James Earl Jones — Actor (80)
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Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
director: Gilbert Cates actor: Jason Bateman / James Wilder …
other title: Las dos caras del mal
Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.
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Jefferson in Paris (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Jefferson in Paris
director: James Ivory actor: Nick Nolte / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Jefferson à Paris / Jefferson en París (Los amores de un presidente) …
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
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Gardens of Stone (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gardens of Stone
director: Francis Ford Coppola actor: James Caan / Anjelica Huston …
other title: Giardini di pietra / Jardins de Pedra …
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
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The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
director: Robert Markowitz actor: James Earl Jones / Amy Irving …
other title: Ai confini della realtà - I classici perduti / Schrecken aus dem Jenseits …
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
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The Ambulance (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Ambulance
director: Larry Cohen actor: Eric Roberts / James Earl Jones …
other title: L'ambulanza / A ambulância …
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.
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The Vegas Strip War (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Vegas Strip War
director: George Englund actor: Rock Hudson / Sharon Stone …
other title: Fino all'ultimo dollaro / Die Haie von Las Vegas …
Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip's top attraction to avenge his outing by his former partners who run a more fancy hotel/casino just across the street.
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Heat Wave (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Heat Wave
director: Kevin Hooks actor: Cicely Tyson / Blair Underwood …
other title: Heat Wave - Onda di fuoco / Émeutes en Californie
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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The River Niger (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The River Niger
director: Krishna Shah actor: James Earl Jones / Cicely Tyson …
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
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Claudine (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Claudine
director: John Berry actor: Diahann Carroll / James Earl Jones …
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
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A Piece of the Action (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Piece of the Action
director: Sidney Poitier actor: Sidney Poitier / Bill Cosby …
other title: Ausgetrickst / Un morceau de l'action …
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
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Sommersby (1993) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sommersby
director: Jon Amiel actor: Jodie Foster / Richard Gere …
other title: Sommersby, o Regresso de Um Estranho
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
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Clean Slate (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Clean Slate
director: Mick Jackson actor: Dana Carvey / Valeria Golino …
other title: Amnesia investigativa / Blackout - Ein Detektiv sucht sich selbst …
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
director: John Badham actor: Billy Dee Williams / James Earl Jones …
other title: Bingo Long / Los Bingo Long, equipo de estrellas …
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
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The Second Civil War (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Second Civil War
director: Joe Dante actor: Beau Bridges / Joanna Cassidy …
other title: La seconda guerra civile americana / Die Kriegsmacher …
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.