Let's Do It Again

Sidney Poitier Director

Bill Cosby as Billy Foster

Ossie Davis as Elder Johnson

John Amos as Kansas City Mack

Val Avery as Lt. Bottomley

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

A Piece of the Action

♡ 3

Sidney Poitier Director

Frances Foster as Bea Quitman

Bill Cosby as Dave Anderson

Kurt Grayson as Dirk

Jason Evers as Ty Shorter

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

Uptown Saturday Night

1974

English

6.6

♡ 9

70%

Sidney Poitier Director

Ketty Lester as Irma Franklin

Rosalind Cash as Sarah Jackson

Richard Pryor as Sharp Eye Washington

Bill Cosby as Wardell Franklin

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Buck and the Preacher

1972

English

6.6

♡ 7

84%

Sidney Poitier Director

Jerry Gatlin as Deputy

Cameron Mitchell as Deshay

Drake Walker as Elder

Julie Robinson as Sinsie

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Ghost Dad

1990

English

4.4

♡ 14

6%

parent child relationship

satan

Sidney Poitier Director

Christine Ebersole as Carol

Amy Hill as Nurse #1

Ian Bannen as Sir Edith Moser

Brian Stokes Mitchell as Teacher

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.

Hanky Panky

1982

English

5.6

♡ 11

45%

Sidney Poitier Director

Johnny Brown as Bus Driver

Beau Starr as Cop Passenger

Kathleen Quinlan as Janet Dunn

Victor Argo as Pallbearer

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Fast Forward

1985

English

5.6

♡ 3

83%

Drama

Musical

Sidney Poitier Director

Constance Towers as Jessie Granger

Valentin de Vargas as M.C

Rick Rossovich as Self

Stephen Beach as Tenemant Boy #1

Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in the Big Apple before competition, and get some lessons about the real World.

Stir Crazy

1980

English

6.7

♡ 30

69%

wrongful imprisonment

Sidney Poitier Director

Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson

Erland van Lidth as Grossberger

Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham

Lee Purcell as Susan

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes 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 employment — they're sent to prison.

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Let's Do It Again

A Piece of the Action

Uptown Saturday Night

Buck and the Preacher

Ghost Dad

Hanky Panky

Fast Forward

Stir Crazy