Street Smart

Mar 20, 1987

1h 37m

★ 6.0

Never let the truth ruin a good story.

Overview

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions

The Cannon Group

Street Smart Trailers

Cast

Jonathan Fisher

Christopher Reeve

Punchy

Kathy Baker

Alison Parker

Mimi Rogers

Leonard Pike

Jay Patterson

Ted Avery

Andre Gregory

Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.

Morgan Freeman

Harriet

Anna Maria Horsford

Joel Davis

Frederick Rolf

Reginald "Reggie" Liggens

Erik King

Art Sheffield

Michael J. Reynolds

Darlene

Shari Hilton

Yvonne

Donna Bailey

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5.9

Opera Prima

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Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetarian. He loves meat. Many things separate them, but he moves into her apartment.

6.2

Jamon Jamon

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José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.

No Image

9.0

Tod der Engel

Nov 9, 1992

Gerhard Wismuth is said to have killed his two children. The press takes up the case and does good business with the grieving mother Brigitte. Then the trial takes a surprising turn: The accused incriminates his wife, who allegedly has a lover and murdered the children for his sake. The TV movie is reminiscent of the "Weimar case".

6.8

Panic Room

Mar 29, 2002

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

8.0

Manhattan Night of Murder

Nov 24, 1965

Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.

7.4

Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight

Mar 4, 1966

Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.

8.3

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included

Aug 24, 1966

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.

6.5

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8.8

Murderers Club of Brooklyn

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Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.

6.8

Michael Clayton

Sep 28, 2007

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

7.6

Atonement

Feb 27, 2007

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

6.3

Bordertown

Feb 22, 2007

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

5.8

Rosemary

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West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.

6.6

The Brave One

Sep 12, 2007

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

7.7

Viridiana

Apr 1, 1962

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

6.7

The Return of Martin Guerre

May 14, 1982

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