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Fame

Fame (1980) more movies like this

directed by Alan Parker
featuring Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri

Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where talented teens train for show-business careers. The film concentrates on five of the most gifted students: singer Irene Cara, actors Paul McCrane and Barry Miller, dancer Gene Anthony Ray, and musician Lee Currieri. More so than the subsequent TV series Fame, the film emphasizes the ...

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Sparkle

Sparkle (1976) more movies like this

directed by Sam O'Steen
featuring Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice

A trio of musically talented Harlem sisters rise to become major stars of the '50s. Unfortunately, their sudden popularity causes much turmoil in their lives. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After (1990) more movies like this

directed by John Howley
featuring Irene Cara, Ed Asner, Carol Channing, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller

In this unauthorized sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the animation is so bad that it makes Scooby Doo look like Fantasia. Disney's litigation against the film caused its theatrical release to be delayed for several years. But there was no need to worry -- there is no way that Happily Ever After could ever be confused with the Disney ...

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D.C. Cab

D.C. Cab (1983) more movies like this

directed by Joel Schumacher
featuring Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara, Anne de Salvo, Max Gail

In this casual, uninvolved comedy running on a low-octane script, a scruffy taxi company is about to be wiped out when its owner Harold (Max Gail) exhorts his cabbies to do what they can to help save the company -- and what they can do turns out to be a surprise to everyone concerned. Saving the day (and the film) are the likeable, eccentric ...

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Certain Fury

Certain Fury (1985) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
featuring Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Moses Gunn

This Canadian exploitational actioner offers a remake of the Defiant Ones with a contemporary twist: this time the fugitives are women. The Caucasian girl is a prostitute who was picked up for vagrancy, while the other is a wealthy African-American woman who, with her boyfriend, is arrested for riding in a stolen Jaguar. While both girls are ...

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Busted Up

Busted Up (1986) more movies like this

directed by Conrad Palmisano
featuring Paul Coufos, Irene Cara, Stan Shaw, Tony Rosato

Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he fights in order to save it. Former Saturday Night Live regular Tony Rosato co-stars with Irene Cara, ...

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For Us, The Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

For Us, The Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983) more movies like this

directed by Michael Schultz
featuring Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Irene Cara

Howard E. Rollins stars as martyred civil-rights spokesman Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP leader) Myrlie. The film concentrates on the last years of Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist. His home in Jackson, Mississippi is besieged by bigots and he and his family are threatened with dire consequences, ...

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Aaron Loves Angela

Aaron Loves Angela (1975) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Parks, Jr.
featuring Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Ernestine Jackson

Fame star Irene Cara made her film bow in Aaron Loves Angela. Cara plays Angela, a Puerto Rican girl who falls in love with Aaron, a black ghetto youth (Kevin Hooks, whose father Robert Hooks also appears in the film). The unrelenting grimness of their lives is leavened ever so slightly by comic-relief character Willie (Leon Pinkley). Way, way ...

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Killing 'em Softly

Killing 'em Softly (1982) more movies like this

directed by Max Fischer
featuring George Segal, Irene Cara, Clark Johnson, Nicholas Campbell, Joyce Gordon

After accidentally killing a rock group's manager, a destitute musician (George Segal) falls in love with the girlfriend (Irene Cara) of the man accused of the murder. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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