List of the best Brock Peters movies: Black Girl(1972), Lost in the Stars(1974), The Pawnbroker(1964), The L-Shaped Room(1963), Ace High(1969), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off(1973), Park Day(1998), To Kill a Mockingbird(1962), Soylent Green(1973), Porgy and Bess(1959), Alligator II: The Mutation(1991), Heavens Above!(1963) ... ...
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Brock Peters Leslie Uggams Peggy Pettit Claudia McNeil Louise Stubbs Gloria Edwards Loretta Greene Kent Martin Ruby Dee
daughter sister single mother adopted daughter grandmother tender emotional moving family home mother/child relationship dreams siblings family dysfunction jealousy poverty growing up rivalry 1970s
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Musical
USA
1974
114 Minutes
Stephen Kumalo
Brock Peters Melba Moore Raymond St. Jacques
preacher pregnant woman criminal son father gutsy emotional brutal sad johannesburg, south africa jail shantytown south africa apartheid injustice murder reunion father/son relationship crime escape
Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom.
Drama
USA
1964
116 Minutes
Rodriguez
Rod Steiger Geraldine Fitzgerald Brock Peters Jaime Sanchez Thelma Oliver Marketa Kimbrell Baruch Lumet Juano Hernandez John McCurry Eusebia Cosme Warren Finnerty
survivor employee boss neighbor criminal bleak emotional brooding new york city germany pawn shop holocaust grief guilt anti-semitism world war ii survival fall discovery sacrifice
A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Drama
UK
1963
125 Minutes
Johnny
Leslie Caron Tom Bell Brock Peters Avis Bunnage Emlyn Williams Cicely Courtneidge Bernard Lee Patricia Phoenix Nanette Newman
writer doctor boyfriend pregnant woman bleak gritty powerful moving london france boarding house romance abortion pregnancy friendship growing up love sacrifice discovery 1960s
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
Comedy, Western
Italy
1969
123 Minutes
Thomas
Eli Wallach Terence Hill Brock Peters Bud Spencer Kevin McCarthy Steffen Zacharias Bruno Corazzari Rick Boyd Antonietta Fiorito Corrado Olmi Franco Gulà
outlaw bounty hunter banker wrongly accused bank robber henchman thrilling amusing gritty small town casino american west texas house saloon framed unlikely allies film banding together duel
A recently-escaped bandit forms an unlikely alliance with two bounty hunters and an acrobat to get revenge against the people who framed him.
Crime, Drama
1973
93 Minutes
Reynolds
Jim Brown Ed McMahon Brock Peters Don Stroud Gloria Hendry Richard Williams Art Metrano Judith M. Brown Eddie LoRusso Jackie Giroux Russ Marin
green beret mobster best friend detective hit man gutsy cool los angeles party estate airplane hangar vengeance mob police corruption blackmail revenge 1970s
When mobsters pursuing him strike too close to home, a former Green Beret (Jim Brown) turns the tables on them.
Drama
USA
1998
94 Minutes
Heseeit Turner
Hill Harper Monica Calhoun Lande Scott Brock Peters Sydney Poitier Darius McCrary Jaqueline Fleming Edwin Morrow Henry Calvin Alan Arrivee
Residents (Hill Harper, Monica Calhoun, Lande Scott) of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning.
Drama
USA
1962
129 Minutes
Tom Robinson
Gregory Peck Mary Badham Phillip Alford John Megna Brock Peters Robert Duvall Rosemary Murphy Paul Fix Collin Wilcox Paxton Alice Ghostley William Windom
young girl young boy lawyer neighbor defendant drunk emotional heartwarming moving small town alabama courtroom family home racism childhood class distinctions family growing up underdog 1930s
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1973
97 Minutes
Chief Hatcher
Charlton Heston Edward G. Robinson Leigh Taylor-Young Chuck Connors Brock Peters Paula Kelly
executive detective best friend concubine bodyguard priest dark suspenseful shocking new york city factory cathedral police station apartment dystopia overpopulation food industry government secrets poverty assisted suicide
A police officer in the year 2022 uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
Musical, Drama, Romance
USA
1959
138 Minutes
Crown
Sidney Poitier Rouben Mamoulian Dorothy Dandridge Sammy Davis Jr. Pearl Bailey Brock Peters Leslie Scott Diahann Carroll Ruth Attaway Clarence Muse Everdinne Wilson
poor person drug addict african-american disabled person drug dealer beautiful woman emotional melodramatic sultry charleston, s.c. shantytown catfish row love triangle poverty drug addiction romantic dilemma hard times difficult decision underdog love
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
Horror
USA
1991
92 Minutes
Chief Speed
Joseph Bologna Dee Wallace Richard Lynch Woody Brown Holly Gagnier Steve Railsback Brock Peters Julian Reyes Bill Daily
A giant alligator runs amok in a small town lake.
Comedy
UK
1963
105 Minutes
Matthew Robinson
Peter Sellers Roy Boulting Cecil Parker Isabel Jeans Eric Sykes Bernard Miles Ian Carmichael Irene Handl Brock Peters William Hartnell Roy Kinnear
reverend parishioner churchwarden christian homeless person widow amusing cheeky offbeat engaging england village christianity class distinctions morality socialism rivalry wretched excess 1960s
A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.
Western
USA
1965
124 Minutes
Aesop
Charlton Heston Richard Harris Jim Hutton James Coburn Michael Anderson Jr. Senta Berger Mario Adorf Brock Peters Warren Oates Ben Johnson R. G. Armstrong
officer criminal prisoner of war deserter widow native american tense new mexico territory fort mexico village war kidnapping teamwork quest pursuit rivalry 1860s
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
Musical
USA
1954
105 Minutes
Sergeant Brown
Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte Pearl Bailey Olga James Diahann Carroll Roy E. Glenn Sr. Nick Stewart Joe Adams Brock Peters Sandy Lewis Mauri Lynn
sexy woman soldier fugitive love interest sergeant emotional sultry suspenseful louisiana nightclub chicago army camp jealousy seduction love triangle war murder obsession forbidden love rivalry
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
Mystery & Thriller
1983
100 Minutes
Dr. Graham
Helen Hayes Barnard Hughes Jameson Parker Season Hubley Swoosie Kurtz Stephen Macht Beth Howland Maurice Evans Brock Peters
miss marple murder suspect writer major detective serial killer chilling thrilling amusing intricate caribbean bahamas resort murder cold case vacation mysterious deaths investigation detective work mystery
Agatha Christie's sleuth Miss Marple (Helen Hayes) shakes pneumonia at a resort full of interesting people and murder.
Mystery & Thriller
1976
116 Minutes
Paul
Charlton Heston John Cassavetes Beau Bridges Marilyn Hassett David Janssen Jack Klugman Gena Rowlands Walter Pidgeon Brock Peters David Groh Mitchell Ryan
police captain swat officer gambler pickpocket girlfriend sniper brutal tense gripping dark los angeles coliseum tower football game command center los angeles terrorism disaster shooting spree hysteria race against time
A police captain (Charlton Heston) and a SWAT sergeant (John Cassavetes) try to stop a sniper perched above the scoreboard in a packed football stadium.
Sci-Fi
USA
1991
109 Minutes
William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley James Doohan Walter Koenig Nichelle Nichols George Takei Kim Cattrall David Warner Christopher Plummer Mark Lenard
captain kirk spock dr. mccoy klingon general protégé engaging suspenseful amusing thrilling spaceship courtroom prison starship enterprise peace talks alien planet assassination peace treaty space travel battle
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Sci-Fi, Adventure
USA
1986
118 Minutes
William Shatner Leonard Nimoy Catherine Hicks DeForest Kelley James Doohan George Takei Walter Koenig Nichelle Nichols Jane Wyatt Mark Lenard Robin Curtis
captain kirk spock doctor engineer officer biologist airy amusing quirky thrilling san francisco spacecraft space golden gate park rescue animals space travel time travel search adventure
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.