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David Patrick Kelly has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Warriors.
Recurring themes

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Payback
1999
Action · Drama

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Hard to Kill
1990
Action · Drama

Desperado
1995
Thriller · Action

Kickboxer
1989
Action · Thriller

Get the Gringo
2012
Action · Thriller

K-PAX
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included

Crooklyn
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Prime Video · Included

48 Hrs.
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Netflix · Included

In Too Deep
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 67%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Dreamscape
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 84%Peacock · Included

O.G.
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 84%Max · Included
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Dir. Alex Proyas · With Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Dir. Iain Softley · With Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Dir. Michael Rymer · With Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson

A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.
Dir. Joe Begos · With Stephen Lang, Martin Kove, William Sadler

In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Dir. Joseph Ruben · With Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Dir. Madeleine Rotzler · With Jeffrey Wright, Theothus Carter, William Fichtner

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes
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