6 Movies Starring Yaphet Kotto

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-06-27

Languages:

English, Hungarian

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (67496 Reviews)

Director:

Guy Hamilton

Cast:

Writer:

Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New Orleans, to investigate these mysterious deaths. Mr. Big comes to his knowledge, who is self-producing heroin. Along his journeys he meets Tee Hee who has a claw for a hand, Baron Samedi the voodoo master and Solitaire and her tarot cards. Bond must travel deep inside New Orleans, through marshy grass and on water as he completes his mission.

Blue Collar

Blue Collar

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-02-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (4230 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Schrader

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Schrader

Leonard Schrader

Sydney A. Glass (source material)

Fullplot:

Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their wives to have some fun they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only 600 dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some 'hot' material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason for that is the union itself. All three are provoked by the fact that the union claims to have lost 10,000 dollars by their robbery.

Brubaker

Brubaker

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-06-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (10764 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

W.D. Richter (screenplay)

W.D. Richter (story)

Arthur A. Ross (story)

Thomas O. Murton (suggested by)

Joe Hyams (suggested by)

Fullplot:

When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden.

The Park Is Mine

The Park Is Mine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-10-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1166 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Lyle Gorch (screenplay)

Stephen Peters (novel)

Fullplot:

A vietnam vet (Tommy Lee Jones) takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.

The Running Man

The Running Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-11-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (104621 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen King (novel)

Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in a totalitarian society. Ben Richards is a cop who was blamed for a massacre which wasn't his fault. He would be sent to prison and breaks out with some other inmates. He tries to escape but the woman whom he dragged into his plan turns him over to the authorities. Damon Killian, who is the host of THE RUNNING MAN a game show wherein convicted felons are given the chance to run to freedom but have to elude the stalkers; men who hunt them down and kill them in gruesome manners. When he learns that Richards has been caught, he wants him to be the show's next contestant. After being brought to Killian, Richards turns him down, Killian then reveals to Richards that his two friends who were in prison with him and who broke out with him have been caught, so unless Richards does the show they will. But on the night of the show, Richards is set to go but Killian also reveals that Richards' two friends are going with him. Richards tells Killian that he will be back. But first !

Midnight Run

Midnight Run

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-07-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (50334 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Brest

Fullplot:

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.

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