
Leon
Actor · b. 1962 · New York City, New York, USA
Leon Preston Robinson IV (usually credited as simply "Leon") is an American actor and singer, who began his professional career as an actor in 1981.
Movies24
Movie6.5ActionAdventureA year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Cliffhanger
1993 · 2.7K votes
Movie7.0ComedyAdventureWhen a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Cool Runnings
1993 · 2.4K votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeA tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005 · 1.1K votes
Movie5.8RomanceDramaSensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
All the Right Moves
1983 · 304 votes
Movie6.5ActionCrimeA confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Colors
1988 · 564 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerA disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with the city's corrupt police chief, who is working with the gang leader and double-crossed him years ago.
A Day to Die
2022 · 247 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaCheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Waiting to Exhale
1995 · 213 votes
Movie4.6HorrorThrillerGenetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Bats
1999 · 223 votes
Movie6.3DramaComedyA criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Buffalo Soldiers
2002 · 359 votes
Movie7.1CrimeDramaStory of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Above the Rim
1994 · 248 votes
Movie6.3CrimeThrillerAn Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Band of the Hand
1986 · 60 votes
Movie6.5DramaAn equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.
The Glorias
2020 · 65 votes
Movie5.4ComedyTwo wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.
B.A.P.S
1997 · 85 votes
Movie4.9ComedyRomanceFriends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
Friends & Lovers
1999 · 32 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryA multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
The Women of Brewster Place
1989 · 21 votes
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Talented Brooklyn rapper Khan, blessed with swagger, has 15 kids from 8 baby mamas. On Christmas Eve, they unite to make him face fatherly duties, forcing him to choose between rap stardom or responsible parenthood amid mayhem and humor.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaBrooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
The Flamingo Kid
1984 · 91 votes
MovieDocumentaryThey have raged on for forty years, cutting a swath across continents and lighting the fuse of revolutionary thought. From the pressure-cooker ghettos of England to the mighty gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, one band has forged an enduring legacy. This is their story.
Movie8.6MusicThe Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer Madonna. Released on November 13, 1990 to accompany the audio CD, it contained hits spanning 1983-1990. The collection won "Best Long Form Video" category at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Includes the following videos: 1. Lucky Star 2. Borderline 3. Like a Virgin 4. Material Girl 5. Papa Don't Preach 6. Open Your Heart 7. La Isla Bonita 8. Like a Prayer 9. Express Yourself 10. Cherish 11. Oh Father 12. Vogue 13. Vogue (1990 MTV Awards Show Performance)
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
1990 · 65 votes
Movie4.0DramaOcean a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the problems found within. As she struggles with a new job, a new home, her own children, a difficult niece, and the issues of other tenants, all within learn something about taking action and using compassion in their own lives.
Diary of a Single Mom
2009 · 1 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieRomanceFive guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.
Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
2020 · 31 votes
Movie4.9ThrillerDramaCookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
Streetwalkin'
1985 · 24 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaWhen someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
Cover
2007 · 16 votes
Movie7.3DramaMusicIn the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
The Five Heartbeats
1991 · 75 votes
Series13
TV7.0DramaWar & PoliticsL.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
L.A. Law
1986 · 80 votes
TV7.2DramaCrossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Crossing Jordan
2001 · 167 votes
TV7.1Action & AdventureDramaHunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
Hunter
1984 · 102 votes
TV7.8DramaA relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.
The Chi
2018 · 225 votes
TV8.1CrimeDramaThe daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Oz
1997 · 876 votes
TV7.7CrimeDramaWhen corruption charges strip him of his job, his family and his pride, former cop Mike Olshansky forges a new identity as a Philadelphia cab driver, patrolling the city as a roving vigilante who works with local police.
Hack
2002 · 13 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaIn early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
City on a Hill
2019 · 193 votes
TV6.6CrimeComedyMurder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.
Swarm
2023 · 166 votes
TV6.4DramaMaddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a sober living facility while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life. Based on the popular young adult novel by Blake Nelson.
Recovery Road
2016 · 26 votes
TV4.9DramaSoapThe glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".
Central Park West
1995 · 7 votes
TV8.0DramaDocumentaryBiography of the singers who formed the hit Motown musical act, The Temptations.
The Temptations
1998 · 45 votes
TV6.0DramaA multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
The Women of Brewster Place
1989 · 3 votes
TV9.0DramaRealityA bisexual, mixed race, single bridal fashion designer maneuvers life and business in post colonial Africa.
40 and Single
2018 · 1 votes