The Comedian (
2016) | IMDb:
5.8
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Man on the Moon (
1999) | IMDb:
7.4
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Starring:
Jim Carrey
,
Danny DeVito
,
Courtney Love
,
Paul Giamatti
,
Vincent Schiavelli
,
Peter Bonerz
Directed by:
Miloš Forman
Species II (
1998) | IMDb:
4.5
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Starring:
Michael Madsen
,
Natasha Henstridge
,
Marg Helgenberger
,
Mykelti Williamson
,
George Dzundza
,
James Cromwell
Get on the Bus (
1996) | IMDb:
6.9
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Starring:
Ossie Davis
,
Charles S. Dutton
,
Andre Braugher
,
Richard Belzer
,
De'Aundre Bonds
,
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Directed by:
Spike Lee
A Very Brady Sequel (
1996) | IMDb:
5.9
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
Starring:
Shelley Long
,
Gary Cole
,
Christopher Daniel Barnes
,
Christine Taylor
,
Paul Sutera
,
Jennifer Elise Cox
Girl 6 (
1996) | IMDb:
5.3
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Directed by:
Spike Lee
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.
North (
1994) | IMDb:
4.5
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
Directed by:
Rob Reiner
Dangerous Game (
1993) | IMDb:
5.6
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Mad Dog and Glory (
1993) | IMDb:
6.2
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young waitress named Glory for a week. At first both are uneasy about the arrangement, but they eventually fall in love. However, the situation becomes complicated when Milo demands Glory back.
Directed by:
John McNaughton
The Bonfire of the Vanities (
1990) | IMDb:
5.6
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Bruce Willis
,
Melanie Griffith
,
Kim Cattrall
,
Saul Rubinek
,
Morgan Freeman
The Big Picture (
1989) | IMDb:
6.2
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
Starring:
Kevin Bacon
,
Emily Longstreth
,
J.T. Walsh
,
Jennifer Jason Leigh
,
Michael McKean
,
Kim Miyori
Fletch Lives (
1989) | IMDb:
6.1
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
Starring:
Chevy Chase
,
Hal Holbrook
,
Julianne Phillips
,
R. Lee Ermey
,
Richard Libertini
,
Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Scarface (
1983) | IMDb:
8.3
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Starring:
Al Pacino
,
Steven Bauer
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
,
Robert Loggia
,
Miriam Colon
Night Shift (
1982) | IMDb:
6.5
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
Directed by:
Ron Howard