
Karen Russell
Actor · b. 1962 · Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Karen Russell was a buxom, shapely, and voluptuous brunette actress and dancer who popped up with pleasing regularity in a handful of entertainingly trashy low-budget straight-to-video exploitation pictures made throughout the 1980's and 1990's. Karen made a memorable film debut as nasty street gang moll Chula in the brutal urban action opus "Tenement." She was quite funny and appealing as the ditsy Shawnee in the crudely amusing "Vice Academy." Russell's other noteworthy parts include sweet, but troubled Mafia princess Amy in the gloriously outrageous "Murder Weapon," motorcycle mama Candy in "Easy Wheels," naive hooker Fran in the hugely enjoyable "The Banker," cop Francesco Quinn's bitter estranged ex-wife Isabella in "Murder Blues," and lusty groupie Michelle in "Shock 'Em Dead." Moreover, Karen appeared in small roles as a dancer in the mainstream features "Dick Tracy," "Havana," "Mobsters," and "Bugsy." After calling it a day as an actress in the mid-1990's, Russell went on to become a yoga teacher and founder of her own business Yoga Groove based in North Hollywood, California. - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders
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Movie6.2AdventureComedyThe comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Dick Tracy
1990 · 1.1K votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceDuring the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.
Havana
1990 · 169 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaNew York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Bugsy
1991 · 467 votes
Movie4.5CrimeThrillerHigh-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
The Banker
1990 · 18 votes
Movie6.3ActionCrimeThe story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Mobsters
1991 · 202 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerDramaOnce-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s failings, end up in the crosshairs of a seasoned but jaded detective.
The Devil You Know
2022 · 43 votes
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceMargo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll nightlife. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in the City of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!
Modern Girls
1986 · 41 votes
Movie4.2HorrorThrillerCampers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
Memorial Valley Massacre
1988 · 39 votes
Movie4.9HorrorA teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
Hell High
1989 · 42 votes
Movie4.5ActionComedyA band of female police cadets train to join the Hollywood vice squad. The toothsome rookies are assigned to infiltrate a kiddy porn operation, then must go undercover and join a prostitution ring run by Queen Bee.
Vice Academy
1989 · 36 votes
Movie3.8ActionFantasyIn a post-apocalyptic world, women warriors battle each other from junkyards to gravel pits as they determine the fate of the entire world.
Phoenix the Warrior
1988 · 32 votes
Movie5.3ActionThrillerA drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
Tenement
1985 · 32 votes
Movie4.2MusicHorrorMartin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.
Shock 'Em Dead
1991 · 30 votes
Movie4.0ComedyA brainy girl turns bimbo and a football star turns brainy in order to attract each other's attention, only to discover that they liked each other the way they were in the first place.
The Girl I Want
1990 · 4 votes
Movie3.5MysteryDramaA detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people.
Dead Certain
1991 · 4 votes
Movie3.9ActionComedyA group of leather-clad bikers are on the trail of the female bikers who are stealing babies all over the state and selling them on the black market.
Easy Wheels
1989 · 10 votes
Movie5.1ComedyScience FictionWhen the mysterious Ms. Xenobia takes over the local college biology class, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn. Littlejohn agrees to be a lab rat for the professor's unusual vitamin research study. Now, thanks to some out-of-this-world supplements, he's been transformed into the campus stud. However, Xenobia has ulterior extraterrestrial motives.
Dr. Alien
1989 · 33 votes
Movie3.8ActionThrillerEx-San Francisco vice cop Samantha Roarke and Hollywood homicide detective Ryan Hayes team up to investigate an international drug cartel in Los Angeles, leading them to an ex-CIA operative turned drug kingpin who's organizing a heroin distribution center in the city.
American Rampage
1989 · 12 votes
Movie5.1ComedyCrimeA nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.
Mob Boss
1990 · 8 votes
Movie4.7HorrorThrillerTwo mobster daughters leave a sanitarium, host a party inviting ex-boyfriends, who then start disappearing mysteriously.
Murder Weapon
1989 · 31 votes
Movie4.7HorrorDramaA bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.
Hellbent
1988 · 14 votes
Movie8.0HorrorDocumentaryA documentary about special makeup effects on low budget horror films. Includes behind-the-scenes footage from Murder Weapon (1989), Robot Ninja (1989), Ghoul School (1990) and Skinned Alive (1990).
Shock Cinema: Volume Four
1991 · 2 votes
Movie3.3HorrorRoy is killed by a couple of jewel thieves and then brought back to life and possessed by deceased serial killer "Blade". He returns home and his mother is not very happy to see him as she wants to collect his life insurance policy. Soon, things get out of hand as mom is trying to make sure nobody knows that Roy has "come back" and Blade is trying to let everybody know that he has "come back".
Blood Nasty
1989 · 9 votes
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TV6.9ComedyThe family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
Dream On
1990 · 47 votes