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  • California Suite
  • California Suite review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars Great Comedy, Great Score 18 May 2006
    ... Alda and Jane Fonda - and really chokingly funny slapstick from Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. There's also a great jazz score from Claude Bolling that makes this movie a f...  
  • Brewster's Millions
  • Brewster's Millions review by from CRAWLEY
    Rated - 4 stars 29 January 2004
    ...Richard Pryor and John Candy, brilliant! A has been baseball player inherits 300Million USD (or something like that) from a long lost relative, on the one condition - that h...  
  • Harlem Nights
  • Harlem Nights review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...starring as Quick, the son of 1930s Harlem gambling-house proprietor Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor), also wrote and directed the film. The plotline details the combined efforts o...  

Richard Pryor - filmography


  • Lost Highway (1997)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Patricia Arquette,  Balthazar Getty
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,579 members
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  • Another You on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Gene Wilder,  Mercedes Ruehl
    Director: Maurice Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In their fourth outing as a team, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star as a chronic liar and a con man whose deceptive ways get them into a very sticky situation involving a missing millionaire, his beautiful wife, a fearsome estate executive, and a serious case of mistaken identity. As the lies and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 927 members
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  • Harlem Nights on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Richard Pryor,  Jasmine Guy
    Director: Eddie Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. Twenty-five years later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right-hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,111 member
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  • Critical Condition on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Sylvia Miles,  Joe Dallesandro
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The storyline mixes outrageous comedy with a dose of suspense as it portrays the chaotic aftermath of a power failure in a big city hospital. Coupled to all this, Richard Pryor appears as a fake mental patient, hopefully avoiding going to prison.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 550 members
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  • Superman III on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Christopher Reeve,  Richard Pryor,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Superman matches wits with an evil mastermind and a computer genius who discovers the one substance that can harm the Man of Steel. Combining the known ingredients of Kryptonite with a guess at the unknown, the genius invents a new Kryptonite that doesn't kill Superman it turns him evil. Meanwhile, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,470 members
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  • Some Kind Of Hero (1982)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Margot Kidder
    Director: Michael Pressman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Pryor effectively mixes poignant drama and slapstick comedy in this story of a P.O.W. who returns home to find his world shattered. He takes revenge on society by turning to a life of petty crime.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 56% from 10 members
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  • Bustin Loose (1981)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Cicely Tyson
    Director: Oz Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Foulmouthed Joe (Richard Pryor) breaks his parole, but is given a chance to prove his worth by a schoolteacher (Cicely Tyson). She hires him to drive a bus full of Special School kids from Philadelphia, but Joe is a bit unnerved by their various mental problems. Soon, however, the bonds of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 15 members
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  • Stir Crazy on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Richard Pryor,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Sidney Poitier
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,659 members
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  • Blue Collar on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Harvey Keitel,  Yaphet Kotto
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 'Blue Collar', Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 758 members
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  • The Wiz on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Diana Ross,  Michael Jackson,  Richard Pryor
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the urban version of the land of Oz.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 689 members
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  • Richard Pryor - Live In Concert on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Pryor
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    LIVE IN CONCERT is Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III's funniest performance. His tough background, being abandoned by his mother at the age of 10, his battles with racism, drugs and sexual addiction, a handful of wives and children have given him sufficient ammunition for his acerbic wit and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,577 members
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  • Which Way Is Up? on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Lonette McKee,  Dolph Sweet,  Richard Pryor
    Director: Michael Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A seriocomic tale of love, seduction, and betrayal in the strife-torn farm country of central California. Richard Pryor plays several roles here, most significantly a migrant worker who works his way up the ranks in the agricultural company controlling one of the farms.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 18 members
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  • Car Wash on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Irwin Corey,  George Carlin
    Director: Michael Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Michael Schultz follows up his critically acclaimed and commercially successful COOLEY HIGH with this hilarious day-in-the-life tale set in modern day Los Angeles. At Sully Boyar's car wash, a juvenile, motley crew of city dwellers "work their fingers to the bone" waiting on the eccentric ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 509 members
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  • The Mack (1973)
    Starring: Max Julien,  Carol Speed,  Richard Pryor
    Director: Michael Campus
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Goldie's a cutthroat, penny-pinching black businessman, eager to climb to the top of his profession. Just because he's a pimp doesn't mean he wants any less than the very best cars, clothes and women. But when he finally gets what he wants, he'll have more than he bargained for: white detectives, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 33% from 9 members
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  • Wattstax (1973)
    Starring: Ossie Davis,  Richard Pryor,  Fred Berry
    Director: Mel Stuart
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Originally released in 1973, WATTSTAX is a musical and cultural artifact that pays tribute to the Watts riots, which ravaged Los Angeles for six days beginning August 11, 1965. The film's main focus is the Watts Summer Festival's 1972 concert held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, featuring performances ..read more »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
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  • Dynamite Chicken on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Richard Pryor
    Director: Ernest Pintoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Comedian Richard Pryor takes on gays, astronauts, bodily functions, the Pope, black power, women's lib and old age. Cameo performances by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 170 members
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  • Richard Pryor Stand-Up Comedy Boxset (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Richard Pryor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Legendary comedian Richard Pryor displays his wit and humour in two stand-up titles. Filmed at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, HERE AND NOW sees Richard Pryor delight his audience with a succession of sharp, witty and outrageous tales of sex, drugs and politics. LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP sees ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 567 members
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Richard Pryor - watch online


  • Critical Condition to Watch Now (1987)
    Starring: Richard Pryor,  Rachel Ticotin,  Rubén Blades
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: FREE
    Run time: 100 minutes
    The symptoms: acute tickling of the funny bone and sever belly laughs. The diagnosis? Richard Pryor in Critical Condition. Playing a criminal who fakes insanity to avoid prison, Pryor ends up in a hospital mental ward. That's when the craziness starts as he escapes during a blackout and disguises ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 20 members
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  • Hit! to Watch Now (1973)
    Starring: Billy Dee Williams,  Richard Pryor,  Paul Hampton
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 134 minutes
    U.S. agent Nick Allen (Billy Dee Williams) has his own idea about how to fight a war on drugs: go to the source...and cut the big-time traffickers down. Embittered over the drug-related death of his teenage daughter, Nick sets out to do just that. With stone-cold intensity, he locates and trains a ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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Richard Pryor facts

5 most recent films

Lost Highway - 3.5 stars
Another You - 3.0 stars
See No Evil, Hear No Evil - 3.5 stars
Harlem Nights - 3.0 stars
Critical Condition - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lady Sings the Blues - 3.5 stars
See No Evil, Hear No Evil - 3.5 stars
Blue Collar - 3.5 stars
Stir Crazy - 3.5 stars
Richard Pryor Stand-Up Comedy Boxset - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Wattstax - 1.0 stars
Black Brigade - 1.5 stars
The Mack - 2.0 stars
Bustin Loose - 2.5 stars
Some Kind Of Hero - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gene Wilder - 4 times - show films
Billy Dee Williams - 4 times - show films
Rachel Ticotin - 2 times - show films
Bob Dishy - 2 times - show films
Diana Ross - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 5 times - show films
Sidney J. Furie - 2 times - show films
Michael Schultz - 2 times - show films
Arthur Hiller - 2 times - show films
Michael Apted - 2 times - show films