Alfre Woodard — Actor (42)
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Cross Creek (1983) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cross Creek
director: Martin Ritt actor: Mary Steenburgen / Rip Torn …
other title: La foresta silenziosa / Los mejores años de mi vida …
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
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Bopha! (1993) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bopha!
director: Morgan Freeman actor: Danny Glover / Malcolm McDowell …
other title: Bopha ! / Bopha! – Kampf um Freiheit
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
How to Make an American Quilt
director: Jocelyn Moorhouse actor: Winona Ryder / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Gli anni dei ricordi / Onde Reside o Amor …
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
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Extremities (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Extremities
director: Robert M. Young actor: Farrah Fawcett / James Russo …
other title: Oltre ogni limite / La humillación
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the information in her bag and comes to her apartment with the intent of rape, but she sprays him in the face with insect repellent, and then holds him captive. She is then faced with deciding whether to go to the police who might not believe her and release him, or to kill him.
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Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Special Report: Journey to Mars
director: Robert Mandel actor: Keith Carradine / Judge Reinhold …
other title: Der lange Weg zum Mars
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission, and then the problems start. The landing computer malfunctions; Captain Eugene T. Slader gets very sick; and back on Earth, it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
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Mumford (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mumford
director: Lawrence Kasdan actor: Loren Dean / Hope Davis …
other title: Dr. Mumford / Mumford. Algo va a cambiar tu vida
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!
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Passion Fish (1992) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Passion Fish
director: John Sayles actor: Mary McDonnell / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Amori e amicizie / Tudo Pela Vida …
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
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The Forgotten (2004) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
The Forgotten
director: Joseph Ruben actor: Julianne Moore / Dominic West …
other title: Os Esquecidos / Die Vergessenen …
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created nine years of memories about a son she never had. But when she remembers a man who had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
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Steel Magnolias (2012) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Steel Magnolias
director: Kenny Leon actor: Queen Latifah / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Steel Magnolias - Fiori d'acciaio / Flores de Aço …
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
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Blue Chips (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blue Chips
director: William Friedkin actor: Nick Nolte / Shaquille O'Neal …
other title: Basta vincere / Ganar de cualquier manera …
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
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Remember My Name (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Remember My Name
director: Alan Rudolph actor: Geraldine Chaplin / Anthony Perkins …
other title: Ricorda il mio nome / Lembre Meu Nome …
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
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HealtH (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
HealtH
director: Robert Altman actor: Carol Burnett / Lauren Bacall …
other title: Der Gesundheits-Kongreß / Salud …
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair.
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
actor: Diamond White / Fred Tatasciore …
other title: Moon Girl e Devil Dinosaur / Moon Girl og Devil Dinosaur …
After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.
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The Boroughs (2026) [TV] Fantastika WikiData Skybridge IMDb TMDB
The Boroughs
5.9 (8 ratings) director: Will Matthews / Jeffrey Addiss actor: Geena Davis / Alfre Woodard …
other title: The Boroughs - Ribelli senza tempo / 怪奇退休鎮 …
In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a grieving newcomer's monstrous encounter inspires him to join a misfit crew of unlikely heroes who uncover a dark secret that proves their "golden years" are more dangerous, and they are more formidable, than anyone expects.
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The Last Frontier (2025) [TV] KevGa-NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Last Frontier
director: Jon Bokenkamp / Richard D'Ovidio actor: Jason Clarke / Dominic Cooper …
other title: A Última Fronteira / Remnick …
When a prison transport plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness—freeing dozens of violent inmates—the region's lone marshal must protect the town he's vowed to keep safe.