Richard Pryor

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

Dir. David Lynch · With Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Dir. Mel Brooks · With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

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

Dir. Jeff Margolis · With Richard Pryor, Jennifer Lee Pryor

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 line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto

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?

Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance

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 one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

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!

Dir. Walter Hill · With Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee

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.

Dir. Sidney Poitier · With Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown

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

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell

'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.

Dir. Eddie Murphy · With Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx

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.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty

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

Dir. Herbert Ross · With Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith

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.

Dir. Alan Metter · With Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas

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.

Dir. Maurice Phillips · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl

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.

Dir. Richard Lester · With Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole