Richard Norton
Also Known As: King Richard, Richard the Lionhearted, Ρίτσαρντ Νόρτον
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Norton (born 6 January 1950 - died March 28, 2025) was an Australian martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career. He has attained an eighth-dan in Zen Do Kai, Australia. His first screen appearance was in the 1980 Chuck Norris film The Octagon, and he worked on over 70 feature films and television programs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Norton (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Deathday: March 28, 2025
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Mr. Nice Guy
Overview: A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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City Hunter
Overview: A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Octagon
Overview: Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-14
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China O'Brien
Overview: China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organized crime. When her father, the town sheriff, is killed China decides to run for his position and clean up the town. The poll results spark a series of confrontations that finally decide who runs the town . . .
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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China O'Brien II
Overview: This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China O'Brian, one of the masters of the martial arts.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Black Creek
Overview: A dark, gritty, dystopian, western action martial arts film featuring a strong 'no-holds-barred' female protagonist portrayed by action film star Cynthia Rothrock. The plot centers around a sheriff’s sister who seeks revenge against the terrifying leader of a group of outlaws after discovering he brutally murdered her brother, his wife, and other family members in a gritty southwestern town.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-09
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Gymkata
Overview: U.S. agents send a gymnastic martial artist to secure a missile-base site in the savage country of Parmistan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Direct Hit
Overview: After informing his CIA handlers that his next hit will be his last, John Hatch discovers that his target isn't a criminal at all. Refusing to take the woman out, Hatch instead takes it upon himself to protect her and expose the web of corruption at work.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-14
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Nautilus
Overview: Over one hundred years ago, a cataclysmic chain of events plummeted the earth into the dark ages which destroyed most of civilization, and the remaining few survivors attempt to change the course of events that led to the destruction.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Rage and Honor
Overview: Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the streets.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-08
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Rage and Honor II: Hostile Takeover
Overview: Kris and Preston team up once again to take on powerful gangster Buntao. But Buntao has problems of his own, dealing with Dazo, another gangster who is on a steady rise to power...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-01
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Lady Dragon
Overview: An ex-CIA agent living in Indonesia tracks the arms dealer who killed her husband. Along the way, she meets a young boy and his grandfather, who teach her in the ways of the Lady Dragon.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Tough and Deadly
Overview: A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-14
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Strategic Command
Overview: Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-06
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Under the Gun
Overview: A debt-ridden night club owner has to take on Italian and Asian mobsters, corrupt police, and an angry pimp that he threw out of the club to try to keep his club in business.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-26
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Amazons and Gladiators
Overview: During the Roman Empire, General Crassius ruled a small province with an Iron fist. Serena, a young girl in a village, watches Crassius kill her parents. Crassius and Serena's destiny would lead them to the Gladiator ring; the Amazons Warrior vs the Roman General.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Overview: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-13
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CyberTracker
Overview: Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, a perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly's security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-22
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Magic Crystal
Overview: Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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The Fighter
Overview: Ryan Travers has just been released from a prison in Bangkok, Thailand, after serving a five-year sentence for murder. His parents, running an antique shop in the area while waiting for their son to be released, are killed in an explosion perpetrated by the local mob after refusing to pay protection money. Ryan's news go from bad to worse when he learns his sister Katie is seriously ill and will need an operation. With only a dead end job at a construction site after his release, Ryan learns about a local underground fight ring and decides to enter to raise the money for his sister's medical fees and search vengeance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Force: Five
Overview: A martial-arts expert leads a team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator's daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a fanatical religious cult.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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Hyper Space
Overview: In the 21st Century, the "Corporation" sends a spaceship to dispose of earth's severe nuclear waste to a distant region in the cosmos. The astronauts awaken from their "cryo-sleep" to truly cry over finding themselves marooned... their fuel is not sufficient to bring them back home. The shuttle craft on board that can accommodate no more than two passengers presents the only hope, and soon a "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of distrust and betrayal sets in, until one by one, only one sole survivor remains.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Raiders of the Sun
Overview: Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and control. Yet among them rises a new warrior, destined to shape the aeons which will follow -- a man who stops at nothing to achieve his ends, and for whom courage is the only commodity
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-24
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Blood Street
Overview: PI Joe Wong is one of the best in the business, operating from his base in San Francisco. One day a woman walks into Wong's office and asks for his help. She needs him to find her missing husband Aldo. This takes Wong on a journey though the world of the criminal. Along the way he encounters a father and son team of Solomon and Bones. Wong ends up getting involved in a gang was between Malcolm Boyd and Aldo, the man he was supposed to be looking for
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fight to Win
Overview: Martial artists in America battle over the possession of three ancient Chinese statues.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-17
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Redemption
Overview: A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-28
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Equalizer 2000
Overview: In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-04
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Future Hunters
Overview: A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
Overview: The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-15
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Millionaires' Express
Overview: What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-01-30
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Ironheart
Overview: An L.A. cop goes after a gang of murderous drug dealers.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-25
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Rage
Overview: Jack Dameron, the heir to an Asian trading empire, appears to have the perfect life until he gets framed for murder by a deadly business rival.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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Road House 2: Last Call
Overview: Shane Tanner, the son of a legendary cooler named Dalton, learns that his uncle Nate got beat up by a group of men because he doesn't want to sell his bar, The Black Pelican, to a bunch of drug dealers. To help out his uncle, Shane teams up with local school teacher Beau Hampton, who is a regular at the Black Pelican, and takes down the baddies.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Overview: Upcoming movie by Timo Rose
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Return of the Kickfighter
Overview: The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection of their Vietnamese translator and guide. Skip forward past the credits sequence; it's now 15 years later, and members of the unit are getting murdered one by one. This leads to the former head of the group, now a high ranking military officer, announcing that the only person who is up to the job of finding out the identity of the killer is an Aussie, Major Brad Cooper.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Best of the Martial Arts Films
Overview: The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy, and the incredible skills that have made martial arts films one of the most popular genres in the world today.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Dream Warrior
Overview: In an apocalyptic future, a man with superhuman powers goes on the run.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-21
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Overview: As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-22
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The Sword of Bushido
Overview: The Sword of Bushido tells the story of ex-Navy SEAL Zac Connors and his journey to learn the fate of his grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared days after the end of World War 2, with a legendary stolen Japanese sword in his possession. With the help of a stunningly sexy computer analyst (who he ends up sleeping with, the suave dog), he learns that his grandfathers' plane crashed somewhere on the outskirts of Thailand.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-07
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Fugitive X: Innocent Target
Overview: Adam Trent (David Heavener: "Prime Target", "Eye of the Stranger") is an advertising executive...an ordinary citizen. On his way to work one morning someone tries to kill him. Adam is forced to play a deadly game. Daniel Winters (Richard Norton: "License to Kill", "Octagon") runs an underground casino where the wealthy bet via computer whether Adam Trent will live or die. They give Adam one handgun and a ten minute head start. Winters explains that if Adam tries to contact the police, he will kill his wife Kara (Lynn-Holly Johnson: "For Your Eyes Only", "Ice Castles") and his Uncle Billy (William Windom: "Somersby", "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"). As Trent barely escapes death, this ordinary citizen becomes a deadly killing machine.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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ABBA: The Movie
Overview: A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-15
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Jungle Heat
Overview: Vincent Wong (Leo Fong) has a son who is kidnapped; he, his partner (Cynthia Rothrock) and a martial arts expert (Richard Norton) is put on the trail of the kidnappers for the showdown.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Not Another Mistake
Overview: This movie is a cheap Rambo/Missing in Action 2 ripoff.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Path of the Dragon
Overview: Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this authoritative and informative programme uses rarely seen archive footage to trace both the history of martial arts and the phenomenal impact Bruce Lee had on this culture. Narrated by Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee Keasler.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Forced Vengeance
Overview: A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Overview: The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-14
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The Rage Within
Overview: Police Officer Billy Rains (Mike Norris) and his partner Darren Steel (David Rael) are finishing their last shift together, after which Rains intends to leave for retirement in Mexico. Everything changes, however, when the pair respond to a simple call that turns deadly, leading them on a high-speed chase throughout the city and killing Rains. Paired with a new partner, Smith (Fred Williamson), Steel goes on a quest to bring justice to his murdered partner and the city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-02
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For Life or Death
Overview: A man named Kaan Woo (James Lew) is escaping his dark past, having been involved with a cult of brown shroud-wearing, druid-like monk warriors that have mystical powers. He apparently wanted out, because their evil queen, Ling Li (Nancy Kwan) has sent her servant, Sir Xavier (Richard Norton) to do her bidding - i.e., eliminate Woo. During a battle with the dark forces, Woo's soul is transferred into the body of homeless drunkard Earl Stockman (Mark Pellegrino). Now this bum is as surprised as anybody to find out he has mystical kung-fu abilities. Now "Superbum" must take on the evil cult and win the day.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-23
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American Ninja
Overview: Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Underdog Kids
Overview: Inner city kids from a poor neighborhood go up against the undefeated Beverly Hills Junior National Karate Team.
Genres: Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-07
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Black Thunder
Overview: When the top secret prototype of the Nova Stealth fighter has been stolen, the Pentagon launches big alarm; the plane shouldn't come into hostile hands...
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-22
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The Blood of Heroes
Overview: Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-19
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RAGE
Overview: After a violent home invasion leaves him in a coma and his wife deeply traumatized, a mild-mannered husband awakens to find out that one of the attackers is still on the loose. As they try to move on with their lives, one day his nearly-despondent wife spots the attacker, opening up a twisted tale of brutal revenge where all isn't as it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-22
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Lionheart
Overview: Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-07
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Chinese Hercules: The Bolo Yeung Story
Overview: This is the story of the bodybuilder, Martial Artist and actor who wrote his own destiny and walked his own path. A legendary tale that's never been told on-screen before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Under a Red Moon
Overview: A family in crisis is drawn into a night of intrigue under the influence of a blood moon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Mind Games
Overview: Jill Reeves suffers from retrograde amnesia, forgetting the last seven months of her life. When the mysterious Carter Tallerin tells her they're married, Jill's world unravels. Everyone in Jill's life has a secret, including herself.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-04
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