The Way Back (
2020) | IMDb:
6.7
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
Starring:
Ben Affleck
,
Al Madrigal
,
Michaela Watkins
,
Janina Gavankar
,
Glynn Turman
,
Melvin Gregg
Domino (
2005) | IMDb:
5.9
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Mickey Rourke
,
Edgar Ramírez
,
Delroy Lindo
,
Mo'Nique
,
Christopher Walken
My Favorite Martian (
1999) | IMDb:
5.1
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
Starring:
Jeff Daniels
,
Elizabeth Hurley
,
Daryl Hannah
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Wallace Shawn
,
Christine Ebersole
Space Jam (
1996) | IMDb:
6.5
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
Starring:
Michael Jordan
,
Wayne Knight
,
Theresa Randle
,
Manner Washington
,
Eric Gordon
,
Penny Bae Bridges
A Rage in Harlem (
1991) | IMDb:
5.9
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
Gregory Hines
,
Robin Givens
,
Danny Glover
,
Zakes Mokae
,
Samm-Art Williams
Directed by:
Bill Duke
Runaway Train (
1985) | IMDb:
7.2
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Starring:
Jon Voight
,
Eric Roberts
,
Rebecca De Mornay
,
Kyle T. Heffner
,
John P. Ryan
,
T.K. Carter
Doctor Detroit (
1983) | IMDb:
5.2
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Directed by:
Michael Pressman
The Thing (
1982) | IMDb:
8.2
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
Starring:
Kurt Russell
,
Keith David
,
Wilford Brimley
,
T.K. Carter
,
David Clennon
,
Richard Dysart
The Hollywood Knights (
1980) | IMDb:
6.2
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
Directed by:
Floyd Mutrux