Some Well-Connected Movies
Ishtar

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
1987
Charles Grodin
actor
Beverly Hills Cop

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
1984
John Ashton
actor
Beverly Hills Cop

1984
Martin Brest
director
Brazil

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
1985
Robert De Niro
actor
The Running Man

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
1987
Yaphet Kotto
actor
Midnight Run
An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.
1988
Charles Grodin
actor
George Gallo
writer
John Ashton
actor
Martin Brest
director
Robert De Niro
actor
Yaphet Kotto
actor
Bad Boys

Two hip detectives protect a murder witness while investigating a case of stolen heroin.
1995
George Gallo
writer
Meet the Deedles

Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
1998
John Ashton
actor
Meet Joe Black

Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth and in the process he falls in love with his guide's daughter.
1998
Martin Brest
director
We're No Angels

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
1989
Robert De Niro
actor