Mufasa: The Lion King (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.
Starring:
Aaron Pierre
,
Luci Bravo
,
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
John Kani
,
Tiffany Boone
,
Billy Eichner
Directed by:
Barry Jenkins
Chevalier (
2023) | IMDb:
6.5
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.
Starring:
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Samara Weaving
,
Lucy Boynton
,
Alex Fitzalan
,
Minnie Driver
,
Sian Clifford
Elvis (
2022) | IMDb:
7.3
The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Starring:
Austin Butler
,
Tom Hanks
,
Olivia DeJonge
,
Helen Thomson
,
Richard Roxburgh
,
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Cyrano (
2021) | IMDb:
6.4
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Starring:
Peter Dinklage
,
Haley Bennett
,
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Ben Mendelsohn
,
Monica Dolan
,
Bashir Salahuddin
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (
2020) | IMDb:
7.7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Starring:
Eddie Redmayne
,
Sacha Baron Cohen
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Michael Keaton
,
Frank Langella
,
John Carroll Lynch
The Photograph (
2020) | IMDb:
6.1
When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box, she soon finds herself delving into her mother's early life -- an investigation that leads to an unexpected romance with a rising journalist.
Starring:
Issa Rae
,
LaKeith Stanfield
,
Chanté Adams
,
Y'lan Noel
,
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Lil Rel Howery
Waves (
2019) | IMDb:
7.5
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.
Starring:
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Taylor Russell
,
Renée Elise Goldsberry
,
Sterling K. Brown
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Alexa Demie
Assassination Nation (
2018) | IMDb:
6
After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.
Mudbound (
2017) | IMDb:
7.4
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Starring:
Carey Mulligan
,
Jason Clarke
,
Jason Mitchell
,
Mary J. Blige
,
Garrett Hedlund
,
Rob Morgan
Directed by:
Dee Rees
It Comes at Night (
2017) | IMDb:
6.2
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Starring:
Joel Edgerton
,
Christopher Abbott
,
Carmen Ejogo
,
Riley Keough
,
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Griffin Robert Faulkner
The Birth of a Nation (
2016) | IMDb:
6.5
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
Starring:
Nate Parker
,
Armie Hammer
,
Aja Naomi King
,
Jackie Earle Haley
,
Penelope Ann Miller
,
Gabrielle Union
Ender's Game (
2013) | IMDb:
6.6
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Starring:
Harrison Ford
,
Asa Butterfield
,
Hailee Steinfeld
,
Viola Davis
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Abigail Breslin
12 Years a Slave (
2013) | IMDb:
8.1
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring:
Chiwetel Ejiofor
,
Michael Fassbender
,
Lupita Nyong'o
,
Benedict Cumberbatch
,
Paul Dano
,
Sarah Paulson