The Terminator(1984)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.



The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 21

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.



Catfish in Black Bean Sauce(1999)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Dwayne and his older sister Mai are adults: Mai is married to Vinh, Dwayne is about to propose to Nina. Twenty-two years ago, when Mai was 10, she and Dwayne were refugees in Vietnam, ...



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



Damnation Alley(1977)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.



Original Gangstas(1996)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license number of the car to the ...



Conrack(1974)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 9

White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie ...



Knockout(2000)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 13



Trouble Man(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 6

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set ...



Hustle(1975)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.



Gordon's War(1973)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.



Blue City(1986)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own ...



Strategic Command(1997)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos ...



R.P.M.(1970)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. ...



Huckleberry Finn(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi ...



A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich(1978)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Benjie is a troubled teen in Los Angeles, living with his grandmother, mother, and her new boyfriend. Traumatized by his father's desertion and the situation at home, Benjie gets introduced...



In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King(1995)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in a mob hit that could potentially start...



High Velocity(1976)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive in Africa.



Go Tell It on the Mountain(1984)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy ...