When three losers acquire a shirt that makes them irresistible to women, one of them uses it to win back the love of his...
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2011
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Robert "Grandad" Freeman
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2010
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A frustrated exterminator and his sarcastic best friend have seven days to pay back $10,000 to a local crime boss, and turn...
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2008
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From his memorable performances as the dog-catching dad in the hit Friday trilogy to his recurring role as "Pops" in The...
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Executive Producer
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2008
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First time filmmaker Eric Amadio offers a honest, sexy, and occasionally crude take on modern relationships in this comedy...
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2007
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Aaron McGruder's satirical and often-controversial cartoon tackles a wide array of issues in its second season, including...
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Robert "Grandad" Freeman
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2007
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Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy -- who happens to have a criminal record -- in this comedy directed by...
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Pops
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2006
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Season one of Aaron McGruder's oft-controversial social satire follows the animated adventures of two preadolescent...
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Robert "Grandad" Freeman
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2005
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After an excruciatingly humiliating in-flight experience that culminated in a messy breakup and the untimely death of a dog,...
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2004
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Comedian and Hollywood Shuffle-director Robert Townsend serves up another batch of satirical sketches in this fourth volume...
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2004
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2002
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Eddie Murphy returns as a doctor with a gift for talking to animals in this sequel to a box-office blockbuster. Murphy is...
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2001
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Yet another recurring character from Saturday Night Live makes the jump to the big screen in this comedy. Leon Phelps (Tim...
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2000
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In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South...
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Mr. Jones
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2000
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Recording star and rapper Master P is the executive producer, screenwriter, and co-star (with A.J. Johnson of...
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1998
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Wes
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1998
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In this road comedy, NYC film school grad Leta (Melissa De Sousa) gets a job assisting music-vid director Bleau Kelly...
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Roscoe
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1998
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John "Pops" Williams
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1998
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The trajectories of two opposing romantic relationships are fodder for this African-American screwball comedy from co-writer,...
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Detective
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1997
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A theme of racial harmony underlies this comedy-drama. The couple Joe (Ernie Hudson) and Annabelle Lee (Pam Grier) learn the...
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1997
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John "Pops" Williams
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1997
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John "Pops" Williams
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1996
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Comedian Eddie Murphy tried something different with this 1995 film that he produced and co-wrote, enlisting veteran horror...
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Silas
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1995
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Premiering January 11, 1995, the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. actually stars only two members of that large and apparently...
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John "Pops" Williams
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1995
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Hard-core rapper Ice Cube, after appearing in such hard-hitting films as Boyz 'N the Hood and Higher Learning, played his...
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Mr. Jones
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1995
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John "Pops" Williams
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1995
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John "Pops" Williams
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1995
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Will (Will Smith) falls in love with a girl named Lisa--not Lisa Wilkes, who will appear in later episodes in the person of...
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1994
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Robert Townsend's superhero action comedy underwent much tinkering during post-production, employing four editors to whip the...
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1993
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Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in...
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1993
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The first mainstream animated feature film directly aimed at African American audiences, Hyperion Productions' Bebe's Kids is...
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1992
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Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's also an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his...
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1992
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Dukie Sinclair
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1991
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Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others)...
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1991
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Actor, director, writer, and producer Robert Townsend presents this second volume of his classic HBO variety show Robert...
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1991
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House Party is an infectious, engaging comedy starring the rap duo Kid 'N Play. Kid (Christopher Reid) decides to throw a...
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1990
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This third entry in the dumbfoundingly silly "Killer Tomatoes" series continues the low-budget franchise's tradition of...
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1990
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1989
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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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1988
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Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director...
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1988
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This satirical look at the ambivalent relationship between Hollywood power brokers and African-American performers marked the...
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1987
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A syndicate of Los Angeles gangsters is kidnapping beautiful young women, drugging them, and forcing them to participate in...
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1987
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This drama follows an unlikely "ratboy" (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift shelter in a garbage dump....
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1986
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Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The...
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1980
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Willona (Ja'net DuBois) cannot understand why Jeffrey (Rod Perry), her latest boyfriend, has suddenly begun showering...
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1979
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