Wendell Pierce — Actor (29)
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Elsbeth (2024) [TV] TMDB
Elsbeth
7.2 (14 ratings) director: Michelle King / Robert King actor: Carrie Preston / Carra Patterson …
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
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Ray (2004) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Ray
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Jamie Foxx / Kerry Washington …
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
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The Wire Season 1 (2002) [TV] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB
The Wire Season 1 part of TV Series: The Wire
9.6 (7 ratings) director: Brad Anderson / Clark Johnson … actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
On the drug-infested streets of West Baltimore, there are good guys and there are bad guys. Sometimes you need more than a badge to tell them apart. Season 1 follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore — one that culminates in a complex series of dangerous wiretaps and surveillance.
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The Wire (2002) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wire
9.3 (10 ratings) director: David Simon actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
other title: Sur écoute / Bajo escucha
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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The Wire Season 2 (2003) [TV] NeoDB Douban TMDB
The Wire Season 2 part of TV Series: The Wire
director: Dan Attias / Ed Bianchi … actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
McNulty's on harbor patrol. Daniels is in the police-archives dungeon. Prez is chafing in the suburbs. Greggs has a desk job. The detail may be on ice, but corruption marches on . . . and a horrific discovery is about to turn the Baltimore shipping port inside out. Setting up in the wake of the first season's joint homicide/narcotics detail that exposed a major drug operation — and left its members stigmatized and reassigned — the second season expands to include not only familiar drug dealers, but a group of longshoremen and organized crime members who are caught up in a major homicide case.
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Sleepers (1996) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sleepers
director: Barry Levinson actor: Kevin Bacon / Robert De Niro …
other title: Sleepers - Sentimento de Revolta
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
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The Gift (2015) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Gift
6.2 (5 ratings) director: Joel Edgerton actor: Joel Edgerton / Rebecca Hall …
other title: Regali da uno sconosciuto - The Gift / Um Presente do Passado …
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
乔尔 埃哲顿 惊悚
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Death of a Salesman 2019 Young Vic版 [Performance] Douban
part of Performance: Death of a Salesman
language: 英语 english theater: 伦敦小维克 director: Marianne Elliott / Miranda Cromwell
other title: 2019 Young Vic版 playwright: Arthur Miller actor: Wendell Pierce / Sharon D. Clarke …
年逾花甲的推销员威利·洛曼，拎着两只沉重的、装样品的箱子回到家。他极度疲倦，仿佛已经走到了生命的尽头。只有老伴儿林达了解他、体贴他，尽一切努力来维护他的尊严，希望能给他一些生活下去的勇气和信心。然而，这一切似乎都无济于事……壮年时代的威利，一付精明强干的神气，两个儿子比夫和哈皮，是他的骄傲。尽管比夫的学习成绩不及格，也没有引起做父亲的重视，因为，他确认比夫将来完全可以当一名体育明星，然而，事与愿违，大儿子比夫多次离家出走，宁愿去当农业工人，也不愿留在充满竞争与欺诈的大城市里。在沉重的压力下，威利的精神恍惚不定。为了拯救威利，林达呼吁孩子们要怜爱父亲，甚至把威利要自杀的企图告诉了他们。这时，小儿子哈皮想出一个办法!让比夫向朋友借钱，由洛曼兄弟自家独立经营，以期干出一番事业来。这个令人振奋的设想，使全家人抱着新的希望进入了梦乡……为了预祝未来理想的实现，父子们约定在餐馆中聚会。而就在他们见面时，双方带来的都是不幸的消息：比夫没有借到钱，威利也被公司开除了。这使得父子间又发生了激烈的争吵，然而，他们谁也没搞清楚，生活不下去的社会原因。最终，威利还是自杀了…… 为了死后的保险赔偿给家人带来福利。
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018) [TV] TMDB
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
director: Carlton Cuse / Graham Roland actor: John Krasinski / Wendell Pierce …
other title: Jack Ryan
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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The Wire Season 3 (2004) [TV] TMDB NeoDB Douban
The Wire Season 3 part of TV Series: The Wire
director: Agnieszka Holland / Alex Zakrzewski … actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. Wiretaps haven’t worked. Neither have stakeouts or street busts. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game. It’s time to change the rules.
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The Wire Season 4 (2006) [TV] TMDB Douban
The Wire Season 4 part of TV Series: The Wire
director: Agnieszka Holland / Alex Zakrzewski … actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. And now, in the schools. The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. A new story begins. This year, while expanding on storylines introduced in previous seasons — including the new vocations of several characters, the rise of a new drug empire, and the city's imminent mayoral election — the series expands its focus into Baltimore's school system, providing an inside look at the role of the urban educational system in shaping young people's lives. This storyline is played out through four new young characters, each of whom faces difficult choices amidst the temptation of crime and easy money.
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The Wire Season 5 (2008) [TV] TMDB Douban
The Wire Season 5 part of TV Series: The Wire
director: Agnieszka Holland / Anthony Hemingway … actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick …
In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. In the schools. And now, in the media. The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. In the fifth — and final — season, the series expands its focus into the media — specifically the role of newspapers in big-city bureaucracy — as it follows a newspaper staff as they struggle to maintain integrity and meet deadlines in the face of budget cuts and staff reductions.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
5.8 (5 ratings) director: Bill Condon actor: Kristen Stewart / Robert Pattinson …
other title: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Parte 2 / The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - del 2 …
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
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Parker (2013) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Parker
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Jason Statham / Jennifer Lopez …
other title: 帕克 / 轰天复仇(港) …
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
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Selma (2014) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Selma
director: Ava DuVernay actor: David Oyelowo / Carmen Ejogo …
other title: Selma - La strada per la libertà / Selma - A Marcha da Liberdade …
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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Bad Moms (2016) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Bad Moms
director: Scott Moore / Jon Lucas actor: Mila Kunis / Kristen Bell …
other title: Bad Moms - Mamme molto cattive / Mães à Solta …
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
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It Could Happen to You (1994) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
It Could Happen to You
director: Andrew Bergman actor: Nicolas Cage / Bridget Fonda …
other title: Può succedere anche a te / Det ku' ske for dig …
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
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Clemency (2019) [Movie] TMDB
Clemency
director: Chinonye Chukwu actor: Alfre Woodard / Richard Schiff …
other title: Clemência
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.