Robert Townsend Movies

A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Scott Baio

One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Robert Townsend

Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denzel Washington

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Howard Rollins

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

This documentary praises comedian Richard Pryor by showing fragments of various shows Pryor made and having famous comedians talk about the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Townsend

Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franklyn Ajaye

Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Reiser

A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Duke

A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sondra Locke

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Beck

Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Townsend

Rodney Dangerfield hosted this HBO special which includes fantastic performances by some of the best new talent of 1986. Comedians include Jeff...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rodney Dangerfield

After a homocide that the police believe is over gasoline theft, a tax investigator discovers the Russian mafia is involved and that they are...

Genre: Action

Cast: Joe Pantoliano

Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Townsend

In the 70's, Langston Faizon Santisima, barely 18, left his native Cuba on an impossible quest- to direct a film starring Bruce Lee. Against all...

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Cast: Robert Townsend

A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers....

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Townsend

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Biskind

TV Special with a variety of comedians

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chris Rock

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second riotous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

Mercenary Captain "Hawk" is in Acion again to save a hostage. But he and his team are betrayed. Nothing is as it seems...

Genre: Action

Cast: Olivier Gruner

American stand-up comedian Robin Harris performs his legendary comedic jokes as part of HBO's classic comedy series One Night Stand.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robin Harris

From comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) comes this collection of comedy sketches starring some of the biggest names in show...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This fourth and final...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This third riotous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glynn Turman

15 year old Brendan Willy hates himself for being un-cool when he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Enter Mr. Five, a no good tempter from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Townsend

Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Salli Richardson-Whitfield

This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Randall

Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Paré

An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eddie Griffin

Rudy Ray Moore tells all as only he can in this all-new retrospective legendary career. From his humble beginnings to his crowning as "King of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rudy Ray Moore

A 29-year-old lawyer falls for a 43-year-old woman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Ritter

Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Burnett

Book of Love delivers humor along with the mysteries of unrequited love and relationships gone bad. The film's story line focuses on three men...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard T. Jones

Scooby and the gang have their first musical mystery in “Scooby Doo: Music of the Vampire.” It begins when they take a sing-a-long road...

Genre: Family

Cast: Frank Welker

Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Freddy Rodríguez

Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Ontkean

When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Costner

Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Townsend

A fictionalized drama about the first women to enter the U.S. Military Academy in 1976 and the reactions they faced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Linda Purl

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stuart Hall

Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Burnside

A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yaphet Kotto

A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jenifer Lewis