Best Tom Wright movies
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TOP 25: Within
Tom Wright as: Detective Pascal
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2016
A widower, his daughter, and his new wife move into a peaceful neighborhood. At first it appears to be a perfect neighborhood but the family quickly realize that something is not right about their new home.
TOP 24: Hangman's Curse
Tom Wright as: Dan Carillo
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2003
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High School. The only hope is the Veritas Project, a highly trained investigative team working undercover to expose the truth. Lives hang in the balance as they scramble to unravel the mystery and protect the student body from their own hatred and fear.
TOP 23: The Soldier
Tom Wright as: Faux Businessman
Genre: Action
Release: 1982
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
TOP 22: Troop Beverly Hills
Tom Wright as: James Shakar
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1989
A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
TOP 21: Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Tom Wright as: Detective Williams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2004
The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time against urban developers looking to replace mom & pop establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style--from current events and politics to relationships and love, you can still say anything you want at the barbershop.
TOP 20: Palmetto
Tom Wright as: John Renick
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1998
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
TOP 19: Marked for Death
Tom Wright as: Charles
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 1990
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
TOP 18: My Fellow Americans
Tom Wright as: Jim
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1996
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
TOP 17: Transformers: The Last Knight
Tom Wright as: Military Attache
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2017
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
TOP 16: Murder at 1600
Tom Wright as: Cooper
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1997
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
TOP 15: Forget Paris
Tom Wright as: Tommy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.
TOP 14: World Trade Center
Tom Wright as: Officer Reynolds
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Release: 2006
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
TOP 13: Tales from the Hood
Tom Wright as: Martin Moorehouse
Genre: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1995
A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
TOP 12: Message from the King
Tom Wright as: Waylon
Genre: Thriller
Release: 2017
On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.
TOP 11: Creepshow 2
Tom Wright as: The Hitchhiker (segment "The Hitchhiker")
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Release: 1987
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed... or did she?
TOP 10: Barbershop
Tom Wright as: Detective Williams
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2002
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.
TOP 9: Sunshine State
Tom Wright as: Flash Phillips
Genre: Drama
Release: 2002
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
TOP 8: Honeydripper
Tom Wright as: Cool Breeze
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 2007
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
TOP 7: The Brother from Another Planet
Tom Wright as: Sam
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 1984
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
TOP 6: Reversal of Fortune
Tom Wright as: Jack
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
TOP 5: Passion Fish
Tom Wright as: Luther
Genre: Drama
Release: 1992
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
TOP 4: Beyond the Lights
Tom Wright as: Reverend Brown
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release: 2014
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?
TOP 3: City of Hope
Tom Wright as: Malik
Genre: Drama
Release: 1991
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
TOP 2: The Pentagon Wars
Tom Wright as: Maj. William Sayers
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Release: 1998
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.
TOP 1: Matewan
Tom Wright as: Tom
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 1987
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.