The Puppet Masters (
1994) | IMDb:
5.9
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
Extreme Justice (
1993) | IMDb:
5.5
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
Starring:
Lou Diamond Phillips
,
Scott Glenn
,
Chelsea Field
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Andrew Divoff
,
Stephen Root
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (
1991) | IMDb:
4.7
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
Starring:
Robert Englund
,
Lisa Zane
,
Shon Greenblatt
,
Lezlie Deane
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Breckin Meyer
Midnight Run (
1988) | IMDb:
7.5
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Charles Grodin
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
John Ashton
,
Dennis Farina
,
Joe Pantoliano
The Running Man (
1987) | IMDb:
6.7
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
Richard Dawson
,
María Conchita Alonso
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Jim Brown
,
Jesse Ventura
The Park Is Mine (
1986) | IMDb:
6.1
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones
,
Helen Shaver
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Lawrence Dane
,
Peter Dvorsky
,
Eric Peterson
Eye of the Tiger (
1986) | IMDb:
5.6
Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
Starring:
Gary Busey
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Seymour Cassel
,
Denise Galik
,
Kimberlin Brown
,
Judith Barsi
Directed by:
Richard C. Sarafian
The Star Chamber (
1983) | IMDb:
6.3
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Hal Holbrook
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Sharon Gless
,
James B. Sikking
,
Joe Regalbuto
Brubaker (
1980) | IMDb:
7.1
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Starring:
Robert Redford
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Jane Alexander
,
Murray Hamilton
,
David Keith
,
Morgan Freeman
Alien (
1979) | IMDb:
8.5
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Starring:
Sigourney Weaver
,
Tom Skerritt
,
Ian Holm
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
John Hurt
,
Veronica Cartwright
Live and Let Die (
1973) | IMDb:
6.7
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Starring:
Roger Moore
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Jane Seymour
,
Clifton James
,
Julius Harris
,
Geoffrey Holder
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (
1970) | IMDb:
6.8
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
Starring:
Lee J. Cobb
,
Anthony Zerbe
,
Roscoe Lee Browne
,
Lola Falana
,
Lee Majors
,
Barbara Hershey
The Thomas Crown Affair (
1968) | IMDb:
6.9
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.