Bill Duke — Actor (26)
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Always Outnumbered (1998)
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Michael Apted actor: Laurence Fishburne / Daniel Williams …
other title: Vite difficili / La rage de survivre …
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
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Street of No Return (1989)
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Samuel Fuller actor: Keith Carradine / Valentina Vargas …
other title: Strada senza ritorno / Straße ohne Wiederkehr …
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
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National Security (2003)
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Dennis Dugan actor: Martin Lawrence / Steve Zahn …
other title: National Security - Sei in buone mani / Segurança Nacional …
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on opposite sides of the law during a routine traffic stop that escalated out of control; now as lowly security guards they're thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
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Car Wash (1976)
Car Wash
Michael Schultz actor: Ivan Dixon / DeWayne Jessie …
other title: Car Wash - Stazione di servizio / Gas på benzintanken …
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
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Exit Wounds (2001)
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Andrzej Bartkowiak actor: Steven Seagal / DMX …
other title: Ferite mortali / Fogo Cerrado …
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.
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The Big Bang (2011)
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Tony Krantz actor: Antonio Banderas / Thomas Kretschmann …
other title: Dirty Diamonds - The big bang / The Diamond job …
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just might explain - well - everything.
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A Fuller Life (2013)
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Samantha Fuller actor: Samuel Fuller / James Franco …
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
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The Limey (1999)
The Limey
Steven Soderbergh actor: Terence Stamp / Lesley Ann Warren …
other title: L'inglese / O Falcão Inglês …
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
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Payback (1999)
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Brian Helgeland actor: Mel Gibson / Gregg Henry …
other title: Payback - Zahltag / Payback - La rivincita di Porter …
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
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The Vandal (2021)
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Eddie Alcazar actor: Bill Duke / Abbey Lee …
Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.
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Commando (1985)
Commando
Mark L. Lester actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Rae Dawn Chong …
other title: Comando / Das Phantom Kommando …
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
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American Gigolo (1980)
American Gigolo
Paul Schrader actor: Richard Tiffany Gere / Lauren Hutton …
other title: American Gigolò / Købt af kvinder …
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bill Duke actor: Caryn Elaine Johnson / Kathy Najimy …
other title: Sister Act 2 - Più svitata che mai / Halløj i klostret 2: Nonnernes hus …
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.