3 Movies Starring Cathy Tyson

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-06-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (9560 Reviews)

Director:

Neil Jordan

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Jordan (screenplay)

David Leland (screenplay)

Fullplot:

George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin.

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-02-05

Languages:

English, French, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (16059 Reviews)

Director:

Wes Craven

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Wade Davis (inspired by the book)

Richard Maxwell (screenplay)

Adam Rodman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1985, after a successful research in Amazonas, Dr. Dennis Alan from Harvard is invited by the president of a Boston pharmaceutics industry, Andrew Cassedy, to travel to Haiti to investigate the case of a man named Christophe that died in 1978 and has apparently returned to life. Andrew wants samples of the voodoo drug that was used in Christophe to be tested with the intention of producing a powerful anesthetic. Dr. Alan travels to meet Dr. Marielle Duchamp that is treating Christophe and arrives in Haiti in a period of revolution. Soon Alan is threatened by the chief of the feared Tonton Macuse Dargent Peytraud, who is a torturer and powerful witch. Alan learns that death is not the end in the beginning of his journey to hell.

Priest

Priest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-03-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (7550 Reviews)

Director:

Antonia Bird

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

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