The best Richard Pryor’s movies

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

01/12/1940- 10/12/2005
Today we present the best Richard Pryor’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Richard Pryor’s movies.
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Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/05/1985
  • Character: Montgomery Brewster
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

Lost Highway

Lost Highway
7.6/10
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Superman III

Superman III
5/10
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/05/1989
  • Character: Wallace 'Wally' Karue
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

Silver Streak

Silver Streak
6.9/10
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights
6.1/10
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

Stir Crazy

Stir Crazy
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/12/1980
  • Character: Harry Monroe
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment—they're sent to prison.

The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie
7.6/10
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

The Wiz

The Wiz
5.5/10
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

Car Wash

Car Wash
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1976
  • Character: Daddy Rich
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...
7.1/10
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

The Toy

The Toy
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 10/12/1982
  • Character: Jack Brown
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

California Suite

California Suite
6.2/10
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Moving

Moving
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1988
  • Character: Arlo Pear
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.

Wholly Moses

Wholly Moses
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1980
  • Character: Pharaoh
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.

Critical Condition

Critical Condition
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/01/1987
  • Character: Eddie Lenahan/Dr. Kevin Slattery
Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.

Blue Collar

Blue Collar
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/02/1978
  • Character: Zeke Brown
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1982
  • Character: Cpl. Eddie Keller / Ted Segal
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Another You

Another You
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1991
  • Character: Eddie Dash
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.

Which Way Is Up?

Which Way Is Up?
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/11/1977
  • Character: Leroy Jones/Rufus Jones/Rev. Lenox Thoma
Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.

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