Mark L. Lester — Director (19)
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Blowback (2000) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blowback
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Mario Van Peebles / William James Remar …
other title: Whitmans Rückkehr
After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a professional assassin. He now seeks revenge on all those who participated in sentencing him to death.
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The Base (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Base
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Mark Dacascos / Tim Abell …
other title: The Base - La base / El color del honor …
Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, the Major goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and find out just how far up the chain of command these activities are going.
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Hitman's Run (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hitman's Run
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Eric Roberts / Esteban Powell …
other title: In fuga dal passato / Tueur en cavale …
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
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Night of the Running Man (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Night of the Running Man
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Andrew McCarthy / Scott Glenn …
other title: Désigné pour tuer / Fugitivo en la noche …
A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in pursuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
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Stunts (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stunts
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Robert Forster / Fiona Lewis …
other title: Stunts, il pericolo è il mio mestiere / Stunts – Das Geschäft mit dem eigenen Leben …
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
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Armed and Dangerous (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Armed and Dangerous
director: Mark L. Lester actor: John Candy / Eugene Levy …
other title: Pazzi da legare / Det vilde vagtværn …
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
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Class of 1999 (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Class of 1999
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Bradley Gregg / Traci Lind …
other title: Classe 1999 / Curso de 1999 …
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
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Roller Boogie (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Roller Boogie
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Linda Blair / Jim Bray …
other title: Roller boogie / L'Amour et la Joie sur roulettes
Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.
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Extreme Justice (1993) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Extreme Justice
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Lou Diamond Phillips / Scott Glenn …
other title: Squadra investigativa speciale S.I.S. giustizia sommaria / Justicia extrema
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
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Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Showdown in Little Tokyo
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Dolph Lundgren / Brandon Lee …
other title: Resa dei conti a Little Tokyo / Fúria no Bairro Japonês …
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
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Commando (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Commando
director: 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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Class of 1984 (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Class of 1984
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Perry King / Tim Van Patten …
other title: Os Donos do Amanhã / Classe 1984 …
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.