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  • Grier wants Berry for planned biopic - 9 April 2012
    -Iconic actress Pam Grier is reportedly eyeing Halle Berry to take her life story to the big screen.-A movie based on the Foxy Brown star's 2010 autobiography Foxy: My Life in Three Acts is currently in the works and the actress appears to have her leading lady pic

Pam Grier - what members say


  • Nico - Above The Law
  • Nico - Above The Law review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 26 October 2005
    ...Nico defiantly pursues his own investigation. With the help of his partner Jax (Pam Grier), he sifts through a tangled web of Catholic priests, illegal immigrants, and t...   Read customer review
  • Foxy Brown
  • Foxy Brown review by from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 3.0 stars Don't mess aroun' with Foxy Brown! 11 January 2005
    ...Pam Grier poses as a hooker to get to the man who killed her undercover cop boyfriend Michael (Terry Carter) who despite facial surgery, is betrayed by Foxy?s drug-deali...   Read customer review
  • Coffy
  • Coffy review by from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars Blax-tastic! 18 June 2004
    ... 1974 drive-in ?classic? reunited two of the finest purveyors of 70s B-movies ? Pam Grier and Jack Hill. Whilst the pair had worked together previously in the cracking W...   Read customer review

Pam Grier - filmography


  • Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012)
    Starring: Blair Underwood,  Sharon Leal,  Pam Grier
    Director: Neema Barnette
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On The 7th Day is a compelling story that unites love, suspense and faith into one heart-wrenching package. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Neema Barnette (Civil Brand), Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day underscores the impact of secrets, lies and deception on the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Just Wright (2010)
    Starring: Paula Patton,  Queen Latifah,  Pam Grier
    Director: Sanaa Hamri
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A female physical therapist is drafted by an all-star basketball player to help him recover from a career-threatening injury. The two soon fall in love in what is a modern-day Cinderella story.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 86 members
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  • 3 A.M. on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Danny Glover,  Pam Grier,  Sergej Trifunovic
    Director: Lee Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three stories about New York City cab drivers are linked by a murder. It's a lonely and dangerous profession--working the night shift. One day you could just pick up a killer fare!
    2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 192 members
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  • Bones on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Snoop Dogg,  Pam Grier,  Michael T. Weiss
    Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    BONES features rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role as the benevolent neighbourhood kingpin, Jimmy Bones, who is betrayed and murdered in 1979, and returns to get his horrific revenge 20 years later. Patrick (Khalil Kain), the son of one of the witnesses to the murder, Jeremiah (Clifton ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 628 members
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  • John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Ice Cube,  Natasha Henstridge,  Jason Statham
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    From director John Carpenter comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense that recalls such earlier Carpenter classics as Assault On Precinct 13 and The Thing. Natasha Henstridge is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 199 members
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  • John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ice Cube,  Natasha Henstridge,  Jason Statham
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    From director John Carpenter comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense that recalls such earlier Carpenter classics as Assault On Precinct 13 and The Thing. Natasha Henstridge is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 4,369 members
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  • Snow Day (2000)
    Starring: Iggy Pop,  Pam Grier,  Chevy Chase
    Director: Chris Koch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nickelodeon Movies presents this family comedy concerning a day in the life of the Brandstons, a bumbling Syracuse family whose town falls victim to a sudden snowstorm. While father Tom (Chevy Chase), a struggling meteorologist, battles with his producer over whether wearing outrageous outfits will ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 340 members
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  • Wilder on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: Rodney Gibbons
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A routine investigation for Chicago policewoman Della Wilder (Pam Grier) takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that the victim is the latest link in a chain of murders. As Wilder pursues the killer, a mysterious pharmaceutical company is implicated in the proceedings.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 120 members
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  • Holy Smoke on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Harvey Keitel,  Sophie Lee
    Director: Jane Campion
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to her guru. Her family, hoping to break the cult leader's psychic grip on Ruth, hires P.J. (Harvey Keitel)..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 3,867 members
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  • No Tomorrow on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Gary Busey,  Gary Daniels,  Master P
    Director: Master P
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A multimillion dollar arms transaction, a notorious criminal, a mobster, an American militia force, the FBI and a big ship are an explosive combination in this urban action drama.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 32 members
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  • In Too Deep on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Omar Epps,  L.L. Cool J.,  Stanley Tucci
    Director: Michael Rymer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Officer Jeff Cole infiltrates the world of the crime lord who rules the city's streets in order to track down a ruthless gangster. He soon starts to sink into the world of 'God' and the line between his street life and true identity begin to disappear...
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 402 members
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  • Fortress 2 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Beth Toussaint,  Christopher Lambert,  Pam Grier
    Director: Geoff Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Brennick manages to escape from 'The Fortress', a maximum security prison only to be caught again and incarcerated in a futuristic state-of-the-art maximum security prison which is orbiting 26,000 miles from Earth. He must attempt to escape again to be reunited with his wife and son.......
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 813 members
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  • Jawbreaker on DVD (1998)
    Starring: William Katt,  Judy Greer,  Rebecca Gayheart
    Director: Darren Stein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In what seems to be a hybrid of classic teen flicks HEATHERS and CLUELESS, three of the most popular girls in school (Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz) pretend to kidnap their friend as a prank, shoving a jawbreaker in her mouth to keep her quiet in the process. The plot unfolds around ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,050 member
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  • Jackie Brown on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Robert De Niro
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 28,282 members
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  • Jackie Brown - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Robert De Niro
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 338 members
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  • Escape From L.A. - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Peter Jason,  Le,  Kurt Russell
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell teamed up for this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the idea was to kick butt and have fun. They do just that in ESCAPE FROM L.A., an explosive film that recalls the classic original in all the best ways. Infamous adventurer Snake Plissken gets another raw deal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 560 members
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  • Escape From L.A. on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Peter Jason,  Le,  Kurt Russell
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell teamed up for this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the idea was to kick butt and have fun. They do just that in ESCAPE FROM L.A., an explosive film that recalls the classic original in all the best ways. Infamous adventurer Snake Plissken gets another raw deal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,635 members
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  • The Package on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Joanna Cassidy,  John Heard
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sgt. Johnny Gallagher is severely reprimanded after a breach in security allowed a terrorist attack on a disarmament conference. He is given the menial task of escorting a court-martialled soldier back to America. On the way he is beaten up and the soldier absconds. His investigations lead Johnny ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 440 members
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  • Class of 1999 on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Stacy Keach,  Bradley Gregg,  Malcolm McDowell
    Director: Mark L. Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Violence at the Lyndon B. Johnson High School has got out of hand, so the Education Board decide to send in robots to take the place of the teachers. When the students find out that the robots are killing to discipline they join together to confront their executioners in a battle of might...
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 618 members
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  • Nico - Above The Law on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Steven Seagal,  Pam Grier,  Sharon Stone
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Chicago cop Nico Toscani (Steven Seagal) discovers that suspects apprehended in a drug bust are allowed to walk, he's not happy. Soon Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge. Although he's now off the force, no way is he out of the action. Seagal makes a smashing screen debut in this tale ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,854 members
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  • Nico - Above The Law - Blu-ray (1988)
    Starring: Steven Seagal,  Pam Grier,  Sharon Stone
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Chicago cop Nico Toscani (Steven Seagal) discovers that suspects apprehended in a drug bust are allowed to walk, he's not happy. Soon Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge. Although he's now off the force, no way is he out of the action. Seagal makes a smashing screen debut in this tale ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 271 members
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  • The Fort Apache Bronx (1981)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Pam Grier,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Murphy (Paul Newman) is a street cop in the tough borough of the Bronx -- known to its denizens as "Fort Apache." While Murphy tries to treat the people on his beat with dignity, he can't seem to convince his superiors that brutality isn't a cure for society's ills. After witnessing a fellow cop (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 24 members
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  • Drum on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Isela Vega,  Ken Norton
    Director: Steve Carver
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A sequel to MANDINGO, in 1860s New Orleans. A passionate and provocative drama set in the American south in the decade prior to the Civil War. Warren Oates plays the negro slave in a bordello house who must endure all manner of sexual indignities.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 180 members
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  • Bucktown (1975)
    Starring: Fred Williamson,  Pam Grier,  Thalmus Rasulala
    Director: Arthur Marks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local red-neck policemen are intimidating Duke with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Friday Foster (1975)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Carl Weathers,  Eartha Kitt
    Director: Arthur Marks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pam Grier is Friday Foster, a beautiful young magazine journalist with a sharp, inquiring mind. But Friday's jolted out of her comfortable, professional lifestyle when she discovers a group of white assassins plotting to kill important black political figures. Can this dainty detective disband a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 17 members
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  • Coffy on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Booker Bradshaw,  Robert Doqui
    Director: Jack Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pam Grier rocketed to stardom as the queen of blaxploitation films with this big cult hit. Director Jack Hill, who had launched her film career two years earlier with THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, here casts Grier as a hardworking nurse out to avenge her smack-addicted 11-year-old sister by waging a one-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 888 members
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  • Foxy Brown on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Peter Brown,  Terry Carter
    Director: Jack Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This hip, violent, fast-moving film firmly established Pam Grier as the goddess of Blaxploitation. She plays Foxy, a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued L.A. ghetto who goes on a one woman mission of vengeance after her undercover cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is shot down in the street. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 991 members
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  • Black Mama White Mama on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Margaret Markov,  Sid Haig
    Director: Eddie Romero
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this U.S.-Filipino co-production a pair of chained-together women inmates escape from a Filipino prison, pursued by an array of bad guys and girl guards. Cult blaxploitation star Pam Grier, who later made a big splash as the eponymous heroine of Quentin Tarantino's second feature, FOXY BROWN, stars.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 287 members
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  • The Arena on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Margaret Markov,  Lucretia Love
    Director: Joe D'Amato,  Steve Carver,  Stev
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In ancient Rome, when the arena crowds tire of watching men battle lions, a bevy of buxom women are kidnapped by soldiers and forced to fight their way to freedom from the ring. The film features an early role for the dynamic Pam Grier.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 352 members
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  • Black Caesar on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Fred Williamson,  Val Avery,  Pam Grier
    Director: Larry Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy Gibbs is a young killer with prison savvy and underworld connections who uses his gun to get the power he craves. As the new kingpin of Harlem, Tommy's methods begin to repel those closest to him and he finds himself at the wrong end of the barrel.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 309 members
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  • The Big Bird Cage on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Anitra Ford,  Candice Roman
    Director: Jack Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Jack Hill followed up his genre-defining women-in-prison film THE BIG DOLL HOUSE with this action-packed sequel, also starring Pam Grier and set in the Philippines. Grier plays Blossom, the machine gun-toting girlfriend of revolutionary leader Django (Sid Haig). His fellow revolutionaries ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 383 members
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  • The Big Doll House on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Pam Grier,  Judy Brown,  Roberta Collins
    Director: Jack Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Jack Hill (COFFY, SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy, funny, thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines, new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier), rebel girl ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 439 members
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Pam Grier facts

5 most recent films

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day - 3 stars
Just Wright - 3.5 stars
The L Word - Complete Sixth Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Fifth Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Fourth Season - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The L Word - Complete Fifth Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Fourth Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Second Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Third Season - 4.0 stars
The L Word - Complete Sixth Season - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day - 3 stars
Bucktown - 3 stars
No Tomorrow - 2.0 stars
Sheba, Baby - 2.0 stars
Hit Man - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Leisha Hailey - 26 times - show films
Jennifer Beals - 26 times - show films
Laurel Holloman - 26 times - show films
Mia Kirshner - 26 times - show films
Katherine Moennig - 21 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rose Troche - 11 times - show films
Tricia Brock - 10 times - show films
Abel Ferrara - 6 times - show films
Ilene Chaiken - 6 times - show films
Jack Hill - 6 times - show films