Joseph Merhi — Playwright (18)
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The Art of Dying (1991) IMDb TMDB
The Art of Dying
director: Wings Hauser actor: Wings Hauser / Kathleen Kinmont …
other title: Perfect Killer
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
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Chance (1990) IMDb TMDB
Chance
director: Charles T. Kanganis / Addison Randall actor: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs / Dan Haggerty …
other title: Chance - Terrore a Los Angeles / Chance - Ein Cop ohne Regeln
After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs his thugs to find Zach and get the jewels back by any means possible. Zach gets help from his friend, police detective Chance, but they will both need more than a little luck to prove that neither of them were behind the robbery, and to keep the actual thieves from getting their revenge.
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The Last Riders (1992) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Last Riders
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Erik Estrada / William Smith …
other title: The last riders / Guerreros sobre ruedas …
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
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Night of the Wilding (1990) IMDb TMDB
Night of the Wilding
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Erik Estrada / Joey Travolta …
other title: Desafío salvaje
Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous crime. And when he discovers that his ex-wife is the prosecuting attorney, Gainer finds he suddenly has more on the line than he ever imagined.
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Hollywood In Trouble (1986) IMDb TMDB
Hollywood In Trouble
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Vic Vallero / Joan Levine …
Written and directed by PM Entertainment co-founder Joseph Merhi, this semi-autobiographical screwball comedy follows the adventures of a Hollywood dreamer who, despite having zero experience in the film industry, attempts to take the town by storm, only to send his entire domestic life into a tailspin.
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Mayhem (1986) IMDb TMDB
Mayhem
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Raymond Martino / Pamela Dixon …
The bloody saga of two strangers brought together by a common need - to find the women they've lost. Rachel ran away, Misty was kidnapped; but nothing will stop Dino and Ziggy in their pursuit of the women they love. They turn Hollywood into a War Zone! On one side: pimps, drug pushers and the police. The other side - a sawn off shotgun and a 357 magnum.
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Blood Money (1991) IMDb TMDB
Blood Money
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Wings Hauser / Karen Black …
other title: El precio del dinero
A Los Angeles police officer and a female FBI agent team-up to foil a counterfeiting gang in operation. The counterfeiter in question turns out to be an army veteran friend who saved the male cop during their time together in Vietnam.
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Epitaph (1988) IMDb TMDB
Epitaph
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Natasha Pavlovich / Delores Nascar …
other title: Epitaph - follia omicida
It seems the Fulton family has to keep moving from one town to another, because the mother is a homicidal maniac who murders any man who doesn't submit to her drunken seductions. And Mr. Fulton, like any good, caring husband, never thinks twice about burying her victims in the backyard, packing up the family car, and setting off for a brand-new destination.
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Last Man Standing (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Last Man Standing
director: Joseph Merhi actor: Jeff Wincott / Steve Eastin …
other title: Futur Justice / El último hombre íntegro
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough...