Louis Gossett Jr. — Actor (16)
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IF (2023) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
IF
director: John Krasinski actor: Cailey Fleming / Ryan Reynolds …
other title: IF - Gli amici immaginari / IF: Amigos Imaginários …
A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.
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The Color Purple (2023) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban NeoDB WikiData
The Color Purple
director: Blitz Bazawule actor: Fantasia Barrino / Taraji P. Henson …
other title: Il colore viola / Farven lilla …
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Enemy Mine (1985) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB
Enemy Mine
director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dennis Quaid / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Il mio nemico / Fjender …
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) [Movie] TMDB
An Officer and a Gentleman
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Richard Gere / Debra Winger …
other title: Ufficiale e gentiluomo / Officer og gentleman …
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
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Toy Soldiers (1991) [Movie] TMDB
Toy Soldiers
director: Daniel Petrie Jr. actor: Sean Astin / Wil Wheaton …
other title: Scuola di eroi / Boy Soldiers …
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
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Jaws 3-D (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Jaws 3-D
director: Joe Alves actor: Dennis Quaid / Bess Armstrong …
other title: Lo squalo 3 / Dødens gab 3 …
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Raisin in the Sun
director: Daniel Petrie actor: Sidney Poitier / Claudia McNeil …
other title: Un grappolo di sole / Ein Fleck in der Sonne …
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
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The Laughing Policeman (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Laughing Policeman
director: Stuart Rosenberg actor: Walter Matthau / Bruce Dern …
other title: L'ispettore Martin ha teso la trappola / Endestation mord …
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
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J.D.'s Revenge (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
J.D.'s Revenge
director: Arthur Marks actor: Glynn Turman / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Rache aus dem Jenseits / Vengeance d'outre-tombe …
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.
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Diggstown (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Diggstown
director: Michael Ritchie actor: James Woods / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: La notte dell'imbroglio / Midnight Sting …
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
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The Landlord (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Landlord
director: Hal Ashby actor: Beau Bridges / Lee Grant …
other title: Il padrone di casa / Amor sem barreiras …
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
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Lawman Without a Gun (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lawman Without a Gun
director: Jerrold Freedman actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Clu Gulager …
other title: Weißer Haß
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
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Y2K (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Y2K
director: Richard Pepin actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Jaimz Woolvett …
other title: Destruction finale / Terminal Countdown …
On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with an unforeseen problem, as they are being alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden somewhere deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millennium bug! It's up to them to race against time to stop it before it is too late and they are doomed!
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The Deep (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Deep
director: Peter Yates actor: Robert Shaw / Jacqueline Bisset …
other title: Abissi / Drama i dybet …
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
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The White Dawn (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The White Dawn
director: Philip Kaufman actor: Warren Oates / Timothy Bottoms …
other title: Die weiße Dämmerung / Alba di ghiaccio
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.