John Sayles — Actor (13)
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Gridlock'd (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gridlock'd
director: Vondie Curtis-Hall actor: Tim Roth / Tupac Shakur …
other title: Gridlock'd - Istinti criminali / Dope Pushers …
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
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Passion Fish (1992) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Passion Fish
director: John Sayles actor: Mary McDonnell / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Amori e amicizie / Tudo Pela Vida …
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
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City of Hope (1991) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
City of Hope
director: John Sayles actor: Vincent Spano / Tony Lo Bianco …
other title: La città della speranza / Stadt der Hoffnung …
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
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Straight Talk (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Straight Talk
director: Barnet Kellman actor: Dolly Parton / James Woods …
other title: Linea diretta - Un'occasione unica / Sag's offen, Shirlee …
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
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Corman's World (2011) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Corman's World
director: Alex Stapleton actor: Roger Corman / Gary J. Tunnicliffe …
other title: Ufos, Sex und Monster - Das wilde Kino des Roger Corman / Le Monde de Corman …
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
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Malcolm X (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Malcolm X
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Angela Bassett …
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Piranha (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Piranha
director: Joe Dante actor: Bradford Dillman / Heather Menzies …
other title: Piraña / Piranhas
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Girlfight (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Girlfight
director: Karyn Kusama actor: Michelle Rodriguez / Jamie Tirelli …
other title: Girlfight - Auf eigene Faust / 女生出拳 …
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
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In the Electric Mist (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
In the Electric Mist
director: Bertrand Tavernier actor: Tommy Lee Jones / John Goodman …
other title: L'occhio del ciclone - In the Electric Mist / Às Margens de um Crime …
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
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Matewan (1987) [Movie] NeoDB Sukkertoppen Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Matewan
director: John Sayles actor: Chris Cooper / James Earl Jones …
other title: Matewan-massakren
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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Matinee (1993) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Matinee
director: Joe Dante actor: John Goodman / Cathy Moriarty …
other title: Panik premiere / Pânico em Florida Beach …
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.