Robert Townsend Filmography

Hollywood Shuffle is a movie starring Robert Townsend, Craigus R. Johnson, and Helen Martin. An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his......

Eddie Murphy: Raw is a movie starring Eddie Murphy, Tatyana Ali, and Billie Allen. Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women....

The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group....

The Meteor Man is a movie starring Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, and Eddie Griffin. A high school teacher from a troubled inner city Washington D.C. neighborhood becomes a super-powered hero and takes on the gang that has been......

Two tacky homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers; instead they scam a dying millionaire but eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses)....

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story is a TV movie starring Natalie Cole, Diahann Carroll, and James McDaniel. R&B singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography....

A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter....

Playin' for Love is a movie starring Jenifer Lewis, Esai Morales, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield. A high school basketball coach tries to turn his team around....