An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn 1997  R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Smithee
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D., Richard Jeni, Eric Idle, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone, Leslie Stefanson, Harvey Weinstein
The title of this film reflects the custom in Hollywood of replacing a director's name with "Alan Smithee" if the director wants his name removed from a film's credits. In this story, the director's real name IS Alan Smithee, which presents more than a few problems.
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 Antz 1998  PG, 83 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Cast: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Christopher Walken, Sylvester Stallone
This entirely computer-generated film features Z (voice of Woody Allen) as a nonconformist ant that falls in love with Bala (Sharon Stone). But Bala is engaged to the power-mad General Mandible (Gene Hackman), so Z trades places with a warrior ant, Weaver (Sylvester Stallone), to impress Bala and enters a battle to the death against the superior termites. Will Z ever see Bala again? Will democracy reign in the insect world?
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Avenging Angelo 2002  R, 96 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: Martyn Burke
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Madeleine Stowe, Raoul Bova, Anthony Quinn, Harry Van Gorkum, Billy Gardell, George Touliatos, Angelo Celeste, Ezra Perlman, Carin Moffat, Dawn Greenhalgh, John Gilbert, Lori Alter, Angelo Tsarouchas, Nancy Beatty
When mob boss Angelo (Anthony Quinn) is killed by rivals, his bodyguard, Frankie (Sylvester Stallone), seeks out Angelo's daughter, Jennifer (Madeleine Stowe), as he promised he would do, in order to protect her in case she is on the hit men's list. But Jennifer, who had grown up as a foster child, had not known that she was Angelo's daughter. Now, she is out for revenge with Frankie tagging along for the ride. And, of course, they fall in love.
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 Bananas 1971  PG, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban, Louise Lasser, Jacobo Morales, Sylvester Stallone, Charlotte Rae, Allen Garfield, Rene Enriquez, Miguel Angel Suarez, Nati Abascal, David Ortiz, Jack Axelrod, Howard Cosell, Roger Grimsby, Stanley Ackerman
This bizarre early Woody Allen comedy is about war and politics in South America. Fielding Marsh (Woody Allen) unwittingly becomes involved in a revolution in San Marcos and ends up its president–only to be later charged with fraud.
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Cannonball 1976  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Bartel
Cast: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham, Robert Carradine, Judy Canova, Belinda Balaski, Martin Scorsese, Roger Corman, Sylvester Stallone, Dick Miller
This is a funny account of a Trans-American Grand Prix in which the winning purse is $100,000. Among those making brief appearances are Sylvester Stallone, Roger Corman, and Martin Scorsese.
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 Capone 1975  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steve Carver
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes, Sylvester Stallone, Frank Campanella, Carmen Argenziano, George Chandler, Royal Dano, Dick Miller
This film is a biography of Chicago mobster Al Capone (Ben Gazzara) and the world of Chicago in the 1920s. Poor, despite the pretty good cast.
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 Cliffhanger 1993  R, 118 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Rooker, John Lithgow, Janine Turner, Rex Linn, Leon, Max Perlich, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite, Caroline Goodall, Craig Fairbrass, Gregory Scott Cummins, Denis Forest, Michelle Joyner, Trey Brownell
Treasury Department officers, along with $100 million, are skyjacked and crash in the mountains. Along come Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) out of retirement and his ex-partner Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker) as guides. They are ready to save the day. Unfortunately, they end up captured by a gang, led by Qualen (John Lithgow), whose intention is to find the crash site first and plan to use Gabe as their guide. Good photography, stunts, and action.
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 Cobra 1986 PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Lee Garlington, John Herzfeld, Val Avery, Art LaFleur, Brian Thompson, David Rasche, Marco Rodriguez, Ross St. Phillip, Nick Angotti, Nina Axelrod, John Hauk
L.A. cop Marion Cobretti, alias Cobra (Sylvester Stallone), helps track down a serial killer in this extremely violent film.
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 Cop Land 1997  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Noah Emmerich
Freddy Heflin (Sylvester Stallone) was elected sheriff of Garrison, N.J., but his real heroes are the NYPD cops who live in his town. When Internal Affairs investigator Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) arrives on the scene, he joins forces with Freddy, and together they uncover corruption and conspiracy among Freddy's heroes.
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CyberWorld 2000 N/R, 48 min.
Genre: Animation / Documentary
Director: Colin Davies, Elaine Despins
Cast: Jenna Elfman, Dave Foley, Robert Smith, Matt Frewer, Woody Allen, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Sylvester Stallone
Phig (Jenna Elfman) takes viewers on a tour of CyberWorld, a museum of 3-D exhibits in this 48-minute offering on the giant I-Max screen. Amazing animation.
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D-Tox 2002 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Eye See You
Director: Jim Gillespie
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Kris Kristofferson, Dina Meyer, Mif, Christopher Fulford, Jeffrey Wright, Stephen Lang, Sean Patrick Flanery, Courtney B. Vance, Polly Walker, Alan C. Peterson, Hrothgar Mathews, Angela Alvarado
Jake Malloy (Sylvester Stallone) loses it after his wife and his partner are murdered by a serial killer. He ends up at a rehabilitation center for law enforcement officers, and the killer begins picking off the patients at the center. Can Jake save the day? Will he be a victim?
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Daylight 1996 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders, Karen Young, Claire Bloom, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Renoly Santiago, Colin Fox
A Sly Stallone flick with no terrorists–how can this be? There is plenty of excitement, however, as Stallone plays a former rescue service chief who is on the scene when an explosion rips through a New Jersey-to-Manhattan artery, the Holland Tunnel. Special effects, of course, are great.
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 Demolition Man 1993 R, 114 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Comedy
Director: Marco Brambilla
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, Denis Leary, Andre Gregory, Bill Cobbs, Grand L. Bush, Pat Skipper, Steve Kahan
In the year 2031, two men who had been cryogenically frozen are thawed out, and their chase continues when policeman John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) is thawed to continue his efforts of decades ago when he tried to capture psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). Now, Phoenix has escaped his frozen state, and it is necessary to free Spartan to ensure capture. A funny romp.
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Driven 2001 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger, Stacy Edwards, Gina Gershon, Estella Warren, Robert Sean Leonard, Brent Briscoe, Cristian de la Fuente
When talented young driver Jimmy Blye (Kip Pardue) begins experiencing trouble, team owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) coerces former CART champ, Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone), to come to Jimmy's rescue. Bad, really bad.
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F.I.S.T. 1978 PG, 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco, Kevin Conway, Peter Donat, Henry Wilcoxon, Brian Dennehy
Organized crime in the Teamsters union is the focus of this story with Sylvester Stallone in the role of union leader.
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Farewell, My Lovely 1975 R, 95 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Dick Richards
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvester Stallone, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Walter McGinn, Joe Spinell
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) employs his expertise as a private detective to find ex-convict Moose Malloy's (Jack O'Halloran) old girlfriend. During the search Marlowe runs into murder, blackmail, and prostitution. Based on Raymond Chandler's book, this is also a remake of the 1944 film and is nearly as good as that classic.
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 First Blood 1982 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Rambo: First Blood
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Jack Starrett, Bill McKinney, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, David Petersen, Michael Talbott, Alf Humphreys, David L. Crowley, Don MacKay
A guerilla war in Idaho? That is exactly what happens when a former Green Beret, mentally unstable John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), is hounded by the local sheriff (Brian Dennehy). The sheriff objects to Rambo's appearance and demeanor, and when he attempts an arrest, the action begins. Two more "Rambo" films follow.
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 Get Carter 2000 R, 102 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Stephen T. Kay
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, Michael Caine, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, Gretchen Mol, John C. McGinley, John Cassini, Mark Boone Junior, Darryl Scheelar, Crystal Lowe, Lauren Lee Smith
This third remake of the 1971 crime classic features Sylvester Stallone in the role of Jack Carter, mob enforcer, who checks into the circumstances surrounding his brother's death and realizes a murder has taken place. Among the suspects are Cliff Bumby (Michael Caine–star of the original "Get Carter"), porn-flick millionaire Cyrus Place (Mickey Rourke), and computer geek Jeremy Kinnear (Alan Cumming).
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Judge Dredd 1995 R, 101 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Danny Cannon
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, Joan Chen, Jurgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones, Joanna Miles, Mitch Ryan
The popular British comic strip comes to life with Sylvester Stallone in the title role. Spectacular sets contribute to the glitz as Judge Dredd fights his evil brother, Rico (Armand Assante). In this futuristic fantasy, Earth's populations in Mega City I and Mega City II fight denizens of "Cursed Earth" in a desperate attempt at survival of civilization.
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Lock Up 1989 R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Flynn
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore, Frank McRae, William Allen Young, Larry Romano, Jordan Lund, John Lilla, Dean Duval, Jerry Strivelli, David Anthony Marshall, Kurek Ashley
Prison Warden Drumgoole (Donald Sutherland) had refused to give prisoner Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone) a weekend pass to visit his dying father when Frank escaped and told the media about Drumgoole's evil treatment of prisoners. Frank is now back in prison serving the last six months of his sentence, and Warden Drumgoole is determined to exact revenge on Leone for ruining his "good" name.
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 The Lords of Flatbush 1974 PG, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Verona
Cast: Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace, Susan Blakely, Maria Smith, Dolph Sweet, Ray Sharkey, Armand Assante, Antonia Rey
Four members of a Brooklyn gang, the Lords of Flatbush, strut around their territory in this pre-stardom vehicle for Sylvester Stallone. Pretty good original music score, capturing the mood of the 1950s-style movie.
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Nighthawks 1981  R, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Bruce Malmuth
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer, Nigel Davenport, Lindsay Wagner, Joe Spinell, Catherine Mary Stewart, Edward Fox, Persis Khambatta, Hilary Thompson, Walter Mathews, E. Brian Dean, Caesar Cordova, Charles Duval, Tony Munafo
Two N.Y.C. cops–Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams)–are recruited to track down international terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) who has detonated a bomb in a department store and killed several children. DaSilva and Fox enter a cat-and-mouse game in their effort to catch Wulfgar and track him down via a variety of urban locations including subways, discos, and even a tram above Manhattan.
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No Place to Hide 1970 PG, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Rebel
Director: Robert Allen Schnitzer
Cast: Tony Page, Sylvester Stallone, Rebecca Grimes, Vickie Lancaster, Henry G. Sanders, Dennis Tate, Barbara Lee Govan, Roy White, Jed Mills, David Orange, Joe Kottler, Linda Adana
It's the late 1960s in New York, and a radical political group makes plans to bomb the offices of a company that does business with Central American dictators.
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Oscar 1991 PG, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Landis
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Chazz Palminteri, Don Ameche, Peter Riegert, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray, Yvonne De Carlo, Kirk Douglas, Marisa Tomei, Ken Howard
Gangster Angelo "Snaps" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) tries to make good on a deathbed promise to his father that he will leave his life of crime. However, he finds many obstacles standing in the way to an honest life.
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 Over the Top 1987 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Menahem Golan
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, David Mendenhall, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, Chris McCarty
A trucker, Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone), suddenly appears in his young son's (David Mendenhall) life after years of not seeing him. In an attempt to get better acquainted, father and son take a truck ride to L.A. On the trip, the father changes his son from a stuck-up kid to one of the guys.
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Paradise Alley 1978 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Joe Spinell, Armand Assante, Lee Canalito, Frank McRae, Tom Waits, Ray Sharkey, Joyce Ingalls
This film marks Sylvester Stallone's first directing effort, and he also sings the title song. The story is about three brothers–Cosmo (Stallone), Lenny (Armand Assante), and Victor (Lee Canalito)– who pin their hopes for a better crack at life on Victor's wrestling skills.
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The Party at Kitty and Stud's 1970 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Italian Stallion
Director: Morton Lewis
Cast: Henriette Holm, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Strom, Frank Micelli, Jodi Van Prang, Nicholas Warren
This film is notable only for showcasing a new talent–Sylvester Stallone. He plays oversexed Stud who has a continuing parade of women passing through his pad. He and his roommate, Kitty (Henriette Holm), have a party/orgy featuring sex, pot smoking, and noise. Various versions of varying degrees of porn exist. The video title ("Italian Stallion") was released in 1976 to take advantage of Stallone's popularity.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue 1975 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Sylvester Stallone, F. Murray Abraham, M. Emmet Walsh, Ivor Francis, Maxine Stuart
This Neil Simon film is about an executive, Mel (Jack Lemmon), facing a nervous breakdown following the loss of his job. This is a very entertaining movie and has the added bonus of future stars playing minor roles. Among them are Sylvester Stallone as an alleged pickpocket and F. Murray Abraham as a taxi driver.
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Rambo 2008 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Paul Schulze, Graham McTavish, Reynaldo Gallegos, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang, Maung Maung Khin, Cameron Pearson, Ken Howard, Thomas Peterson, Tony Skarberg, James With
Sylvester Stallone is back in the role of traumatized Vietnam veteran John Rambo who is scraping out a living salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. One day, missionaries approach him and ask for a ride up the river to take needed supplies to the Karen people deep inside Burma. Rambo obliges and drops off the missionaries near the impoverished village. Two weeks later, Rambo learns that the missionaries were kidnapped, and now his military training pays off as he sets off to rescue them.
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Rambo III 1988 R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter MacDonald
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focas, Sasson Gabai, Doudi Shoua, Randy Raney, Marcus Gilbert, Alon Abutbul, Mahmoud Assadollahi, Joseph Shiloach
In this second sequel in the "Rambo" series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his monastery in Thailand and heads for Afghanistan. His mission is to fight ruthless Soviet Col. Zaysen (Marc de Jonge) who has captured Rambo's friend, Col. Trautman (Richard Crenna). Rambo finds allies in the Mujahedeen rebels who lead him across high cliffs and desert mountains around the border in Afghanistan and help him in his attempt to rescue Trautman from Zaysen's clutches. Once again, Rambo lives up to his reputation in this exciting movie.
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 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier, Richard Crenna, Martin Kove, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson-Soul, George Cheung, Andy Wood, William Ghent, Voyo Goric, Dana Lee, Baoan Coleman
In this sequel, Rambo's (Sylvester Stallone) former superior officer Col. Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) is authorized to release Rambo from prison and send him on a journey to Vietnam searching for POWs. Rambo teams up with Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao (Julia Nickson-Soul), and he falls in love with her. After Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh (William Ghent), Rambo goes on a killing spree, and the action accelerates.
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Rhinestone 1984 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Stephen Apostle Pec, Penny Santon, Russell Buchanan, Ritch Brinkley, Jerry Potter
Dolly Parton plays a singer who bets she can take anyone and turn him or her into a country singing star in two weeks. She runs into a New York cab driver (Sylvester Stallone), and he turns out to be more than a handful of trouble for her goal. Good duo, terrible movie.
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 Rocky 1976 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, George Memmoli, Al Silvani, Jodi Letizia, Larry Carroll, Diana Lewis, George O'Hanlon
Sylvester Stallone not only starred as the title character, he wrote the original script. This is a fairy-tale story about Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa who experiences the American dream when he gets a chance at the World Heavyweight Championship. The movie won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director (John G. Avildsen), and Film Editing; it also received seven other nominations, including Best Actor (Stallone), Actress (Talia Shire), and two for Supporting Actor (Burgess Meredith and Burt Young).
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 Rocky Balboa 2006  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Geraldine Hughes, Milo Ventimiglia, Tony Burton, James Francis Kelly III, Talia Shire, A.J. Benza, Lou DiBella, Mike Tyson, Henry G. Sanders
Thirty years have passed, but the Italian Stallion is back. The retired Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has been coping with the death of his wife (Talia Shire) and dealing with son Rocky Jr. (Milo Ventimiglia) who is resentful and has distanced himself from his father. Needing the money, Rocky decides to step back into the ring when he is offered an exhibition match against reigning heavyweight champion Mason "The Line" Dixon (Antonio Tarver). Will underdog Rocky have what it takes to make a successful comeback? 1 User Review
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| | Slow start but worth it to a Rocky fan | battlin 01/06/2007 | | Wish the fight scenes started a little earlier |
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 Rocky II 1979 PG, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Joe Spinell, Frank McRae, Leonard Gaines, Al Silvani, Sylvia Meals, John Pleshette, Stu Nahan, Bill Baldwin, Jerry Ziesmer
In this sequel, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) marries Adrian (Talia Shire) after losing his match with World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). Now, with a baby on the way, Rocky and Adrian need money, and down-and-out Rocky accepts the offer of a rematch with Apollo Creed. The fight finale is riveting. Stallone wrote and directed this sequel.
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 Rocky III 1982 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Al Silvani, Tony Burton, Hulk Hogan, Frank Stallone, Ian Fried, Wally Taylor, Jim Hill, Don Sherman, Dennis James
Sylvester Stallone as writer, director, and star pulls off another very enjoyable film with this version of Rocky Balboa's (Stallone) ups-and-downs in the boxing world. The story begins where "Rocky II" ended with Rocky taking the championship from Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). Then the story jumps three years ahead. Rocky has won many matches and is now wealthy. But, problems lie ahead when he loses his title to Clubber Lang (Mr. T) who accidentally causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey (Burgess Meredith).
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Rocky IV 1985 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Dolph Lundgren, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, James Brown, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Barry Tompkins, Stu Nahan, R.J. Adams, Al Bandiero, Dominic Barto, Rose Mary Campos
Once again, we are all rooting for Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) when he goes to Russia for the match to end all matches. This time, his opponent is a Russian fighter (Dolph Lundgren) trained through a computer (his digital readout for his best punch is 2,000 p.s.i.–awesome!). Rocky almost meets his match in this one.
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Rocky V 1990 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Morrison, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Richard Gant, Tony Burton, Jimmy Gambina, Delia Sheppard, Mike Girard Sheehan, Michael Williams, Kevin Connolly, Elisabeth Peters, Hayes Swope
Director John G. Avildsen is back at the helm for this last (?) Rocky Balboa film. This time, Rocky Balboa is suffering brain damage caused by one too many fights. However, he is badly in need of funds–his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) is forced to go to work, and teenage son Rocky Jr. (Sage Stallone) is having problems adjusting to high school in Rocky's old, run-down neighborhood in Philadelphia. Tommy "Machine" Gunn (Tommy Morrison) asks Rocky to train him, and Rocky agrees. All goes well until Tommy leaves Rocky and signs a deal with boxing promoter George Washington Duke (Richard Gant), which leads to a street fight between Tommy and Rocky.
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Shade 2003 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Damian Nieman
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Dina Merrill, Bo Hopkins, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Guenveur Smith, Charles Rocket, Joe Nicolo, George Tovar, Frank Medrano
Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) and Tiffany (Thandie Newton) join forces with fellow L.A. poker players Larry (Jamie Foxx) and Vernon (Stuart Townsend) to carry out a sting in which they plan to beat "The Dean" (Sylvester Stallone) in a poker game. There is one catch: the ill-begotten money belongs to a mob boss, he wants his money back, and now they are pursued by gangsters.
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 The Specialist 1994 R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Luis Llosa
Cast: Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger, James Woods, Mario Ernesto Sanchez, Sergio Dore Jr., Chase Randolph, Jeana Bell, Brittany Paige Bouck, Emilio Estefan Jr., LaGaylia Frazier, Tony Munafo, Ramon Gonzalez Cuevas, Cheito Quinonez
When she was a child twenty years ago, May Munro (Sharon Stone) witnessed her parents' murders. Now, she wants revenge and calls on Ray Quick (Sylvester Stallone) to avenge her parents' deaths. Ray is a former CIA bomb expert, and the target of May's revenge is Miami drug kingpin Joe Leon's (Rod Steiger) son Tomas (Eric Roberts). Ray agrees, but complications ensue after he kills Tomas and two others involved in May's parents' murders. Ray's former CIA colleague Ned Trent (James Woods) has ties to Joe, and Joe assigns him to track down the man who killed Tomas–and Ned has his own personal reason to seek revenge against Ray. Meanwhile, Ray is attracted to May but then becomes suspicious that she is in cahoots with Ned, and more problems present themselves.
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2003 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Ricardo Montalban, Holland Taylor, Sylvester Stallone, Matt O'Leary, Emily Osment, Ryan Pinkston, Cheech Marin, Tony Shalhoub, George Clooney, Salma Hayek
The Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone) has designed a new reality game, and now those Spy Kids find themselves in cyberspace when Juni (Daryl Sabara) enters a video game to save his sister, Carmen (Alexa Vega).
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Staying Alive 1983 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, Frank Stallone, Polly O'Malley, Tony Munafo, Robert Martini, Sarah M. Miles, Kurtwood Smith, Charles Ward, Norma Donaldson, Jesse Doran, Joyce Hyser
Six years after "Saturday Night Fever," Tony Manero (John Travolta) is still trying to find success. Now, he has left the Brooklyn discos and finds a role in the Broadway show, "Satan's Alley." The show's star, Laura (Finola Hughes) becomes the object of Tony's attentions, but his loyal girlfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes) stands by him throughout the sexual tensions of Tony and Laura while Tony becomes a Broadway star.
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot 1992 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees, Martin Ferrero, Gailard Sartain, Ving Rhames, Dennis Burkley, Richard Schiff, John Wesley
Los Angeles cop Joe Bomowski (Sylvester Stallone) is a grown man whose mother, Tutti (Estelle Getty), will not stop interfering in his life. The situation gets out of hand when Tutti is assigned to help Joe with a murder case in which she witnessed the crime.
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 Tango & Cash 1989 R, 104 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James, Michael J. Pollard, James Hong, Marc Alaimo, Philip Tan, Robert Z'Dar, Patti Davis, Lewis Arquette, Edward Bunker, Roy Brocksmith, Susan Krebs
L.A. detectives Lt. Raymond Tango and Lt. Gabriel Cash(Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell) are framed by a drug lord Yves Perret(Jack Palance) and sent to prison. While in jail, the two cops join forces to prove their innocence.
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Victory 1981 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Michael Caine, Pele, Sylvester Stallone, Bobby Moore, Max von Sydow, Daniel Massey, Carole Laure
While imprisoned in a World War II POW camp, allied prisoners accept the challenge to enter a soccer match against the Germans. Although they make elaborate plans to escape during the game, the prisoners become so caught up in the sport–and need for victory–that they stay to end the game. Bad, but it's fun to watch Pele at "work."
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| 1. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
2. Antz (1998)
3. The Assassins (1995)
4. Avenging Angelo (2002)
5. Bananas (1971)
6. Cannonball (1976)
7. Capone (1975)
8. Cliffhanger (1993)
9. Cobra (1986)
10. Cop Land (1997)
11. CyberWorld (2000)
12. D-Tox (2002)
aka: Eye See You
13. Daylight (1996)
14. Death Race 2000 (1975)
15. Demolition Man (1993)
16. Driven (2001)
17. F.I.S.T. (1978)
18. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
19. First Blood (1982)
aka: Rambo: First Blood
20. Get Carter (2000)
21. Judge Dredd (1995)
22. Lock Up (1989)
23. The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
24. Nighthawks (1981)
25. No Place to Hide (1970)
aka: Rebel
26. Oscar (1991)
27. Over the Top (1987)
28. Paradise Alley (1978)
29. The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970)
aka: Italian Stallion
30. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
31. Rambo (2008)
32. Rambo III (1988)
33. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
34. Rhinestone (1984)
35. Rocky (1976)
36. Rocky Balboa (2006)
37. Rocky II (1979)
38. Rocky III (1982)
39. Rocky IV (1985)
40. Rocky V (1990)
41. Shade (2003)
42. The Specialist (1994)
43. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
44. Staying Alive (1983)
45. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
46. Tango & Cash (1989)
47. Victory (1981)
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