Brion James
Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower budget horror and action films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack aged 54.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.347 |
| Birthday | 1945-02-20 |
| Place of Birth | Redlands, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Brian James, بریون جیمز, |
1997
The Fifth Element
7.552/10918
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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The Fifth Element
1982
Blade Runner
7.939/13987
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...
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Blade Runner
1982
48 Hrs.
6.69/1510
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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48 Hrs.
1999
Arthurs Quest
3.2/4
To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King Arthur into modern day America. When Merlin comes back...
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Arthurs Quest
1995
Cyberjack
5.3/15
In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world dominat...
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Cyberjack
2000
The King Is Alive
6/29
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...
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The King Is Alive
1986
Armed and Dangerous
5.6/183
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...
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Armed and Dangerous
1992
The Player
7.2/841
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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The Player
1997
Bombshell
4.2/5
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
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Bombshell
1993
Striking Distance
5.9/825
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on...
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Striking Distance
1988
The Wrong Guys
5.6/11
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group...
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The Wrong Guys
1985
Crimewave
5.517/143
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man,...
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Crimewave
1990
Another 48 Hrs.
6/885
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture...
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Another 48 Hrs.
1994
Radioland Murders
6/49
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
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Radioland Murders
1992
Nemesis
5.4/156
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the...
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Nemesis
1985
Enemy Mine
6.9/981
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy specie...
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Enemy Mine
1981
Southern Comfort
6.9/318
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing...
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Southern Comfort
1993
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
5.268/28
A professional model, Sam Crain, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is ba...
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Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1994
Cabin Boy
5.2/102
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
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Cabin Boy
1985
Flesh + Blood
6.6/390
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague...
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Flesh + Blood
1988
Red Scorpion
5.9/274
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians a...
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Red Scorpion
1989
Tango & Cash
6.461/1956
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income t...
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Tango & Cash
1978
Corvette Summer
5.4/51
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searc...
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Corvette Summer
1987
Steel Dawn
5/110
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is a...
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Steel Dawn
1999
The Hunter's Moon
5.7/3
A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority threatened by the arrival of a World War I veteran and d...
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The Hunter's Moon
1989
Mutator
3.6/13
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.
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Mutator
1996
Assault on Dome 4
3.6/14
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after...
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Assault on Dome 4
1998
In God's Hands
5.1/8
Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to Madagascar, Bali and Hawaii in search for the ultimate wave.
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In God's Hands
1989
The Horror Show
5.4/150
Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke returns from beyond the grave to launch a whole new reign...
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The Horror Show
1994
Knight Rider 2010
4.6/15
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".
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Knight Rider 2010
1996
Precious Find
5.318/11
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors...
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Precious Find
1987
Cherry 2000
6/247
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t...
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Cherry 2000
1998
Brown's Requiem
5/11
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv...
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Brown's Requiem
1995
Steel Frontier
5/14
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil ref...
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Steel Frontier
1993
Time Runner
4.5/22
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
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Time Runner
1988
Nightmare at Noon
4.7/30
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.
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Nightmare at Noon
2005
Swimming with Dolphins
0/0
Long suspected of possessing an intelligence that rivals a human's, the dolphin has proved especially apt at making strides with autistic children and...
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Swimming with Dolphins
1997
Back in Business
5.4/11
An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The mission is to catch drug runners, but it is also sting oper...
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Back in Business
1981
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
4.5/7
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1998
Deadly Ransom
6/1
A wealthy banker and his daughter are kidnapped by a gang of thugs. The girl's boyfriend, who serves in the special units of the US Navy, is in posses...
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Deadly Ransom
1993
Showdown
5.8/29
Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is l...
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Showdown
1997
The Underground
6/4
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
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The Underground
1994
The Soft Kill
2.3/4
Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey is enjoying an affair with the local district attorney's wife, but no longer, after she i...
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The Soft Kill
1996
American Strays
5.5/14
Somewhere on the fringe of society, ten dangerous strangers are on a road to Red's Desert Oasis Diner. Packing more fire power than the LA police forc...
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American Strays
1993
The Dark
4.882/17
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to k...
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The Dark
1989
Circles in a Forest
7.8/2
Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the forest, but there's one elephant that never seems...
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Circles in a Forest
1994
Hong Kong 97
5.6/13
Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large...
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Hong Kong 97
1988
Dead Man Walking
3.6/9
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to...
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Dead Man Walking
1986
Annihilator
5/9
Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend.
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Annihilator
2000
The Operator
3.8/6
A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.
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The Operator
1994
The Companion
5.5/11
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring alo...
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The Companion
1983
The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
6.8/8
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious kill...
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1990
Street Asylum
5/7
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (w...
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Street Asylum
1992
Frogtown II
3.467/16
In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone...
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Frogtown II
1988
Red Heat
6.2/1467
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...
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Red Heat
1994
Savage Land
0/0
Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time,...
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Savage Land
1980
Trouble in High Timber Country
0/0
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his...
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Trouble in High Timber Country
1992
Black Magic
3.3/6
A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch capable of casting deadly spells!
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Black Magic
1978
Flying High
0/0
In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qual...
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Flying High
1987
Love Among Thieves
6.2/6
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ranso...
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Love Among Thieves
1975
Hard Times
6.8/203
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans...
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Hard Times
1990
Mom
5.5/27
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. I...
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Mom
1997
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
3.7/3
Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, frie...
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Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1991
Ultimate Desires
2.8/2
Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo...
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Ultimate Desires
2005
Phoenix Point
2.2/4
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart o...
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Phoenix Point
1995
Dominion
4/4
A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.
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Dominion
1976
The Invasion of Johnson County
6.5/2
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of s...
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The Invasion of Johnson County
1993
Rio Diablo
5.2/4
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match....
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Rio Diablo
1997
Snide and Prejudice
8/1
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantas...
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Snide and Prejudice
1998
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
5/2
Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. B...
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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
1976
Nickelodeon
6.1/41
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up wi...
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Nickelodeon
1999
Dirt Merchant
3.1/7
A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.
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Dirt Merchant
1989
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
9.5/2
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sherif...
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1994
Scanner Cop
5.8/65
Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily...
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Scanner Cop
1994
Future Shock
4/15
A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.
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Future Shock
1996
Evil Obsession
6/1
As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?
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Evil Obsession
1989
Z-TV
0/0
"Z TV" was intended as a weekly half hour show, with a focus on all that was current in the world of horror, fantasy, and science fiction; hosted by J...
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Z-TV
1998
Jekyll Island
8.7/3
To Professor Alex Madison, the world's greatest jewel thief, stealing is a fine art and the ultimate thrill. Now, he faces his greatest challenge. O...
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Jekyll Island
1995
Nature of the Beast
5.9/57
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
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Nature of the Beast
1998
Black Sea 213
5.167/6
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
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Black Sea 213
1977
Blue Sunshine
5.6/49
At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue...
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Blue Sunshine
1999
Heist
0/0
Four ruthless career criminals are brought together by desperation and greed in a devious attempt to sing a rival underworld boss. Dipper is the conta...
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Heist
1998
Men in White
3.6/15
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black and...
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Men in White
1980
Conquest of the Earth
6.3/16
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive on Eart...
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Conquest of the Earth
1994
Art Deco Detective
5.2/4
While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set up for the crime.
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Art Deco Detective
1988
D.O.A.
6.302/210
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the...
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D.O.A.
1984
A Breed Apart
5.7/38
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
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A Breed Apart
1998
A Place Called Truth
2.8/5
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces t...
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A Place Called Truth
1995
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
6/18
Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1975
The Kansas City Massacre
4.7/3
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin...
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The Kansas City Massacre
1981
Killing at Hell's Gate
6/2
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target pract...
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Killing at Hell's Gate
1981
The Postman Always Rings Twice
6.52/503
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1995
Spitfire
4.6/19
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong...
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Spitfire
1982
Hear No Evil
4/2
A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.
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Hear No Evil
1985
Silverado
7/736
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...
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Silverado
1995
Indecent Behavior III
4.2/11
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her a...
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Indecent Behavior III
1993
Precious Victims
7/2
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for...
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Precious Victims
1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
6.8/24
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1992
Wishman
4.3/3
Basie is a man who collects junk and tries to make something out of it. He is also in love with Lily, a woman he has never spoken to but salutes every...
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Wishman
1997
The Killing Jar
4.5/4
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...
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The Killing Jar
1976
Bound for Glory
6.8/73
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering th...
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Bound for Glory
2000
Farewell, My Love
3/3
Brigit as a young girl saw her family killed by the Karpovs, a Russian crime family, she would have been dead too, if her neighbor did not come to her...
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Farewell, My Love
1990
Enid Is Sleeping
4.8/8
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, where...
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Enid Is Sleeping
1986
Amazing Stories
6.7/26
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.
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Amazing Stories
1999
Diplomatic Siege
4.2/29
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building...
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Diplomatic Siege
1980
Wholly Moses
4.7/35
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from G...
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Wholly Moses
1980
The Jazz Singer
5.9/65
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
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The Jazz Singer
1976
Treasure of Matecumbe
6.5/31
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle...
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Treasure of Matecumbe
1996
Billy Lone Bear
6/1
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy...
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Billy Lone Bear
1994
F.T.W.
4.7/17
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a fe...
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F.T.W.
1999
Joseph's Gift
0/0
Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding...
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Joseph's Gift
1976
Harry and Walter Go to New York
5.5/22
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank...
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
2002
The Thief & the Stripper
3/2
When a former private investigator steals a briefcase from local mobsters, a stripper joins him on the run.
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The Thief & the Stripper
1978
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
5.3/72
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans i...
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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
1999
Malevolence
6/2
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outsid...
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