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  • Lock Up
  • Lock Up review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars Lock Up. Not Banged Up 15 March 2005
    ...e to wonder about it. Sizemore is excellent as as double crosser making good & (John Amos), was well casted as the non smiling head of the prison guards Capt Meissner. D...  

John Amos - filmography


  • Lock Up on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  John Amos,  Donald Sutherland
    Director: John Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An inmate (Sylvester Stallone) with six months left to serve in a prison sentence is moved from a minimum security site to a maximum security facility under the sadistic hand of a warden (Donald Sutherland) with a personal vendetta against him. He must risk it all to stand up to the plot of torture ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,444 members
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  • Coming To America - HD DVD Version (1988)
    Starring: Shari Headley,  James Earl Jones,  John Amos
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this modern-day fairy tale, Eddie Murphy stars as a wealthy and pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion (Arsenio Hall), the prince heads to Queens, New York, where he quickly finds a job, new friends, new digs, new enemies, and more ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 81 members
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  • The Beastmaster (1982)
    Starring: Marc Singer,  Tanya Roberts,  Rip Torn
    Director: Don Coscarelli
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A heroic slave girl and a barbarian warrior face the intimidating dangers of a wild and primitive world, including a race of cannibalistic Bat-Men, and a battle against a fiendish cult and it's demonic leader.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,470 member
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  • Let's Do It Again (1975)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Bill Cosby,  Calvin Lockhart
    Director: Sidney Poitier
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 57% from 8 members
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  • Die Hard 2 on DVD
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Bonnie Bedelia,  William Atherton
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Renny Harlin, Die Hard 2 is a blockbuster sequel and a powerful action film in its own right. A band of commandos led by a murderous officer seize an international airport. Their aim is to rescue a drug baron (Franco Nero) from justice. Detective McClane (Bruce Willis) finds himself ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 27,413 members
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  • Voodoo Moon on DVD
    Starring: Eric Mabius,  Charisma Carpenter,  John Amos
    Director: Kevin Van Hook
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Cole and Heather are the two survivors of a demonic force that killed everyone else in their hometown twenty years ago. Heather can see into the future and Cole has become an exorcist and now they must return to the place where it all began and fight against the demon that ruined their lives.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 1,214 member
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John Amos facts

5 most recent films

Doctor Dolittle 3 - 3.0 stars
My Baby's Daddy - 2.5 stars
Two Evil Eyes - 2.5 stars
Die Hard 2 - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Lock Up - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Die Hard 2 - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Die Hard 2 - 3.5 stars
Coming To America - 3.5 stars
Coming To America - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Lock Up - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Good Times - The Complete First Season - 2.0 stars
Let's Do It Again - 2.5 stars
Voodoo Moon - 2.0 stars
Two Evil Eyes - 2.5 stars
My Baby's Daddy - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Reginald Veljohnson - 2 times - show films
Bonnie Bedelia - 2 times - show films
Eddie Murphy - 2 times - show films
Franco Nero - 2 times - show films
Shari Headley - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Renny Harlin - 2 times - show films
John Landis - 2 times - show films
John Flynn - 1 times - show films
Sidney Poitier - 1 times - show films
Don Coscarelli - 1 times - show films