Vampire in Brooklyn (
1995) | IMDb:
4.6
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean playboy determined to romance her.
Starring:
Angela Bassett
,
Eddie Murphy
,
Allen Payne
,
Kadeem Hardison
,
John Witherspoon
,
Zakes Mokae
Waterworld (
1995) | IMDb:
6.3
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Starring:
Kevin Costner
,
Dennis Hopper
,
Jeanne Tripplehorn
,
Tina Majorino
,
R. D. Call
,
Gerard Murphy
Outbreak (
1995) | IMDb:
6.6
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
,
Rene Russo
,
Morgan Freeman
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Cuba Gooding Jr.
,
Donald Sutherland
Dust Devil (
1992) | IMDb:
6.2
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Starring:
Robert John Burke
,
Chelsea Field
,
Marianne Sägebrecht
,
William Hootkins
,
Zakes Mokae
,
John Matshikiza
The Doctor (
1991) | IMDb:
6.9
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Starring:
William Hurt
,
Christine Lahti
,
Elizabeth Perkins
,
Mandy Patinkin
,
Adam Arkin
,
Charlie Korsmo
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
Dad (
1989) | IMDb:
6.3
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
Directed by:
Gary David Goldberg
Gross Anatomy (
1989) | IMDb:
6.2
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
Starring:
Matthew Modine
,
Daphne Zuniga
,
Christine Lahti
,
Todd Field
,
John Scott Clough
,
Alice Carter
Directed by:
Thom Eberhardt
The Serpent and the Rainbow (
1988) | IMDb:
6.4
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Starring:
Bill Pullman
,
Cathy Tyson
,
Zakes Mokae
,
Paul Winfield
,
Brent Jennings
,
Conrad Roberts
Cry Freedom (
1987) | IMDb:
7.4
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Starring:
Kevin Kline
,
Denzel Washington
,
Penelope Wilton
,
Kate Hardie
,
John Matshikiza
,
Zakes Mokae
Roar (
1981) | IMDb:
6.2
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
Starring:
Tippi Hedren
,
Melanie Griffith
,
John Marshall
,
Jerry Marshall
,
Kyalo Mativo
,
Frank Tom
The Island (
1980) | IMDb:
5.3
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.
Starring:
Michael Caine
,
David Warner
,
Angela Punch McGregor
,
Frank Middlemass
,
Don Henderson
,
Dudley Sutton