Search results for "Samuel L. Jackson"
Shaft (2000)
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade…
Rules of Engagement (2000)
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But there’s an unexpected side effect: the sharks got…
The Negotiator (1998)
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he’s being framed for his partner’s murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there’s evidence…
Sphere (1998)
A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts…
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to…
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
One Eight Seven (1997)
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent…
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent…
A Time to Kill (1996)
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Hard Eight (1996)
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
The Great White Hype (1996)
When the champ’s promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the…
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the…
Kiss of Death (1995)
Jimmy Kilmartin’s an ex-con who’s trying to go straight. But he can’t say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend’s life is threatened. The job is for…
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange…
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously…
Fresh (1994)
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
Against the Wall (1994)
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
Menace II Society (1993)
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Amos & Andrew (1993)
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with…
National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the…
White Sands (1992)
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Juice (1992)
Four Harlem friends — Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem — dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader…
Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace (1991)
Both sides of the law hunt Costabile ‘Gus’ Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.
Strictly Business (1991)
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he’s also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly…
Jungle Fever (1991)
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…
The Return of Superfly (1990)
In this third entry in the Superfly films, Priest returns to New York from Paris to find who is responsible for his friend’s murder. With a couple of new friends,…
Def by Temptation (1990)
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes…
Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on ’80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom’s hamburgers and much more.