85 Whoopi Goldberg Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

The Celluloid Closet is a documentary film which highlights the historical context that LGBT people have occupied in the history of cinema in North America.

The Color Purple tells the story of a black woman growing up in the early 1900s, who was impregnated by her own father at the age of 14. The film explores her hardships and struggles over the next 30 years. 

The Player is an American satirical black comedy film, which tells the story of Hollywood film producer Griffin Mill, who starts receiving threats anonymously. However, he is certain that David, a scriptwriter is behind it. He invites the latter to sort things out, but things take an ugly turn, and he ends up murdering him.  

This psychological drama, based on author Susanna Kaysen's memoir, is an account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown when she was 18 years old. Diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, she struggles to cope with her stay at the institution with fellow patients, especially the controlling sociopath Lisa.

Sam Wheat, a banker is killed in front of his girlfriend Molly Jensen, a potter, in an apparent mugging gone wrong, arranged by his co-worker Carl Brunner. Now a ghost, only able to communicate through psychic Oda Mae Brown, Sam must bring Carl to justice and save Molly. 

Tex Richman, a materialistic oil tycoon, plans to take down the Muppet Theater to drill for oil. When ardent Muppet fan, Walter, his human-brother, Gary, and his girlfriend Mary learn about this, they search for the separated Muppets and help Kermit the Frog bring all Muppets together for ‘The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever’ to raise $10 million required to save their theater.

After a civil rights leader named Medgar Evers is killed by a racist, an assistant district attorney helps his widow to find justice.

This romantic comedy film shows us the backstage lives of the cast and crew of a popular day-time soap opera. Along with her producer, a new actress plans to sabotage and end the career of the leading lady of the show.

Manny’s wife’s passes away, and he is in need of a nanny to care for his daughter Molly, as his job keeps him quite busy. It also appears that Molly is unable to speak as a result of her mother passing away. A woman named Corrina applies for the position, and Manny decides to hire her. He soon sees that Corrina is able to develop a bond with his daughter very quickly, and can communicate with her without the need for her to speak.

Eccentric business magnate Donald Sinclair devises a race from Las Vegas to Silver City, Mexico, for the high rollers of his Las Vegas Casino. The US $2 million prize money is kept in a train station locker but the journey proves to be more than what the contestants can handle. 

When lounge singer, Deloris, witnesses her gangster boyfriend execute an informant, she is put under witness protection and sent to a rundown convent in San Francisco. Initially a misfit, she soon befriends other nuns and becomes the director of the choir. Under her guidance, it becomes very popular, inviting the attention of her former boyfriend, who has put a bounty on her head.  

Andre Allen, recovering alcoholic, who started his career as stand-up comedian and went on to become successful star of action-comedies, is venturing into serious films. He is spending the day with New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown for an interview. As the day with Chelsea unwinds, Andre is confronted with his past and is veered back to his roots as stand-up comedian. 

When Robin puts out an advertisement, stating that she is searching for a companion to accompany her on a cross country expedition to California, the advertisement is answered by a girl named Jane. They begin their journey, and on their way, they are joined by Holly, Jane’s friend. Soon, all three become close friends.

The Little Rascals is an American comedy film, which tells the story of a womanizing man, who is trying to woo a girl he likes. However, his friends attempt to sabotage their relationship. 

Beth and her husband are devastated after their 3-year old son vanishes mysteriously during her school reunion. Although the police is called, they are unsuccessful in finding the child. Beth starts to experience a nervous breakdown, and even starts neglecting her other two children. After nine years, their lives take a turn when a familiar-looking boy turns up at their house, and offers to mow their lawn.

Ad-executive Marley Corbett, an impertinent woman, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. While under anesthesia, God grants her 3 wishes, of which the first two are quickly realized. Marley makes amends to all for her earlier behavior. Her frequent visits to doctor Julian lead to a relationship, but circumstances dishearten her. Finally, she realizes that her third wish, ‘to fall in love,’ was fulfilled.

Laurel is a smart single woman who is trying to make it big in the Wall Street corporate world. After facing several prejudices, she learns that if she wants to find success, she will have to work for a much older man or become one.

A group of black women, residing in a Harlem apartment building in New York go through heartbreak, personal crises and other challenges. Crystal, Jo and Juanita are bound together by their experiences in life, as they try to get over an abused lover, a secret double life and love-life balance respectively.

Terry is a bank employee who works with computers and talks with others routinely through it. Things take a turn when one day, she connects with a mysterious user named Jumpin’ Jack Flash, and she receives a coded message from him. She manages to decode it and learns that he is a secret agent trapped behind enemy lines.

The superhero movie serves as the origin story and rise of the fictional superhero team of the four teenage mutant ninja turtles, known as Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Trained by their adoptive father, Master Splinter, the four go up against Shredder, the Foot Clan, and Eric Sacks, with the help of reporter April O'Neil. 

This comedy film tells the story of showgirl Delores who once again returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music at a Catholic school. However, she must also not only defend the school from closing down, but fend off a few adamant monks as well. 

Adapted from a best-selling novel of the same name, this romantic comedy drama film tells the story of Stella, a stock broker, who gets so busy with her work, that she has forgotten to actually experience life. She is soon persuaded by her friend to go on a vacation, where she finds love in a man younger than her by 20 years.

Young Albert Franklin, orphaned after a car accident, is sent to live with his mother’s foster-sister Harriet Franklin in New Jersey. Finding it difficult to cope with sudden loss and changes, Albert seeks solace in company of friendly, gentle and imaginary French magician ‘Bogus.’ Harriet is amazed that she too can see Bogus, who helps her come to terms with her emotions.

Eddie is a sports comedy film which tells the story of a girl named Edwina aka Eddie who is a huge fan of the New York Knicks basketball team. Her life takes a turn when she wins a contest and becomes their honorary assistant coach. Over time, she manages to impress the owner of the team, and he decides to replace the head coach with Eddie.

Zora is a proud African-American girl who lives with her widowed mother. Her life however, turns upside down, when she learns that her biological father is white. On top of that, she finds out that he is a loud self-promoting car salesman.

Her antics and her bad temper eventually lead Madea to jail. At prison, she soon meets another younger woman named Candace, who is a prostitute and a former drug addict.

After a successful career in movies, comedian Pauly Shore stars in the lead role in a series where he plays the slacker son of a millionaire. However, his career begins to sink when the series turns out to be a commercial and critical failure. Soon his friends and even his girlfriend refuse to see him, and Shore is reduced to living in his mother’s attic. However, he is soon visited by the ghost of his mentor, who encourages him to fake his own death in order to boost the popularity in his films and merchandise.

Viraj is a stuntman who is quite successful in Hollywood, but he is unable to find love. He meets a doctor named Simrita, and after the first meeting itself, she develops a strong dislike towards him. Later, she performs her first surgery on Viraj. Things seem to go well, until she later realizes that she dropped her watch inside his body during the operation. In order to save her career, she tries to come up with ways to get the watch back, even if it means seducing him.

The Baby Geniuses have acquired the ability to communicate with each other through baby-talk and have learnt several secrets. The toddlers get involved in media-magnate Bill Biscane’s nefarious experiment to control the minds of all the babies of the world using his hi-tech satellite system. Super-Baby Kahuna joins the Baby Geniuses in their fight to stop Biscane before he can modify minds of children.

An abandoned baby zebra is rescued and adopted by a retired horse trainer named Nolan. The zebra grows up believing himself to be a racehorse, and dreams of participating in the race one day.

A young vulnerable lion cub prince is falsely led to believe by his evil uncle that he was responsible for his father’s death. He flees, but eventually return as an adult to claim his rightful place as the King. The movie was the highest grossing film of the year and also figures in the list of highest-grossing animated films of all time.

This Pixar Animation’s computer-animated comedy film is third in the Toy Story series. As Andy, prepares to leave for college, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and other toys – some new – find themselves in a day-care centre instead of the attic. They now have to devise a plan to return home before Andy leaves.

This adventure fantasy comedy film revolves around a timid young boy who enters a library in order to escape a storm. He soon finds himself transformed into an animated illustration and must face several obstacles if he wishes to return to real-life.  

Based on the animated TV series Rugrats that aired on Nickelodeon, The Rugrats Movie is an animated musical comedy film, which revolves around few toddlers who get lost in the forest. Meanwhile, their parents also discover their disappearance and try to find them.

This animated adventure sports comedy film tells the story of a young boy named Yankee who teams up with a sassy young girl, and sets out on a perilous journey from Chicago to return Babe Ruth’s baseball bat, before the end of the World Series.

Monkeybone is a fantasy comedy film which tells the story of a carefree cartoonist, who accidentally gets transported to a nightmarish world of his own creations, after facing a car crash.

The fictional character Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov, and Natasha Fatale, manage to escape into the real world. In order to stop them, Karen, an FBI agent, asks Rocky and Bullwinkle for their help.

Farce of the Penguins is an animated mockumentary film which revolves around a group of male penguins, who are making a seventy-mile trek to go and meet the female penguins at the breeding grounds. The film was made as a parody of ‘March of the Penguins’, a French feature film.

When Zeebad, an evil wizard, threatens to start an ice age in their enchanted village, Florence and her group of animal friends set out to find three magic diamonds that would help them stop Zeebad.   

During a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships, Captain James T. Kirk is left behind in an energy field and presumed dead while trying to save the USS Enterprise-B. Years later, when one of the survivors Dr. Soran decides to exploit the energy field again, it is up to Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise-D to stop him.

When Capt. Picard discovers an energy reading he decides to land on Romulan and negotiate a peace deal with its new Praetor Shinzon.  There he learns that Shinzon is his clone, created to be planted as spy in the Federation. To survive, he now needs Picard’s blood. His ship also produces low levels of deadly thalaron radiation, which can destroy Earth.  

Howard is a popular teacher, but his friends and family are shocked, when one of his students announces that he is gay. This leads to Howard questioning his sexuality, as well as trying his best to prove that he is straight.  

The satirical film features about-to-retire LAPD detective Wes Luger and worn-out cop Jack Colt who follow a trail of cookie crumbs to solve Luger’s former-partner’s murder. The trail leads them to Wilderness Girls cookie factory and mastermind Vietnam War veteran General Mortars and Jigsaw, who conspire to mix hard drug in cookies. The two must stop them before it is too late.

Bordello of Blood is a horror comedy film which tells the story of Rafe Guttman, a private detective who is hired by a woman named Katherine to investigate the disappearance of Caleb, her brother, after the police fails to find him. His investigation leads him to a bordello, and he soon learns that all the prostitutes working there are vampires.