Richard Pryor — Actor (19)
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Lost Highway (1997) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lost Highway
8.2 (17 ratings) director: David Lynch actor: Patricia Arquette / Bill Pullman …
other title: Strade perdute / Estrada Perdida …
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
director: Page Hurwitz actor: Lily Tomlin / Rosie O'Donnell …
other title: Outstanding - La rivoluzione nella stand-up comedy
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
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Wattstax (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Wattstax
director: Mel Stuart actor: Richard Pryor / Rufus Thomas …
other title: Sort på hvidt
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.
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The Muppet Movie (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Muppet Movie
director: James Frawley actor: Jim Henson / Frank Oz …
other title: Ecco il film dei Muppet / As Aventuras dos Marretas …
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
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Harlem Nights (1989) [Movie] TMDB
Harlem Nights
director: Eddie Murphy actor: Eddie Murphy / Richard Pryor …
other title: Les Nuits de Harlem / Noches de Harlem
'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.
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Superman III (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Superman III
director: Richard Lester actor: Christopher Reeve / Richard Pryor …
other title: Superman 3 / Superman III - Der stählerne Blitz
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. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
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Blue Collar (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Blue Collar
director: Paul Schrader actor: Richard Pryor / Harvey Keitel …
other title: Tuta blu / Vivendo na Corda Bamba …
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.
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John Candy: I Like Me (2025) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Candy: I Like Me
director: Colin Hanks actor: John Candy / Tom Hanks …
other title: John Candy: Eu Gosto de Mim / John Candy: Ich mag mich …
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
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Wild in the Streets (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wild in the Streets
director: Barry Shear actor: Shelley Winters / Christopher Jones …
other title: Quattordici o guerra / Wild in den Straßen …
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.
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The Phynx (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Phynx
director: Lee H. Katzin actor: Michael A. Miller / Ray Chippeway …
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
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Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin' (1971) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin'
director: Michael Blum actor: Richard Pryor
other title: Live & Smokin'
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1985, on VHS. This was the first stand-up act that Pryor did before he hit the mainstream audience. With only 48 minutes of footage, it is the shortest of Pryor's stand-up routines.
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Hit! (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hit!
director: Sidney J. Furie actor: Billy Dee Williams / Richard Pryor …
other title: Der Hit - Der Kampf gegen die Drogen / Commando sur les stups …
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
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Some Call It Loving (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Some Call It Loving
director: James B. Harris actor: Zalman King / Carol White …
other title: Qualcuno lo chiama amore / Some Call It Loving (Sleeping Beauty) …
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
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The Mack (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Mack
director: Michael Campus actor: Max Julien / Don Gordon …
other title: Mack - Il marciapiede della violenza / The Mack - Straßen zur Hölle …
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his activities draw the ire of two corrupt cops and the crime lord he once worked for.
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Stir Crazy (1980) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Stir Crazy
director: Sidney Poitier actor: Gene Wilder / Richard Pryor …
other title: 油腔滑调 / 笨鸟出笼 …
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.