Paul Winfield — Actor (16)
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Dreams Don't Die (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dreams Don't Die
director: Roger Young actor: Ike Eisenmann / Trini Alvarado …
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
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Death Before Dishonor (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Death Before Dishonor
director: Terry Leonard actor: Fred Dryer / Joseph Gian …
other title: Il sergente di fuoco / Helden USA …
Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
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Big Shots (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Big Shots
director: Robert Mandel actor: Ricky Busker / Darius McCrary …
other title: Bel colpo amico / Big Shots - Zwei Kids gegen die Unterwelt …
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.
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Strategic Command (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Strategic Command
director: Rick Jacobson actor: Michael Dudikoff / Richard Norton …
other title: Situazione critica / Executive Command …
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.
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White Dwarf (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
White Dwarf
director: Peter Markle actor: Paul Winfield / Neal McDonough …
other title: Rusta - Planet der Tränen / White dwarf …
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
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Mike's Murder (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mike's Murder
director: James Bridges actor: Debra Winger / Mark Keyloun …
other title: L'assassinio di Mike / El asesinato de Mike
Betty has a crush on her tennis instructor Mike. He promises to call her for a date, but never does – she doesn’t know he sells drugs on the side. After botching a deal on someone else’s turf, Mike has to disappear for a while. He contacts Betty – then he’s killed before they can meet. Betty tries to find out what happened, leading her straight into a hornet's nest of vice.
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Carbon Copy (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Carbon Copy
director: Michael Schultz actor: Denzel Washington / George Segal …
other title: Il pollo si mangia con le mani / A Cara do Pai …
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
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Irresistible Force (1993) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Irresistible Force
director: Kevin Hooks actor: Stacy Keach / Cynthia Rothrock …
other title: Power Cop / Implacable …
A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.
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R.P.M. (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
R.P.M.
director: Stanley Kramer actor: Anthony Quinn / Ann-Margret …
other title: Kampf den Talaren / R.P.M. Revoluciones Por Minuto
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
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Strange Justice (1999) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Strange Justice
director: Ernest R. Dickerson actor: Regina Taylor / Delroy Lindo …
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall's replacement. But Thomas's confirmation hearings are rocked by charges that he sexually harassed Anita Hill, a former assistant. As their conflict plays out in public, a White House aide runs a behind-the-scenes campaign to discredit Hill.
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Original Gangstas (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Original Gangstas
director: Larry Cohen actor: Fred Williamson / Jim Brown …
other title: Sfida finale / Original Gangstas (Hot city)
The Rebels rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. They shoot storekeeper Marvin Bookman for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin’s son, former NFL star and Rebel founder John returns to be with his father and, with a little help from some friends, to destroy the gang his way.
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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Twilight's Last Gleaming
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Burt Lancaster / Roscoe Lee Browne …
other title: Ultimi bagliori di un crepuscolo / Raketbase 3 …
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.