Forest Whitaker
47 titles
Filmography
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The Last King of Scotland
(2006)A powerful thriller that portrays the world of Uganda under the mad dictatorship of Idi Amin.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
(1999)A hit man consults the "Book of Samurai" to knock off his adversaries after he's been double-crossed.

The Butler
(2013)A White House butler serves many presidents over the years.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America
(2009)This hard-hitting look at two of America's most notorious gangs chronicles their emergence and examines possible solutions to this ongoing tragedy.

Bird
(1988)The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's Jazz. The music streaked into the unknown, daring listeners to grab hold and fly there, too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles Yardbird Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood.

Hurricane Season
(2010)The true story of a high school basketball coach in Louisiana who takes a team of displaced students to state championships after Hurricane Katrina.

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
(2020)Decades after his trusted apprentice betrayed him, a once-joyful toymaker finds new hope when his kind and curious granddaughter comes into his life.

Deacons for Defense
(2005)This drama centers on the true story of a black militia group in Louisiana who organized against the KKK during the U.S. civil rights movement.

A Little Trip to Heaven
(2005)An insurance investigator goes to an isolated spot in Minnesota to deal with a poor couple that stands to inherit a fortune after a suspicious death.

Two Men in Town
(2014)An ex-con forms a friendship with his parole officer.

Our Family Wedding
(2010)A surprise engagement turns up the rivalry between two feuding fathers who wreak unintentional havoc with their children's dream wedding plans.

Repentance
(2014)A mentally-disturbed man, obsessed with his mother’s death, abducts a self-help guru and uses his teachings to terrorize him into confessing his sins.

Black Nativity
(2013)Black Nativity is an inspiring story of faith, family and forgiveness.

Good Morning, Vietnam
(1987)Life in the Army will never be the same after an unforgettable wake up call from Academy Award® winner Robin Williams in this smash hit comedy. Williams delivers a tour-de-force performance in the role critics agree he was born to play – irreverent, nonconformist deejay Adrian Cronauer, imported by the Army for an early a.m. radio show, Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.s love him - but the brass is up in arms! Riddled with sidesplitting comic bombshells and studded with hot 60's hits, the film depicts Cronauer's raucous Saigon adventures amid a world gone mad.

Big George Foreman
(2023)The miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world.

Street Kings
(2008)A veteran LAPD officer must go against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career.

Respect
(2021)Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

City of Lies
(2018)LAPD detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. In search of the truth, he teams up with reporter Jack Jackson and they unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.

Repo Men
(2010)Futuristic repo man Jude Law retrieves artificial organs from deadbeat recipients...until he gets a new heart he can't pay for.

Finding Steve McQueen
(2019)Based on the true story of the Youngstown mob, President Richard Nixon, the FBI, and the biggest bank heist in US history! In 1972, a gang of likeminded thieves plan a heist to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions from the President's secret fund.