Richard Pryor

Shot live at the Hollywood Palladium, this film captures the all excitement, lunacy, and electric force of a prime Richard Pryor comedy performance.

Pryor at his prime! A rare glimpse of a high-voltage comedian in a unique, piercing and incredibly funny performance.

A man is murdered outside a newsstand owned by a blind man and a deaf man who are the only witnesses.

As a condition to inheriting a much greater fortune, a minor-league baseball pitcher discovers that he has just 30 days to blow $30 million.

In this live comedy performance at the Improvisation in New York City, icon Richard Pryor showcases why he is one of the all-time comedic greats.

Featuring highlights of a seven-hour concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1972, this amazing documentary celebrates a musical event, the seventh annual Watts Summer Festival.

A comedian at the peak of success and the pit of self-esteem buckles under the pressure and suffers an accident that forces him to reexamine his life.

Superstar Richard Pryor is Wendell Scott, a top stock car racer, in this action-filled biopic with a comic twist. Action-packed entertainment for the whole family!

Explore how Richard Pryor transformed from a straight-laced comedian to one of the most controversial and thought-provoking acts of his time. From his troubled upbringing to his battle against multiple sclerosis, examine the roller-coaster life and times of this comedic trailblazer. Includes interviews with personal friends and comedians he influenced, including Tracy Morgan and George Lopez.

The director of a foster home is forced to move her kids from Philadelphia to Seattle in a broken down bus - driven by a fast-talking parolee assigned to the task. A hilarious road trip adventure.

A mass-transit engineer faces the horrors of relocating his family from his lifelong home in New Jersey when he’s offered a dream job in Boise, Idaho.

A billionaire, his spoiled son and a writer hired to become a human toy, learn there are things money can't buy... like love, in this heartwarming comedy.

An American POW (Richard Pryor) is finally shipped back home and everything goes wrong for him. His mom is in a nursing home; his wife has a lover; and they've lost all his savings. So begins his desperate - and funny - descent into a world of crime.

A California fruit picker becomes a labour hero, then a womanising corporate flunky and gets transformed by greed.

Richard Pryor stars as Kevin Lanahan, a con man framed for robbery. When he pleads insanity to evade jail time and is taken to a hospital for review, chaos ensues: Lanahan is mistaken for a doctor, and takes over the hospital.

Best known for his trailblazing comedy.

Wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to 125 years each, two inmates cook up wild schemes to bust out of jail and win back their freedom.

Set in Prohibition-era 1930s, the comedic tale of a nightclub owner and his son fighting to keep the mob the law from putting them out of business.

A federal agent, bitter over his daughter's death, sets out to trap the drug smugglers he believes to be responsible.

Comedians and celebrities reflect on the brief life and brilliant career of the Pentecostal preacher-turned stand-up. Includes rare early footage.