Brion James

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Blade Runner

(1982)

Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Ridley Scott

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah

8.1

89%

84

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The Fifth Element

(1997)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Runtime:

126 min

Director:

Luc Besson

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker

7.7

71%

52

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The Player

(1992)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Runtime:

124 min

Director:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Whoopi Goldberg

7.5

98%

86

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48 Hrs.

(1982)

Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Walter Hill

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar

6.9

93%

71

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Silverado

(1985)

Western

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who...

Runtime:

133 min

Director:

Lawrence Kasdan

Cast:

Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

7.2

76%

64

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Tango & Cash

(1989)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison ...

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Andrei Konchalovsky, Albert Magnoli

Cast:

Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

6.4

30%

41

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Enemy Mine

(1985)

Drama, Science Fiction

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Wolfgang Petersen

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick

6.9

63%

59

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Red Heat

(1988)

Action, Crime

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Walter Hill

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle

6.1

67%

61

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Southern Comfort

(1981)

Action, Thriller

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Walter Hill

Cast:

Keith Carradine, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward

7.2

79%

63

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

(1981)

Crime, Drama, Romance

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Runtime:

122 min

Director:

Bob Rafelson

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner, John P. Ryan

6.6

79%

61

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Striking Distance

(1993)

Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the vict...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Rowdy Herrington

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James

5.9

17%

36

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Another 48 Hrs.

(1990)

Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Walter Hill

Cast:

Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross

5.9

21%

23

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Flesh + Blood

(1985)

Adventure, Drama

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Runtime:

126 min

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Fernando Hilbeck

6.7

86%

56

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D.O.A.

(1988)

Mystery, Thriller

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

Cast:

Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek

6.2

58%

N/A

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Armed and Dangerous

(1986)

Action, Comedy, Crime

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Mark Lester

Cast:

John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Meg Ryan, Kenneth McMillan

5.7

10%

17

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Cherry 2000

(1987)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfe...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Steve De Jarnatt

Cast:

David Andrews, Jennifer Balgobin, Marshall Bell, Harry Carey, Jr., Laurence Fishburne

5.6

38%

59

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Crimewave

(1985)

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Sam Raimi

Cast:

Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman

5.7

50%

34

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Red Scorpion

(1987)

Action, Adventure, War

A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Joseph Zito

Cast:

Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T. P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano

5.2

17%

N/A

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Radioland Murders

(1994)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance

In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice bre...

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Mel Smith

Cast:

Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

6.2

24%

N/A

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The Jazz Singer

(1980)

Drama, Music, Romance

Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba, Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox record one of his songs....

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Cast:

Neil Diamond, Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams

5.9

19%

37

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Nemesis

(1992)

Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague wh...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Albert Pyun

Cast:

Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Deborah Shelton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy

5.4

60%

N/A

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Cabin Boy

(1994)

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Adam Resnick

Cast:

Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James

5.1

46%

21

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The King Is Alive

(2000)

Drama

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to...

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Kristian Levring

Cast:

Romane Bohringer, David Calder, David Bradley, Brion James, Miles Anderson

6.3

60%

52

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Steel Dawn

(1987)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Lance Hool

Cast:

Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe, Christopher Neame, Brion James

5.0

N/A

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Corvette Summer

(1978)

Adventure, Comedy

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Matthew Robbins

Cast:

Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, William Bryant, Richard McKenzie

5.5

57%

N/A

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Brain Smasher... A Love Story

(1993)

Action, Comedy

A professional model, Sam Crain, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is battling Chinese Shaolin Monks (not ninjas!). Fleeing the monks, Sam unwittingly involves Ed "Brainsmasher" Molloy, a nightclub bouncer.

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Albert Pyun

Cast:

Andrew Dice Clay, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Brion James

5.4

N/A

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The Horror Show

(1989)

Horror, Thriller

Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim hi...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

James Isaac

Cast:

Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg

4.9

N/A

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Hong Kong 97

(1994)

Action, Drama, Thriller

Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large corporation with interests in the colony, guns down key members of the Chinese envoy which will take charge of Hong Kong the next day. Suddenly, he becomes a target for every two-bit merc...

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Albert Pyun

Cast:

Robert Patrick, Brion James, Tim Thomerson, Ming-Na Wen, Andrew Divoff

5.8

N/A

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Brown's Requiem

(1998)

Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed u...

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Jason Freeland

Cast:

Michael Rooker, Selma Blair, Brion James, Brad Dourif, Will Sasso

5.9

50%

N/A

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In God's Hands

(1998)

Adventure

Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to Madagascar, Bali and Hawaii in search for the ultimate wave.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Zalman King

Cast:

Patrick Shane Dorian, Matt George, Matty Liu, Shaun Tomson, Maylin Pultar

5.5

N/A

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The Wrong Guys

(1988)

Action, Comedy

Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Danny Bilson

Cast:

Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Biff Manard, Brion James, John Goodman

5.1

N/A

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American Strays

(1996)

Action, Comedy

The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling through. It is also the teller of different stories including the story of a traveling salesman whose only commodity is death and the story of a young man who finds that the death that he wishes for is difficult to find. Others are just travel...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Michael Covert

Cast:

Scott Plank, Melora Walters, John Savage, Brion James, Joe Viterelli

5.4

N/A

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Showdown

(1993)

Action, Drama

Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has since then become the janitor of the school that Ken, Julie and Tom go to. When Ken gets ...

Runtime:

100 min

5.2

N/A

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Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues

(1983)

Western

Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Dick Lowry

Cast:

Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Johnny Crawford, Charles Fields

6.3

N/A

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Dead Man Walking

(1988)

Action, Science Fiction

After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

Gregory Dark

Cast:

Wings Hauser, Brion James, Jeffrey Combs, Pamela Ludwig, Leland Crooke

5.4

N/A

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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

(1989)

TV Movie, Western

Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in this notorious criminal, who has been plaguing the territory, he might be able to get a pardon.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

E.W. Swackhamer

Cast:

Alex McArthur, Richard Farnsworth, James Remar, Brad Dourif, Tom Bower

6.7

N/A

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The Dark

(1993)

Horror

Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this miraculous being. Stalking the creature in it's subterranean habitat, neither man is aware of th...

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Craig Pryce

Cast:

Stephen McHattie, Brion James, Neve Campbell, Desmond Campbell, Scott Wickware

4.7

N/A

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Steel Frontier

(1995)

Action, Science Fiction

Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes to town. A quick-drawing gunslinger, he...

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Joe Hart, Paul G. Volk

Cast:

Joe Lara, Bo Svenson, Stacie Foster, Brion James

5.0

N/A

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The Companion

(1994)

Romance, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller

In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring along a "companion", a nearly-human android to cook and clean. She settles on a male companion named "Geoffrey." Bored with some of Geoffrey's behavior, she tinkers with his programming -- f...

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Gary Fleder

Cast:

Kathryn Harrold, Bruce Greenwood, Talia Balsam, Brion James, Joely Fisher

5.9

N/A

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The Operator

(2000)

A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

5.3

45%

44

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