The best Carl Weathers’s drama movies

Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers

14/01/1948 (76 años)
An American actor, as well as former professional football player in the United States and Canada. He is best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films. He also played Dillon in the first Predator movie, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, and played a fictionalized version of himself in the television series Arrested Development. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Weathers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Rocky

Rocky
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1976
  • Character: Apollo Creed
When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Rocky teams up with trainer Mickey Goldmill to make the most of this once in a lifetime break.

Toy Story 4

Toy Story 4
7.7/10
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.

Rocky IV

Rocky IV
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1985
  • Character: Apollo Creed
After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.

Rocky III

Rocky III
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/05/1982
  • Character: Apollo Creed
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter rival Apollo Creed for a rematch with Lang.

Rocky II

Rocky II
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/06/1979
  • Character: Apollo Creed
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.6/10
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Magnum Force

Magnum Force
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1973
  • Character: Demonstrator (uncredited)
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

Force 10 From Navarone

Force 10 From Navarone
6.4/10
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Action Jackson

Action Jackson
5.5/10
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough
5.9/10
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Hurricane Smith

Hurricane Smith
4.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1992
  • Character: Billy 'Hurricane' Smith
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

Dangerous Passion

Dangerous Passion
4.5/10
A security man goes to work for a sadistic gangster with an alluring wife.

Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut

Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/2021
  • Character: Apollo Creed
The director's cut, titled Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut, had a one-night theatrical release on November 11, 2021, it was then released in digital formats the following day.

The Sasquatch Gang

The Sasquatch Gang
6.2/10
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footprints in the woods. A local cop, reporter, and a renowned Sasquatch authority investigate, while two of Gavin's dim-witted neighbors hatch a scheme to profit from the situation.

In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound

In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1995
  • Character: Chief Hampton Forbes
Gillepsie's term as County Sheriff is coming to an end, and his enemies have found a local businessman, Kerry Madigan, who has high political aspiration, to run against him. They even attempt to enlist Forbes' support and the support of the local press in painting an unfavorable picture of Gillepsie. Meanwhile, the police suspect Frank Cole, one of Madigan's employees, of murdering a pregnant woman. When they request a warrant to test Cole's blood for a DNA match of the dead woman's baby, the judge, who respects Madigan and his employees, is unwilling to approve it.

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