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The Book of Clarence (2023)
The Book of Clarence is an upcoming American epic film written and directed by Jeymes Samuel. The film is due for release on September 22, 2023.
Starring: Anna Diop•Robert Mitchum•John Forsythe•Brad Pitt•Rip Torn•Ossie Davis•James Earl Jones•Ellen Burstyn•Charles Grodin•Jill Clayburgh
The Gray Man (2022)
The Gray Man is a 2022 American action thriller film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay the latter co-wrote with Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Mark Greaney. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Regé-Jean Page, Wagner Moura, Julia Butters, Dha...
Starring: Anna Diop•Farrah Fawcett•Malcolm McDowell•Carol Kane•Albert Finney•Laurence Fishburne•Nick Nolte•Richard Gere•John Glover•Mary Steenburgen
Fatherhood (2021)
Fatherhood is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz from a screenplay by Weitz and Dana Stevens based on the 2011 memoir Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin. The film stars Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodard, Frankie R. Faison, Lil Rel Howery, DeWanda Wise, Anthony Carrigan, Melody Hurd, and Paul Reiser, and...
Starring: Karen Allen•Anna Diop•Michael O'Keefe•Steve Martin•Ted Danson•Bill Murray•Diana Scarwid
The Lion King (2019)
The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Fairview Entertainment. It is a photorealistic computer-animated remake of Disney's traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name. The film stars the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, C...
Starring: Adam Baldwin•Anna Diop•David Strathairn•Kevin Spacey•Dana Hill•Peter Coyote•Paul Reiser•Kate Capshaw•Kevin Kline
Clemency (2019)
Clemency is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu. It stars Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks, Michael O'Neill, Richard Gunn, Wendell Pierce, and Aldis Hodge. The plot follows the lives of prison warden Bernadine Williams (Woodard) and death row inmate Anthony Woods (Hodge).
Starring: Anna Diop•Frances McDormand•Kyle MacLachlan•Elisabeth Shue•Danny Glover
Burning Sands (2017)
Burning Sands is a 2017 American drama film, directed by Gerard McMurray, from a screenplay by McMurray and Christine Berg. It stars Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton and Trevante Rhodes.
Starring: Anna Diop•Ethan Hawke•Suzy Amis•Blair Underwood•Bobcat Goldthwait
Mississippi Grind (2015)
Mississippi Grind is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller, Lio Tipton, Robin Weigert, and Alfre Woodard. The film was released by A24 on September 25, 2015.
Starring: Anna Diop•James Russo•Winona Ryder•Martin Short•Penelope Ann Miller
Annabelle (2014)
Annabelle is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Gary Dauberman and produced by Peter Safran and James Wan. It is a prequel to the 2013 film The Conjuring and the second installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. The film was inspired by a story of a doll named Annabelle told by Ed and Lorraine Wa...
Starring: Anna Diop•J. T. Walsh•Dermot Mulroney
12 Years a Slave (2013)
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana ...
Starring: Anna Diop•Will Patton•Robert Downey, Jr.•Kathy Bates•Kevin Spacey•Kyra Sedgwick•Brad Pitt•Esther Rolle•Andre Braugher
American Violet (2009)
American Violet is a 2008 American drama film directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics.
Starring: Tom Sizemore•Robin Givens•Anna Diop•Mary McDonnell•Mary-Louise Parker•Stanley Tucci•Charles S. Dutton•Julianne Moore•Loren Dean•Billy Bob Thornton
The Family That Preys (2008)
The Family That Preys is a 2008 American comedy-drama film, written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry. The screenplay focuses on two families, one wealthy and the other working class, whose lives are intertwined in both love and business.
Starring: Anna Diop•Dante Basco•Queen Latifah•Jared Leto•Benjamin Bratt•Kathryn Erbe•Eric Thal•Antonio Banderas•Gary Sinise•David Paymer
Something New (2006)
Something New is a 2006 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Sanaa Hamri. The screenplay by Kriss Turner focuses on interracial relationships and traditional African American family values and social customs.
Starring: Anna Diop•Anna Paquin•Shaquille O'Neal•Jared Leto•Hilary Swank•Pruitt Taylor Vince•Laura Linney•Richard Jenkins
Take the Lead (2006)
Take the Lead is a 2006 American drama dance film directed by Liz Friedlander and starring Antonio Banderas as dance instructor Pierre Dulaine, the founder of Dancing Classrooms. It also stars Alfre Woodard, John Ortiz, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Dante Basco, Elijah Kelley, and Jenna Dewan. The film was released on April 7, 2006. Although based in Ne...
Starring: Anna Diop•Richard Schiff•Hope Davis•Edward Norton•Lucinda Jenney•Tchéky Karyo•Djimon Hounsou•Bruce Greenwood
Beauty Shop (2005)
Beauty Shop is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Bille Woodruff. The film serves as a spin-off of the Barbershop film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character first introduced in the 2004 film Barbershop 2: Back in Business. This film also stars Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart•Anna Diop•Mary McCormack•Paul Giamatti•Linus Roache•Mena Suvari•Zooey Deschanel•Rob Brown•Sanaa Lathan•Mike Epps
The Forgotten (2004)
The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache, and Anthony Edwards. The film's plot revolves around a woman who believes that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months earlier, only to wake up one morning and...
Starring: Anna Diop•Cole Hauser•DJ Qualls•Ryan Gosling•Ryan Reynolds•Paul Dano•Chris Evans•LisaRaye McCoy•Kevin Hart•Octavia Spencer
The Core (2003)
The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D. J. Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, and Alfre Woodard. The film focuses on a team whose mission is to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explos...
Starring: Anna Diop•Wilmer Valderrama•Regé-Jean Page•Karimah Westbrook•Seth Rogen•KaDee Strickland•Ann Dowd•Anthony Mackie•Chiwetel Ejiofor
K-PAX (2001)
K-PAX is a 2001 science fiction mystery film based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel of the same name. An American-German co-production, it was directed by Iain Softley, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, and Alfre Woodard. The film tells the story of a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his trea...
Starring: Jessica Hecht•Anna Diop•James McAvoy•Dominic West
Dinosaur (2000)
Dinosaur is a 2000 American live-action/computer-animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Secret Lab and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 39th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton, it features the voices of D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayd...
Starring: Lee Tergesen•Anna Diop•Sienna Miller
Mumford (1999)
Mumford is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It is set in a small town where a new psychologist gives offbeat advice to the neurotic residents. Both the psychologist and the town are named Mumford, a coincidence that eventually figures in the plot. The film co-stars Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, Mary...
Starring: Steve Harris•Anna Diop•Donald Faison•Anthony Carrigan•Lil Rel Howery•Taraji P. Henson•David Oyelowo•Sarah Paulson•Rockmond Dunbar•Ben Mendelsohn
Down in the Delta (1998)
Down in the Delta is a 1998 American-Canadian drama film, directed by Maya Angelou in her sole film directorial effort and starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.
Starring: Anna Diop•Yaya DaCosta•Elijah Kelley
The Member of the Wedding (1997)
The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Starring: Anna Diop•Benedict Cumberbatch
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
Miss Evers' Boys is an American made-for-television drama starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne that first aired on February 22, 1997, and is based on the true story of the four-decade-long Tuskegee Syphilis Study. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted by Walter Bernstein from the 1992 stage play of the same name, written by David F...
Starring: Michael Fassbender•Anna Diop
Follow Me Home (1996)
Follow Me Home is a 1996 film directed by activist and filmmaker Peter Bratt. It explores spiritual and intercultural race relations through the lives of four artists, one African American, one Native American, and two Latin-American cousins, who embark on a cross-country road trip to paint a mural on the White House. Along the way, they meet a mys...
Starring: Anna Diop•Sebastian Siegel
Primal Fear (1996)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on William Diehl's 1993 novel of the same name, and written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film revolves around a Chicago defense attorne...
Starring: Annabelle Wallis•Anna Diop•Ward Horton•Donald Glover•Analeigh Tipton•Wagner Moura•Lupita Nyong'o
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 American drama film based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the film features Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It also marked Jared Leto's film debut. Amblin Entertainment optioned Otto's novel in 1991, and were able ...
Starring: Omar Sy•RJ Cyler•Ana de Armas•LaKeith Stanfield•Trevor Jackson•Anna Diop•Serayah•John Kani•Lil Rel Howery•DeWanda Wise
Blue Chips (1994)
Blue Chips is a 1994 American sports drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Ron Shelton and starring Nick Nolte as a college coach trying to recruit a winning team. His players were portrayed by actors as well as real-life basketball stars Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and cameos include noted basketball figures Bob K...
Starring: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter•Anna Diop•Danielle Brooks•Jessica Henwick•Anthony Carrigan•Caleb McLaughlin
Crooklyn (1994)
Crooklyn is a 1994 American semi-autobiographical film produced and directed by Spike Lee and co-written with his sister Joie and brother Cinqué. Occurring in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, during the summer of 1973, the film primarily focuses on a young girl named Troy Carmichael, and her family. Throughout the film, Tr...
Starring: Anna Diop•Regé-Jean Page
Bopha! (1993)
Bopha! is a 1993 American drama film directed by Morgan Freeman and starring Danny Glover. It is Freeman's directorial debut. It was adapted from a 1986 play of the same name.
Starring: Dhanush•Anna Diop•Kevin Kline
Heart and Souls (1993)
Heart and Souls is a 1993 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Underwood. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Thomas Reilly, a businessman recruited by the souls of four deceased people, his guardian angels from childhood, to help them rectify their unfinished lives, as he is the only one who can communicate with them.
Starring: John Forsythe•Anna Diop•Rip Torn•Charles Grodin•Jill Clayburgh•Farrah Fawcett•Taraji P. Henson
Rich in Love (1993)
Rich in Love is a 1992 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Albert Finney, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, and Ethan Hawke. It is based on the 1987 novel Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys.
Starring: Carol Kane•Albert Finney•Anna Diop•John Glover•Mary Steenburgen•Karen Allen•Steve Martin
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 American screwball comedy film directed by Allan Moyle and produced by Scott Kroopf. It stars Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, William Forsythe, Cathy Moriarty and Alfre Woodard. Rock and roll recording pioneer Cordell Jackson played a bit part as "Bathroom Woman".
Starring: Bill Murray•Anna Diop•Diana Scarwid•DJ Qualls•Cathy Moriarty
Passion Fish (1992)
Passion Fish is a 1992 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn, Leo Burmester, and Angela Bassett.
Starring: David Strathairn•Anna Diop•Anthony Carrigan
Grand Canyon (1991)
Grand Canyon is a 1991 American drama film directed and produced by Lawrence Kasdan, and written by Kasdan with his wife Meg. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about random events affecting a diverse group of people, exploring the race- and class-imposed chasms which separate members of the same community.
Starring: Dana Hill•Peter Coyote•Anna Diop•Kevin Kline•Anthony Carrigan•Kyle MacLachlan
Scrooged (1988)
Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas satirical fantasy romantic black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is vi...
Starring: Elisabeth Shue•Danny Glover•Ethan Hawke•Suzy Amis•Bobcat Goldthwait•James Russo•Anna Diop•Penelope Ann Miller
Extremities (1986)
Extremities is a 1986 American dark drama film directed by Robert M. Young and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his 1982 off-Broadway play of the same name. The film stars Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid, and James Russo.
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr.•Kyra Sedgwick•Anna Diop•Tom Sizemore
Cross Creek (1983)
Cross Creek is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir Cross Creek.
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker•Dhanush•Kathryn Erbe•Eric Thal•Peter Coyote•Anna Diop