Snappy dialogue and a noir shadow color this stylish drama about a woman lawyer who crosses to the wrong side of the law....
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2008
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A handsome single father joins an urban prayer group comprised exclusively of females in an attempt to test the strength of...
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Bishop Titus Kingston
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2008
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Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new...
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2001
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Noted hip-hop producer DJ Pooh, who co-wrote the urban comedy Friday, makes his directorial debut with this comedy-drama. A...
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2000
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New Orleans music promoter Adam Goodnight (newcomer Cameron Smith) has his checkered past revived when a failed musician,...
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2000
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Shown on the Fox network, this made-for-TV biopic stars David Ramsey as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, whose story is told...
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2000
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Answering the question of "Where have all the New Wavers gone?" is The Suburbans, a comedy from first-time director...
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Magee
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1999
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Unconditional Love stars stand-up comic John Kennedy Horne as Joe Kirkman, an investigative reporter for an L.A. newspaper....
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1999
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Milo is a strange little boy who doesn't play well with others -- four schoolgirls watch him kill one of their friends one...
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1998
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In this independent drama, Sarah Paulson stars as Acey Rawlin, a troubled teenager who discovers that she's pregnant after...
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1997
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream...
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1995
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The two-part British miniseries Soul Survivors was all about second chances. Ian McShane was cast against type as Otis Cooke,...
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1995
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Inasmuch as Philip (James Avery) proposed to Vivian (Daphne Maxwell Reid) while both were dancing on TV's Soul Train, the...
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1994
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An ex-championship boxer (James Earl Jones) sees a chance at recapturing a taste of his former glory after discovering that...
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1993
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Nell Carter stars a a popular singer and Dinah Manoff costars as her maid du jour in the made-for-TV Maid For Each Other. A...
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1992
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Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood...
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Rasta
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1991
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Julius Caesar Roosevelt
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1991
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Part of a pointless string of sequels ostensibly based on the werewolf novels by Gary Brandner, this entry deserves credit...
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1991
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Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git...
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Flyguy
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1988
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In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he...
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Nicky Carr
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1988
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This convoluted actioner is set in beautiful Cancun, Mexico and centers upon a voracious gigantic one-eyed shark, stolen...
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1988
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Though set in Cuba, the made-for-cable Florida Straits was lensed in South Carolina. The film is set twenty years after the...
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1987
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In a sex-and-violence film that emphasizes the physical abuse of young women, director Joan Freeman may raise the shackles as...
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Finesse
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1985
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Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew...
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1984
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1984
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With minimal sex and covered-up nudity, this routine romance about love in New York's high fashion world has enough glamor...
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Monsieur Henri
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1982
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The fact-based TV movie The Ambush Murders was adapted from a book by Ben Bradlee Jr. Dorian Harewood plays an...
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1982
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The pilot film for the ABC series of the same name, Paper Dolls concentrates upon two pretty teenagers: Taryn Blake...
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1982
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The made-for-TV Escape was inspired by the true story of Dwight Worker, an American imprisoned in Mexico for smuggling...
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1980
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A teen comedy that does not quite rise to the level of that age group, this uninspired story features Ron Liebman as the...
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1980
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A terrible case of empty nest syndrome prompts a widow (Michael Learned) to resume her nursing career in this pilot film for...
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1980
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1979
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After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut...
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Professor, Piano Player
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1978
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1976
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An aspiring actor leaves his home in Brooklyn for adulthood in Manhattan in Paul Mazursky's loosely autobiographical...
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1976
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It's still the same old story...but what a story. This umpteenth filmization of the classic Mark Twain novel stars...
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Jim
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1975
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Huggy Bear
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1975
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Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a...
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1975
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Peter Hyams made his feature-film directing debut with this clumsily paced crime film concerning two Los Angeles vice-squad...
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Stephen
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1974
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Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Michael Hagar, the mastermind of a million-dollar diamond heist. What Hagar doesn't realize is...
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1974
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Sonny Cochran
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1974
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James Toback made his screenwriting debut with this taut drama, loosely adapted from the story by Dostoevsky. Axel Freed...
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1974
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Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier stars as Foxy Brown, a sexy but streetwise woman whose ne'er-do-well brother Link...
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Link Brown
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1974
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Jon Voight stars in this story, based on fact, about a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of his students....
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Quickfellow
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1974
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) has degenerated from a respected law enforcement officer to a...
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1973
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Doodlebug
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1973
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In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Chief Ironside is assigned to...
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1973
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Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, older white cop (Anthony Quinn) and an honest, young...
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1972
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This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing....
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1971
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Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out, when there's...
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1971
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A drug addict seduces his lover into sharing his chemical joys and together they begin a wrenching downward spiral into...
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1971
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This allegorical film by Robert Downey finds humans all playing the role of animals in cages as they wait to be gassed....
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1970
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After several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York, director Robert Downey broke through...
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1969
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Some extremely stupid French people plot to steal the Venus de Milo from the Louvre in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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