Me, Myself & Irene (
2000) | IMDb:
6.6
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
Starring:
Jim Carrey
,
Renée Zellweger
,
Anthony Anderson
,
Robert Forster
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Zen Gesner
Lost Highway (
1997) | IMDb:
7.6
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Starring:
Bill Pullman
,
Patricia Arquette
,
Balthazar Getty
,
Robert Blake
,
Natasha Gregson Wagner
,
Richard Pryor
Mad Dog Time (
1996) | IMDb:
5.4
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Ellen Barkin
,
Jeff Goldblum
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Diane Lane
,
Burt Reynolds
Directed by:
Larry Bishop
Another You (
1991) | IMDb:
5.3
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
Starring:
Richard Pryor
,
Gene Wilder
,
Mercedes Ruehl
,
Stephen Lang
,
Vanessa Williams
,
Peter Michael Goetz
Directed by:
Maurice Phillips
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
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (
1989) | IMDb:
6.8
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
Critical Condition (
1987) | IMDb:
5.3
Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.
Starring:
Richard Pryor
,
Rachel Ticotin
,
Rubén Blades
,
Maria Cardinale
,
Joe Mantegna
,
Bob Dishy
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (
1986) | IMDb:
6.3
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
Directed by:
Richard Pryor
Brewster's Millions (
1985) | IMDb:
6.5
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Directed by:
Walter Hill
Superman III (
1983) | IMDb:
5
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Starring:
Christopher Reeve
,
Richard Pryor
,
Jackie Cooper
,
Marc McClure
,
Annette O'Toole
,
Annie Ross
The Toy (
1982) | IMDb:
5.8
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Starring:
Richard Pryor
,
Jackie Gleason
,
Ned Beatty
,
Scott Schwartz
,
Teresa Ganzel
,
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Directed by:
Richard Donner
Some Kind of Hero (
1982) | IMDb:
5.8
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Directed by:
Michael Pressman
Bustin' Loose (
1981) | IMDb:
6
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
Stir Crazy (
1980) | IMDb:
6.7
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Starring:
Gene Wilder
,
Richard Pryor
,
Georg Stanford Brown
,
JoBeth Williams
,
Miguel Ángel Suárez
,
Craig T. Nelson
The Muppet Movie (
1979) | IMDb:
7.6
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
The Wiz (
1978) | IMDb:
5.5
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.