Movies by Ving Rhames
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Won't Back Down (2012)
Cast: Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
In this fact-based drama, two women from different classes and races (Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal) draw on their common bond of motherhood to fight institutional inertia and an…
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg …
Directed by: Brad Bird
Super-agent Ethan Hunt dangles from skyscrapers and otherwise takes daring to new heights on another operation from the Impossible Missions Force. Helping Hunt get the job done is droll…
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The River Murders (2011)
Cast: Ray Liotta, Christian Slater, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Rich Cowan
Seattle detective Jack Verdon thinks that his womanizing past is behind him. But the devoted husband and father falls under suspicion when several of his former lovers turn up dead in this…
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2012: Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning, Johnny Pacar …
Directed by: Nick Lyon
In this indie horror flick, a group of humans who've survived a zombie pestilence desperately try to get to safety on an island off the coast of California. But the flesh-eating undead…
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Piranha 3DD (2011)
Cast: Katrina Bowden, Danielle Panabaker, Christopher Lloyd …
Directed by: John Gulager
There's blood in the water when a hungry pack of piranhas set their sights on scoring tasty morsels from a bustling water park. The all-star cast of potential victims includes David…
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7 Below (2011)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames, Bonnie Somerville …
Directed by: Kevin Carraway
After a bus accident leaves them stranded, a group of strangers must ride out a storm in a foreboding house with a frightening history: A century earlier, a 10-year-old boy brutally murdered…
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Piranha (2010)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue …
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Ravenous piranhas with razor-sharp teeth terrorize Lake Havasu vacationers in director Alexandre Aja's remake of Joe Dante's campy 1978 horror film, itself a satire of Steven…
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Master Harold...and the Boys (2010)
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Ving Rhames, Danny Keogh …
Directed by: Lonny Price
Young white South African Hally finds himself trapped between the views of his bigoted father and of the black man who takes care of him, Sam, in this film adaptation of the critically…
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Operation: Endgame (2010)
Cast: Joe Anderson, Rob Corddry, Ellen Barkin …
Directed by: Fouad Mikati
When a government assassin known as The Fool (Joe Anderson) arrives at a classified underground facility for his first day of work, he discovers the boss has been killed. Now, he must uncover…
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Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Mike Epps, Vivica A. Fox …
Directed by: Tyler Maddox-Simms
As radio personality Darren (Rockmond Dunbar) dishes out relationship advice over the airwaves, he struggles to prevent his own marriage to Janet (Vivica A. Fox) from falling apart.…
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Death Race 2 (2010)
Cast: Luke Goss, Lauren Cohan, Sean Bean …
Directed by: Roel Reiné
This prequel to the 2008 sci-fi actioner Death Race tells the story of cop killer Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss), who is sentenced to the infamous Terminal Island, where his driving skills in…
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King of the Avenue (2010)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Simon Rex, Esai Morales …
Directed by: Ryan Combs
Selling his soul to the devil seems like the best decision successful Miami drug lord Taz (Simon Rex) has ever made. That is, until the devil shows up in the flesh -- looking exactly like…
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Caged Animal (2010)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Nipsey Hustle, Gillie Da Kid …
Directed by: Ryan Combs
When his estranged son, Ricky (Nipsey Hustle), is locked up in the same prison as he is, former crime lord Cain (Ving Rhames) attempts to reconcile with him. But Ricky refuses and focuses on…
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Gravity (2010)
Cast: Krysten Ritter, Ivan Sergei, Eric Schaeffer …
This penetrating and dark cable series follows the budding love affair between Robert and Lily, two members of a suicide survivors support group, which is led by a wheelchair-bound ex-athlete…
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The Perfect Game (2009)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Clifton Collins Jr. …
Directed by: William Dear
A seemingly impossible dream of playing baseball for the red, white and blue becomes reality for a group of youngsters from an impoverished Mexican city in this poignant drama based on actual events.
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin …
Directed by: Neal Brennan
When businesses are failing, they call in Don Ready (Jeremy Piven), a fast-talking closer who can sell anything to anybody. Hired to rescue a flagging auto dealership during a Fourth of July…
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Surrogates (2009)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike …
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Based on Robert Venditti's graphic novel of the same name, director Jonathan Mostow's sci-fi thriller is set in a futuristic world in which humans hibernate at home while living…
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Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Cast: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Greg Marcks
After stumbling upon a strange cell phone that seems to steer him toward limitless wealth, a young engineer (Shane West) goes along for the ride. But the road veers into dangerous territory…
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Give 'em Hell, Malone (2009)
Cast: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky …
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Lantern-jawed private eye Malone (Thomas Jane) accepts a gig to hunt down a case containing a strange and powerful secret. He'll have to dodge plenty of bullets and sexy women while…
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The Tournament (2009)
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Scott Mann
Every seven years, the world's deadliest hired guns converge on a random town to compete in the Tournament. The rules are simple: The last contestant standing receives $10 million and…
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The Bridge to Nowhere (2009)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Bijou Phillips, Danny Masterson …
Directed by: Blair Underwood
Four working-class friends hit the jackpot when their plan to launch a large-scale prostitution business on Pittburgh's Upper North Side takes off. But more money brings more problems --…
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Day of the Dead (2008)
Cast: Mena Suvari, Michael Welch, Christa Campbell …
Directed by: Steve Miner
Steve Miner (Friday the 13th Part 2) directs this remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie flick Day of the Dead, in which a mysterious disease causes the newly dead to come back to…
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Saving God (2008)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Ricardo Chavira, Dean McDermott …
Directed by: Duane Crichton
After serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter, pastor Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to his father's old church and offers a helping, spiritual hand to young, troubled…
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Phantom Punch (2008)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Stacey Dash, Nicholas Turturro …
Directed by: Robert Townsend
This fascinating sports biopic explores boxer Sonny Liston's (Ving Rhames) life in the ring and out, particularly his relationships with his manager (Nick Turturro), wife (Stacey Dash)…
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel …
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Chuck and Larry are guy's guys, loyal to the core -- which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his gay lover so he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy…
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Animal 2 (2007)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Conrad Dunn, Vicellous Reon Shannon …
Directed by: Ryan Combs
Convicted killer James "Animal" Allen (Ving Rhames) just wants to serve his time quietly but is forced to revert to his violent ways when his son is framed for murder. To expose the truth,…
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A Broken Life (2007)
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Grace Kosaka …
Directed by: Neil Coombs
Bitter, depressed and suicidal, Max Walker stages a dramatic end to his broken life by hiring a struggling young film student to document his final day on earth, producing a radically…
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Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: J.J. Abrams
This entry in the explosive espionage series finds semiretired superspy Ethan Hunt forced back into action to save his protégé from a badass arms dealer. But Ethan's agency…
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Idlewild (2006)
Cast: OutKast, André Benjamin, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton …
Directed by: Bryan Barber
Percival, an introverted piano player, and Rooster, the star performer and manager of a Southern speakeasy -- who's as outgoing as Percival is shy -- struggle to keep alive their dream…
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Leroy & Stitch (2006)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Tia Carrere …
Directed by: Tony Craig, Bobs Gannaway
After rounding up all 625 of Dr. Jumba Jookiba's genetically engineered experiments, Lilo, Stitch, Pleakley and Jumba are enjoying separate vacations in the far-flung corners of outer…
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Lilo and Stitch 2 (2005)
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Daveigh Chase, David Ogden Stiers …
Dakota Fanning stars in this animated sequel to the Disney hit. Just as rowdy alien Stitch begins settling in with his new adopted family, he suddenly goes haywire: It seems his molecular…
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Animal (2005)
Cast: Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: David J. Burke
Ex-con James Allen -- aka Animal (Ving Rhames) -- has done the near-impossible: He's reformed himself while in a maximum-security prison, with the help of a fellow inmate (Jim Brown).…
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Shooting Gallery (2005)
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Ving Rhames, Roselyn Sanchez …
Directed by: Keoni Waxman
Pool shark Jericho Hudson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) knows his way around a billiard hall. His command of the game has made him a legend of sorts, a status he milks for all it's worth -- until…
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Envy (2004)
Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
When Nick Vandermark (Jack Black), one of a pair of major doofuses, becomes stinking rich by selling an invention, he finds his lifelong bond with his best friend and neighbor, Tim Dingman…
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber …
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Based on the 1978 George Romero gore classic, this horror remake takes place in the wake of a plague as the United States is overrun by millions of corpses who walk the earth as cannibalistic…
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Back in the Day (2004)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Frank Langella, Tia Carrere …
Directed by: James Hunter
Reggie (Ja Rule) finds life is giving him an ass-whuppin' when his father is murdered. A reformed con, Reggie considers going back to "the life" and rings up his former colleague, ex-con…
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Stitch! The Movie (2003)
Cast: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere …
Directed by: Tony Craig, Robert Gannaway
Stitch (voiced by Chris Sanders) -- also known as Experiment 626 -- is back in Tony Craig's and Robert Gannaway's sequel to Disney's 2002 hit. Knowing he's not alone in…
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Beef (2003)
Cast: Ving Rhames, 50 Cent, Jay-Z …
Directed by: Peter Spirer
Narrated by Ving Rhames, Beef provides a definitive look into the trash-talkin' world of high-profile "beefs," told by the artists themselves -- the MC battle, hip-hop's war of…
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Sin (2003)
Cast: Gary Oldman, Ving Rhames, Kerry Washington …
Directed by: Michael Stevens
Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) was once a dedicated cop, until he lost part of an arm nabbing a killer. Disabled and emotionally distraught, he sleepwalks through his days, until his sister (Kerry…
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Undisputed (2002)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk …
Directed by: Walter Hill
Ving Rhames plays James "Iceman" Chambers, a heavyweight boxing champ who's convicted of rape and sentenced to prison, where an old-time gangster (Peter Falk) arranges a bout between…
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Lilo and Stitch (2002)
Cast: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Jason Scott Lee …
Directed by: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Disney's song-filled, Oscar-nominated animated comedy follows a lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase) who's being raised by her older sister, Nani (Tia Carrere), after…
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Dark Blue (2002)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele …
Directed by: Ron Shelton
Days before the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, a brutal Los Angeles cop under investigation for corruption and his rookie partner are…
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Little John (2002)
Cast: Gloria Reuben, Ving Rhames, Robert Bailey Jr. …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
As a family court judge, Natalie Britain makes decisions that affect hundreds of families. But when her father tries to reunite her with her own child, whom she had given up for adoption…
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RFK (2002)
Cast: Linus Roache, James Cromwell, David Paymer …
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
This political drama stars Linus Roache as Robert F. Kennedy, the equally complex and accomplished brother of President John F. Kennedy. Director Robert Dornhelm begins the film as JFK's…
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Read-Along: Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Cast: Daveigh Chase, Zoe Caldwell, Tia Carrere …
Directed by: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Now, kids can read and sing along in five different languages to the hit Disney movie Lilo and Stitch, all while learning new words with the help of the disc's vocabulary aid. Stitch, an…
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Sins of the Father (2002)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Richard Jenkins …
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Starring Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), this powerful and critically acclaimed historical drama tells the story of the tragic, racially motivated bombing of a…
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Cast: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara
It's an Armageddon scenario with Greenpeace subtext when a brainiac scientist races against time to keep phantomlike alien invaders from destroying what's left of life on Earth in…
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Baby Boy (2001)
Cast: Tyrese Gibson, AlexSandra Wright, Taraji P. Henson …
Directed by: John Singleton
Drawing an incisive picture, this gritty urban drama follows 20-year-old Jody Summers, an unemployed man-child who lives with his mother in South Central Los Angeles and embraces…
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Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton …
Directed by: John Woo
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically…
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Holiday Heart (2000)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, Jesika Reynolds …
Directed by: Robert Townsend
Ving Rhames stars as Holly Heart, a kindhearted choirmaster who moonlights as a female impersonator in this television drama directed by Robert Townsend and based on the stage play by Cheryl…
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American Tragedy (2000)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Bruno Kirby …
Directed by: Lawrence Schiller
In 1994, former football pro O.J. Simpson led police on a surreal slow-speed chase in his white Ford Bronco after being accused of murdering his wife and her friend. The circus-like trial…
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Entrapment (1999)
Cast: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Jon Amiel
When retired thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) is implicated in the disappearance of a priceless painting, insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) sets a…
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
An ambulance driver on the verge of a nervous breakdown stumbles through three sleepless nights on the job accompanied by a callous crew and finds humanity in an unlikely friendship with a…
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Out of Sight (1998)
Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Florida bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) plays a genteel game of cat and mouse with Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), the stunning federal marshal he meets in the trunk of a getaway car,…
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Rosewood (1997)
Cast: Paul Benjamin, Mark Boone Junior, Muse Watson …
Directed by: John Singleton
Ving Rhames and Don Cheadle headline this fictionalized retelling of the Rosewood massacres, a 1923 incident in which a white mob used a white woman's false rape allegations as the…
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Con Air (1997)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich …
Directed by: Simon West
Newly released from prison, ex-con Cameron Poe finds himself on a transport plane that's been hijacked by some of the most dangerous inmates in America. Cameron just wants to reunite…
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Dangerous Ground (1997)
Cast: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Darrel James Roodt
After living in the United States for 14 years, South African exile Vusi (Ice Cube) returns to his birthplace for his father's funeral. Grappling with the country's post-apartheid…
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Don King: Only in America (1997)
Cast: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Finally, the HBO spotlight captures the colorful kingpin of professional boxing, Don King (the promoter with a hairdo that's a "don't"!). The many-sided King is portrayed as a…
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart …
Directed by: Brian De Palma
When Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's…
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Striptease (1996)
Cast: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante …
Directed by: Andrew Bergman
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant (Demi Moore) needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on…
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995)
Cast: Randy Quaid, Alex McArthur, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Bruce Paltrow
Inside New York City's infamous 87th precinct, veteran detective Steve Carella (Randy Quaid) and his motley crew of cops (including Ving Rhames and Alex McArthur) work to solve a recent…
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Kiss of Death (1995)
Cast: David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage …
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) wants to put a whole lot of distance between himself and his past. But when his cousin, Ronny (Michael Rapaport), shows up begging for help with one more…
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Deadly Whispers (1995)
Cast: Tony Danza, Pamela Reed, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Bill L. Norton
Tom Acton (Tony Danza) and his wife, Carol (Pamela Reed), worry that their worst fears have come to pass when their 19-year-old daughter, Kathy (Heather Tom), goes missing. Worse, it appears…
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Drop Squad (1994)
Cast: Eriq La Salle, Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall …
Directed by: Clark Johnson
African-American ad executive Bruford Jamison Jr. (Eriq La Salle) works on campaigns selling Mumblin' Jack Malt Liquor and General Otis' Fried Chicken (with a Confederate flag image…
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman …
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
A burger-loving hit man (John Travolta), his philosophical partner (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis) converge in this…
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Dave (1993)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella …
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) looks so much like President Bill Mitchell that he's asked to stand in for him after the chief executive suffers an unexpected stroke -- and he's stuck in…
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The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Cast: Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Ving Rhames …
Directed by: Tim Hunter
When Matthew (Matt Dillon) is forced to live on the streets, a spirited Vietnam veteran named Jerry (Danny Glover) takes the schizophrenic younger man under his wing, teaching him survival…
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams …
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
After a tough breakup with girlfriend and fellow detective Gwen (JoBeth Williams), Detective Joe Bromowski (Sylvester Stallone) gets a new lady and partner in crime prevention -- his…
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Cast: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson …
Directed by: John Milius
Based on the thriller by Stephen Coonts, Flight of the Intruder charts the efforts of two Vietnam War U.S. Navy pilots, Jake (Brad Johnson) and Cole (Willem Dafoe), to bombard Hanoi's…
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The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Cast: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie …
Directed by: Wes Craven
Master of horror Wes Craven brings an urban twist to the classic fairy tale in the story of Fool, a 13-year-old lad who succumbs to ghetto pressures to steal from a local house. Fool's…
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Jason Alexander …
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
In this supernatural thriller, Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) returns home to New York City, only to be haunted by his son's death, plagued by flashbacks from the war and…
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The Long Walk Home (1990)
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz …
Directed by: Richard Pearce
Sissy Spacek stars as Miriam Thompson, a Montgomery, Ala., housewife who finds herself in the midst of a civil rights revolution when she helps her black maid, Odessa (Whoopi Goldberg),…
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Casualties of War (1989)
Cast: Sean Penn, Michael J. Fox, Don Harvey …
Directed by: Brian De Palma
In director Brian De Palma's Vietnam-era war drama, a young soldier (Michael J. Fox) suffers a crisis of conscience when the men on his patrol callously rape and murder a Vietnamese girl…
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Native Son (1986)
Cast: Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern …
Directed by: Jerrold Freedman
The first American screen adaptation of Richard Wright's groundbreaking novel stars Victor Love as Bigger Thomas, an African American chauffeur whose dreams of a better life in Chicago…
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)
Cast: Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, James Bond III …
Directed by: Stan Lathan
James Baldwin's literary gem is adapted for the screen in this spellbinding film about three generations of an African-American family struggling to find footing in America, a place…