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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Toufik Merhi (born October 23, 1953) in Syria, is an indie film director and producer. In 1984, along with fellow director Richard Pepin, Merhi founded the production company City Lights, which changed name a few years after to PM Entertainment. The company was sold in 2000 and closed soon after. Before entering the movie industry, Merhi was the owner of several pizzerias located in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. So far, he has directed a total of 32 movies, and produced more than 100. He has produced many movies. He is well known for his action scenes involving car chases and big explosions. His last directed movie was Executive Target (1997). After that, he decided to leave the director chair and slowly moved on as a producer/executive producer of straight-to-DVD movies, until he returned to direct Oranges (2008) ten years after his last effort. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Merhi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
October 23, 1953 (age 72)
Birthplace
Syria
Filmography
156 films, 2 shows


Game of Life
2007 · 1h 40m
country: United States
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.


Executive Target
1997 · 1h 40m
country: United States
His wife held hostage, a stunt driver is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.


Riot
1996 · 1h 34m
country: United States
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.


The Sweeper
1996 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A young cop, haunted by the murder of his entire family years earlier, is recruited by a shadowy organization to hunt down criminals who are beyond the reach of the law.


Rage
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army.


Last Man Standing
1995 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough...


Direct Hit
1994 · 1h 29m
country: United States
After informing his CIA handlers that his next hit will be his last, John Hatch discovers that his target isn't a criminal at all. Refusing to take the woman out, Hatch instead takes it upon himself to protect her and expose the web of corruption at work.


Zero Tolerance
1994 · 1h 28m
country: United States
After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told that his already murdered family is being held hostage, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others named Helmut Vitch, Milt Kowalski, Russ LaFleur, and Hansel Lee. After surviving a car-bombing in Las Vegas, Jeff learns the truth about his family being murdered, and he sets out to exterminate the White Hand cartel. Unofficially aided by an agent named Megan, whose mother was raped and murdered years ago, Jeff steals FBI files and begins his campaign of revenge on the White Hand cartel.


Magic Kid
1993 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Karate action and laughs never cease when a brother and sister go to California to visit their uncle. They soon discover that he's an alcoholic on the run from the Mob who want him to pay up or else...


To Be the Best
1993 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A member of the U.S. kickboxing team recruits his father and his fellow teammates to help stop a ruthless gambler from rigging the World Kickboxing Championship in Las Vegas.


Maximum Force
1992 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.


C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa
1992 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.


Final Impact
1992 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A former kick-boxing world champion discovers a young fighter, and believes together they can win back the world crown.


The Last Riders
1992 · 1h 30m
country: United States
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.


Blood Money
1991 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Los Angeles police officer and a female FBI agent team-up to foil a counterfeiting gang in operation. The counterfeiter in question turns out to be an army veteran friend who saved the male cop during their time together in Vietnam.


Night of the Wilding
1990 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous crime. And when he discovers that his ex-wife is the prosecuting attorney, Gainer finds he suddenly has more on the line than he ever imagined.


Emperor of the Bronx
1990 · 1h 44m
country: United States
George and Tony are two good fellas from the mean streets of New York. All they want is to make it to their 21st birthdays, but in their world of prostitutes, junkies and gangs, one wrong move can be their last!


Repo Jake
1990 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action, involving a vicious crime lord, a mob of angry car owners, a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal, illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the "Slam Track."


L.A. Vice
1989 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Detective Jon Louroy Chance investigates a string of murders in Los Angeles and uncovers a ruthless kidnapping scheme.


Midnight Warrior
1989 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A TV news cameraman, hailed as a hero for pulling a woman from a burning car, finds that his ratings-hungry boss is deliberately placing him in dangerous situations in a quest for even more ratings.


L.A. Heat
1989 · 1h 25m
country: United States
An L.A. vice cop is on the hunt for a drug dealer, but the mission turns deadly when his partner is murdered.


The Newlydeads
1988 · 1h 17m
country: United States
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, the drag queen's spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.


Fresh Kill
1988 · 1h 26m
country: United States
They were the prey... They were forced to kill... The bloody chase begins...


The Killing Game
1988 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A suave hit man becomes paranoid when he discovers blackmailers have photographed his latest murders.


Heat Street
1988 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs.


Epitaph
1988 · 1h 34m
country: United States
It seems the Fulton family has to keep moving from one town to another, because the mother is a homicidal maniac who murders any man who doesn't submit to her drunken seductions. And Mr. Fulton, like any good, caring husband, never thinks twice about burying her victims in the backyard, packing up the family car, and setting off for a brand-new destination.


L.A. Crackdown II
1988 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A member of a gang of bank robbers is also cutting the throats of girls he has picked up in a club, so two female cops go on his trail.


The Glass Jungle
1988 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A cab driver becomes the unwilling go-between for mobsters planning to extort $5 million from the city of Los Angeles.


L.A. Crackdown
1987 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A policewoman tries to help two teenage crack addicts. When she doesn't succeed, and the girls die, she goes after the crack dealers.
Hollywood In Trouble
Hollywood In Trouble
1986 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
Written and directed by PM Entertainment co-founder Joseph Merhi, this semi-autobiographical screwball comedy follows the adventures of a Hollywood dreamer who, despite having zero experience in the film industry, attempts to take the town by storm, only to send his entire domestic life into a tailspin.


Mayhem
1986 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The bloody saga of two strangers brought together by a common need - to find the women they've lost. Rachel ran away, Misty was kidnapped; but nothing will stop Dino and Ziggy in their pursuit of the women they love. They turn Hollywood into a War Zone! On one side: pimps, drug pushers and the police. The other side - a sawn off shotgun and a 357 magnum.