Quicksilver (
1986) | IMDb:
5.7
Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis?
Starring:
Kevin Bacon
,
Jami Gertz
,
Paul Rodríguez
,
Rudy Ramos
,
Laurence Fishburne
,
Louie Anderson
A Soldier's Story (
1984) | IMDb:
7.2
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Starring:
Howard Rollins
,
Adolph Caesar
,
Art Evans
,
Robert Townsend
,
Denzel Washington
,
David Alan Grier
Directed by:
Norman Jewison
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
The Warriors (
1979) | IMDb:
7.5
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Starring:
Michael Beck
,
James Remar
,
David Patrick Kelly
,
Dorsey Wright
,
David Harris
,
Deborah Van Valkenburgh