Actor Spyros Fokas (1937)

Rambo III (1988), an American action film directed by Peter MacDonald and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, sees Vietnam War veteran John Rambo reprising his role. After leaving the military, he settles in a Thai Buddhist monastery where he helps with construction work and competes in krabi-krabong matches in Bangkok, donating his winnings. However, his peaceful life is interrupted when his old friend Colonel Sam Trautman visits. Trautman explains that he needs Rambo’s help for a CIA-sponsored mission to supply the Mujahideen and other tribes fighting against the ...

The American action-adventure romantic comedy, The Jewel of the Nile (1985), was directed by Lewis Teague and produced by Michael Douglas, who also took on the lead role. After six months since their original adventures in Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder and Jack Colton’s relationship had grown dull. While docked at a port in the South of France, Joan – battling writer’s block – yearned to return home to New York, but Jack preferred aimlessly sailing on his boat, the Angelina. At a book signing event, Joan crossed paths with Omar Khalifa, a ...

The third installment of the Shaft series, Shaft in Africa (1973), is an American blaxploitation film directed by John Guillermin. In his New York City apartment, protagonist John Shaft is drugged and taken against his will to Africa. He is forced to take on a new identity as an itinerant worker who speaks the local language in order to help take down a criminal organization that is smuggling immigrants into Europe and exploiting them. However, the villains are already aware of his arrival. Shaft successfully passes a grueling test as part of the hiring process – ...