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Richard Roundtree has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes

No Retreat, No Surrender
1986
Action · Comedy

The Way of the Dragon
1972
Action · Crime

Nothing to Lose
1997
Comedy · Crime

The Flyboys
2008
Adventure · Action

The Hard Way
1991
Action · Comedy

Money Train
1995
Action · Comedy

Bulletproof
1996
Comedy · Crime

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
Comedy · Crime
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Dir. Josh Margolin · With June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
Dir. Tim Story · With Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Dir. Rian Johnson · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Matt O'Leary
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Ben Johnson, Michael Landon Jr., Emily Warfield

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy

Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Dir. Adam Shankman · With Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Dir. William Lustig · With Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Dir. Peter Howitt · With Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Dir. Gordon Parks · With Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Dir. John Singleton · With Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Dir. Steve Carver · With Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree

Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rainforest full of animal friends: Tookie, his big-beaked toucan messenger; Ape, a witty talking gorilla; and Shep, a peanut-loving pooch of an elephant. But when poachers mess with George's pals, the King of Swing swings into action.
Dir. Sam Weisman · With Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church
A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.
Dir. Larry Cohen · With Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine
Keyes, a successful photographer who lives at the border of Skid Row, notices a homeless man with a strange old mirror. Immediately struck by it for reasons he cannot explain, he convinces the man to sell it to him, soon behaving in increasingly erratic and unhinged ways.
Dir. John Murlowski · With Ross Partridge, Julia Nickson, Lala Sloatman
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
Dir. Rob Pritts · With Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk
When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.
Dir. Kenneth Johnson · With Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Richard Roundtree
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
Dir. Jonathan R. Betuel · With Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau