List of the best Kevin Hooks movies: Aaron Loves Angela(1975), Black Dog(1998), Roots: The Gift(1988), The Color of Friendship(2000), Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story(1992), Sounder(1972), The White Shadow(1978), Take Down(1979), A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich(1977), Innerspace(1987) ... ...
Romance
USA
1975
98 Minutes
Kevin Hooks Irene Cara Moses Gunn Robert Hooks Ernestine Jackson Jose Feliciano
basketball player girlfriend father mother drug dealer tender uneasy harlem, n.y. spanish harlem basketball court interracial relationship prejudice poverty city life love growing up 1970s
In New York City, a young black boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love despite objections from each other's families.
Action
USA|UK|France|Germany|Japan
1998
88 Minutes
Director
Patrick Swayze Meat Loaf Aday Randy Travis Gabriel Casseus Brian Vincent Brenda Strong Graham Beckel Stephen Tobolowsky Charles S. Dutton Erin Broderick
ex-convict truck driver gunrunner fbi agent wife daughter thrilling melodramatic suspenseful new jersey atlanta georgia maryland highway truck yard journey second chance debt illegal arms hijacking
A weapons loaded truck is shadowed by FBI and ATF. It explodes and kills the driver. Jack, just out of prison, is pressured into driving another truck from Atlanta to NJ. Things get rough when hijacking attempts are made.
Other, Drama
1988
96 Minutes
Director
Louis Gossett Jr. LeVar Burton Avery Brooks Michael Learned Kate Mulgrew Shaun Cassidy John McMartin
slave bounty hunter abolitionist plantation owner son kunta kinte brutal tense dark virginia plantation american south slavery escape freedom uprising dangerous mission underground railroad pursuit underdog
A freed slave (Avery Brooks) needs Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) and the Fiddler's (Louis Gossett Jr.) help guiding runaway slaves on Christmas Eve.
Drama
2000
83 Minutes
Director
Carl Lumbly Penny Johnson Shadia Simmons Lindsey Haun Anthony Burnett Travis Davis Erik Todd Dellums Ahmad Stoner Melanie Nichols King Susan Danford Michael Kanev
congressman father friend foreign exchange student daughter charming endearing touching washington, d.c. south africa farm race relations culture clash friendship family apartheid violence growing up transformation discovery
A black family (Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson, Shadia Simmons) receives a white South African exchange student, raised in apartheid, into its home in 1977.
Drama
1992
96 Minutes
Director
Anna Maria Horsford Curtis McClarin Christopher Daniel Barnes Georg Stanford Brown Taurean Blacque Guy Killum Cuba Gooding Jr. Jay Underwood Carla Gugino Dakin Matthews Hari Rhodes
Based on Robert Sam Anson's book about the 1985 death of a black honor student at the hands of police.
Drama
USA
1972
105 Minutes
David Lee Morgan
Cicely Tyson Paul Winfield Kevin Hooks Carmen Mathews Taj Mahal James Best Yvonne Jarrell Eric Hooks Sylvia `Kuumba' Williams Janet MacLachlan Teddy Airhart
son father mother dog teacher sad inspiring louisiana household small town poverty racism hope education chain gangs growing up transformation quest 1930s
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Drama, Sports & Fitness
1978
Minutes
Ken Howard Ed Bernard Joan Pringle Thomas Carter Kevin Hooks Erik Kilpatrick Nathan Cook Timothy Van Patten Ken Michelman Ira Angustain Byron Stewart Robin Pearson Rose
Former pro player Ken Reeves becomes basketball coach at Carver High.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
107 Minutes
Jasper MacGrudder
Edward Herrmann Lorenzo Lamas Kathleen Lloyd Maureen McCormick Nicolas Beauvy Kevin Hooks Stephen Furst
An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.
Drama
1977
107 Minutes
Tiger
Cicely Tyson Paul Winfield Larry B. Scott Helen Martin Glynn Turman David Groh Kevin Hooks Kenneth Green Harold Sylvester Erin Blunt
A ghetto boy (Larry B. Scott) becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother (Cicely Tyson) and foster father (Paul Winfield) help him fight it.
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
USA
1987
119 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Martin Short Meg Ryan Kevin McCarthy Fiona Lewis Vernon Wells Robert Picardo Wendy Schaal Harold Sylvester William Schallert Henry Gibson
pilot clerk hypochondriac criminal scientist girlfriend hilarious thrilling human body supermarket laboratory journey survival crime experiments quest discovery rescue 1980s
A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk.