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Cool Runnings

Cool Runnings (1993) more movies like this

directed by Jon Turteltaub
featuring Leon, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba, Rawle D. Lewis, John Candy

Cool Runnings fictionalizes the true story of a bobsledding team from Jamaica making it to the Olympics. The tale begins when Derice Bannock (Leon), realizing that due to an accident his chances of qualifying for Jamaica's 1988 Olympic track team are dashed, scrounges around looking for another sport for the competition. Since ex-United States ...

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The Five Heartbeats

The Five Heartbeats (1991) more movies like this

directed by Robert Townsend
featuring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells

Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," played by Robert Townsend (who also co-produced, ...

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Charly

Charly (1968) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Nelson
featuring Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Leon Janney, Lilia Skala, Dick Van Patten

In 1961, Cliff Robertson starred in The Two Worlds of Charley Gordon, a TV adaptation of Daniel Keyes' story Flowers for Algernon. Determined not to lose out on the film version of this play as he'd done with Days of Wine and Roses, Robertson bought up the movie rights to Keyes' story so that he and he alone would star. This determination paid off ...

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From the Terrace

From the Terrace (1960) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability to express love and affection, a trait he has ...

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Above the Rim

Above the Rim (1994) more movies like this

directed by Jeff Pollack
featuring Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, David Bailey, Tonya Pinkins

A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to follow ...

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By the Light of the Silvery Moon

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the hot-and-cold romance between Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Gordon will not marry Doris until he is ...

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The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames

One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He creates an extremely resilient flying rubber, dubbed "Flubber," and manages to make his old Model-T bounce all the way to Washington, DC, where it is mistaken for a UFO, ...

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On Moonlight Bay

On Moonlight Bay (1951) more movies like this

directed by Roy Del Ruth
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his is a strictly secondary part herein. The emphasis is on Penrod's hoydenish older sister, played by ...

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955) more movies like this

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A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Leon Ames, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda, George Cleveland, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Stack, Scotty Beckett

In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack). This situation is particularly troublesome for Judy, who already has a boyfriend, "Oogie" Pringle ...

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The Seven-Ups (1973) more movies like this

directed by Phil D'Antoni
featuring Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval, Tony Lo Bianco

This was the only directorial effort of Philip D'Antoni, producer of the action classic Bullitt (1968). Roy Scheider stars as Buddy Manucci, a New York City Police Department investigator running a task force charged with taking down criminals guilty of offenses that would get them a minimum sentence of seven years in prison upon conviction. ...

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The Amazing Adventure (1936) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Zeisler
featuring Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion

Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance ). Making a rare return trip to England, Cary Grant plays the heir to a huge fortune. Alas, Grant is miserable, because he's never worked for his money. Determined to prove his worth, Grant makes a wager than he can earn his keep for ...

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) more movies like this

directed by Pedro Almodóvar
featuring Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Julieta Serrano, Francisco Rabal

"I'll never love you . . . ever!" the sexy and attractive Marina (Victoria Abril) states emphatically to the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas). You know she means what she says because when she makes this statement she is handcuffed and lashed to a bed, not exactly the proper way to warm anyone up for romance. Yet in Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up ...

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Gridiron Gang (2006) more movies like this

directed by Phil Joanou
featuring The Rock, Jade Yorker, Xzibit, Leon Rippy, Kevin Dunn

The true story of the football team that proved sometimes second chances can make a difference comes to the screen in director Phil Joanou's tale of self-respect and social responsibility on the gridiron. Sean Porter (The Rock) is a detention camp probation officer who oversees the inmates at Camp Kilpatrick in Los Angeles and isn't willing to ...

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Song of the Thin Man (1947) more movies like this

directed by Edward N. Buzzell
featuring Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a competitor. Also among the many and varied suspects ...

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Lady in the Lake (1946) more movies like this

directed by Robert Montgomery
featuring Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames

Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source novelist Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays detective Philip Marlowe, a private eye who just wants to publish his own crime stories. Kingsby Publications editor Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) meets with Marlowe, but offers him ...

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Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) more movies like this

directed by Steve Carver
featuring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltran

In this Spaghetti-western-like martial arts actioner, Texas Ranger J. J. McQuade (Chuck Norris) is up against the weapons-dealer Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine) after Wilkes kidnaps McQuade's partner and daughter and takes them to Mexico. McQuade's personal vendetta is encouraged by the government because Wilkes is hijacking U.S. arms shipments ...

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Beat Street (1984) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan, Wynn P. Thomas
featuring Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor

Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded individuals as music student Rae Dawn Chong, ...

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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) more movies like this

directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt

In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong. The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. John Bush, All ...

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Bustin' Loose (1981) more movies like this

directed by Oz Scott
featuring Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Alphonso Alexander, Kia Cooper, Edwin de Leon

It's The African Queen meets Richard Pryor in this schmaltzy and salty attempt by Pryor to appeal to the family crowd. Pryor plays Joe Braxton, an inept burglar whose parole officer Donald (Robert Christian) wants to help out. Knowing that Joe is an excellent mechanic, he refers him to Vivian Perry (Cicely Tyson), the director of a school for ...

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Jake Speed (1986) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Lane
featuring Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Donna Pescow

An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they should get "Jake Speed" to find her. However, Jake ...

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As You Like It (1936) more movies like this

directed by Paul Czinner
featuring Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer, Stuart Robertson, Leon Quartermaine, Austin Trevor, Laurence Olivier, Mackenzie Ward, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart

This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. As the story goes, Rosalind, smitten by Orlando and not able to get his attention, disguises herself as a boy to more easily remain in Orlando's vicinity. Eventually Orlando grows to like his new friend and Rosalind is stuck ...

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Deadwood: Season 01 (2004) more movies like this

"Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune." These are the words that serve as greeting for saddle-weary former lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) as he rides into the illegal Dakota Territory settlement of Deadwood, a scant few weeks after Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. Before long, Bullock makes the acquaintance ...

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Seven Swords (2005) more movies like this

directed by Tsui Hark
featuring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Young, Sun Hong-Lei, Lu Yi-ching

Tsui Hark (The Blade) adapted his massive martial arts epic Seven Swords (AKA Qi Jian) from Liang yu-Sheng's ravenously popular novel Seven Swordsmen from Mount Tian. The story opens in the 1660s, following the implementation of China's (Manchu) Qing dynasty. To quell possible nationalist uprisings, the emperor issues a decree forbidding the use ...

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Penitentiary 2 (1982) more movies like this

directed by Jamaa Fanaka
featuring Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T, Glynn E. Turman, Peggy Blow

A former prison inmate finds he can't leave his violent past behind in this sequel to the cult favorite Penitentiary. After earning his parole by winning the prison boxing tournament, Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone is tired of fighting and wants to move on to a more peaceful life, but as a condition of his release, he has to work for Handler ...

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