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Midnight Run

Midnight Run (1988) more movies like this

directed by Martin Brest
featuring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina

Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the extradition trip from New York to Los Angeles will be ...

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Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die (1973) more movies like this

directed by Guy Hamilton
featuring Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris

Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the Western Hemisphere by converting everyone into heroin addicts. The woman in the case is Solitaire (Jane Seymour in her movie debut), an enigmatic ...

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Alien

Alien (1979) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a ...

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The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto

Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually meet Crown but manage to pull off the robbery ...

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The Running Man

The Running Man (1987) more movies like this

directed by Paul Michael Glaser
featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown

Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order reality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of 2019, framed for massacring rioting civilians ...

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Brubaker

Brubaker (1980) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Rosenberg
featuring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker reveals to the guards and administrators that he's ...

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Two If by Sea

Two If by Sea (1996) more movies like this

directed by Bill Bennett
featuring Denis Leary, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Dillane, Yaphet Kotto, Wayne Robson

Co-star Denis Leary co-wrote the script for this romantic comedy-drama. Leary plays Frank O'Brien, a no-class, small-time hood who is the boyfriend of Roz (Sandra Bullock), a cashier with a New York Jewish background who dreams of settling down and having kids. Roz wants out of the relationship but is fearful to break up. On a Friday, she ...

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Truck Turner

Truck Turner (1974) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Kaplan
featuring Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto

Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after composing the legendary score for Shaft (1971). Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator (Paul ...

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Blue Collar

Blue Collar (1978) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schrader
featuring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley, Jr., Harry Bellaver

Paul Schrader's directorial debut examines the trials of Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of a heartless corporation and a corrupt union. Surviving from paycheck to paycheck, Checker Cab assembly linemen Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto) scrape by and take pleasure in a few rounds of beer or bowling (and ...

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Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street (1972) more movies like this

directed by Barry Shear
featuring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard

Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, older white cop (Anthony Quinn) and an honest, young African-American cop (Yaphet Kotto) chasing three robbers-cum-murderers who ran away with $300,000 that belonged to the Italian mob. The police must find them before the sadistic Mafia henchman Nick D'Salvio (Anthony Franciosa) ...

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Chrome Soldiers (1992) more movies like this

directed by Thomas J. Wright
featuring Gary Busey, Ray Sharkey, William Atherton, Yaphet Kotto, Norm Skaggs

In this made-for-cable actioner a quintet of Vietnam vets team up and hop on their Harleys to round up a no-good gang of drug dealers from their tiny home town. They also take on the town's crooked politicians. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Star Chamber (1983) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hyams
featuring Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Essentially, these are robed vigilantes, but Douglas ...

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Out of Sync (1994) more movies like this

directed by Debbie Allen
featuring Victoria Dillard, Yaphet Kotto

A love affair with a drug dealer's squeeze lands an L.A. dee-jay (rap artist LL Cool J) in a heap of trouble. Soon he finds himself not only running from the crooks, but the cops as well. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Monkey Hustle (1976) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Marks
featuring Yaphet Kotto, Rudy Ray Moore, Rosalind Cash, Randy Brooks, Debbi Morgan

An inner-city Chicago community comes together to save their neighborhood from destruction in this '70s era blaxploitation-comedy. The construction of a proposed expressway would tear up their urban home, so a massive block party is planned to protest the action. Meanwhile, fast-talking scam artist Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto) has taken a group of ...

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Fighting Back (1982) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Teague
featuring Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche

An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) gets fed up with the petty hoodlums in his south Philadelphia neighborhood who have been terrorizing his friends. He decides to form a neighborhood watch group to fight off the crooks. While his intentions are the very best, the group of vigilantes he forms resorts to beating up offenders before bothering to ...

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Extreme Justice (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mark L. Lester
featuring Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Yaphet Kotto

Filmed just before the Rodney King incident, Extreme Justice is a violent tale of "police procedure" gone bonkers. Troublesome LAPD cop Jeff Powers (Lou Diamond Phillips) is assigned to an elite squad headed by his old friend Dan Vaughn (Scott Glenn). Ostensibly organized to collar violent repeat offenders, Vaughn's men actually comprise a "Death ...

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Ministry of Vengeance (1989) more movies like this

directed by Peter Maris
featuring John Schneider, Ned Beatty, James Tolkan, Yaphet Kotto, George Kennedy

A Vietnam War veteran (John Schneider) renounces the military for a priest's habit, but after his wife and daughter are killed by terrorists in Rome (and the government does nothing), the hero returns to violent means. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Eye of the Tiger (1986) more movies like this

directed by Richard Sarafian
featuring Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith

The budget may be loftier, but Eye of the Tiger is essentially an up-to-date AIP motorcycle flick. Ex-convict Buck Mathews (Gary Busey) lives as quietly as possible in his old home town. The corrupt local sheriff (Seymour Cassel) would give anything to drive Buck out of town: thus, the sheriff looks the other way when a motorcycle gang headed by ...

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Warning Sign (1985) more movies like this

directed by Hal Barwood
featuring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart

In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed-off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs. The lab is secretly developing weapons of biological warfare, and when an accident occurs that immediately seals ...

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After the Shock (1990) more movies like this

directed by Gary Sherman
featuring Jack Scalia, Rue McClanahan, Scott Valentine, Yaphet Kotto

A welcome exception to the slasher-stalker-kidnapper films usually seen on the USA cable network, After the Shock is a tribute to the courage and heroism of Bay Area residents following the San Francisco earthquake of October 17, 1989. Director Gary A. Sherman opts for a "cinema verite" approach, utilizing a hand-held camera to recreate the style ...

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Dead Badge (1994) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Barr
featuring Brian Wimmer, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, James B. Sikking, Olympia Dukakis

In this police drama, a police detective must wear the badge previously owned by a deceased colleague. Following a terrifying shoot-out, the shaken gumshoe begins investigating the circumstances surrounding the slain officer's demise. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Almost Blue (1993) more movies like this

directed by Keoni Waxman
featuring Michael Madsen, Lynette Walden, Garrett Morris, Gale Mayron, Yaphet Kotto

Flung into a deep depression following his wife's accidental death, jazzman Morris Poole (Michael Madsen) borders on suicide, punishing himself for the tragedy. They had been in the middle of a violent argument when she accidentally fell from an upper-story window. Eventually he gets involved with another gal, who finds the still-depressed Poole ...

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Witless Protection (2008) more movies like this

directed by Charles Robert Carner
featuring Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts

When a small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap. Eric Roberts, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, and Joe Mantegna co-star in a comedy from Red Water and Christmas Rush director Charles Robert Carner. ...

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Badge of the Assassin (1985) more movies like this

directed by Mel Damski
featuring James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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A Whisper to a Scream (1988) more movies like this

directed by Robert Bergman
featuring Nadia Capone, Silvio Oliviero, Yaphet Kotto, Lawrence Bayne

An actress practices her characterization skills by working for a phone sex operation. However, when a mysterious killer begins murdering women who fit the descriptions that the actress has concocted, she becomes understandable concerned. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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