Forest Whitaker — Actor (48)
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The Butler (2013) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Butler
director: Lee Daniels actor: Forest Whitaker / Oprah Winfrey …
other title: The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca / O Mordomo da Casa Branca …
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Respect (2021) [Movie] TMDB
Respect
director: Liesl Tommy actor: Jennifer Hudson / Forest Whitaker …
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Bird (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Bird
director: Clint Eastwood actor: Forest Whitaker / Diane Venora …
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
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Bloodsport (1988) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bloodsport
director: Newt Arnold actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme / Bolo Yeung Sze …
other title: Senza esclusione di colpi / Bloodsport: Kamp til døden …
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
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Blown Away (1994) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Blown Away
director: Stephen Hopkins actor: Jeff Bridges / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Blown Away - Follia esplosiva / Sidste Nedtælling …
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
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Powder Blue (2009) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Powder Blue
director: 裴林 actor: 杰西卡·贝尔 / 埃迪·雷德梅恩 …
other title: 蓝色火药 / 蓝色粉末 …
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
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In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday Today? (2009) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban
Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?
director: 吉利·巴塔 / Vivian Schilling actor: 福里斯特·惠特克 / 琼·库萨克 …
other title: Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny? / Na pude …
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out on a wondrous and daring adventure to rescue her from the all-powerful Head of State.
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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) [Movie] TMDB
Mr. Holland's Opus
director: Stephen Herek actor: Richard Dreyfuss / Glenne Headly …
other title: Goodbye Mr. Holland / Mr. Holland's Opus - Livets Symfoni …
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
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Godfather of Harlem (2019) [TV] TMDB
Godfather of Harlem
director: Chris Brancato / Paul Eckstein actor: Forest Whitaker / Erik LaRay Harvey …
other title: El padrino de Harlem
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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Southpaw (2015) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Southpaw
6.3 (6 ratings) director: Antoine Fuqua actor: Jake Gyllenhaal / Rach …
other title: Southpaw - L'ultima sfida / Southpaw: Coração de Aço …
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
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Taken 3 (2014) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Taken 3
director: Olivier Megaton actor: Liam Neeson / Forest Whitaker …
other title: Taken 3 - L'ora della verità / 96 Hours - Taken 3 …
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
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Dope (2015) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Dope
director: Rick Famuyiwa actor: Shameik Moore / Zoë Kravitz …
other title: Dope - Follia e riscatto / O Caloiro da Droga …
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
director: Amy Heckerling actor: Judge Reinhold / Sean Penn …
other title: Fuori di testa / Øl, fis og rockmusik …
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for love, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone. Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer faces-off with the resolute teacher, Mr. Hand. Hilarity and heartbreak ensue.
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Where the Wild Things Are
director: Spike Jonze actor: Max Records / Catherine Keener …
other title: Nel paese delle creature selvagge / O Sítio das Coisas Selvagens …
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
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Sorry to Bother You (2018) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sorry to Bother You
8.0 (9 ratings) director: Boots Riley actor: LaKeith Stanfield / Tessa Thompson …
other title: Desculpe Incomodar / Perdona que te moleste
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
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Panic Room (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban KevGa-NeoDB
Panic Room
director: David Fincher actor: Jodie Foster / Kristen Stewart …
other title: Sala de Pânico / La habitación del pánico …
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.