Richard Pryor Movies

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bill Pullman

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage...

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Pryor

Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Wilder

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Stephen Boyd

Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Wilder

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diana Ross

Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

Genre: Music

Cast: Diana Ross

'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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Murphy

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dudley Moore

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Reeve

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Fonda

This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and having famous comedians talk about the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max Julien

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sid Caesar

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Pryor

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Dee Williams

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shelley Winters

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

For fans of comedy, Sam Kinison needs no introduction. His scathing comedy tackled tough topics no other comedian dared to touch. Fed up and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly D'Angelo

In the late 1950s, a fresh, unconventional style of standup comedy emerged in sharp contrast to the standard "Take my wife, please" approach. It...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bill Cosby

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Dee Williams

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marty Feldman

Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in...

Genre: Western

Cast: Fred Williamson

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zalman King

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Carlin

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jim Henson

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zalman King

A white man goes on trial for having raped a black woman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the...

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Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Evers

A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing performers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sammy Davis Jr.

Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on...

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Pryor

Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Pryor

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

“WINTER, 1973. Late afternoon: the entr'acte between dusk and darkness, when the people who conduct their business in the street -- numbers...

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Cast: Lily Tomlin

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Flynn Belaine Pryor

Unaired roast of Richard Pryor by the cast of The Richard Pryor Show including Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society), Sandra...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Pryor

TV special starring Lily Tomlin

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lily Tomlin

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.

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur Hiller

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ivan Dixon

The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Rock

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Anderson

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Earl Jones

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ron de Masio

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mel Brooks

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael A. Miller

In this comedy special, Jon Stewart, John Mulaney, Chelsea Handler and Dave Chappelle honor George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Robin Williams and Richard...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jon Stewart

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Newhart

The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Kurtis

"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Betye Saar

Fourth in the Zeitgeist Film Series, director Peter Joseph explorers the fundamental incompatibility of our economy & the culture it has created with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gene Wilder

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Al Matthews