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  • Alien
  • Alien review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars something he ate? 14 September 2003
    ... of the cast, and the wonderfully realised dynamic they create, with John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto and most notably Ian Holm all delivering excellent performances which contribut...   Read customer review
  • Raid On Entebbe
  • Raid On Entebbe review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4.0 stars One of The Best Movies Made For The TV... 25 February 2008
    ...esorted to just using U.S. Navy and Coast Guard shoulder boards. Also Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto) gets a much better costume, much more realistic than the ridiculous getup Juli...   Read customer review
  • Bone
  • Bone review by from Dudley, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars PLENTY OF MEAT ON THIS BONE 2 November 2006
    ...p to any new releases that come straight to dvd today. The movie stars a young Yaphet Kotto as an escaped convict who stumbles into the Beverley Hills home of a wealthy ma...   Read customer review

Yaphet Kotto - filmography


  • Stolen Hearts on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Denis Leary,  Stephen Dillane
    Director: Bill Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this romantic comedy a working class Boston thief planning to go legit after just one more score takes along his working class New York girlfriend to help. The scam: deliver a $4 million Matisse to a wealthy New Englander. The problem: they run up against a serious art thief as well as romantic ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 845 members
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  • Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Yaphet Kotto,  Lisa Zane
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the evil dreamstalker, returns to lure his daughter back to his side. This time he may have met his match in his own child, but not before he enjoys some fiendish games of his own. The film features cameos by Johnny Depp and other familiar faces.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,316 members
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  • Midnight Run on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Charles Grodin,  John Ashton
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin star in this hilarious action-packed blockbuster. Jack Walsh (De Niro) is a cynical ex-cop turned bounty hunter who is offered $100,000 to bring Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) to justice. Jonathan is a sensitive accountant who embezzled from the mob, gave ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,276 members
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  • Hollow Point on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Linda Purl,  Yaphet Kotto,  Terry Lester
    Director: Bruce Seth Green
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Therapist Susan Andrews agrees to testify against a murderer, Eddie Reeves. He is set free despite her evidence, and starts a campaign of terror against her. Her work begins to suffer and she fears for her own life. The stress of her ordeal soon leads her to drastic action and a tragic mistake.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 26 members
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  • Harem - The Loss Of Innocence on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Omar Sharif,  Ava Gardner,  Sarah Miles
    Director: William Hale
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A story of love, passion, intrigue and revolution set in the crumbling Ottoman empire in 1906. On route to Damascus, a naive American heiress is kidnapped and sold to the local Sultan's harem. As the days pass she becomes torn between a Turkish rebel, the Sultan and her English diplomat fiance.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 140 members
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  • The Star Chamber on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Hal Holbrook,  Yaphet Kotto
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A judge frustrated by the lenient legal system joins a secret group of judges who have set up their own court which operates outside the scope of the law. When verdicts are reached on two men who are later discovered to be innocent, serious ethical questions arise in this taut and interesting thriller.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 272 members
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  • Fighting Back (1982)
    Starring: Tom Skerritt,  Patti Lupone,  Michael Sarrazin
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination ...
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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  • Brubaker on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Yaphet Kotto,  Jane Alexander
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,148 member
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  • Alien - Blu-ray (1979)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  John Hurt,  Tom Skerritt
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 92% from 65 members
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  • Alien on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  John Hurt,  Tom Skerritt
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 55,735 members
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  • Blue Collar on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Harvey Keitel,  Yaphet Kotto
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 'Blue Collar', Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 942 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 175 members
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  • Truck Turner on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Isaac Hayes,  Yaphet Kotto,  Nichelle Nichols
    Director: Jonathan Kaplan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    When an ex-football player turned bounty hunter goes after a notorious criminal the odds are long - the crook has killed everyone who has come after him. But Mac Truck Turner is successful and now must dodge everyone in the territory as the dead man's girlfriend is offering herself and her business ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 154 members
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  • Live And Let Die on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Yaphet Kotto,  Jane Seymour
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Roger Moore makes his first appearance as Bond...James Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the Western Hemisphere by converting everyone into heroin addicts. The woman in the case is Solitaire (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 12,480 members
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  • The Thomas Crown Affair on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Faye Dunaway,  Paul Burke
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,619 members
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  • Nothing But A Man on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Ivan Dixon,  Abbey Lincoln,  Julius Harris
    Director: Michael Roemer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A landmark independent film, Nothing But A Man is one of the most sincere and sensitive pictures ever made about the struggles and hardships of Black life in 1960s America. Lauded by critics at the Venice and New York Film Festivals when it first premiered in 1963, this quietly moving, beautiful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 96 members
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  • Bone on DVD
    Starring: Yaphet Kotto,  Andrew Duggan,  Joyce Van Patten
    Director: Larry Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Welcome to Beverly Hills, where upper class white married couples like Bill and Bernadette (Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten) enjoy their happy life of wealth and privilege. But when a violently unstable black criminal (Yaphet Kotto) invades their home, each will be forced to explore their own ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 68 members
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Yaphet Kotto facts

5 most recent films

Witless Protection - 3.0 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 6 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 5 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Stolen Hearts - 2.5 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 4 - Complete - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Alien - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Alien Quadrilogy - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 3 - Complete - 4.5 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 5 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 6 - Complete - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fighting Back - 2.0 stars
Hollow Point - 2.0 stars
Witless Protection - 3.0 stars
Drum - 2.5 stars
Stolen Hearts - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Richard Belzer - 9 times - show films
Andre Braugher - 9 times - show films
Melissa Leo - 7 times - show films
Clark Johnson - 7 times - show films
Ned Beatty - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan Taylor - 19 times - show films
Tim Hunter - 14 times - show films
Ted Demme - 14 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 13 times - show films
James Cameron - 11 times - show films