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Big George Foreman (2023)
Big George Foreman is an upcoming American biographical sports drama film directed by George Tillman Jr. The film focuses on the life of world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, played by Khris Davis. It also stars Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sonja Sohn, and Forest Whitaker.
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Eduardo Noriega•Robert Wagner•Paul Newman•Sophia Loren•Jane Fonda•Peter Breck
City of Lies (2021)
City of Lies is a 2018 crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. It is directed by Brad Furman, with a screenplay by Christian Contreras based on the non-fiction book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan. The film stars Johnny Depp as retired LAPD detec...
Starring: Robert Duvall•Jasmine Mathews
Respect (2021)
Respect is a 2021 American biographical musical drama film directed by Liesl Tommy, written by Tracey Scott Wilson and Callie Khouri, based on the life of American singer Aretha Franklin. The film stars Jennifer Hudson as Franklin, with Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, and Mary J. Blige in supporting roles...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Harvey Keitel•Julia Roberts•James LeGros•Arnold Schwarzenegger•Susan Sarandon•Jodie Foster
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is a 2020 American Christmas musical fantasy film written and directed by David E. Talbert. Choreographed by Ashley Wallen, it stars Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ricky Martin, and Madalen Mills. The film, which was originally planned a...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Danny Aiello•Jean-Pierre Cassel•Stockard Channing•Brad Dourif•Danny DeVito•John Travolta
Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, and it stars Ch...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•John Heard•Stan Lee•Rob Reiner•Brian Dennehy•Denzel Washington•Jay Leno•R. Lee Ermey•Lance Henriksen•Helen Shaver
Arrival (2016)
Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with ext...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Dennis Quaid•Sigourney Weaver•Steve Martin•Patrick Swayze
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards. The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the Star Wars anthology series, and an imme...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•William H. Macy•Mickey Rourke•Robert Wuhl•Joe Pantoliano•Elizabeth McGovern•Robin Williams•Sam Shepard
Taken 3 (2015)
Taken 3 is a 2014 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is the third and final installment in the Taken trilogy. A co-production between France, Spain and the United States, the film stars Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•J. T. Walsh•Kim Basinger•Gregory Hines•Mandy Patinkin•Alfred Molina•Ellen Barkin
Southpaw (2015)
Southpaw is a 2015 American sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker and Rachel McAdams. The film follows a boxer who sets out to get his life back on track after losing his wife in an accident and later his young daughter to child protective services. The film was released on...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Michael Keaton•Kevin Kline•Meg Tilly•Lea Thompson•Rob Lowe
Repentance (2014)
Repentance is a 2013 psychological horror film written and directed by Philippe Caland, co-written by Shintaro Shimosawa and Yusuf Hassan and starring Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps, Nicole Ari Parker and Sanaa Lathan. Repentance is the first major film production of CodeBlack Films since CodeBlack's merger with Lions Gate Entertainment...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio•Judd Nelson•Johnny Depp•Danny Glover
A Dark Truth (2013)
A Dark Truth is a 2012 action thriller film directed and written by Damian Lee, and produced by Gary Howsam and Bill Marks. The film stars Andy García, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker. It premiered at the 2012 Boston Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on January 4, 2013.
Starring: Anthony Edwards•Jasmine Mathews•Morgan Freeman•Catherine O'Hara•John Cusack•Whoopi Goldberg•Oprah Winfrey•Suzy Amis•Tim Robbins
The Last Stand (2013)
The Last Stand is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by South Korean film director Kim Jee-woon in his American directorial debut. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander, Luis Guzmán, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Zach Gilford and Genesis Rodriguez an...
Starring: Jan Hooks•John Turturro•Jasmine Mathews•Keanu Reeves•Bill Cobbs•Forest Whitaker•Diane Venora•Kathy Baker•Liam Neeson•Jean-Claude Van Damme
The Butler (2013)
The Butler is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and with a screenplay by Danny Strong. It is inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article "A Butler Well Served by This Election".
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland•Amaury Nolasco•Penelope Ann Miller•Bruce Willis•Jasmine Mathews•J. T. Walsh•Margaret Colin•Jude Law•Joan Rivers•Donald Gibb
Black Nativity (2013)
Black Nativity is a 2013 American musical drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons. The script, written by Lemmons, is based on Langston Hughes' 1961 play of the same name and released on November 27, 2013. The film stars an ensemble cast, featuring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Vondie Cu...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Stan Lee•Kelsey Grammer•Alan Rickman•Kevin Spacey•Julia Roberts•James LeGros•Michael Madsen•John C. McGinley
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American crime drama film directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Produced by Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio, the film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard.
Starring: Billy Wirth•Ben Mendelsohn•Jasmine Mathews•Catherine Keener•Robin Givens•Tim Roth•Mike Epps
Catch .44 (2011)
Catch .44 is a 2011 American crime thriller film written and directed by Aaron Harvey and starring Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Åkerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll, and Brad Dourif.
Starring: Angela Bassett•Jasmine Mathews•Gabrielle Anwar•Rebecca Miller•Marlon Wayans•Richard Kind•Deborah Kara Unger
Our Family Wedding (2010)
Our Family Wedding is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Rick Famuyiwa. It stars Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Diana-Maria Riva, Lance Gross, Charlie Murphy and Regina King. The story is about an African-American man and a Mexican-American woman getting married and their respective fathers causing hijinks with one a...
Starring: Terry Kinney•Jasmine Mathews•Ashley Judd•Carla Gugino•James Gandolfini•Jared Leto•Vondie Curtis-Hall•Nicole Ari Parker•Famke Janssen•Liev Schreiber
Repo Men (2010)
Repo Men is a 2010 science fiction action film directed by Miguel Sapochnik, starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga, and Carice van Houten. An American-Canadian production, it is based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia, and follows a repo man who goes on the run after he becomes the recipient of an artifici...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Peter Stormare•Jude Law•Jay Mohr•Lisa Kudrow•James Marsden•Kimberly Elise•Dwight Yoakam•Richard T. Jones•Mark Ruffalo
Powder Blue (2009)
Powder Blue is a 2009 American drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs. It was written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui, and features Patrick Swayze's last film role before his death in September that same year. The film saw only limited theatrical release in the United States and was ultimately released princip...
Starring: Max Records•Lawrence Gilliard Jr.•Jasmine Mathews•Hugh Laurie•Clifton Powell
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy adventure drama film directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, it is based on Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. It combines live-action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI). The film stars Max Records, Catherine Keener, and Mark...
Starring: Casey Affleck•Jasmine Mathews•Barry Pepper•Dougray Scott•Usher Raymond•Phylicia Rashad•Taye Diggs•Jessica Biel•Tzi Ma•Parry Shen
Vantage Point (2008)
Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in Salamanca, Spain, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and S...
Starring: Sonja Sohn•Leland Orser•Luis Guzmán•Hugh Bonneville•Ricky Martin•Jasmine Mathews•Terry Crews•Sanaa Lathan•Mike Epps•Cedric the Entertainer
Street Kings (2008)
Street Kings is a 2008 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, and starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Common and The Game. The initial screenplay drafts were written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman.
Starring: Colin Farrell•Jasmine Mathews•Marc Blucas•Raven-Symoné•Don Duong•Shannyn Sossamon•Paul Dano•John Corbett•Chris Evans•Ella Joyce
Even Money (2007)
Even Money is a 2006 American crime film.
Starring: Zoe Saldana•Nick Cannon•Lawrence Gilliard Jr.•Jasmine Mathews•Johnny Knoxville•Kristen Stewart•America Ferrera•Marc Blucas•Shea Whigham•Andy Serkis
The Great Debaters (2007)
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington. It is based on an article written about the Wiley College debate team by Tony Scherman for the spring 1997 issue of American Legacy.
Starring: Diego Luna•Nikki Reed•Jasmine Mathews•Leonardo Nam•Harry Shum Jr.•Martin Freeman•Kent Shocknek•RZA•Alan Tudyk•Mads Mikkelsen
Everyone's Hero (2006)
Everyone's Hero is a 2006 American computer-animated sports comedy film directed by Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre, and Colin Brady. Starring the voices of Jake T. Austin, Rob Reiner, William H. Macy, Raven-Symoné and Whoopi Goldberg, the film was produced by IDT Entertainment in Toronto with portions outsourced to Reel FX Creative Studios. D...
Starring: Malin Åkerman•Anthony Mackie•Yvette Nicole Brown•Jiang Wen•Amaury Nolasco•Keegan-Michael Key•Eva Longoria•Jasmine Mathews•Naomie Harris•Henry Kingi
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 American comedy film starring Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a morbidly obese movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival. The supporting cast features Jan Hooks, Matthew Gray Gubler, Linda Cardellini, Mo Collins and Aries Spears, and numerous cinema luminaries play them...
Starring: Jermaine Williams•Kim Coates•Jeremy Renner•David Oyelowo•Jurnee Smollett•Maggie Grace•Isaach de Bankolé•Ben Mendelsohn•Eva Longoria•Sebastian Stan
First Daughter (2004)
First Daughter is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Katie Holmes as Samantha MacKenzie, daughter of the President of the United States, who enrolls at college and develops a relationship with another student. The film follows Samantha as she experiences a new sense of freedom during her time away from...
Starring: Jennifer Hudson•Anika Noni Rose•Jasmine Mathews•Nate Parker•Carice van Houten•Danai Gurira•Frank L. Ridley•John Magaro•Alice Braga•Denzel Whitaker
Phone Booth (2003)
Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, and Kiefer Sutherland. In the film, a malevolent hidden sniper calls a phone booth, and when a young publicist inside answe...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Robin Atkin Downes•Danai Gurira•Alec Rayme
Panic Room (2002)
Panic Room is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film stars Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as a mother and daughter whose new home is invaded by burglars, played by Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam. The script was written by David Koepp, whose screenplay was inspired by news coverage in 2000 about panic roo...
Starring: Felicity Jones•Jasmine Mathews•Chadwick Boseman•Sam Spruell•Daniel Henney
Green Dragon (2001)
Green Dragon is a 2001 American drama film directed by Timothy Linh Bui and starring Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker and Duong Don.
Starring: Max Records•Jasmine Mathews•Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It was directed by Roger Christian and stars John Travolta, Barry Pepper, and Forest Whitaker. The film follows a rebellion against the alien Psychlos, who have ruled Earth for 1,000 years.
Starring: Audra McDonald•Jasmine Mathews•Deborah Ann Woll
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 internationally co-produced martial arts crime thriller drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo'...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews
Light It Up (1999)
Light It Up is a 1999 film starring an ensemble cast that consists of R&B singer/actor Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson, and Vanessa L. Williams. The film was written and directed by Craig Bolotin, and produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife Tracy Edmonds.
Starring: David Anders•Jasmine Mathews•Jacob Latimore
Phenomenon (1996)
Phenomenon is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Gerald Di Pego, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Starring: Oona Laurence•Audra McDonald•Jasmine Mathews•Marc Maron
Smoke (1995)
Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. The original story was written by Paul Auster, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Greg Johnson, Peter Newman, Kenzo Horikoshi, and Hisami Kuroiwa. Among others, it features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau Jr., Giancarlo Esp...
Starring: Tituss Burgess•Madalen Mills•Ricky Martin•Jasmine Mathews•Khris Davis
Species (1995)
Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge in her film debut role. The film's plot concerns a motley crew of scientists and government agents who try to track down Si...
Starring: Sullivan Jones•Lloyd Bridges•Jasmine Mathews•Paul Newman•Sophia Loren•Marcello Mastroianni
Blown Away (1994)
Blown Away is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis, and Lloyd Bridges. The film was distributed and financed by MGM, a studio which was in financial difficulty at the time. The head of the studio was former Paramount executive Frank Mancuso Sr.
Starring: Jeff Bridges•Bruno Kirby•Danny Aiello•Jean-Pierre Cassel•Jasmine Mathews
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Prêt-à-Porter, released in the United States as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), is a 1994 American satirical comedy-drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Robert Altman and shot on location during the Paris Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models, and designers.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones•R. Lee Ermey•Lance Henriksen•Helen Shaver•Nick Cannon•Mickey Rourke•Jasmine Mathews•Robert Wuhl
Body Snatchers (1993)
Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker. It is loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, with a screenplay by Nicholas St. John, Stuart Gordon, and Dennis Paol...
Starring: Joe Pantoliano•Elizabeth McGovern•Jasmine Mathews•Tom Cruise•Gregory Hines•Ellen Barkin
Article 99 (1992)
Article 99 is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Deutch and written by Ron Cutler. It was produced by Orion Pictures, and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, John C. McGinley, Rutanya Alda and Lea Thompson. The soundtrack was composed by Danny Elfman. The film's title supposedly refers to a legal loophole, whi...
Starring: Ben Kingsley•Lawrence Gilliard Jr.•Jasmine Mathews•Meg Tilly•Robin Atkin Downes•Lea Thompson
Consenting Adults (1992)
Consenting Adults is a 1992 American mystery crime-thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and stars Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey and Rebecca Miller. The original music score was composed by Michael Small. The film's tagline is: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife."
Starring: Maggie Grace•Terry Kinney•Jasmine Mathews•Danny Glover•Anthony Edwards
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
A Rage in Harlem is a 1991 American crime film directed by Bill Duke and loosely based on Chester Himes' novel A Rage in Harlem. The film stars Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover, Badja Djola, Robin Givens and Gregory Hines. Producer Stephen Woolley intended it to be a comedy film, and several reviewers have described it as such, but this categorization...
Starring: Morgan Freeman•Suzy Amis•Jasmine Mathews•Tim Robbins
Downtown (1990)
Downtown is a 1990 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin. The film starred Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller and Joe Pantoliano.
Starring: John Turturro•Bill Cobbs•Jasmine Mathews•Diane Venora
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Johnny Handsome is a 1989 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, and adapted from the novel The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome by John Godey. The music for the film was written, produced and performed by Ry Coo...
Starring: Kathy Baker•Jean-Claude Van Damme•Penelope Ann Miller•J. T. Walsh•Donald Gibb•Jasmine Mathews
Bird (1988)
Bird is a 1988 American biographical film about jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, directed and produced by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Joel Oliansky. The film stars Forest Whitaker as Parker, with Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, and Keith David in supporting roles. It is constructed as a montage of scenes from Parker...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Bolo Yeung
Bloodsport (1988)
Bloodsport is a 1988 American martial arts action film directed by Newt Arnold and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Leah Ayres, Forest Whitaker, Donald Gibb, Roy Chiao, and Bolo Yeung. The film centers on Frank Dux, a United States Army Captain and ninjitsu practitioner, who competes in an underground, full-contact martial arts tournament called the...
Starring: Jasmine Mathews•Kevin Spacey•Julia Roberts•Michael Madsen
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tend...
Starring: John C. McGinley•Billy Wirth•Amaury Nolasco•Jasmine Mathews•Marg Helgenberger
The Color of Money (1986)
The Color of Money is a 1986 American sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film was created from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The film stars Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, and John Turturro in su...
Starring: Robin Givens•Gabrielle Anwar•Rebecca Miller•Terry Kinney•Natasha Henstridge•Bill Cobbs•Jasmine Mathews