The best Michael Wright’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michael Wright’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Michael Wright.
The Wanderers
7.3/10
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
The Interpreter
6.4/10
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Sugar Hill
5.8/10
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
The Principal
6.3/10
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
Point Blank
4.2/10
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
The Five Heartbeats
7.5/10
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.
Bedtime Eyes
6/10
Streamers
6.5/10
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.
Before I Self Destruct
4.7/10
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
Street Justice
When two detectives are fed up with the system that's not working, they seek the help of a martial arts master to bring Justice to the Streets.
The Laundromat
7.1/10
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
Jesse
3.6/10
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, and shocking deception.
D'Curse
4/10
NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
The Cottonwood
6.8/10
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
Benny's Place
6/10
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Free The Menendez Brothers
In August of 1989, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their abusive parents in their Beverly Hills Mansion. The brothers are victims of graphic sexual abuse and egregious media demonizing and mischaracterizations. This short film is based on the true events surrounding the murder of their parents in hopes to open the publics eyes and start a national campaign.
