James Black

Acting

James Black

Born 1962-04-03 · Lima, Ohio, USA

A onetime professional football player for the Cleveland Browns, James has always had a passion for the arts and pursued his passion even while playing for the Browns for two years as a running back.

Acting credits

Godzilla poster
5.7

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

Godzilla

1998

Universal Soldier: The Return poster
5.9

Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles SETH and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.

Universal Soldier: The Return

1999

Soldier poster
6.4

Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.

Soldier

1998

Out of Sight poster
6.7

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

Out of Sight

1998

Virtual High poster
NR

A group of precocious teens experience the adventures and mysteries of high school in virtual reality... a place where anything is possible.

Virtual High

Detention poster
5.6

As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.

Detention

2012

Zombie Cop poster
3.5

During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the two rise from their graves and return to the land of the living as zombies. Dr. Death is resurrected with a new mission in mind, to take over the world. The "zombie" cop enlists the aid of his old police buddies to stop the mad priest.

Zombie Cop

1991

No artwork available
NR

When two families with distinct traditions, expectations, and unspoken agendas come together for a celebration meant to unite them, anxiety-fueled scenarios quickly spiral.

Calabash

2026

The Hail Mary poster
NR

Sister Kathy finds an angry loner in need of redemption and leads him to his atonement by conning him into creating a football team for her Catholic School.

The Hail Mary

2026

Legends of the Hidden Temple poster
6.7

Three siblings who break away from a lackluster temple tour in a jungle finds themselves immersed in a real-life mission comprised of obstacles that they must complete in order to escape alive.

Legends of the Hidden Temple

2016

No artwork available
6.0

A small town insurance salesman is terrorized by the corrupt men behind Huntsacker Industries after he witnesses the filming of a snuff movie.

Maximum Impact

1992

Ozone poster
4.7

While on a stakeout, hardboiled cop Eddie Boone gets injected with a dangerous new designer drug causing nightmarish side effects. As he searches for his missing partner, Eddie discovers the urban streets full of mutants, monsters, and mayhem orchestrated by the mastermind behind the lethal narcotic.

Ozone

1993

I Don't Know poster
NR

A failed cartoonist scores a dangerous win at a high-stakes poker game, and flees the criminal underworld of Los Angeles with his resilient sex worker fiancé.

I Don't Know

2024

Afro Ninja poster
4.8

This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.

Afro Ninja

2009

The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All poster
5.2

At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a lesson to the football jocks responsible.

The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All

1999

Don King: Only in America poster
6.8

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Don King: Only in America

1997

The First 9½ Weeks poster
3.9

An investment banker travels to Louisiana to snag the account of an eccentric millionaire but gets involved with his lusty wife, Mardi Gras, and (possibly) a satanic cult. The events in and around New Orleans change him forever and give a new slant on The American Dream.

The First 9½ Weeks

1998

Surface to Air poster
7.2

Two feuding half-brothers are both assigned to the same aircraft carrier. The carrier is sent to the Persian Gulf and their personal problems are put behind them, while they deal with a Iraqi military officer who has decided to stage a coup. The brothers move in to deal with the problem, but soon find themselves fighting the rebels as well as regular Iraqi troops. When one brother gets in trouble, the other comes to the rescue.

Surface to Air

1997

Cricket poster
NR

Cricket Sullivan (Skye Dakota Turner) is an introverted 14-year-old struggling to come to terms with a broken family. Drawn to churches as an easy mark to steal candles for her sick mother, she is caught by a grieving choir director and set a penance of polishing the church pews. The most unlikely friendship emerges as Cricket finds her true gift to the world and unlocks a channel through which both student and choir director can face their own fears and emotions. This is a lyrical film about love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Cricket

2024

Night Games poster
3.0

A young woman meets up with a wealthy boyfriend that she met online. She quickly finds herself entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse involving a dark web organization called Acorn.

Night Games

2024

Hard Promises poster
5.8

A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.

Hard Promises

1992

Welcome to the Family poster
5.4

Welcome to the Family centers on Stella, an internet producer (Kali Hawk), who has to learn how to balance her personal and professional lives. She utilizes her family reunion to not only reveal her engagement to fiancée Quinton (B.J. Britt), but also to prove she can host her own web series. Stella is blinded by her own ambition, as each family member's antics and escapades hit the World Wide Web. Caught up in the world of media mania and surrounded by a crazy cast of relatives, Stella learns that her fiancée Quinton is her cousin. Captured by cameras for the world to see, the couple's relationship is thrown into turmoil as Stella's web series turns into a social media hit.

Welcome to the Family

2015

The Preacher's Son poster
6.9

When the romantic secrets of his family members become public, the career and community standing of a respected bishop are threatened.

The Preacher's Son

2017

The Man in 3B poster
6.1

Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. Connie (Brely Evans), an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage. But when Daryl starts making Connie feel beautiful again, she questions whether her marriage is worth saving. Benny (Robert Ri'chard), a spoiled teenager raised by a single father, looks up to Daryl. When an unexpected event occurs, Benny is left questioning everything he's ever known to be true. Krystal (Nafessa Williams), Daryl's first love, wants to make things work with her current boyfriend. Yet having Daryl back in her life sends her happy home spiraling out of control.

The Man in 3B

2015

Behind the camera

Urban Evil: Trilogy of Fear poster
4.0

From the dark vaults of Forbidden Worlds comes a new chapter of terror in Urban Evil: A Trilogy of Fear, a collection of three contemporary stories of urban horror. In "Demonic Tunes," a dynamic hip-hop group called Urban Protectors is "discovered" by the notorious record producer Dr. Bones, who plans to turn them into part of his zombie army and dominate the world. In "The Killing Kind," 17 year-old Kwame invokes his grandmother's magic of the "killing kind" and puts it into her old rag doll after a group of local thugs put her in the hospital. And finally "Hidden Evil" explores a mysterious vault in the basement of an old abandoned high school, where there lurks an evil that has been locked away for 100 years. When they mistakenly free a horrific spirit, the school becomes a deadly prison and there is no way to escape.

Urban Evil: Trilogy of Fear

2005

The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge poster
5.6

A group of former college friends gather for a reunion at a winter chalet fifteen years after one of their own dies during their production of A Christmas Carol. The group then finds themselves being stalked and killed off one by one by someone dressed as a terrifying vision of Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge

2024

The Vault poster
4.5

Housed inside a vault in the basement of an abandoned school lurks an evil that has been locked away for over a hundred years. When a teacher and 5 students visit the school to archive any memorabilia before it's torn down, they mistakenly free the horrific spirit, turning the school into a deadly prison. Now they must face the evil and banish it to the vault once again before it kills them and escapes to destroy the world...

The Vault

2001

Restitution poster
NR

The film centers around Mia Wagner, the sole survivor of a serial killer who brutally murdered her entire family as a child, only to be released years later on technicality. When the judicial system fails her, Mia decides to take matters into her own hands.

Restitution

2024

Terror Tales: Poetry & Death Volume 1 poster
8.0

Terror Tales: Poetry and Death Vol. 1, a Terror Films Releasing original anthology, tells six spooky stories that will chill you to the bone, including a grieving mother, a nefarious bowler, invisible, apocalyptic creatures, and more.

Terror Tales: Poetry & Death Volume 1

2025