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1. The Fisher King (1991)
R | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi
Votes: 90,801 | Gross: $41.90M
2.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
(1989)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution in modern jazz music. Today, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century.
Director: Gary Giddins | Stars: Rebecca Davis, Leonard Feather, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Haynes
Votes: 121
3. Stealing Home (1988)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Ex-baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes.
Directors: Steven Kampmann, William Porter | Stars: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman
Votes: 4,949 | Gross: $7.47M
4. Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
PG | 113 min | Comedy, Romance
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his money back, but first he must sober up and get a real job.
Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 6,761 | Gross: $14.68M
5.
A Different World (1987–1993)
Episode:
My Dinner with Theo
(1988)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
Theo pays an unforgettable visit to his sister Denise at Hillman College.
Director: Ellen Gittelsohn | Stars: Lisa Bonet, Marisa Tomei, Dawnn Lewis, Vernee Watson
Votes: 48
6. A Different World (1987–1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy
A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
Stars: Lisa Bonet, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell
Votes: 7,910
7.
227 (1985–1990)
Episode:
See You in Court
(1987)
TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy
Mary, Rose, and Pearl are toying around with Brenda's new keyboard, and Mary sings a song she wrote in high school. Sandra stops by and Mary sings the song for her. Sandra helped her edit ... See full summary »
Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry
Votes: 24
8.
The Cosby Show (1984–1992)
Episode:
Hillman
(1987)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Cliff, Clair, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy visit Denise at Hillman College and meet her friends.
Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet
Votes: 188
9.
A Different World (1987–1993)
Episode:
Pilot
(1987)
TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy
Denise finds out that her dorm payment check bounced and that her checking account is overdrawn.
Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Lisa Bonet, Marisa Tomei, Dawnn Lewis, Jasmine Guy
Votes: 76
10.
This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
Episode:
Dudley Moore: Part 1
(1987)
Documentary, Biography
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Tony Bill, Sammy Cahn, Chevy Chase
11.
The Equalizer (1985–1989)
Episode:
Tip on a Sure Thing
(1986)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a race between two horses is being highly touted the press is giving a lot of coverage to the underdog. And everyone seems to be betting on that horse. So a bookie takes all of the ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Edward Woodward, Paul Gleason, Daniel Faraldo, Ted Ross
Votes: 82
12.
What's Happening Now! (1985–1988)
Episode:
Goodbye, Mr. Ripps
(1986)
TV-G | Comedy
When Raj, Dwayne, and Rerun hears that their favorite teacher and renown practical joker is retiring they plan the ultimate farewell party.
Director: Tony Csiki | Stars: Ernest Thomas, Haywood Nelson, Fred Berry, Shirley Hemphill
Votes: 17
13. The Equalizer (1985–1989)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired Intelligence Agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.
Stars: Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka, Robert Lansing, Mark Margolis
Votes: 5,915
14. 227 (1985–1990)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
This series took place in an apartment building numbered 227. The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plotline.
Stars: Helen Martin, Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall
Votes: 3,981
15. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,168
16. What's Happening Now! (1985–1988)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy
"What's Happening Now!" is a sequel to "What's Happening!," a TV series about the adult main characters (Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, Shirley, and Dee) as teenagers/children.
Stars: Ernest Thomas, Haywood Nelson, Shirley Hemphill, Anne-Marie Johnson
Votes: 1,247
17. MacGruder and Loud (1985)
60 min | Drama, Crime
Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud are two cops, who are partners. Now they fall in love and get married. It seems that regulations state that if two cops are married, they cannot be partners... See full summary »
Stars: John Getz, Kathryn Harrold, Robert Desiderio, Willard E. Pugh
Votes: 124
18.
MacGruder and Loud (1985)
Episode:
Sanctuary
(1985)
Drama, Crime
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: John Getz, Kathryn Harrold, Charles Boswell, Victor Campos
19. The Cosby Show (1984–1992)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
The goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family.
Stars: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe
Votes: 36,322
20. Police Academy (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy
A group of good-hearted, but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
Votes: 137,243 | Gross: $81.20M
21. The Wiz (1983 Video)
45 min | Fantasy, Musical
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
Director: Susan Simmons | Stars: Tasha Thomas, Stephanie Mills, Ralph Wilcox, Evelyn Thomas
Votes: 106
22. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
R | 104 min | Horror
A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner
Votes: 12,838 | Gross: $12.53M
23. Fighting Back (I) (1982)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto
Votes: 762 | Gross: $3.34M
24. Purlie (1982 TV Movie)
142 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people.
Director: Rudi Goldman | Stars: Robert Guillaume, Sherman Hemsley, Rhetta Hughes, Melba Moore
Votes: 119
25. Parole (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
High school dropout Jimmy McCusick goes to prison for robbery; after suffering a gang-rape and then drawing the attention of a hardened life-term convict, he is put in protective ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Jay Acovone, Ellen Barkin, Meb Boden, John Bottoms
Votes: 22
26. High Five (1982 TV Movie)
30 min
Director: Peter Bonerz | Stars: Roscoe Lee Browne, Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Cindy Herron, Harrison Page
27.
Benson (1979–1986)
Episode:
In the Red
(1982)
TV-G | Comedy, Family
Benson's being audited by the IRS. The IRS agent handling him disallows most of the exemptions puts on his form because Benson lost his records.
Director: John Rich | Stars: Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold
Votes: 28
28. Arthur (1981)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Alcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.
Director: Steve Gordon | Stars: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 31,075 | Gross: $95.46M
29. Ragtime (1981)
PG | 155 min | Drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif
Votes: 10,547 | Gross: $21.02M
30. F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980 TV Movie)
180 min | Biography, Drama
Biopic about the final year of FDR's Presidency, and life.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jason Robards, Laurinda Barrett, Edward Binns, Vladimir Bondarenko
Votes: 53
31. Death Penalty (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A psychologist takes an interest in a boy accused of murder.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Colleen Dewhurst, Dana Elcar, Joe Morton, David Labiosa
Votes: 44
32. Benson (1979–1986)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Jessica Tate's sharp-tongued former butler, Benson DuBois, moves up in the world, becoming first the governor's "director of household affairs," then the state's budget director, then lieutenant governor and candidate for the executive mansion.
Stars: Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold
Votes: 4,146
33. The Wiz (1978)
G | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross
Votes: 17,017 | Gross: $21.05M
34. Wiz on Down the Road (1978)
13 min | Short
Directors: Elliot Geisinger, Ronald Saland | Stars: Rob Cohen, Sidney Lumet, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones
Votes: 169
35.
The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode:
How Slowly They Forget
(1978)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
George asks an old Navy buddy, Cornelius X. Mayflower, to help expedite the approval process for some necessary licenses for the Help Center.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover
Votes: 87
36. Minstrel Man (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Music
During the early 1900's, 2 black brothers who work in a traveling minstrel have different goals; one's determined to succeed in a field which is dominated by white performers in blackface, ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Glynn Turman, Ted Ross, Tonea Stewart, Stanley Bennett Clay
Votes: 75
37. The Fourth King (1977 TV Movie)
23 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star of Bethlehem. Uno, the Lion, arrogantly decides he should be the one to go, and that he ... See full summary »
Director: Romano Scarpa | Stars: Ted Ross, Laurie Beechman, Arnold Stang, Ed Clein
Votes: 14
38.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
Snake and the Old People
(1977)
30 min | Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
39.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Hooker
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Flo Lawrence
40.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
D.A. - D.O.A.
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Harvey Miller | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
41.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Alien
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Kathleen Miller, Fred Willard
42.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Split-Up
(1977)
Comedy
A full moon brings all sorts of crazy cases into Sirota's courtroom. Maureen and Sirota find themselves at odds as the judge feels Maureen is taking him for granted.
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Kathleen Miller, Fred Willard
43.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Old Friend
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
44.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Vacation
(1977)
30 min | Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
45.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Judge
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
46.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
Pilot
(1977)
Comedy
Director: Tom Trbovich | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Owen Bush, Kathleen Miller
47. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Sport
In the late 1930s during racial segregation, a star of the Negro League Baseball, Bingo Long, leaves his team and convinces other stars of the league to join him as free agent players touring the towns of the Midwest.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson
Votes: 2,158
48. Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
30 min | Comedy
Night shift Judge Matthew Sirota runs his urban courtroom with humor and common sense. He has a casual romance with his clerk Maureen plus referees between idealistic defender Gail Goodman and zealous prosecutor Bud Nugent.
Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Kathleen Miller, Fred Willard
Votes: 20
49.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)
Episode:
Episode dated 5 July 1976
(1976)
TV-G | Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Orson Welles, Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen, Betty Garrett
50.
Sirota's Court (1976–1977)
Episode:
Court Fear
(1976)
Comedy
Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Michael Constantine, Cynthia Harris, Kathleen Miller, Fred Willard