Richard Roundtree
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Biography: Richard Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) was an American actor. He is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. He reprised the role of Shaft in the movie Shaft (2019), starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 09, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 24, 2023
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Shaft
Overview: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-15
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Shaft
Overview: Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Shaft's Big Score!
Overview: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Shaft in Africa
Overview: Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
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Wild Seven
Overview: In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the brain, leveling the score with career criminal, Mackey Willis. As eccentric and intuitive as he is vicious, Mackey's own perfected criminal game will play right into the path Wilson has set for him. With the help of a prison bus driver, Lee Marvin, Wilson acts as a catalyst, putting a plan into action that will bring an untimely end to Mackey Willis. The problem is, nothing goes exactly as planned.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Se7en
Overview: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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George of the Jungle
Overview: Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rainforest full of animal friends: Tookie, his big-beaked toucan messenger; Ape, a witty talking gorilla; and Shep, a peanut-loving pooch of an elephant. But when poachers mess with George's pals, the King of Swing swings into action.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-15
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Al's Lads
Overview: Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-29
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Young Warriors
Overview: After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-28
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Speed Racer
Overview: Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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Steel
Overview: When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Amityville: A New Generation
Overview: Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for reasons he cannot explain, he convinces the man to sell it to him, soon behaving in increasingly erratic and unhinged ways.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-29
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Brick
Overview: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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Antitrust
Overview: A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-11
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The Banker
Overview: High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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Q
Overview: New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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Opposing Force
Overview: A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their objective is to reach the safety zone before the "opposing force" captures them. Everything does not go as expected, and the training mission turns into the real thing.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Escape to Athena
Overview: During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-21
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Theodore Rex
Overview: In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-14
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Maniac Cop
Overview: Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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An Eye for an Eye
Overview: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-14
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The Confidant
Overview: The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-24
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City Heat
Overview: Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Ladies of the House
Overview: When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break down their own self-perception in order to build something together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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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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Corky Romano
Overview: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Angel III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she might be her long missing mother. Following her trail to Los Angeles, Molly finds herself in the center of a major crime syndicate who will stop at nothing to execute their diabolical plans.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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Jocks
Overview: When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all the stops are out and literally "anything goes" both on and off the court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Crack House
Overview: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his cousin by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets taken by a drug kingpin to settle a debt, only Rick can save her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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The Baron and the Kid
Overview: Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets the stage for a series of adventures as they join forces to open a pool hall. Based on a hit song written by Cash, the film also stars Richard Roundtree, Tracy Pollan, June Carter Cash and Darren McGavin. The Cash family patriarch performs on the soundtrack.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Hawaiian Gardens
Overview: A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-06
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Portrait of a Hitman
Overview: A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Painkiller Jane
Overview: Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-10
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Charley-One-Eye
Overview: A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-18
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A Time to Die
Overview: A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Man Friday
Overview: Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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Christmas in Connecticut
Overview: Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who lost his cabin in a fire, comment on TV about wishing he could get a home-cooked Christmas dinner, he arranges for a special live show on Christmas, for Elizabeth to cook him Christmas Dinner. Only Elizabeth can't cook, and trying to keep Jefferson and the viewing public from finding out on a live show may be a little difficult.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-22
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Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight
Overview: Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-05
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One Down, Two to Go
Overview: A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Night Visitor
Overview: A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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The Big Score
Overview: A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-17
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Diamonds
Overview: Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie, a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro, who is in Israel looking for a new husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-22
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Men Cry in the Dark
Overview: The future has never looked better for Derrick Reed. Bachelorhood is great, he has a group of guys he can really call friends, and he's the publisher of a magazine that he named after his philosophy of life, Happily Single. Little does Derrick know, appearing on Atlanta's hottest radio station morning talk show to promote his new magazine, he is about to go on a whirl-wind ride, which will eventually take him to the heart of a woman who will change his life forever. He finds the perfect woman and the perfect reason to stop womanizing and make a commitment. This mystery woman is about to have a lasting impact on Derrick's life by changing the way he thinks and feels about women and relationships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Party Line
Overview: A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the killers and bring them in.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Getting Even
Overview: After being betrayed by a fellow Marine and spending five years in a POW camp, homeless Vietnam vet Roy Evans reunites with his commander, Dundee, and is tasked by the FBI to find his betrayer, Slisko, who is suspected of slaying several women. Slisko has also become an arms dealer, and Evans and Dundee endure the trauma of returning to Southeast Asia to apprehend their old comrade
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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Bad Jim
Overview: A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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Moving On
Overview: Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Joe and Max
Overview: True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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Inchon
Overview: Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-04
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The Fifth Missile
Overview: The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-23
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Set Apart
Overview: Four troubled, inner city kids get a western-style shot at redemption when a cowboy pastor invites them to his country ranch and offers them a chance to put their lives in perspective. Korina, Rey, Anthony, and Marcus all grew up on the streets. Every decision they make in that volatile environment could affect the rest of their lives. Pastor John Gunn (John Schneider) runs the Power Company Kids' ministry, an organization dedicated to giving at-risk kids the tools they need to build brighter futures. He's convinced that the four teens would benefit from going back to the basics and experiencing the cowboy lifestyle, and with a little help from ranch owners Randy and Heidi Gunn, Pastor Gunn shows the kids that there's much more to life than hustling on the streets. Though reluctant to participate at first, the kids quickly adjust to their new surroundings as their eyes are opened to a whole new world of opportunity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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Sins of the Night
Overview: Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone. In a huge mix-up/double-cross, Roxie plots with Jack to get rid of Falcone and Quincy, one an abusive husband, the other a demented role playing ex-lover, and run away with Jack. But the double crossings don't end there
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-07
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Gypsy Angels
Overview: Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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Day of the Assassin
Overview: Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-15
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Game for Vultures
Overview: The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-25
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Any Place But Home
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Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Undercover Brother
Overview: An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell behaves strangely in his presidential campaign, Undercover Brother is hired to work undercover for "The Man" and find what happened with the potential candidate.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Killpoint
Overview: An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-01
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful nephew Max, entangled in dubious circles of clandestine gambling dens and drug trafficking. Sylvia, a writer in crisis (and looking for new inspiration) also stays in the guesthouse accompanied by Joan, a young woman with whom Sylvia maintains an ambiguous relationship. Also staying there are Christine, a hysterical woman with a criminal record and her husband Dominic, a listless and parasitic man. Finally, Dr. Ruby, a young and distinguished doctor who is preparing to hold a conference in Miami and who seems to have known Bianca before the accident that caused her blindness, also arrived a few days ago.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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Deadly Rivals
Overview: A physicist involved in classified military research meets a woman who he begins to suspect is a spy. Her sister is involved with the mob and one of the spies is working with the mob. He unwillingly helps the FBI figure this all out.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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What Do You Say to a Naked Lady
Overview: Candid Camera's Allen Funt secretely tapes people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young woman casually exits an elevator in an office building, or when the nude male art model breaks the wall between artist and model and has off-the-cuff conversations with the clothed women artists. Funt also secretly tapes the test audience watching the preview film and their responses to it, from outright indignation to warm hearted-praise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-18
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Original Gangstas
Overview: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created the Rebels, returns to Gary to be with his father and, with a little help from his friends, to destroy the Rebels his way.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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All The Days Before Tomorrow
Overview: Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-01
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Whatever She Wants
Overview: Whatever She Wants is the story about one woman s determination to rediscover who she really is... Vivian Wolf (Vivica A. Fox) has suffered one heartbreak too many and has no room left for unfulfilling relationships. Now she has come up with the solution to every woman s problem, a private club called Whatever She Wants where men have to qualify to get in.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-02
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Thelma
Overview: When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon
Overview: A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Embassy
Overview: A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Overview: Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background. With the support of each other and their family, they survived encounters with racism and sexism in their own different ways. Sadie quietly and sweetly broke barriers to become the first African-American home-ec teacher in New York City, while Bessie, with her own brand of outspokenness, became the second African-American dentist in New York City. At the ages of 103 and 101, they told their story to Amy Hill Hearth, a white New York Times reporter who published an article about them. The overwhelming response launched a bestselling book, a Broadway play, and this film.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-18
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Body of Influence
Overview: A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past...
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-21
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Harlem to Hollywood
Overview: An insider's look at the most famous person most people have never heard of: singer-songwriter Billy Vera.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-07
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Boat Trip
Overview: Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Retreat!
Overview: Inspired by war films from the 1950's, Retreat! tells the story of nine U.S. Soldiers who were forced to retreat into unknown territories deep in the heart of Korea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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Daddy Can't Read
Overview: Teenage girl doesn't understand why her father is against her campaign to promote literacy at his factory. Until she discovers that her father can't read.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-16
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Mind Twister
Overview: Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Point of Entry
Overview: A young woman named Katherine Alden becomes the unwanted victim of her new handsome next door neighbor Caleb, after her and her husband and son moves to a new town for a fresh start from a robbery.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-03
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Just an Overnight Guest
Overview: A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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Soul in Cinema: Filming 'Shaft' on Location
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie's director, Gordon Parks is seen directing a couple of fight scenes which he wants to get in as few takes as possible due to the set-up time and the danger involved in the stunt work. He is also seen speaking to the composer of the film score, 'Isaac Hayes', about the overlaying of the music over one of those fight scenes, and what he wants musically for another scene involving the lead character, John Shaft, moving through Times Square. The latter would eventually become the movie's iconic theme music. Being a frenetically paced action movie, he also works closely with the film's editor, Hugh A. Robertson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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Firehouse
Overview: Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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Shadows of Desire
Overview: A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-20
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Shaft
Overview: JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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Miami Cops
Overview: Richard Roundtree takes on thugs on the streets of Miami.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-08
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Bonanza: The Return
Overview: A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Bonanza: Under Attack
Overview: After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the Ponderosa with the next generation of Cartwrights and his former Civil War compatriots. Will Frank's comrades come to his aid or turn their backs on him? Richard Roundtree also stars in this made-for-TV sequel to the popular Western series.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-15
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Collar
Overview: While his life begins to crumble, TJ Williams's fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with her eye on a Senate seat and an ambitious activist reverend.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Black as the Heart
Overview: Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance leads Valentino to investigate, discovering that Ray worked as a gardener for the villa of the Alga Croce family.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-01-05
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What Men Want
Overview: Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-08
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A Family Reunion Christmas
Overview: M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-09
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Diary of a Single Mom
Overview: Ocean a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the problems found within. As she struggles with a new job, a new home, her own children, a difficult niece, and the issues of other tenants, all within learn something about taking action and using compassion in their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-27
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Nationtime
Overview: A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Haunting of the Mary Celeste
Overview: Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Final Approach
Overview: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon unless they receive a billion dollars
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-24
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Vegas Vampires
Overview: A series of brutal murders at several top nightclubs have left the Las Vegas police department baffled. But when they discover that the killers are a group of bloodsucking vampires led by Q (Alex Wilkinson), it's everything they can do to prevent the information from reaching the public.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
Overview: This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Ballistic
Overview: Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witness that she was supposed to protect is killed. She must now find out what happened and clear up her name.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-28
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