Ving Rhames is an American actor known for his muscular body, heavy voice, and his multifaceted acting skills. He had his first acting experience in a play for Broadway called ‘The Boys of Winter’ in 1984. The same year he made his movie debut in ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’.
Ving Rhames has given tremendous performances in successful movies like ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (1990), ‘Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot‘ (1992), ‘Blood In Blood Out’ (1993), ‘Dave’ (1993), ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994), Mission Impossible’ (1996), ‘Striptease’ (1996), ‘Rosewood’ (1997), ‘Con Air’ (1997), ’Bringing Out the Dead’(1999), ‘Baby Boy’(2001), ‘Dark Blue’(2002), ‘Dawn of the Dead’(2004), ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry’ (2004), ‘Day of the Dead’ (2008), Piranha 3D (2012) etc. His top grossing movie till date remains ‘Pulp Fiction’.
He also works in television, and has won a Golden Globe for ‘Best Actor in a Mini TV Series’ in HBO’s ‘Don King: Only in America’ in 1998. He has also starred in medical drama, ‘ER’ for three seasons (1994-96). He has appeared in all the ‘Mission Impossible’ movies.
His worst movies have to be ‘Seven Below’ (2013), Force of Execution (2012) and ‘Soldier of Fortune’ (2012).
This independent neo-noir crime film is widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Peppered with pitch-black humor and strong violence, Pulp Fiction follows four interrelated stories—involving a boxer, a gangster and his wife—told out of chronological order.
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After failing to secure three plutonium cores from the Syndicate, who are now known as the Apostles, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is forced to team up with Special Agent August Walker. Walker betrays Ethan and team and they must stop him and Solomon Lane from detonating nuclear bombs over the Siachen Glacier.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 finds Peter Quill and his gang of misfits Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Baby Groot going on a journey across the cosmos to learn more about Quill’s father Ego. Quill eventually defeats Ego, the main antagonist of the movie and is saved by Yondu Udonta who sacrifices his own life in doing so.
With the IMF disbanded because of recklessness, Ethan Hunt is now being hunted as a fugitive by the CIA and embarks on a personal mission to prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international rogue organization. He gathers his team and joins forces with disavowed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, who is now a Syndicate operative.
Vietnam War Veteran, Jacob Singer, is bayoneted during an attack and returns home to find his sanity gradually disintegrating. With hallucinations and fragmented visions haunting him, Jacob tries to find the truth and uncovers a much deeper conspiracy involving an experimental drug called Ladder.
Following a botched infiltration mission in Kremlin that ended in an explosion, the US Government initiates Ghost Protocol, disavowing IMF. Agent Ethan Hunt is forced to go off the grid, but must team up with other fugitive agents to clear the organization's name and apprehend a dangerous terrorist with access to Russian nuclear launch codes.
After her husband is killed by a zombified neighbor, Ana flees from her neighborhood and unites with a group of survivors who seek shelter at a nearby shopping mall. However, as new survivors flock there amidst dwindling supplies and draw attention of the undead towards the shelter, the group devises an escape plan to avoid being surrounded.
The first installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, the movie follows Ethan Hunt and his mission to expose the mole who has framed him for the murders of many of his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team. A commercial success, it became one of the highest-grossing films of 1996.
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IMF Agent, Ethan Hunt is retired from field work but makes a comeback when one of his own student is captured by arms dealer Owen Davian. As the situation gets more dangerous, Ethan has to find out about a mysterious object code named the Rabbit's Foot, deal with IMF’s double agent and simultaneously protect his wife Julia.
Ex-army ranger, Sergeant Cameron Poe, is granted parole and must fly back to his wife and child on board the Jailbird, a flight carrying some of the most violent prisoners. He must also survive a plot by Cyrus the Virus Grissom who wants to escape with all the prisoners.
This war drama film takes us to the Vietnam War, and it tells the story of Private Eriksson who must not only fight against the enemy but also his own squad leader, Sergeant Tony Meserve, when he orders the squad members to kidnap and rape a poor farm girl.
Jack Foley, a bank robber, breaks out of jail along with a friend, and ends up kidnapping Federal Marshal Karen Sisco, who happens to witness their escape. But the mutual attraction, which develops as they both travel in the same car-trunk, doesn’t deter Sisco from hunting him as he plots his final big job. Can she bring herself up to arrest him?
Dave is a political comedy film, which revolves around the life of Dave Kovic, a man who bears an uncanny resemblance with the President of the United States, Bill Mitchell. When Mitchell suffers a stroke, Dave is hired by the Secret Service to impersonate the President on an ongoing basis.
Frank Pierce, a Manhattan paramedic working on two-man ambulance team, is exhausted and worn out after witnessing deaths and near-death patients. He starts losing his sanity, and hallucinates about the patients he couldn’t save. While working with three different eccentric colleagues, he even tries to get fired. Then, he clutches to a ray of hope as he befriends a heart-patient’s daughter, Mary.
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In future, barring few, most of the humans interact via their Robotic Surrogates. Any harm to surrogates does not harm its operators; however, when the operators of two surrogates die, the ideal world is shaken and FBI agents Tom Greer and Peters are tasked to investigate the case. As Tom investigates, he loses his own surrogate and in many years, he comes out in the world as himself.
Gin Baker, an insurance investigator, goes undercover as a thief to entrap Robert ‘Mac’ MacDougal, an aging master-thief after a priceless Rembrandt is stolen. But when Mac starts to doubt her true intentions, Gin plans a US $8 billion heist and asks Mac for help.
Ethan Hunt returns on another mission to seize and destroy Chimera, a deadly virus, and its cure Bellerophon, both of which are in possession of rogue IMF agent Ambrose. He must infiltrate enemy stronghold with help from Nyah Hall, a skilled thief and former lover of Ambrose, before the latter sells the virus to an international terrorist group.
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Close firefighter friends, womanizer Chuck Levine and widower Larry Valentine, get into a domestic partnership after Larry learns that he cannot name his children as beneficiaries for insurance policy. They are forced to move in together after the pension department begins investigation of possible fraud, and making things more complicated, Chuck falls for their beautiful lawyer Alex McDonough.
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An earthquake releases pre-historic vicious carnivorous piranhas into Lake Victoria. As students on spring break, reach the lake, thousands of partying students start falling victim to the piranhas. Vastly outnumbered, Sheriff Julie, her son Jake, and a few others unite to kill the piranhas.
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Erin Grant, former FBI secretary, loses her job due to her criminal ex-husband and also loses custody of her daughter, Angela. She turns stripper to earn money for an appeal in custody case. David Dilbeck, a congressman, gets interested in her and even extends personal invitation. But as she starts suspecting Dilbeck’s involvement in unlawful operations, it puts her life in danger.
Joe, a cop decides to break up with his girlfriend. Shortly after, his mother pays him a visit. However, she starts to interfere in all his activities, and even gets involved in his career.
Piranha 3DD is a horror comedy film, which revolves around a school of blood-thirsty piranhas who make their way into a newly opened water park. Three friends having fun at the park, decide to take on the man-eating creatures.
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A crazy extra-terrestrial scientist illegally creates a strong and a brainy creature that is also a troublemaker. The creature is exiled but escapes to earth where it is adopted as a dog—Stitch—by a six year old girl, Lilo. The two form a close bond but Stitch is being chased by the scientist and an agent which results in a lot of destruction and chaos.
Aliens have conquered the earth, forcing the surviving humans to take shelter in areas protected by energy shields. However, time is running out and in desperation General Hein is determined to use space cannon to destroy the aliens. Knowing that it might also damage the earth, a team of scientists proposes a more peaceful means to battle the enemy, but the General is not convinced.
Ving Rhames Awards
| Don King: Only in America | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 1998 |
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