Forest Whitaker
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1961-07-15
Locus Natus: Longview, Texas, USA
Et ut: Forest Steven Whitaker III, Φόρεστ Γουίτακερ, 포레스트 휘태커, フォレスト・ウィテカー, Forest Steven Whitaker, Форест Вітакер
Blown Away
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...
release : 1994.07.01popularis : 22.966
Johnny Handsome
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone...
release : 1989.09.12popularis : 9.82
Street Kings
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in...
release : 2008.04.10popularis : 17.952
Smoke
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul...
release : 1995.06.09popularis : 13.059
The Last King of Scotland
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in...
release : 2006.01.12popularis : 23.743
Good Morning, Vietnam
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his...
release : 1987.12.23popularis : 12.674
Phone Booth
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light...
release : 2003.04.04popularis : 30.022
Prêt-à-Porter
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
release : 1994.12.23popularis : 12.168
Panic Room
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...
release : 2002.03.29popularis : 20.907
Body Snatchers
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his...
release : 1993.06.09popularis : 12.242
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
release : 1999.10.06popularis : 18.848
Battlefield Earth
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl,...
release : 2000.05.12popularis : 11.353
The Marsh
Writer Claire Holloway is troubled by nightmares of Rose Marsh Farm. She decides to vacation at the farm which unbeknown to her is haunted by the...
release : 2006.05.18popularis : 6.914
Jason's Lyric
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
release : 1994.09.28popularis : 6.597
Body Count
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul...
release : 1998.04.28popularis : 3.788
The Crying Game
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow...
release : 1992.09.02popularis : 18.349
Bloodsport
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
release : 1988.02.26popularis : 29.832
Vantage Point
The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
release : 2008.02.01popularis : 12.416
Repo Men
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on...
release : 2010.03.18popularis : 13.011
Bird
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a...
release : 1988.06.01popularis : 10.284
The Color of Money
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and...
release : 1986.10.17popularis : 17.983
Hurricane Season
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach...
release : 2009.12.08popularis : 5.539
Article 99
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to...
release : 1992.03.13popularis : 5.819
Phenomenon
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
release : 1996.07.05popularis : 11.647
Species
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on...
release : 1995.07.07popularis : 44.586
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California....
release : 1982.08.13popularis : 22.409
Our Family Wedding
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
release : 2010.03.12popularis : 8.62
The Air I Breathe
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A...
release : 2007.02.07popularis : 10.285
Green Dragon
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy...
release : 2001.05.17popularis : 4.626
The Great Debaters
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American...
release : 2007.12.25popularis : 16.754
A Rage in Harlem
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other...
release : 1991.05.03popularis : 5.048
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from...
release : 1996.11.23popularis : 4.821
A Little Trip to Heaven
Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a...
release : 2005.12.26popularis : 9.654
Downtown
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get...
release : 1990.01.12popularis : 3.083
The Experiment
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
release : 2010.07.15popularis : 13.697
American Gun
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all...
release : 2005.09.15popularis : 11.421
My Own Love Song
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
release : 2010.04.07popularis : 3.917
Consenting Adults
Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy...
release : 1992.10.16popularis : 13.397
Winged Creatures
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this...
release : 2009.07.08popularis : 11.81
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missing. She leaves home to discover what that is.
release : 2010.03.02popularis : 1.247
Where the Wild Things Are
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...
release : 2009.10.16popularis : 31.917
Mary
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress...
release : 2005.11.18popularis : 4.092
Deacons for Defense
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens...
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 5.937
Lullaby for Pi
A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name.
release : 2010.10.11popularis : 2.928
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence...
release : 2009.08.14popularis : 6.407
Powder Blue
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
release : 2009.05.08popularis : 19.831
Light It Up
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school,...
release : 1999.11.04popularis : 3.096
Even Money
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.
release : 2007.03.13popularis : 12.004
Diary of a Hitman
A veteran hitman, Dekker is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. His final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when a...
release : 1991.11.20popularis : 13.211
Repentance
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses...
release : 2014.02.28popularis : 10.061
Last Light
Kiefer Sutherland plays Denver Bayliss, a condemned murderer who has killed three people, including a prison guard. He was brought into the system as...
release : 1993.08.22popularis : 6.421
Lush Life
Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as New York jazz musicians, forced to confront a life beyond their hedonistic existence when a personal crisis...
release : 1993.10.01popularis : 3.332
Feast of All Saints
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught...
release : 2001.11.11popularis : 2.855
Catch.44
The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a...
release : 2011.12.08popularis : 9.832
The Fourth Angel
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown...
release : 2001.08.15popularis : 9.849
The Last Stand
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape...
release : 2013.01.12popularis : 14.913
The Enemy Within
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
release : 1994.08.24popularis : 5.552
Witness Protection
Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career...
release : 1999.12.11popularis : 3.747
Serving Life
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by...
release : 2011.07.28popularis : 0.616
Freelancers
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone,...
release : 2012.08.10popularis : 16.209
The Butler
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...
release : 2013.08.16popularis : 20.618
A Dark Truth
In the jungles of Ecuador, blood taints the waters. A multinational conglomerate's unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted...
release : 2012.11.29popularis : 9.186
Out of the Furnace
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the...
release : 2013.11.09popularis : 27.262
Pawn
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
release : 2013.04.23popularis : 18.563
Zulu
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress....
release : 2013.12.04popularis : 18.304
Black Nativity
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged...
release : 2013.11.27popularis : 12.419
Two Men in Town
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
release : 2014.05.07popularis : 6.445
Criminal Justice
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as...
release : 1990.09.08popularis : 0.888
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...
release : 2014.12.16popularis : 63.077
Big George Foreman
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion,...
release : 2023.04.27popularis : 30.147
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a...
release : 2023.11.26popularis : 2.336
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.
release : 2022.09.08popularis : 5.088
Southpaw
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish...
release : 2015.03.24popularis : 34.543
Making of Phone Booth
Behind the scenes documentary of the Joel T. Schumacher film Phone Booth.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.346
Prophets of Change
Can music overcome borders and walls and bring people together? Prophets of Change tracks musicians, both Israeli and Palestinian, through their...
release : 2022.10.12popularis : 1.277
Mon Clown
Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the...
release : 2008.03.14popularis : 5.935
Everyone's Hero
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.
release : 2006.08.04popularis : 22.998
Dragon Hunters
Dragon Hunters is a fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters: the world has become a vast conglomerate of islands of varying size...
release : 2008.03.19popularis : 17.596
Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...
release : 2016.11.10popularis : 57.789
Making a Scene
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers...
release : 2013.11.25popularis : 2.895
The Misbehavers
The Misbehavers documents a small army of guerrilla filmmakers as they converge at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for a mission dubbed Operation:...
release : 2004.12.04popularis : 1.249
Dope
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A...
release : 2015.06.19popularis : 14.63
Mysteries of the Unseen World
Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their...
release : 2013.11.01popularis : 1.696
Odyssey in Rome
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re...
release : 2005.09.30popularis : 1.172
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
release : 2016.12.14popularis : 39.155
Stakeout
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
release : 1987.08.05popularis : 16.991
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing...
release : 2000.09.27popularis : 5.846
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The...
release : 2022.11.13popularis : 9.551
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations...
release : 2005.05.08popularis : 5.195
The Follow
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way...
release : 2001.05.24popularis : 6.192
Sewing Hope
For 25 years Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army terrorized Northern Uganda. Children were stolen from their families and brainwashed to be...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.132
The King of Kings
The story of our Lord Jesus Christ as told by Charles Dickens and seen through the innocent eyes of a child.
release : 2025.04.20popularis : 1.482
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so...
release : 2010.08.03popularis : 3.438
Hands of a Stranger
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
release : 1987.05.10popularis : 1.34
I Am You
In Peace We Trust. This documentary shows us how animal rights and human rights & the environment are all related. And the diverse effects that...
release : 2016.12.12popularis : 0.587
Bank Robber
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as...
release : 1993.12.03popularis : 3.265
Black Panther
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However,...
release : 2018.02.13popularis : 59.247
Burden
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and,...
release : 2020.02.28popularis : 6.866
Finding Steve McQueen
In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the...
release : 2019.03.15popularis : 9.071
City of Lies
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and...
release : 2018.09.06popularis : 11.663
Ripple Effect
Believing that bad karma is keeping him from realizing his dream, hip clothing designer Amer Atrash (Philippe Caland) attempts to orchestrate...
release : 2007.06.21popularis : 4.416
Tag: The Assassination Game
Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the somewhat older Susan Swayze, who he long admired from afar....
release : 1982.04.20popularis : 3.121
The Forgiven
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
release : 2018.03.09popularis : 7.98
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
Whenever the phrase "breaking the color line" is used, there's a temptation to invoke Jackie Robinson's story. However, Perry Wallace, the first...
release : 2018.03.23popularis : 0.694
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986).
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 4.399
A Man's Story
Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
release : 2011.10.08popularis : 3.045
Platoon
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
release : 1986.12.19popularis : 32.254
How It Ends
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
release : 2018.07.13popularis : 15.517
Sorry to Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which...
release : 2018.07.06popularis : 23.032
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'.
release : 2017.04.04popularis : 2.44
The Paperboy
A young paper boy goes through his early morning delivery routine.
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 0.874
Vision Quest
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and...
release : 1985.02.15popularis : 12.776
First Daughter
Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however,...
release : 2004.09.24popularis : 24.799
Respect
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
release : 2021.08.12popularis : 11.743
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the...
release : 2020.11.06popularis : 9.79
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
A behind-the-scenes look at the year's [2013] best performers starring in 11 original (very) short films directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer...
release : 2013.11.25popularis : 4.982
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Watch David Fincher's journey of the filming process for Panic Room (2002) in this interesting documentary. We see the entire cast and crew...
release : 2004.03.30popularis : 2.797
Before the Music Dies
B4MD tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to...
release : 2006.11.02popularis : 3.856
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters...
release : 2017.02.14popularis : 3.969
Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
A documentary about the making of Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, including interviews with the director and stars Forest...
release : 2001.08.14popularis : 0.868
Mr. Holland's Opus
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...
release : 1995.12.29popularis : 9.817
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.
release : 2020.08.30popularis : 6.337
Rising from Ashes
“Rising from Ashes” is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the...
release : 2013.08.02popularis : 2.057
Food Chains
This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to...
release : 2014.04.26popularis : 2.131
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption...
release : 2020.09.19popularis : 1.522
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends,...
release : 1994.12.11popularis : 4.306
Havoc
After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son,...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.558
A Fall from Grace
Detective Michael Tabb knows the city he protects inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as much as its dark underbelly: but he does not know...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.586