Bill Duke
1) The predator
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English
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Action & Adventure (WPL-ADULT)
GHPLD Essential Films Collection
Movies
Vampires & Aliens & Werewolves, oh my!
GHPLD Essential Films Collection
Movies
Vampires & Aliens & Werewolves, oh my!
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
4) Cover
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English
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Valerie Maas is a devoted, churchgoing wife and mother whose faith is shattered when she discovers that her husband Dutch is living a secret double life. And when she's subsequently arrested for the murder of a famous singer who has a big secret of his own, Valerie is as shocked as anyone-- she's the last person anyone would suspect would do such a thing. But she may actually have the best motive of all and an assistant D.A. with an election to win...
5) Mandy
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English
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Red, a lumberjack living in the depths of the woods, has sequestered himself and his doting girlfriend, Mandy, from the world. Though Mandy is a gentle woman who spends most of her time immersed in a book, she finds herself in a life-threatening situation after being kidnapped by an ill-intentioned cult leader. When stripped from her home by a group of malicious cult members, Red sets out to avenge Mandy's abrupt and inexplicable disappearance.
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English
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After years of disagreement concerning what true happiness, success, and love really are, Dave and Clarice Johnson have finally reached a breaking point in their marriage. Clarice is hurt in a car accident and the obvious truth is that more than just her injuries need immediate attention. Their odds of making it are worsen as Clarice begins to see a physical therapist. Dave develops a friendship with Julie and her teenage son Bryson. The acceptance...
7) Dark girls
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English
Description
Examines the cultural phenomenon of "colorism", the prejudice or discrimination based on the relative darkness or lightness of skin generally within one's own ethnic or racial group, specifically as it pertains to women and girls of color in America and other parts of the world.
8) Bad country
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English
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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.
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English
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A dozen cases await the reclusive Manhattan epicure and his gregarious sidekick. Archie finds a dead woman's body while doing a simple favor for a friend. Wolfe bolts from court when he believes his testimony will convict an innocent man. While fetching his raincoat, Archie stumbles onto a murder scene. A delivery boy is murdered and Archie is the prime suspect. Wolfe and Archie hunt for the mother of an abandoned baby. A lecherous producer is poisoned...
10) Bird on a wire
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English
Description
Two people forced to surface from the Witness Protection Program are being chased by their old enemies.
11) Commando
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English
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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,...
12) Mandy
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English
Description
The quiet life of devoted couple Red and Mandy takes a dark and bizarre turn when a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader seek to possess Mandy, body and soul. A shocking assault on the innocent pair leads to a spiraling, surreal, bloody rampage of all out, mind-altering vengeance.
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English
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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....
14) Never again
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English
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This proves that love can find you no matter how hard you try to avoid it. Christopher and Grace are two jaded New Yorkers who, until now, have been successful at avoiding serious relationships. Once the two meet, they vow to keep it strictly casual, that is until they discover just how compatible they really are.
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English
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"Black has never been more beautiful, witnessed by this magnificent collection featuring accomplished dark-skinned women from all walks of life. In Dark Girls, celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o, Vanessa Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Judge Mablean Ephriam, Brandi and Karli Harvey, and over seventy-five other outstanding women share intimate insights into what their dark skin means to them."--Amazon.com.
16) Hoodlum
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English
Description
"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...
17) Action Jackson
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English
Description
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.
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English
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A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school.
20) Deep cover
Series
Criterion collection volume 1086
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English
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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,...