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Roots

Roots (1977) more movies like this

directed by David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky
featuring LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many generations, from the kidnapping of an African warrior by ...

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An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount

Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or "Mayonnaise," as he is dubbed by the irascible Foley -- is an excellent cadet, but a little cold ...

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Enemy Mine

Enemy Mine (1985) more movies like this

directed by Wolfgang Petersen
featuring Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick

Love means never having to say that you're ugly in the extravagant fantasy film Enemy Mine. Earthling Dennis Quaid is Davidge, one of many space warriors engaged in a bloody extraterrestrial battle against the Draconians. Crash-landing on a faraway planet, Davidge is forced into an "up close and personal" with the Drac (Lou Gossett Jr.), a ...

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Iron Eagle

Iron Eagle (1986) more movies like this

directed by Sidney J. Furie
featuring Shawnee Smith, Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Tim Thomerson, Larry B. Scott, Robbie Rist

A seat-of-the-pants militia attitude gets a boost from this conventional drama about the heroics of a teen son anxious to free his father from captivity in a small Middle Eastern nation. Doug's (Jason Gedrick) father is an Air Force pilot who was shot down on a mission near the border of an Arab country and is now held hostage. Failing adequate U ...

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Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers (1991) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr.
featuring Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Dead Poets Society and Die Hard bash heads in this action drama set in a Northeastern prep school. The film opens as a crazed Central American terrorist, Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff), goes on a shooting spree, attempting to gain his drug baron father's release from extradition to the United States. The following sequence introduces some malcontented ...

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Jaws 3

Jaws 3 (1983) more movies like this

directed by Joe Alves
featuring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Putch

An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the horror series. The film maintains only a loose relationship to the original Steven Spielberg hit, centering on Mike (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch), the sons of police chief Martin Brody (originally played by Roy Scheider ...

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Backstairs at the White House

Backstairs at the White House (1979) more movies like this

directed by Michael O'Herlihy
featuring Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks served for 52 years as a ...

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The Principal

The Principal (1987) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Cain
featuring James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen, Esai Morales

An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high school in this comedy-drama from the director of Young Guns and That Was Then, This Is Now. Rick Latimer (James Belushi), a high-school teacher, is in the process of a divorce when he sees his estranged wife at a bar having ...

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Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (2007) more movies like this

directed by Tyler Perry
featuring Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett, Jr., Tasha Smith, Tracee Ellis Ross

Diary of a Mad Black Woman mastermind Tyler Perry turns the familiar Cinderella tale on its head with this story concerning a successful female attorney who falls in love with a financially strapped mechanic. Monty (Idris Elba) is struggling mechanic and single father of three from a poor neighborhood. Upon learning that custody of his beloved ...

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Firewalker

Firewalker (1986) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham

Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into view for awhile to make it clear that they are not ...

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The Deep (1977) more movies like this

directed by Peter Yates
featuring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr., Eli Wallach

Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of narcotics. David and Gail spend the rest of the picture avoiding bad guys who stashed the drugs and ...

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The Josephine Baker Story (1990) more movies like this

directed by Brian Gibson
featuring Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Craig T. Nelson, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Brian Gibson's made-for-cable biography of the famed singer Josephine Baker stars Lynn Whitfield as the black American who found stardom and scandal as the toast of the Paris night-life during the 1920s and '30s. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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The White Dawn (1974) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Akshooyooliak, Atcheelak, Aupalotak Simonee, Higa Ipeelie, Jacob Partridge, Meetook Mallee, Namonai Ashoona, Neelak, Oolipika Joamie, Sagiaktok, Seemee Nookiguak, Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett, Jr., Simonie Kopapik, Joanasie Salomonie

Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third film in history (after Nanook of the North and Eskimo) to shoot there. Kaufman also employs authentic Eskimo dialect in the film, which adds a heightened bit of realism. The story concerns three whalers -- Billy (Warren ...

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Zooman (1995) more movies like this

directed by Leon Ichaso
featuring Louis Gossett, Jr., Cynthia Martells, CCH Pounder

In this tough but literate urban drama (based on a play by Charles Fuller), Zooman (Khalil Kain) is a petty criminal and gangbanger who in the midst of a shootout with other gangsters accidentally kills a nine-year-old girl. The girl's father, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.), is distraught over his daughter's death, but becomes even more upset ...

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Iron Eagle II (1988) more movies like this

directed by Sidney J. Furie
featuring Louis Gossett, Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe, Sharon H. Brandon

A pair of American pilots are forced to cooperate with their Soviet counterparts on a mission to destroy a Middle Eastern nuclear weapons site in this predictable, low-budget action sequel. The first Iron Eagle's rebellious fly boy Cooper (Mark Humphreys) has returned, as has his gruff mentor Chappy (Louis Gossett Jr. as yet another military man). ...

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The River Niger (1976) more movies like this

directed by Krishna Shah
featuring Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Jr., Glynn E. Turman, Roger E. Mosley

River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto. All Movie Guide

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Iron Eagle III: Aces (1992) more movies like this

directed by John Glen
featuring Louis Gossett, Jr., Paul Freeman, Rachel McLish, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove

Chappy Sinclair enlists the aid of a team of wild air show pilots after he discovers that a Peruvian drug lord has set up shop in a small village. The fly boys make off with a fleet of World War II vintage aircraft in an effort to drive the drug dealers out of business, but they come up against a former Air Force comrade of Sinclair's, who is part ...

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Curse of the Starving Class (1994) more movies like this

directed by Michael McClary
featuring James Woods, Kathy Bates, Henry Thomas, Kristin Fiorella, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Based on the award-winning play by Sam Shepard, this drama offers an unblinking look at a family desperately clinging to the last threads of the American dream. Weston Tate (James Woods) is an alcoholic Viet Nam veteran struggling to hold on to the family's farm; he often brags about his grand plans for the place, but in truth the land is just one ...

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The Laughing Policeman (1973) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Rosenberg
featuring Dave Belrose, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe

Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the killer. Jake has a personal stake in the killings because ...

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Diggstown (1992) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham

In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After doing time for selling art that turned out to be forged, Gabriel Caine (James Woods) and his partner Fitz (Oliver Platt) set their sights on a village called Diggstown; Fitz arrives first and takes several well-heeled locals in ...

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Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack (1996) more movies like this

directed by Sidney J. Furie
featuring Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Cadieux, Al Waxman, Joanne Vannicola, Rachel Blanchard

The fourth entry in the Iron Eagle series follows the return of General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gosset Jr., who deserves better) as he trains a Dirty Dozen-style team of juvenile delinquents to improve their quality of life by flying planes and combatting evil. This time the Air Force itself is the enemy, as the intrepid teens uncover a ...

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The Choirboys (1977) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht

Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior lives of a large crew of callous, bigoted L.A. policemen. These men get together to lend one another emotional support. However, the means they choose for this do not enhance their sensitivity or their judgement. When one of ...

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Zora is My Name! (1990) more movies like this

directed by Neema Barnette
featuring Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Roger E. Mosley, Flip Wilson

A PBS "American Playhouse" production, this is an amusing TV outing revealing the life of Zora Neale Hurston, a black writer known for her folklore and stories from the rural South of the 1930s and 1940s. Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

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In His Father's Shoes (1997) more movies like this

directed by Victor Sarin
featuring Robert Ri'chard, Louis Gossett, Jr., Djanet Sears

Clay Crosby never had the chance to know his late father very well and it created a void in his life. At 15, he finds a pair of shoes, tries them on, and suddenly finds himself whisked back to the days when his father was a teen. When he takes the shoes off, he returns to his own time. Each time he travels backward, Clay draws more insight into ...

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Deceived (2002) more movies like this

directed by Andre Van Heerden, Peter Gerretsen
featuring Deborah Odell, Jefferson Mappin, Judd Nelson, Leigh Lewis, Louis Gossett, Jr., Michelle Nolden, Ramona Milano, Richard Nester, Stewart Bick

Christian independent film company Cloud Ten Productions presents this science fiction-tinged thriller in the same vein of their other offerings, such as Left Behind. Directed by Andre vanHeerden, Deceived stars Judd Nelson as Jack Jones, a scientist brought in to help discern the purpose and source of a strange, extraterrestrial signal that seems ...

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