List of the best Richard Williams movies: The Gifted(1994), The Rapture(1991), The Mack(1973), An Almost Perfect Affair(1979), The Jerk(1979), Five on the Black Hand Side(1973), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off(1973), Who Killed Mary What's 'er Name?(1971), Blood and Bone(2009), The Anderson Tapes(1971), Uptight(1968), Mo' Better Blues(1990) ... ...
Sci-Fi
USA
1994
90 Minutes
Richard Williams Bianca Ferguson Johnny Sekka Gene Jackson J.A. Preston Julie Hampton Julius Harris Marguerite Ray Ed Cambridge Davis Roberts Aaron Lewis
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1991
102 Minutes
Mimi Rogers Patrick Bauchau Kimberly Cullum Richard Williams Will Patton De'Vaughn Nixon Christian Belnavis Terri Hanauer Marvin Elkins Douglas Roberts Carole Raphaelle Davis
daughter hit man cult member religious person telephone operator lover disturbing shocking tense los angeles desert bar faith murder religion apocalypse sex cult discovery transformation
A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.
Crime, Drama
USA
1973
110 Minutes
Max Julien Don Gordon Richard Pryor Carol Speed Richard Williams
ex-convict pimp prostitute crooked cop rival uplifting wild oakland, calif. bar nightclub street prison release ambition racial issues prostitution class struggle racism rise rivalry 1970s
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Romance
USA
1979
93 Minutes
Keith Carradine Monica Vitti Raf Vallone Christian De Sica Richard Williams Henri Garcin Anna Maria Horsford Katya Berger
A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.
Comedy
USA
1979
93 Minutes
Steve Martin Bernadette Peters Catlin Adams Mabel King Richard Ward Richard Williams Carl Reiner Bill Macy M. Emmet Walsh Dick O'Neill Maurice Evans
adopted son killer gas station owner filmmaker carnival worker woman madcap intricate hilarious emotional mississippi st. louis gas station carnival innocence inventions race relations family self-discovery travel
A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.
Comedy
USA
1973
96 Minutes
Clarice Taylor Leonard Jackson Virginia Capers Glynn Turman D'Urville Martin Richard Williams Sonny Jim Ja'net DuBois Frankie Crocker
father mother brother sister fiancé emotional spirited los angeles household family dysfunction social change african-americans marital problems parenthood rebellion discovery love 1970s
In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
1973
93 Minutes
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.
Mystery & Thriller
1971
90 Minutes
Red Buttons Alice Playten Sylvia Miles Conrad Bain Sam Waterston David Doyle Richard Williams Gilbert Lewis Earl Hindman Ron Carey
A former boxer (Red Buttons) and his daughter (Alice Playten) solve the low-priority case of a slain Greenwich Village prostitute.
Action, Sports & Fitness
USA
2009
90 Minutes
Michael Jai White Julian Sands Eamonn Walker Dante Basco Nona Gaye Michelle Belegrin Bob Sapp Richard Williams Ron Yuan
prisoner fighter enemy manager man engaging thrilling suspenseful intense gripping brutal los angeles ghetto fighting underground scene prison released from prison danger anger rivalry
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1971
98 Minutes
Sean Connery Diane Cannon Martin Balsam Ralph Meeker Alan King Christopher Walken Val Avery Richard Williams Garrett Morris Stan Gottlieb Paul Benjamin
burglar ex-girlfriend mafia boss psychopath henchman gripping thrilling suspenseful crafty new york city apartment building crime surveillance robbery dangerous assignment fall temptation pursuit 1970s
After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.
Drama
USA
1968
104 Minutes
Raymond St. Jacques Ruby Dee Frank Silvera Roscoe Lee Browne Julian Mayfield Janet MacLachlan Max Julien Juanita Moore Richard Williams Michael Baseleon Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, "The Informer."
Drama
USA
1990
127 Minutes
Denzel Washington Spike Lee Wesley Snipes Joie Lee Cynda Williams Giancarlo Esposito Robin Harris Bill Nunn Richard Williams John Turturro Ruben Blades
saxophonist trumpeter manager teacher singer friend cool brooding emotional nightclub new york city backstage street jazz club jazz power struggle love triangle debt friendship music industry
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Drama, Biography, History
1978
200 Minutes
Cicely Tyson Robert Hooks Jason Bernard Clifford David Judyann Elder John Getz Mae Mercer James Sikking Charles Weldon Richard Williams Jean Renee Foster
Escaped slave Harriet Tubman (Cicely Tyson) leads an underground railroad taking others north to freedom.