List of the best Jim Abrahams movies: Airplane!(1980), Top Secret!(1984), Ruthless People(1986), Hot Shots! Part Deux(1993) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1980
88 Minutes
Director
Robert Hays Jerry Zucker Julie Hagerty Peter Graves Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Leslie Nielsen Lorna Patterson Stephen Stucker
pilot doctor flight attendant child ex-girlfriend playful madcap airplane hospital alcoholism accident disaster suicide guilt aviation rescue 1980s
A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
Comedy, Music
UK|USA
1984
90 Minutes
Val Kilmer Jim Abrahams Lucy Gutteridge Christopher Villiers Omar Sharif Peter Cushing Jeremy Kemp Billy J. Mitchell Michael Gough Harry Ditson
singer scientist woman agent general father emotional hilarious thrilling east germany festival headquarters nightclub farmhouse military secrets behind enemy lines singing resistance fighters abduction father/daughter relationship
Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
Comedy
USA
1986
95 Minutes
Danny DeVito Jim Abrahams Bette Midler Judge Reinhold Helen Slater Anita Morris Bill Pullman William G. Schilling Art Evans
millionaire wife mistress kidnapper dark offbeat amusing los angeles household kidnapping family dysfunction marital problems murder blackmail revenge rivalry 1980s
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Comedy
USA
1993
89 Minutes
Director
Charlie Sheen Lloyd Bridges Valeria Golino Richard Crenna Brenda Bakke Miguel Ferrer Rowan Atkinson Jerry Haleva
pilot hostage saddam hussein psychiatrist husband saboteur hilarious outlandish jungle iraq boat palace military hostage situation military engagement rescue adventure 1990s
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.