Badja Djola’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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Badja Djola has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Mississippi Burning.
Recurring themes

Incubus
1982
Horror · Thriller

Bad Dreams
1988
Horror · Thriller

Razorback
1984
Horror · Thriller

Johnny Handsome
1989
Crime · Drama

Bad Boys
1983
Crime · Drama

White Nights
1985
Drama · Thriller

A Dry White Season
1989
Drama · Thriller

At Close Range
1986
Crime · Drama

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 and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand

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 murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field

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 drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae

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 shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins