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Posted on November 20, 2020 | Comments Off on Uptown Saturday Night (1974) 720p WEB-DL DD+2.0 H.264-BLM
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Action | Comedy | Crime
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Posted on September 11, 2020 | Comments Off on In the Heat of the Night (1967) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay AAC1.0 x264-CALiGARi
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson
Director: Norman Jewison
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Posted on May 29, 2019 | Comments Off on A Patch of Blue (1965) 720p BluRay AAC2.0 x264-DON
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Drama | Romance
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, Elisabeth Fraser
Director: Guy Green
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Posted on July 22, 2018 | Comments Off on No Way Out (1950) 720p BluRay FLAC2.0 x264-HaB
No Way Out (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A black doctor is assigned to treat two white racist suspects who are brothers, and when one dies it causes tension that could start a race riot.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith, Harry Bellaver, Stanley Ridges, Dots Johnson
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Posted on February 16, 2017 | Comments Off on To Sir with Love II (1996) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-SbR
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Drama
After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner city school proves too much to resist.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Christian Payton, Dana Eskelson, Fernando López, Casey Lluberes, Michael Gilio, Bernadette Speakes
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Posted on February 11, 2017 | Comments Off on The Long Ships (1964) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
The Long Ships (1964)
Adventure
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices," a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oskar Homolka, Edward Judd
Director: Jack Cardiff
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Posted on October 23, 2014 |
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Edge of the City (1957)
Drama
New York City longshoremen Nordmann an Army deserter & Tommy Tyler an easy-going freight car loader who's growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, notably repellent punk.
Starring: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee, Val Avery
Director: Martin Ritt
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Posted on October 5, 2013 | Comments Off on Lilies of the Field (1963) 720p HDTV DD2.0 x264-EbP
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Comedy | Drama
Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker, heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert…
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch, Stanley Adams
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Posted on June 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Guess Whos Coming to Dinner (1967) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-DON
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Drama | Romance
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Posted on May 30, 2013 | Comments Off on Sneakers (1992) BluRay 720p DTS x264-CHD
Sneakers (1992)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue.
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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Posted on February 13, 2013 | Comments Off on The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-HD4FUN
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Drama
Sitting on 35 acres of Georgia land coveted by a shopping mall developer, 90+years-old Noah Dearborn is untainted by modern life. He's never heard of the Beatles, and his only interest is his woodworking, in which he excels. The girlfriend of one of the developers is a psychologist, and is asked to evaluate Noah for a possible move to have him declared incompetent. But she soon falls under his spell of a simple life and becomes his ally in his fight to keep his land.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, George Newbern, Roxzane T. Mims, Afemo Omilami, Bernie Casey, James Thomas Lee Knight, Christopher Ryan Dunn
Director: Gregg Champion
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Tags: Afemo Omilami, Bernie Casey, Christopher Ryan Dunn, Dianne Wiest, George Newbern, Gregg Champion, James Thomas Lee Knight, Mary-Louise Parker, Roxzane T. Mims, Sidney Poitier
Posted on August 19, 2012 | Comments Off on The Jackal (1997) BluRay 720p x264 DTS-WiKi
The Jackal (1997)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The FBI's Deputy Director must stop the Jackal, a ruthless professional killer, before he makes his next assassination. He teams up with a female Russian officer and an imprisoned IRA terrorist in a global race against the clock to stop the Jackal before he strikes.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Mathilda May, Richard Lineback
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Comedy | Crime
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Sidney Poitier
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