Long-buried secrets threaten to destroy a seemingly happy couple after their young daughter is abducted in this thriller...
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2012
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The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this...
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2011
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An amiable Navy veteran loses his comfortable job at a big-box store, enrolls in community college, and seeks to reinvent...
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2011
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When NBA All-Star Scott McKnight (Common) suffers a debilitating injury, tough-talking physical therapist Leslie Wright...
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Janice Wright
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2010
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Kit
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2009
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Three disparate but devoutly religious women attempt to put their personal differences aside long enough to refurbish a house...
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Birdie
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2008
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The fifth season of the ms.-adventures of the "bisexual and sapphically inclined ladies and their friends," as Alice (Leisha...
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Kit
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2008
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Kit Porter
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2007
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Kit Porter
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2006
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Season two of Showtime's lesbian-oriented seriocomedy series The L Word finds the formerly blissful relationship between...
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Kit Porter
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2005
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A young man is torn by divided loyalty in this hard-edged urban drama. Reggie (Ja Rule) was raised by his father...
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2004
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The opening season of American television's first lesbian comedy drama series, The L Word, finds longtime partners Bette...
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Kit Porter
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2004
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This contemporary film noir is an international endeavor with key creative forces hailing from China, Germany, and the United...
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Linda Fox
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2003
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In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes...
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2003
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The scene is San Francisco, where a diabolically crafty serial killer is preying on newlywed couples, killing the groom...
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Claire Washburn
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2003
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British director Isaac Julien takes on the Blaxploitation era of the '70s in the hour-long documentary Baadasssss Cinema....
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2003
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Eddie Murphy gets way, way out in this futuristic sci-fi comedy. In the year 2087, the Earth's natural resources have been...
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2002
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In the first episode of a two-part story, medieval sorceress Morgaine LeFey and her equally villainous son Mordred reappear...
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My'nia'h
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2002
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, medieval villains Morgaine and Mordred summon an army of the "undead" to vanquish the...
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My'nia'h
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2002
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Cinematographer turned director Ernest Dickerson returns to the horror genre with this African-American, urban twist on...
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Pearl
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2001
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Writer and director John Carpenter returns to the mixture of science fiction and horror that made The Thing (1982) a success....
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Commander Helena Braddock
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2001
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Based on a story by Anne Rice, this made-for-cable miniseries explores the little-known phenomenon of the "Gens de Couleur...
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2001
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New York City may be the city that never sleeps, but that means some people have to stay awake all night to look after the...
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George
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2001
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It's the day children dream of and parents dread: a sudden snowstorm causes the cancellation of school, giving kids a day off...
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2000
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2000
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It's said that sex and religion are two subjects that no one can discuss without arguing; writer/director Jane Campion...
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Carol
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1999
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In this crime thriller, L.L. Cool J is a underworld boss so powerful that his nickname is "God." He has his fingers in 80% of...
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1999
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Detective Vera Cruz
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1999
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1999
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Rap star Master P directed and stars in this action drama. Maker (Master P), a hip-hop music mogul and crime boss, helps...
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1999
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This TV comedy-drama series takes place at Linc's, a Washington, D.C., bar and grill where blacks gather to talk about issues...
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Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop
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1998
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Jackie Brown
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1997
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1997
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A theme of racial harmony underlies this comedy-drama. The couple Joe (Ernie Hudson) and Annabelle Lee (Pam Grier) learn the...
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Annabelle Lee
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1997
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for...
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1996
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Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including...
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Laurie Thompson
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1996
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1996
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The main attraction of this otherwise undistinguished Silence of the Lambs rip-off is former '70s exploitation star...
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Capt. Maggie Davis
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1995
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Vivian (Daphne Maxwell Reid) sees red when Philip's former girlfriend Janice (played by action-movie icon Pam Grier) pays a...
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1994
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Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the...
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1993
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When a mother will not tell where her child is because she maintains that her ex-husband abused the girl, the mother is...
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1992
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Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions,...
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Ms. Wardroe
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1991
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Ms. Connors
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1990
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The Package, a thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme...
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1989
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Martial arts hero Steven Seagal developed, co-wrote, co-produced, choreographed, and debuted in this thrill ride -- a cop...
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Delores Jackson
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1988
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Three college roommates vow to make their graduation an event to remember - and maybe even find lasting love - during a...
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1987
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Cliff (Bill Cosby) takes Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and her little friends to a fancy restaurant that specializes in...
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1987
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Looking none the worse for his age, Bruce Dern convincingly plays an amateur long-distance runner in On the Edge. Banned from...
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Cora
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1986
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In the first episode of a two-part story, New York City battens down in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Mel....
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1986
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Hurricane Mel bears down upon New York City just as four very pregnant defendants...
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1986
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This horror film is a variation on the Frankenstein theme involving the experiments of Alex Whyte (Richard Cox), a robotics...
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Hunter
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1986
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Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district...
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1985
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1985
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In an "urban cowboy" story, a father decides to take a stand against neighborhood gangsters even at risk to his life. After...
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Cathryn Bolan
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1985
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In this sports-oriented drama, Art Long (Dennis Quaid), a loser as a country singer, starts competing in local fist-fight...
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Myra
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1983
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After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell...
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Dust Witch
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1983
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Paul Newman stars as an essentially decent cop patrolling that decimated, drug-and-gang-ridden borough known on the city maps...
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1981
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The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his...
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1979
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Based on the life story of NASCAR auto racing champion Wendell Scott, this film, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, covers his...
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Mary Jones
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1977
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It is hard to get more deliriously fever-pitched than the ending of Mandingo -- in which a plantation master is shot and his...
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Regine
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1976
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After a series of violent, sexy blaxploitation films like Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier returned in this more sedate...
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Sheba
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1975
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A woman looking for adventure finds romance, excitement and danger in her viewfinder in this action-packed comedy-drama....
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Friday Foster
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1975
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A man moves to the small and racially divided town where his bar-owning brother was murdered after he refused to pay crooked...
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Aretha
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1975
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Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier stars as Foxy Brown, a sexy but streetwise woman whose ne'er-do-well brother Link...
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Foxy Brown
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1974
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1973
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Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this...
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Coffy
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1973
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In this horror sequel from the director of Count Yorga, Vampire, a member of an American voodoo cult revives the fanged...
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Lisa
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1973
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Two female prisoners, one black and one white attempt to escape a women's reformatory in this violent exploitation film that...
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1973
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This is a remake of The Asphalt Jungle with an all black cast. In it a paroled convict plans to steal $3 million work of...
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1972
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Featuring an all-African American cast, this crime drama is basically a retread of the movie Get Carter. It is the story of...
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1972
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Dashing adventurer Matt Farrell (John Ashley) is captured and taken to a remote island in the South Pacific, where he is...
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1972
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In this exploitative women's prison drama, the "birds" in "the big bird cage" are, clearly, women. With the help of an...
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1972
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John Ashley stars in Twighlight People. Eddie Romero is director of Twilight People. Applying Socratic logic, we can conclude...
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1972
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Jack Hill directed this alternately brutal and campy look at desperate women behind bars. An American named Collier...
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1971
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In this prison melodrama set in a women's reformatory, a sadistic lesbian guard takes great pleasure in tormenting her...
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1971
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After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, legendary sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer...
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1970
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