Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Marilyn Coleman

1. The Love Boat (1977–1987)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess.

Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy

Votes: 13,639

2. Designing Women (1986–1993)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stars: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

Votes: 7,024

3. Good Times (1974–1979)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

A poor family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

Stars: Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker

Votes: 8,124

4. Family (1976–1980)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family

The joys and heartaches of the Lawrence family of Pasadena, California.

Stars: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Gary Frank, Kristy McNichol

Votes: 2,057

5. Hunter (I) (1984–1991)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rick Hunter is a renegade cop who bends the rules and takes justice into his own hands. Partnered with the equally stunning and rebellious Sgt. McCall, he sets out to crack down on L.A.'s slimiest criminals.

Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan, Perry Cook

Votes: 5,652

6. Menace II Society (1993)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda

Votes: 64,496 | Gross: $27.90M

7. Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of police snitch, Huggy Bear.

Stars: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton

Votes: 10,651

8. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

R | 136 min | Drama

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively extreme sexual encounters.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton

Votes: 8,505 | Gross: $16.90M

9. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In this parody of blaxploitation movies, a black hero wannabe reunites former black heroes from the 70s to help him get revenge on Mr. Big.

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Stars: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James

Votes: 14,985 | Gross: $13.03M

10. The Five Heartbeats (1991)

R | 121 min | Drama, Music

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

Director: Robert Townsend | Stars: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry Lennix

Votes: 4,901 | Gross: $8.75M

11. The White Shadow (1978–1981)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Sport

A white former NBA professional retires from the pro game and gets a job as a basketball coach in a predominantly Black inner-city high school.

Stars: Ken Howard, Kevin Hooks, Byron Stewart, Timothy Van Patten

Votes: 1,507

12. Lou Grant (1977–1982)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

The trials of a former television station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

Stars: Edward Asner, Robert Walden, Mason Adams, Jack Bannon

Votes: 2,407

13. The Meteor Man (1993)

PG | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

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 terrorizing his streets.

Director: Robert Townsend | Stars: Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume

Votes: 8,826 | Gross: $8.02M

14. Vice Squad (1982)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.

Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna

Votes: 2,908 | Gross: $13.25M

15. Anything But Love (1989–1992)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Coworkers at a Chicago magazine, with a mutual romantic attraction, struggle to keep their relationship strictly professional.

Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, Richard Frank, Holly Fulger

Votes: 556

16. Amen (1986–1991)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Rev. Rueben Gregory, finds dealing with the headstrong, opinionated, and unethical Deacon Ernest Frye--who works as a lawyer when not tending to church business--won't make his job easy.

Stars: Sherman Hemsley, Clifton Davis, Anna Maria Horsford, Roz Ryan

Votes: 2,336

17. Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico, Kristin Cumming

Votes: 1,492

18. Cop Rock (1990)

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The musical adventures of a police force.

Stars: Anne Bobby, Barbara Bosson, David Gianopoulos, Larry Joshua

Votes: 662

19. Up the Sandbox (1972)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Terry Smith

Votes: 1,652 | Gross: $1.60M

20. Remember My Name (1978)

R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson

Votes: 1,673

21. The Best Little Girl in the World (1981 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

A young girl develops an eating disorder, alternately starving herself or throwing up food. Her parents, angry and desperate, send her to a hospital. Unfortunately, she befriends a patient who convinces her to hide her illness.

Director: Sam O'Steen | Stars: Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Mayron

Votes: 577

22. Angel Baby (1995)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall passionately in love. Ahead of them lies the inevitable road to disaster - one they share to the end.

Director: Michael Rymer | Stars: John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels, Deborra-Lee Furness

Votes: 1,550

23. True Colors (1990–1992)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

A new middle-class interracial blended family deals with life's issues with love and humor.

Stars: Claude Brooks, Brigid Brannagh, Adam Jeffries, Nancy Walker

Votes: 212

24. Willie Dynamite (1974)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

Director: Gilbert Moses | Stars: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker

Votes: 1,313 | Gross: $0.48M

25. Which Way Is Up? (1977)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his wife Annie Mae and his sexually-obsessed father Rufus.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 1,991 | Gross: $17.00M

26. Disco Godfather (1979)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission!

Director: J. Robert Wagoner | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones

Votes: 1,789

27. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)

245 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over ... See full summary »

Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 487

28. Strike Force (1981–2018)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Captain Frank Murphy is in charge of a division that only handles the most difficult cases of the Los Angeles police department. He has assembled a diverse team to take on the craftiest criminals.

Stars: Robert Stack, Dorian Harewood, Richard Romanus, Michael Goodwin

Votes: 97

29. The Blue Knight (1975–1976)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The exploits of Los Angeles beat cop Bumper Morgan.

Stars: George Kennedy, John Steadman, Barbara Rhoades, Lee Weaver

Votes: 234

30. No Other Love (1979 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Two marginally intellectually disabled young adults fall in love and wish to marry.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Richard Thomas, Julie Kavner, Frances Lee McCain, Norman Alden

Votes: 118

31. Aunt Mary (1979 TV Movie)

Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Sport

A disabled woman starts a Little League baseball team to help the children in her poverty-stricken neighborhood.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Harold Gould, Dolph Sweet

Votes: 209

32. A Woman Called Moses (1978)

240 min | Biography, Drama

A film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.

Stars: Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Clifford David, Judyann Elder

Votes: 415

33. Booker (1984 TV Movie)

54 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Set in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled through slavery to found the Tuskegee Institute. Through the eyes of nine-year-old Booker T. Washington, ... See full summary »

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Shavar Ross, CCH Pounder, Thalmus Rasulala, James Bond III

Votes: 63

34. Something So Right (1982 TV Movie)

120 min | Comedy

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored, and he takes orders from nobody. In other words, he is a real little scamp. At her wits' end with ... See full summary »

Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Patty Duke, James Farentino, Fred Dryer

Votes: 129

35. Better Off Dead (1993 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama

A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.

Director: Neema Barnette | Stars: Mare Winningham, Tyra Ferrell, Kevin Tighe, Don Harvey

Votes: 121

36. Nowhere to Run (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

Harry patiently executes a 15-year plan to accumulate enough wealth to start a new life, faking his own suicide, leaving his loveless marriage and former life behind, and strives to do it without really hurting anyone.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Janssen, Allen Garfield, Linda Evans, John Randolph

Votes: 216

37. Invasion of the Love Drones (1977)

X | 71 min | Adult, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Horny aliens invade Earth.

Director: Jerome Hamlin | Stars: Eric Edwards, Joann Sterling, Arlana Blue, Lorraine Alraune

Votes: 56

38. Heat Wave (1990 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Drama, History

A superb depiction of the watts riot and how it possibly started in great detail.

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery

Votes: 216

39. Road to Nowhere (1993 Video)

95 min | Thriller

A man who has a strange obsession with his younger sister escapes from jail and immediately heads for the home where she is being cared for, with plans to abduct her.

Director: Michael J. Murphy | Stars: James Reynard, Kate Steavenson-Payne, Timur Kocak, Heather Raffo

Votes: 43

40. Marilyn Coleman's North Philadelphia (1968)

51 min | Documentary, Music

Marilyn Coleman's North Philadelphia was not only unique because of its subject matter. Made at the tail end of television's black and white era when film still dominated documentaries, the... See full summary »

Director: Clark Santee | Star: Marilyn Coleman

41. Amen (1986–1991)
Episode: Pilot (1986)

TV-14 | Comedy

Ernest Frye, a holier-than-thou Deacon, is seeking a new minister for the First Community church.

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Sherman Hemsley, Clifton Davis, Anna Maria Horsford, Barbara Montgomery

Votes: 45

42. Anything But Love (1989–1992)
Episode: Fear of Flying (1989)

TV-PG | Comedy

Hannah Miller is on a plane on her way to Chicago and meets Marty Gold who is a reporter for a Chicago magazine. He tells her to apply for a job there. She applies and gets the job as a ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Lessac | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, Sandy Faison, Richard Frank

Votes: 18

43. The Blue Knight (1975–1976)
Episode: Throwaway (1976)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

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Director: Ernest Pintoff | Stars: George Kennedy, Edward Binns, William Bogert, Joy Bond

44. Cop Rock (1990)
Episode: No Noose Is Good Noose (1990)

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

LaRusso takes the stand, then makes a bizarre request of his lawyer; Campo gets an attractive new partner; Ruskin drops a bombshell.

Director: Michael M. Robin | Stars: Anne Bobby, Barbara Bosson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Gianopoulos

Votes: 17

45. Designing Women (1986–1993)
Episode: Anthony's Graduation (1990)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy

Anthony is about to graduate from college, and he is nervous about his commencement speech. Bernice buys him a Jeopardy home game to study with, but the ladies become so engaged in it that ... See full summary »

Director: David Trainer | Stars: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart

Votes: 79

46. Family (1976–1980)
Episode: The Athlete (1979)

TV-PG | Drama, Family

Volunteering at the hospital, Buddy befriends a high school basketball player recuperating from a broken leg, unaware that he is being biopsied for cancer. Annie and rival Emmy Sheldon vie for class president.

Director: Kim Friedman | Stars: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Gary Frank, Kristy McNichol

Votes: 36

47. Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode: Bye, Bye, Bookman (1977)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

As always, Bookman is avoiding his job and the tenants are tired of his excuses, rusty water, no electricity, plumbing problems and more. Winona starts a petition and everyone signs it. Bookman gets fired.

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Johnny Brown

Votes: 69

48. Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode: Willona, the Other Woman (1978)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Bookman's wife finds Bookman in Willona's apartment and they are caught in a compromising position. Is Willona a new girlfriend for Bookman?

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Johnny Brown

Votes: 63

49. Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode: Love, Hate and Sporty James (1986)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Hunter and McCall try to protect their informant, Sporty James, from his own greed after he blackmails a ruthless cocaine dealer who's responsible for a murder.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan, Marco Rodríguez

Votes: 93

50. Lou Grant (1977–1982)
Episode: Hero (1978)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama

When a man saves a judge's life and then flees the scene, the paper launches a campaign to find his identity. When they find him and write a story revealing that he has a criminal record, ... See full summary »

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Edward Asner, Robert Walden, Linda Kelsey, Mason Adams

Votes: 36