Back Roads 1981  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Nell Carter, Barbara Babcock, Alex Colon, Lee de Broux, Ralph Seymour, Royce D. Applegate, Bruce M. Fischer, John Dennis Johnston
Amy Post (Sally Field) is a prostitute who teams up with unemployed boxer Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones). The two become traveling companions and leave their dead-end lives in Alabama. They hitchhike to California where they hope to better their lives–and along the trek, they find themselves attracted to each other.
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Born to Win 1971  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Addict
Born to Lose
Director: Ivan Passer
Cast: George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro, Sylvia Simms, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jose Perez, Jack Hollander, Burt Young, Alex Colon
This comedy/drama features George Segal as a New York City hairdresser who resorts to crime to support his expensive heroin addiction.
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The Cross and the Switchblade 1970 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Don Murray
Cast: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jackelyn Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson, Dino DePillippi, Don Blakely, Gil Frazier, Don Lamond, Sam Capuano, Alex Colon, Hector Mercado, Stew Silver, Dorothy James, David Connell, Michelle Galjour
David Wilkerson (Pat Boone) is a small-town minister who takes on a mission to stop violence in the ghettos of New York City. Through Little Bo (Jo-Ann Robinson), Wilkerson meets and works with gang leader Nicky Cruz (Erik Estrada) and turns around the lives of many angry, drug-crazed youths.
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Deep Cover 1992  R, 122 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Clarence Williams III, Gregory Sierra, Rene Assa, Alex Colon, Sydney Lassick, Roger Guenveur Smith
When a police officer (Larry Fishburne) is given an undercover assignment that puts him in the Los Angeles drug world, he is slowly lured into the web of drugs and money–with devastating results.
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The Getaway 1994 R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / Thriller
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly, James Stephens, Richard Farnsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Burton Gilliam, Royce D. Applegate, Alex Colon, Daniel Villarreal, Scott McKenna, Justin Williams
In this violent film–a remake of the 1972 movie–gangster Jack Benyon (James Woods) arranges for Doc McCoy's (Alex Baldwin) release from a Mexican jail after making a deal with Doc's wife Carol (Kim Basinger). The deal involves Doc holding up an Arizona race track, and Doc, along with Rudy (Michael Madsen) and Frank (Philip Seymour Hoffman), pulls off the heist. But, problems follow, and Doc and Carol try to escape to Mexico with their stolen million dollars.
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Invasion U.S.A. 1985   R, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Joseph Zito
Cast: Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet, Alexander Zale, Alex Colon, Eddie Jones, Jon DeVries, Billy Drago, Jaime Sanchez, Dehl Berti
There is a spy on the loose in the United States, but fortunately Chuck Norris is alert, on guard, and ready to leap into action to save his country.
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The Mighty Quinn 1989 R, 98 min.
Genre: Action / Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Carl Schenkel
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, M. Emmet Walsh, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Keye Luke, Tyra Ferrell, Art Evans, Esther Rolle, Norman Beaton, Alex Colon, Carl Bradshaw, Fitz Weir, Baldwin Howe
Quinn (Denzel Washington) is the chief of police on a Caribbean island where he is trying to find a murderer. Although the clues point to his boyhood friend Maubee (Robert Townsend) who has become a local folk hero, Quinn believes that Maubee is innocent. Quinn is being pressured to solve the case and continues to investigate–even if it turns out that Maubee really is the murderer.
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The Super Cops 1974 R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola, Amy Freeman, Bernard Kates, Alex Colon, Charles Turner, Ralph Wilcox, Al Fann
This action film is based on the true story of two NYC policemen (Ron Leibman and David Selby)–known as "Batman & Robin"–who patrolled the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant on the trail of dope dealers.
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| 1. Back Roads (1981)
2. Born to Win (1971)
aka: Addict
aka: Born to Lose
3. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
4. Deep Cover (1992)
5. The Getaway (1994)
6. Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
7. The Mighty Quinn (1989)
8. Red Scorpion (1989)
9. The Super Cops (1974)
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