Sam FirstenbergFilmography

Quicksand

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff

Synopsis: When a military psychiatrist falls for a general's daughter, a dark conspiracy threatens to swallow up everyone involved in this action thriller from American Ninja director Sam Firstenberg. She may be the woman of his dreams, but unfortunately for military psychiatrist Bill Turner (Michael Dudikoff Read More

Agent of Death

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Roberts, Bryan Genesse, Ice-T, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, President Fallbrook (John Beck) is doing poorly in the polls a week before he's up for re-election. To boost his popularity, one of his advisors comes up with a plan -- stage a kidnapping, and when the chief executive is released under seemingly heroic circumstances Read More

Motel Blue

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Young, Soleil Moon Frye, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: A routine investigation leads a young woman down a path she hardly knew existed in this thriller. Kyle Rivers (Soleil Moon Frye) is a novice investigator with the Department of Defense who is asked to do a background check on Lana Hawking (Sean Young), a scientist who has applied for a government Read More

McCinsey's Island

Crew: Director

Actors: Grace Jones, Robert Vaughn, Hulk Hogan

Synopsis: Hulk Hogan and Grace Jones star in this adventure tale about a onetime secret agent who finds a treasure map on the shell of a turtle. Soon he's on a chase to recover the loot, just one step ahead of other seekers of wealth. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Delta Force

Crew: Director

Actors: Ernie Hudson, Jeff Fahey, Hal Holbrook, Joe Lara

Synopsis: When terrorists steal a biological weapon and its antidote, its up to a crack team of military commandos to get it back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cyborg Cop 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Bradley, Morgan Hunter, Jill Pierce

Synopsis: This action film is a sequel to 1993's Cyborg Cop. This time officer Jack Ryan, known for his itchy trigger finger, comes up against Jesse Starkraven, the psychopathic brother of a man Ryan killed during the last movie. In the first scene, the two are involved in a shoot-out in a warehouse. After Read More

Blood Warriors

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A former Marine commando organizes a paramilitary group, bent on vigilantism and anarchy. The commando's old comrade-in-arms gets wind of this activity. Invited to join the group, the friend declines. From that moment on, he's a marked man. Some sources credit Sam Firstenberg with the direction of Read More

Cyborg Cop

Crew: Director

Actors: David Bradley, John Rhys-Davies, Alonna Shaw

Synopsis: Burly British actor John Rhys-Davies forsakes the good-guy motions he'd gone through in Raiders of the Lost Ark and TV's The Untouchables to play the villain in 1993's Cyborg Cop. If you've guessed that this is Robocop redux, you're on the money. The title character has been converted from man to Read More

American Samurai

Crew: Director

Actors: David Bradley, Mark Dacascos, John Fujioka, Valarie Trapp

Synopsis: In this lively actioner, a samurai warrior adopts an American boy and later gives him the treasured family sword. Unfortunately, this rouses the jealousy of his wicked stepbrother who is involved with yakuzas and illegal sword-fighting contests, and who vows that he will get revenge upon the Read More

Criss Cross

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Stewart, Carolyn Dunn, Ari Sorko-Ram

Delta Force 3: The Killing Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Douglas, Mike Norris, Matthew Penn

Synopsis: In this actioner, a Middle-Eastern leader is threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb that he has planted in Miami and now a crack team of American and Russian soldiers must somehow stop him. This entry in the series is the first made without its original star, Chuck Norris. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Riverbend

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve James, Margaret Avery, Tony Frank, Julius Tennon, Alex Morris

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV actioner, three rebellious black army officers disobey orders in Vietnam and refuse to destroy a village filled with innocent people. They are sent to Georgia where they undergo a court-martial. The officers know that they are going to be railroaded and so manage to escape. The Read More

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry Poindexter, Gary Conway, Jeff Weston

Synopsis: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation spotlights Michael Dudikoff and Steve James as a pair of combustible U.S. Army Rangers. Dudikoff and James are ordered to find out why so many Marine guards have been disappearing from their posts at the US Embassy in a mythical Carribean country. Turns out that Read More

My African Adventure

Crew: Director

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: For all we know, there may be even more unknown and unseen Dom DeLuise films lurking around out there. Until we did the research, we didn't know My African Adventure existed. Based loosely on a comic novel by Tamar Burstein, the film concerns the son of an American ambassador who meets a steady Read More

Avenging Force

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, John Ryan

Synopsis: Produced in the Autumn of the Golan-Globus collaboration, Avenging Force serves as a vehicle for American Ninja costar Michael Dudikoff. Cast as a retired secret service agent, Dudikoff runs up against a sinister right-wing political organization called the Pentangle. He comes to the aid of his Read More

American Ninja

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka

Synopsis: In American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff plays American "GI Joe" who, based in the Philippines, gets hip to a crooked arms racket involving none other than the military itself. There's no end to the rib-cracking opportunities Dudikoff encounters as he knee-knocks his way through a host of bad guys as Read More

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Adolpho "Shabba Doo" Quinones, Michael Chambers, Susie Bono, Harry Caesar

Synopsis: Breakdancing, hip-hop, rap, and a good time are the main stars of this standard teen movie about youths trying to raise money to save their community club from being razed for a shopping mall. Ozone (Adolfo Quiñones) and Turbo (Michael Chambers) are two master breakdancers who have started a Read More

Ninja III: The Domination

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, Sho Kosugi, David Chung, Tom Castronova, Dale Ishimoto

Synopsis: In this slick exploitation, martial arts fantasy from schlockmeisters Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, an evil ninja is killed off in a sandtrap on a golf course in Phoenix -- the police riddle him with bullets, foolishly thinking that is the end of it. But as he is dying, the ninja throws a smoke Read More

One More Chance

Crew: Director

Actors: John LaMotta, Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: In this drama, an ex-con's joy at being released is squashed when he returns home to find that his family has moved away and left no forwarding address. Fortunately, a neighbor lady knows where they are. Unfortunately, she doesn't trust him so he must work hard to show her that he has changed. Read More

Revenge of the Ninja

Crew: Director

Actors: Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye, Arthur Roberts, Mario Gallo

Synopsis: Sam Firstenberg directs Sho Kosugi in the martial arts action film Revenge of the Ninja. Kosugi plays a former ninja assassin whose family is killed by other ninjas. He begins life anew in America, but unexpectedly comes to work for drug traffickers who he must face off against. ~ Perry Seibert Read More