Richard Pryor
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1940-12-01
Locus Natus: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Et ut: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, Ρίτσαρντ Πραιορ, Річард Прайор
Lost Highway
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible...
release : 1997.01.15popularis : 17.033
Wattstax
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage...
release : 1973.02.04popularis : 1.5
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
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...
release : 1989.05.12popularis : 21.565
Brewster's Millions
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days...
release : 1985.05.22popularis : 28.443
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he...
release : 1982.03.12popularis : 3.591
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
One of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous...
release : 1983.10.28popularis : 2.689
Silver Streak
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no...
release : 1976.12.03popularis : 18.711
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California.
release : 1979.01.26popularis : 5.612
Bustin' Loose
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.
release : 1981.05.22popularis : 5.243
Stir Crazy
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...
release : 1980.12.12popularis : 8.993
Lady Sings the Blues
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug...
release : 1972.10.12popularis : 7.047
Which Way Is Up?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...
release : 1977.11.04popularis : 6.992
Another You
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...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 9.533
Critical Condition
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...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 7.447
Carter's Army
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany....
release : 1975.05.25popularis : 3.719
The Toy
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....
release : 1982.12.10popularis : 9.9
The Wiz
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.
release : 1978.10.24popularis : 12.705
I Am Richard Pryor
The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...
release : 2019.03.12popularis : 3.79
Wholly Moses
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from...
release : 1980.06.13popularis : 4.97
Harlem Nights
'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...
release : 1989.11.17popularis : 10.644
Superman III
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which...
release : 1983.06.17popularis : 24.963
California Suite
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
release : 1978.12.15popularis : 9.137
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and having famous comedians talk about the...
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 5.507
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your...
release : 2013.05.20popularis : 2.977
Greased Lightning
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
release : 1977.07.01popularis : 5.525
Moving
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
release : 1988.03.04popularis : 5.909
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon...
release : 1976.07.16popularis : 2.453
Uptown Saturday Night
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
release : 1974.07.26popularis : 3.686
The Busy Body
Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
release : 1967.03.12popularis : 4.57
The Mack
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a...
release : 1973.04.04popularis : 5.879
Live at Mister Kelly's
The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin....
release : 2021.09.17popularis : 1.323
Wild in the Streets
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than...
release : 1968.05.29popularis : 5.61
Blue Collar
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly...
release : 1978.02.10popularis : 14.335
Some Kind of Hero
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...
release : 1982.04.02popularis : 6.237
The Phynx
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
release : 1970.03.06popularis : 5.206
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
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...
release : 1986.05.02popularis : 2.452
Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin'
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was...
release : 1971.04.29popularis : 3.148
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It...
release : 2007.04.10popularis : 3.363
Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh?
For fans of comedy, Sam Kinison needs no introduction. His scathing comedy tackled tough topics no other comedian dared to touch. Fed up and...
release : 1999.04.01popularis : 1.441
Hit!
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose...
release : 1973.09.18popularis : 7.038
In God We Tru$t
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to...
release : 1980.09.26popularis : 8.861
Some Call It Loving
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
release : 1973.11.16popularis : 4.901
The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up
In this comedy special, Jon Stewart, John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler and Dave Chappelle honor George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Robin Williams and Richard...
release : 2022.05.19popularis : 5.53
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward...
release : 2023.11.11popularis : 0.972
But... Seriously
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
release : 1994.03.25popularis : 1.388
Richard Pryor: Icon
Richard Pryor's impact on the craft of comedy and today's top comics is legendary and unrivaled. This program surveys the profound and enduring...
release : 2014.11.23popularis : 1.837
The Muppet Movie
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by...
release : 1979.06.22popularis : 15.482
Remembering Gene Wilder
This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first...
release : 2024.03.15popularis : 5.339
Zeitgeist: Requiem
In the fourth installment of the Zeitgeist series, director Peter Joseph explorers the fundamental incompatibility of our economy and the culture it...
release : 2024.03.15popularis : 2.82
Adiós Amigo
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in...
release : 1975.12.25popularis : 2.803
The Richard Pryor Special?
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...
release : 1977.05.05popularis : 0.967
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing performers.
release : 1990.02.04popularis : 1.327
Dynamite Chicken
A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.
release : 1971.01.20popularis : 2.375
The Making of 'Superman III'
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more comical take on the superhero story in which the...
release : 1985.08.26popularis : 1.231
TV's Funniest Comedians - 14 Stars Do Classic Routines
A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was...
release : 1986.04.16popularis : 5.816
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New...
release : 1971.09.19popularis : 0.695
Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales
A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.428
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...
release : 2024.06.07popularis : 27.579
The Young Lawyers
Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case...
release : 1969.10.28popularis : 5.051
Afro Promo
A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery.
release : 1997.01.31popularis : 1.03
Black and White Trypps Number Four
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...
release : 2008.06.20popularis : 0.604
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on...
release : 1983.05.16popularis : 3.107
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.
release : 2013.04.23popularis : 6.884
Juke and Opal
“WINTER, 1973. Late afternoon: the entr'acte between dusk and darkness, when the people who conduct their business in the street -- numbers...
release : 1973.12.01popularis : 3.682
And the Oscar Goes To...
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
release : 2014.02.01popularis : 8.241
The Three Muscatels
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She...
release : 1991.11.01popularis : 1.795
The Complete Richard Pryor Roast
Unaired roast of Richard Pryor by the cast of The Richard Pryor Show including Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society), Sandra...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 5.916
The Last Days of Richard Pryor
A two-hour television special on the life of Richard Pryor featuring interviews by those close to him, focusing on his contributions to standup...
release : 2020.01.16popularis : 1.06
Mad Dog Time
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.
release : 1996.11.08popularis : 4.89
Blacks and Jews
This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view...
release : 1997.07.29popularis : 1.544
Car Wash
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of...
release : 1976.10.22popularis : 25.238
The N Word
An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from...
release : 2006.01.16popularis : 4.284
The Lion Roars Again
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 1.15
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of...
release : 1979.03.01popularis : 1.243