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Born in Georgia and raised in a black Long Island ghetto, Jim Brown distinguished himself in high school athletics. Recruited from Syracuse University, Brown was signed with the Cleveland Browns in 1957, remaining with that organization as star... more
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Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Urban Drama
Length: 93min
A notorious gangster must reconcile his past in order to make a future for his criminally-minded son in this crime-drama starring football superstar Jim Brown and Pulp Fiction star Ving Rhames. James "Animal" Allen (Rhames) reveled in a life of...
Jim Brown: All-American (2002)
Cast: Oliver Stone Spike Lee Jim Brown James Toback Fred Williamson Raquel Welch
Tags: Sports & Recreation Race & Ethnicity Sports Biography
Length: 129min
Spike Lee's documentary on the football star, movie actor, and social activist is a no-frills examination of a man who has rarely been out of the public spotlight for over 45 years. Jim Brown talks about the various phases of his life, from his...
Cast: Richard Roundtree Pam Grier
Tags: Crime Reunion Films Blaxploitation Gangster Film Crime Thriller
Length: 98min
Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus....
O.J.: A Study in Black and White (2002)
Length: 60min
This 60-minute cable TV documentary places the sensational murder trial of ex-football star O.J. Simpson in context with American race relations of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Deliberately courting controversy, the filmmakers opine that, up until his...
Tags: Crime Police Detective Film
Length: 90min
Ex-football great Jim Brown co-stars in this blood-filled police actioner with former Welcome Back Kotter "Sweathog"Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs. In the story, Jon Chance (Jacobs) is a police detective with a very active fantasy life, who must be spurred...
Tags: Police Detective Film Science Fiction Action Sci-Fi Action
Length: 90min
In this futuristic actioner set in the year 2020, guns have become so illegal that even cops cannot use them to stop criminals. But officer James Tucker is a maverick and carries with him an enormous homemade revolver, which he uses to blow away...
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger Yaphet Kotto
Tags: Action Science Fiction Media Satire Chase Movie Sci-Fi Action
Length: 101min
Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order eality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben...
Cast: Glenn Close Jack Nicholson Pierce Brosnan Tim Burton Danny DeVito Danny Elfman Jerzy Skolimowski
Tags: Parody/Spoof Alien Film Ensemble Film Science Fiction Sci-Fi Comedy
Length: 103min
This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the...
Tags: War POW Drama War Adventure
Length: 90min
With 1985's Pacific Inferno action star Jim Brown made a triumphant return to movies. Or did he? If you read the copyright date carefully, you'll discover that this US-Philippine coproduction was actually shot in 1977. The plot has us believe that...
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Crime Urban Drama
Length: 91min
A drama involving the world of inner-city drug dealing, Crack House concerns two students (Gregg Gomez Thomsen, Cheryl Kay) trying to attend school while living with the pressures of ghetto life. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
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