Jim Abrahams films, ranked by your taste
Director and actor · 9 films on Boxlist
Known for Airplane!, Top Secret! and Ruthless People.
See which ones match your tasteStarring Jim Abrahams
Airplane!
1980 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBThe persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to...
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Coming to America
1988 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBAn African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new...
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Oscar
1991 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBAngelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his...
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Directed by Jim Abrahams
Airplane!
1980 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBThe persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to...
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Top Secret!
1984 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBPopular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers...
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Ruthless People
1986 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBA couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Hot Shots!
1991 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBRecruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBTopper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left...
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Big Business
1988 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBIn the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty...
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
1998 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDBTakeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
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