
Vonetta McGee
Actor · 1945 – 2010 · San Francisco, California, USA
Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress. She debuted in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod alongside her then-boyfriend Max Julien. In 1975, she was Clint Eastwood's co-star in The Eiger Sanction. She was a regular on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose, starring as Mimi Shaw for its only season (1987–88). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vonetta McGee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movie6.7ComedyScience FictionA down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Repo Man
1984 · 705 votes
Movie6.1ActionAdventureA classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
The Eiger Sanction
1975 · 467 votes
Movie7.5WesternDramaA mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Movie6.1AdventureCrimeDetective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Shaft in Africa
1973 · 86 votes
Movie5.5HorrorFantasyAn 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.
Blacula
1972 · 184 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDrama1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994 · 6 votes
Movie4.4CrimeActionSeven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Movie6.8DramaAn enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · 68 votes
Movie6.2HorrorTV MovieA newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
The Norliss Tapes
1973 · 28 votes
Movie7.2DramaMysterySleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and embarrasses several very prominent women. One of them, actress Roxanne Shield, loses her composure during an interview and winds up making a televised death threat. Of course, when Ted is murdered, she is arrested. Witnesses claim they saw Roxanne outside his apartment that night and police later find the murder weapon in her car. Renowned defence attorney Perry Mason accepts the challenge of defending her in court.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992 · 8 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerActionAfter an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
The Kremlin Letter
1970 · 49 votes
Movie4.3DramaA gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
The Lost Man
1969 · 6 votes
Movie5.9HorrorFantasyAfter an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's adopted apprentice is chosen as the leader. Willis seeks revenge by reviving the African prince Blacula — but soon finds that he cannot control him.
Scream Blacula Scream
1973 · 79 votes
Movie5.7ActionDramaIn Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
Foxbat
1977 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieSequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Scruples
1981 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ActionCrimeAfter a fundraiser for a Black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one Black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Detroit 9000
1973 · 29 votes
Movie4.5CrimeDramaIt's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Superdome
1978 · 13 votes
Movie5.4ActionDramaHotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Hammer
1972 · 17 votes
Movie5.0DramaTV MovieResidents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
The Man Next Door
1996 · 6 votes
Movie5.5MysteryCrimeShepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, however, she finds out that there is much more to the case.
Stormy Weathers
1992 · 4 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieIn this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Movie7.2DramaHistoryA young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
Brother Future
1991 · 6 votes
Movie8.5DramaAn independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers his strong principles when it came to supporting his actors and his art overall.
You Must Remember This
1992 · 2 votes
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TV7.3CrimeDramaA private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · 460 votes
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
TV6.4Action & AdventureCrimeSergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Police Woman
1974 · 33 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaMary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · 74 votes
TV7.3Action & AdventureDramaStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · 208 votes
TV6.7ComedyFamilyAmen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.
Amen
1986 · 22 votes
TV6.0DramaHell Town is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1985 to December 25, 1985. The series features former Baretta star Robert Blake.
Hell Town
1985 · 2 votes
TV6.1CrimeDramaEZ Streets
1996 · 7 votes
TV6.0ComedyBustin' Loose is an American situation comedy that was loosely based on the 1981 film of the same name starring Richard Pryor. The series premiered in first-run syndication in 1987 and lasted for only one season.
Bustin' Loose
1987 · 2 votes
TV7.1ComedyFamilyThe series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
Diff'rent Strokes
1978 · 299 votes