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Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American actor. Known for his large size at 6' 3" (190 cm), he has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen. Starr was born in Flushing, Queens, New York to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His older brother Beau Starr is also an actor. Mike Starr is a graduate of Hofstra Univers... more

Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American actor. Known for his large size at 6' 3" (190 cm), he has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen. Starr was born in Flushing, Queens, New York to a retail employee mother and a meatpacker father. His older brother Beau Starr is also an actor. Mike Starr is a graduate of Hofstra University. He and his family reside in Riverdale, New York.

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GoodFellas
(1990)
Crime, Drama
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
8.7
96%
90
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Ed Wood
(1994)
Comedy, Drama, History
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones
7.8
92%
70
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Miller's Crossing
(1990)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast:
Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman
7.7
92%
66
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Dumb and Dumber
(1994)
Comedy
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up an...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast:
Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr
7.3
68%
41
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Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
Drama, War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Runtime:
145 min
Director:
Oliver Stone
Cast:
Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Holly Marie Combs, Kyra Sedgwick
7.2
85%
75
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The Birdcage
(1996)
Comedy
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Grant Heslov
7.2
81%
72
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Uncle Buck
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
John Hughes
Cast:
John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, Gaby Hoffmann
7.0
64%
51
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The Natural
(1984)
Drama
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
Barry Levinson
Cast:
Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Robert Duvall
7.5
82%
61
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Black Dynamite
(2009)
Action, Comedy
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Scott Sanders
Cast:
Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Kevin Chapman, Richard Edson
7.4
83%
65
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James and the Giant Peach
(1996)
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Henry Selick
Cast:
Paul Terry, Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Pete Postlethwaite
6.7
91%
78
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The Bodyguard
(1992)
Action, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Mick Jackson
Cast:
Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner, Michele Lamar Richards, Ralph Waite, Gary Kemp
6.3
34%
39
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Kill the Irishman
(2011)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Jonathan Hensleigh
Cast:
Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Linda Cardellini
7.1
63%
50
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The Money Pit
(1986)
Comedy, Romance
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Richard Benjamin
Cast:
Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton
6.4
50%
49
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Summer of Sam
(1999)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Runtime:
142 min
Director:
Spike Lee
Cast:
John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
6.7
N/A
67
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Jersey Girl
(2004)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Kevin Smith
Cast:
Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin
6.2
42%
43
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Lean On Me
(1989)
Drama
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault,...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
John G. Avildsen
Cast:
Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Ethan Phillips, Lynne Thigpen
7.4
65%
58
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Snake Eyes
(1998)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Brian De Palma
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Tamara Tunie
6.0
41%
52
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Clockers
(1995)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers...
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Spike Lee
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington
6.9
72%
71
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Blown Away
(1994)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Stephen Hopkins
Cast:
Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis
6.3
38%
N/A
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The Black Dahlia
(2006)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Brian De Palma
Cast:
Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner
5.6
32%
49
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Cat's Eye
(1985)
Horror, Thriller
Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, ...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Lewis Teague
Cast:
Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays
6.3
67%
70
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The Last Dragon
(1985)
Action, Adventure
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Michael Schultz
Cast:
Taimak, Julius Carry, Vanity, Christopher Murney, Faith Prince
6.9
59%
N/A
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The Ice Harvest
(2005)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Harold Ramis
Cast:
John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Lara Phillips, Bill Noble, Brad Smith
6.2
N/A
62
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Funny Farm
(1988)
Comedy
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
George Roy Hill
Cast:
Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher
6.2
65%
50
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Knockaround Guys
(2001)
Crime, Thriller
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Cast:
Barry Pepper, Andy Davoli, Seth Green, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich
6.1
21%
30
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Mad Dog and Glory
(1993)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young waitress named Glory for a week. At first both are uneasy about the arrangement, but they eventually...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
John McNaughton
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Mike Starr
6.2
77%
71
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Hoodlum
(1997)
Crime, Drama
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Bill Duke
Cast:
Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Vanessa Williams, Andy García
6.3
43%
50
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Blue Steel
(1990)
Thriller
Megan Turner, a female rookie cop, gets involved in an armed robbery that goes awry. A witness becomes obsessed with her.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Cast:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher
5.7
75%
54
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Billy Bathgate
(1991)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Robert Benton
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi
5.9
38%
N/A
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
(1989)
Drama
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Uli Edel
Cast:
Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach
6.8
74%
62
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Blood and Wine
(1996)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Bob Rafelson
Cast:
Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis, Michael Caine
6.1
61%
N/A
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Ca$h
(2010)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of decept...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Stephen Milburn Anderson
Cast:
Sean Bean, Chris Hemsworth, Victoria Profeta, Mike Starr, Michael Mantell
6.0
N/A
N/A
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A Shock to the System
(1990)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandl...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Jan Egleson
Cast:
Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Riegert, Will Patton
6.7
68%
69
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
(2006)
Crime, Drama, TV Movie, Thriller
In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' LA cop, Jesse Stone relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Robert Harmon
Cast:
Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Polly Shannon
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Wrong Turn at Tahoe
(2009)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Franck Khalfoun
Cast:
Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Louis Mandylor, Alex Meneses, Miguel Ferrer
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Two If by Sea
(1996)
Comedy, Romance
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a p...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Bill Bennett
Cast:
Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary, Yaphet Kotto, Stephen Dillane, Tracey Cherelle Jones
5.3
10%
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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On Deadly Ground
(1994)
Action, Thriller
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Steven Seagal
Cast:
Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey
4.6
12%
33
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Gloria
(1999)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Cast:
Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Mike Starr
5.1
17%
26
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I Hate Valentine's Day
(2009)
Comedy, Romance
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Nia Vardalos
Cast:
Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Jason Mantzoukas, Judah Friedlander, Judah Friedlander
4.7
19%
17