Overview: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Blue Collar
Overview: Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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Witless Protection
Overview: When a small-town sheriff witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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BaadAsssss Cinema
Overview: With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
Genres: Action Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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Two If by Sea
Overview: Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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The Park Is Mine
Overview: A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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Tripwire
Overview: A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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The Monkey Hustle
Overview: A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Friday Foster
Overview: Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Nothing But a Man
Overview: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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Drum
Overview: A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Genres: History Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Overview: A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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Fighting Back
Overview: An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Extreme Justice
Overview: Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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Man and Boy
Overview: At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Ministry of Vengeance
Overview: David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years later, when David's wife Gail and daughter Kim are killed by a group of terrorists led by Ali Aboud, in a massacre at an airport in Rome, Italy, David is devastated. Going against his faith, David sets out to find and kill Ali Aboud.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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In Self Defense
Overview: A witness is terrorized by the killer against whom she testified.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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The Defenders: Payback
Overview: Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Stiletto Dance
Overview: Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Chrome Soldiers
Overview: Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-06
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Pretty Kill
Overview: A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Badge of the Assassin
Overview: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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It's Nothing Personal
Overview: An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-01
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Out-of-Sync
Overview: A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-04
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A Whisper to a Scream
Overview: A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related with crime.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Hangfire
Overview: When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-11
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Intent to Kill
Overview: A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Overview: Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-21
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Crunch
Overview: Detective goes after drug-dealers in Manhattan.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Desperado
Overview: Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-27
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The Jigsaw Murders
Overview: A jigsaw puzzle is the key in a detective's investigation of a gruesome murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-25
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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After the Shock
Overview: On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members of the public and emergency services who rescued people who were trapped in the rubble in houses or on the freeway.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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The Limit
Overview: In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-10
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Alien
Overview: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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Night Chase
Overview: A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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Harem
Overview: A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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Prime Target
Overview: A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Sharks' Treasure
Overview: Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-18
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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Women of San Quentin
Overview: A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-23
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Overview: The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-27
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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Overview: Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-08
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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Overview: A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Othello
Overview: The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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For Love and Honor
Overview: A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Rage!
Overview: In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Dead Badge
Overview: After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-28
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Overview: Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Almost Blue
Overview: The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-04
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Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The World of James Bond
Overview: Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-29
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Overview: Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-17
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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The Ride
Overview: Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follows the daily lives of drivers for an urban cab company.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-27
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