Bill Duke
1) The predator
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Deep in the jungle, several bodies have been discovered skinned and hanging from trees although who or what could have done this is a mystery. Military covert specialist Dutch and his team are called in to eliminate the threat, but once in the heart of the menacing jungle, they discover something far worse than they could ever have imagined the Predator alien which has come to earth with cloaking technology, extensive combat skills and a desire to...
3) Hoodlum
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"In 1930's New York, Bumpy Johnson rules the Harlem numbers racket with a rare combination of honor, dignity and strength. But when savage gangster, Dutch Schultz, threatens his reign with a series of bloody attacks, Bumpy knows that the only way to win is to play Dutch's deadly game. As a vicious war spins madly out of control, so does Bumpy's personal life, and soon the mobster realizes that his only way out is to instigate a dangerous plan one...
4) Bad country
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In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
5) Commando
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Colonel John Matrix is retired from the army. He lives in the mountains of California with his daughter Jenny. Jenny is kidnapped by Bennett, one of John's former soldiers. Bennet's boss, exiled Latin American dictator Arius, demands that John assassinate the president of Arius's country so Arius can reinstate himself as dictator. John is put on a southbound airplane with a guard, but before the airplane can take off, John snaps the guard's neck,...
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A rap superhero is encased in muscular flesh like armor, his face is an impassive mask, he reaches out to destroy his enemies with his unique talent. Marcus is a gangster who breaks from his youthful life of crime to triumph as a rapper. Marcus's girlfriend helps him pull free the wires holding his jaw shut when he's recovered from being shot in the face. He even has a moment when a razor blade is thrown into his cell and is encouraged to kill himself....
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Carl Weathers is Detroit police sergeant Jericho Action Jackson. He's pitted against the brutal thugs of ruthless auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane, who's out to murder his way to political power. Jackson's also involved with Dellaplane's beautiful wife Patrice -- and his exotic mistress Sydney.
8) Deep cover
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"Russell Stevens, a police officer, goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker, in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in L.A. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomes -- and the harder it is to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy,...
9) Yellow
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Amaryllis is a young, classically trained Latina ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction and falls in love with her best customer. Finally winning an audition for a Broadway production, Amaryllis must now decide between...
10) Exit wounds
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After going against orders and saving the life of the Vice President of the United States, Detroit detective Orin Boyd is moved to a new preceinct and busted down to traffic cop. Boyd's new preceinct is filled with police corruption. He becomes friends with a street-smart dotcom hustler who may or may not be his ally.
11) The go-getter
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Mercer steals a car to escape his small Oregon town and finds his older brother after a tragic loss in the family. Once on the road he becomes strangely attached to phone calls from Kate, the forgiving and mysterious girl who owns the car he stole. With Kate along for the ride, Mercer travels west to find a new sense of belonging. A crazy road trip to Reno with Joely and odd encounters with others soon make Mercer realize that everything he is looking...
13) Deep cover
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Criterion collection volume 1086
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An undercover cop gets so deep in his assumed identity that he starts to act like the criminals he's trying to capture.
14) American Satan
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After dropping out of college and moving to the Sunset Strip to find their fortune, a young rock group with roots in both England and the United States enter into a Faustian deal that leaves them struggling to control their destiny.
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Predator: Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth--because the Predator is not of this earth.
Predator 2: Predator is a savage alien, invisible and armed with advanced weapons. On this, his second visit to Earth, he lands in Los Angeles and begins a series of ghastly murders. It's up to a determined police lieutenant...
16) Hoodlum
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A gangster refuses to let others into his numbers racket. Set in Harlem during the 1930s.
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Friday: Craig and Smokey have until the end of the day to pay back Big Worm.
Menace II society: A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Set it off: Four poor black women try to get some payback from the social system which has abused them by a staging a series of bank robberies.