The best Antonio Fargas’s movies

Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas

14/08/1946 (77 años)
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Firestarter

Firestarter
6.1/10
As youths, Andy McGee and his future wife, Vicky, participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie, begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1978
  • Character: Professor
Hattie, a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown
6.5/10
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Car Wash

Car Wash
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1976
  • Character: Lindy
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 30/01/1996
  • Character: Himself
This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.

Crimewave

Crimewave
5.6/10
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
6.6/10
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.

Whore

Whore
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/06/1991
  • Character: Rasta
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Shaft

Shaft
6.6/10
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Shakedown

Shakedown
6/10
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.

La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 31/12/1993
  • Character: 'Good Advices' Huggy (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. With his last breath, he whispers: “Shitty world.” The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery… (16 French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

Beyond Skyline

Beyond Skyline
5.3/10
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street
7/10
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

The Gambler

The Gambler
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/10/1974
  • Character: Pimp
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Once Fallen

Once Fallen
4.8/10
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?

3 Strikes

3 Strikes
4.7/10
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, they are pulled over, and his friend shoots at police officers, and Hooks escapes. Now Hooks, a wanted man, must clear his name of having nothing to do with the shooting.

Putney Swope

Putney Swope
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/07/1969
  • Character: The Arab
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.

Up the Academy

Up the Academy
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1980
  • Character: Coach
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.

The Suburbans

The Suburbans
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1999
  • Character: Magee
An 80s one-hit wonder band named The Suburbans reform for a special performance at one of the ex-member's wedding. At the wedding, a young record company talent scout happens to be in the audience and decides to give the now 40-ish performers a comeback push. The film attempts to take a satirical look at the music business of the 90s and compare it to the simpler 80s scene.

Howling VI: The Freaks

Howling VI: The Freaks
4.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Bellamey
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits

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