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Who's the Man?
1993 • Drama • Comedy • Action
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, S…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988 • Thriller • Horror
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…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
Heaven's Prisoners
1996 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Last Boy Scout
1991 • Thriller • Action
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murde…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
Gunshy
1998 • Thriller • Crime • Action
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
An Innocent Man
1989 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Penitentiary
1979 • Drama • Crime • Action
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Mississippi Burning
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Hurricane
1999 • Drama
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Main Event
1979 • Romance • Comedy
A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
A Rage in Harlem
1991 • Crime • Comedy
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…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Rosewood
1997 • Drama • Thriller • History
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Waterdance
1992 • Drama
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension bu…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Brave
1997 • Drama
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his p…
Why matched: genres Drama
Deterrence
2000 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Players Club
1998 • Drama • Comedy
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fa…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Night Shift
1982 • Comedy
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Lonely Guy
1984 • Romance • Comedy
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy