48 Hrs. (1982)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Director: Walter Hill
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F / Beverly Hills Cop 4 (2024)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life's threatened. Includes old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood working to uncover a conspiracy.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Bacon
Director: Mark Molloy
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
Comedy | Fantasy
A man is determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest. He makes a pact with an elf to help him win–and the elf casts a spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, which brings unexpected chaos to town.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Genneya Walton, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Madison Thomas
Director: Reginald Hudlin
You People (2023)
Comedy | Romance
Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Lauren London, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Director: Kenya Barris
I Spy (2002)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Phill Lewis
Director: Betty Thomas
Coming 2 America / Coming to America 2 (2021)
Comedy
The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Jones, Wesley Snipes, Shari Headley
Director: Craig Brewer
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond – this time to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O’Ross, David Anthony Marshall
Director: Walter Hill
Trading Places (1983)
Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Landis
The Golden Child (1986)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, J.L. Reate, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Ritchie
Harlem Nights (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Stan Shaw
Director: Eddie Murphy
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. But something gets off and the killing continues on land. The vampire is looking for a specific woman – half-human, half-vampire. Rita's the cop detective investigating the many killings.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, Zakes Mokae
Director: Wes Craven
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Dina Spybey-Waters
Director: Rob Minkoff
Mulan (1998)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | War
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Starring: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer, James Hong, Pat Morita
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes
Director: Craig Brewer
Dreamgirls (2006)
Drama | Music | Musical
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose
Director: Bill Condon
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)
Comedy | Documentary
Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.
Starring: Eddie Murphy
Director: Robert Townsend
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Murphy stars as Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, "calorically challenged" genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes "Buddy Love," a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late, or will Buddy have the last laugh?
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Dave Chappelle, Larry Miller, Jamal Mixon
Director: Tom Shadyac
Mr. Church (2016)
Drama
"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook – Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans fifteen years, and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Lucy Fry, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel, Mckenna Grace
Director: Bruce Beresford
Bowfinger (1999)
Comedy
How does Bobby Bowfinger, Hollywood's least successful director, get Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's biggest star, in his ultra low-budget film? Anyway he can.
Starring: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Jamie Kennedy, Adam Alexi-Malle
Director: Frank Oz
Daddy Day Care (2003)
Comedy | Family
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs. This inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Kevin Nealon, Siobhan Fallon
Director: Steve Carr
