Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including...
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1996
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In the conclusion of A Different World's two-part Season Five finale, Whitley (Jasmine Guy)is just about to wed Byron Douglas...
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1992
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) is outraged that her fiance Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) has been...
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1991
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In this drama, an African-American teenager from inner-city Chicago goes to school in a wealthy suburb and still finds...
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Director, George Wilkes
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1991
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When her father cuts off all her credit cards, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) is forced to move in with Jaleesa (Dawnn Lewis)--who...
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1990
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1988
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A team of mercenaries, led by Colonel Virelli (Peter Fonda), is hired by an African nation to get rid of a tribe of people...
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Cliff Taylor
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1988
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In the fifth-season opener of Murder She Wrote, mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who has...
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1988
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Mary Alice joins the cast in this episode as Gilbert Hall's new dorm director Lettie Bostic. Having previously dropped out of...
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1988
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In this graphically violent exploitation film, an insane colonel tests out his newly invented virus, HV8-B, designed to...
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1987
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As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the...
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1986
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In this socially conscious drama, an ex-con meets constant opposition from avaricious land owners who want the land on which...
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1985
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In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming...
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1985
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Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war...
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Bella
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1984
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Ernest Pintoff--jazz trumpeter, painter, animated cartoonist, film theorist--directed his first dramatic feature,...
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Otis Kaylor
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1981
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The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine...
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1981
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This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American...
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1980
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The USS Nimitz, a modern-day nuclear-powered aircraft carrier captained by Kirk Douglas, passes through a time warp and finds...
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Cmdr. Dan Thurman
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1980
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This 3-hour TV adaptation of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel is set 600 years in the future. In this "well- ordered" society,...
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1980
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Ron O'Neal stars in this boxing drama. He plays a Baltimore prizefighter named Otis who quit boxing when he accidentally...
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1979
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To say that Chuck Norris is the star of Force of One may smack of redundancy. Norris is cast as Vietnam vet Matt Logan,...
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Rollins
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1979
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Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the...
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1979
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Based loosely on the real-life relationship between political activist Angela Davis and convict-turned-author George Jackson,...
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Walter Nance
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1977
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After the success of his three Billy Jack films, actor, director, and screenwriter Tom Laughlin decided to expand his range a...
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Paulo
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1975
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This sequel to Superfly has former drug dealer Youngblood Priest living in Rome with his lover. His life has become peaceful...
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Director
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1973
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An African-American man finds that leaving behind his life of crime is harder than he imagined in this groundbreaking crime...
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Priest
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1972
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Police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) returns to finds himself in hot water with the police over his acceptance of...
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1971
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This humorless comedy finds Hiram Jaffe (Elliott Gould) earning a living as a pornography writer and dog walker to the rich...
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1970
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