Superhero Movie (
2008) | IMDb:
4.6
Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
Starring:
Drake Bell
,
Sara Paxton
,
Christopher McDonald
,
Leslie Nielsen
,
Kevin Hart
,
Marion Ross
Directed by:
Craig Mazin
Light It Up (
1999) | IMDb:
6
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
Starring:
Usher
,
Vanessa Williams
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Rosario Dawson
,
Robert Ri'chard
,
Judd Nelson
Directed by:
Craig Bolotin
Whatever It Takes (
1998) | IMDb:
5.2
Two Los Angeles cops go undercover to investigate the distribution of steroids to wrestlers and body builders.
Starring:
Don Wilson
,
Andrew Dice Clay
,
Fred Williamson
,
Craig Susser
,
Michael Bailey Smith
,
Vic Polizos
Directed by:
Brady MacKenzie
One Eight Seven (
1997) | IMDb:
6.6
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson
,
John Heard
,
Kelly Rowan
,
Clifton Collins Jr.
,
Tony Plana
,
Karina Arroyave
Directed by:
Kevin Reynolds
Eraser (
1996) | IMDb:
6.2
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
Vanessa Williams
,
James Caan
,
James Coburn
,
Robert Pastorelli
,
James Cromwell
Graveyard Shift (
1990) | IMDb:
4.9
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
Harlem Nights (
1989) | IMDb:
6.1
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Directed by:
Eddie Murphy
Night of the Creeps (
1986) | IMDb:
6.7
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Directed by:
Fred Dekker
The Muppets Take Manhattan (
1984) | IMDb:
6.8
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
Directed by:
Frank Oz
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