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Brubaker
1980 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen new prison warden Henry Brubaker (Robert Redford) goes undercover in a state penitentiary, he's horrified by what he sees: Prisoners are being sold as slaves, and decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. Brubaker sets out to improve the system, but the more he reforms, the more enemies he makes among the townspeople who've benefited from the corruption. Soon, he's in a heap of trouble -- and no one seems willing to help him.
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Extreme Justice
1993 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter an impetuous Los Angeles detective is suspended, he's recruited to remove violent repeat offenders from the streets by any means necessary. But he soon learns that the price of justice carries a heavy cost.
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Truck Turner
1974 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsTruck (Isaac Hayes), an ex-football star working as a bounty hunter, is on the trail of a violent pimp named Gator (Paul Harris). But when Truck and his partner finally get their man, Gator's woman (Nichelle Nichols) and her pimping friends put a hit out on them. Now, the hunter has become the hunted, and Truck will have to survive the wrath of the baddest pimp ever -- a menacing thug named Blue (Yaphet Kotto).
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The Monkey Hustle
1976 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsDaddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto, in a rare leading role) is a natural when it comes to scheming and scamming, and that keeps him one step ahead of the competition in his Windy City ghetto. But he'll need all his wits -- and the help of his neighbors -- to quash the local government's plan to run an expressway through the 'hood. Rudy Ray Moore and Rosalind Cash also star in this amusing blaxploitation dramedy.
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Friday Foster
1975 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAssigned to snap pictures of the reclusive Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala) -- America's wealthiest black man -- photographer Friday Foster (Pam Grier) turns into a two-fisted avenger when her subject becomes the target of an assassination attempt. But Foster may be the next mark after she uncovers a racist plot to bump off the nation's black political leaders. The strong supporting cast includes Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt and Carl Weathers.
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Ministry of Vengeance
1989 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA Vietnam vet who had renounced violence to become a minister, David Miller (John Schneider) regains his killer instinct through intense training after a terrorist slaughters his wife and daughter in an airport massacre. David sets off for Lebanon to find and kill the man responsible. Without any support from the government, the volatile vigilante runs into dangerous traps set by terrorists as well as duplicitous covert agents.
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Almost Blue
1992 | NR | 2.0 out of 5 StarsBrilliant jazz saxophonist Morris Poole has an active and rising career underway until his wife's death kills his musical inspiration. A new woman reawakens his passions, but their attraction also evokes painful echoes of the past.
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