James Karen — Actor (30)
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The Willies (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
The Willies
director: Brian Peck actor: Sean Astin / Jason Horst …
other title: Les Willies / Los Willies
Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.
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Rivals (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rivals
director: Krishna Shah actor: Joan Hackett / Robert Klein …
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.
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Institute for Revenge (1979) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Institute for Revenge
director: Ken Annakin actor: Sam Groom / Lauren Hutton …
A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
director: Paul Wendkos actor: Dennis Weaver / Lisa Eilbacher …
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
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Amazing Grace (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Amazing Grace
director: Stan Lathan actor: Slappy White / Moms Mabley …
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
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Time Walker (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Time Walker
director: Tom Kennedy actor: Ben Murphy / Nina Axelrod …
other title: Pasajero del Tiempo / Time walker (Pasajero del tiempo) …
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
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F.I.S.T. (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
F.I.S.T.
director: Norman Jewison actor: Sylvester Stallone / Rod Steiger …
other title: Bossen / F.I.S.T. - Ein Mann geht seinen Weg …
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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Tough and Deadly (1995) [Movie] IMDb
Tough and Deadly
director: Steve Cohen actor: Billy Blanks / Roddy Piper …
other title: Epreuve mortelle
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
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Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
director: Robert Gaffney actor: Marilyn Hanold / James Karen …
other title: Frankenstein contre le monstre de l'espace / Frankenstein contra el monstruo del espacio …
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties
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Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Return of the Living Dead Part II
director: Ken Wiederhorn actor: Michael Kenworthy / Thor Van Lingen …
other title: Il ritorno dei morti viventi 2 / O Regresso dos Mortos-vivos 2 …
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
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The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) [Movie] TMDB
The Great Buster: A Celebration
director: Peter Bogdanovich actor: Peter Bogdanovich / Buster Keaton …
other title: The Great Buster / Den store Buster Keaton …
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
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Any Given Sunday (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Any Given Sunday
director: Oliver Stone actor: Al Pacino / Cameron Diaz …
other title: Ogni maledetta domenica / En tilfældig søndag …
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Up Close & Personal (1996) [Movie] TMDB
Up Close & Personal
director: Jon Avnet actor: Robert Redford / Michelle Pfeiffer …
other title: Qualcosa di personale / Tid til kærlighed …
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
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The China Syndrome (1979) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
The China Syndrome
director: James Bridges actor: Jane Fonda / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Sindrome cinese / Kina syndromet …
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
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Congo (1995) [Movie] TMDB
Congo
director: Frank Marshall actor: Laura Linney / Dylan Walsh …
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Return of the Living Dead
7.4 (9 ratings) director: Dan O'Bannon actor: Clu Gulager / James Karen …
other title: Il ritorno dei morti viventi / Ligene er ligeglade …
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.