Sophie Okonedo
18 titles
Filmography
18 results

Skin
(2009)Born in 1950’s South Africa, a light-skinned black girl with white parents is thrust into identity crisis by an apartheid state and her own family.
The Stranger on the Bridge
(2015)The story of one man's search for the stranger who stopped him jumping off Waterloo Bridge

Civilisations: Rise and Fall
Four famous civilisations from the past face disaster. But why did they collapse? And could the treasures they left behind hold the clues to our own survival?
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
(2018)Mark Antony has it all following Caesar's assassination - power, glory, and a whole empire.
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
The story of how the greatest art works of all time were born of war and bloodshed.
Whose Baby?
(2004)A powerful drama that explores the issues faced by a woman yearning for motherhood and the desperation a father faces to claim his access rights. When Karen, a young single woman, is desperate for a baby and previous boyfriends haven't quite fitted the bill as perfect father material, she meets Barry. He has the right look and the intelligence, but one thing stands in her way: he doesn't want children.

Wild Rose
(2019)After unjustly serving a year in jail, an aspiring country singer and single mom gets a second chance at her dream when a radio host hears her voice.

Young Soul Rebels
(1991)The Queen's Silver Jubilee beats to the sounds of Funkadelic, Sylvester and the O'Jays in Isaac Julien’s feature debut.
Chimerica
Based on Lucy Kirkwood's Olivier Award-winning stage play of the same name, `Chimerica' follows Lee Berger, played by `American Hustle"s Alessandro Nivola, an American photojournalist who became famous from a photo he took on Tiananmen Square in 1989 of the "Tank Man", who was seen standing and holding shopping bags as he faced down a line of Chinese tanks. Years later, against the backdrop of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Lee's professional integrity is called into question after he's accused creating fake news by manipulating photographs. Hoping to restore his credibility, Lee sets out to find Tank Man, whom Lee is convinced is alive and living in New York City.

After Earth
(2013)A thousand years after humans have left Earth, a general and his teen son crash on the now-deadly planet - the father is injured, and the young man embarks on a dangerous mission to find

Raymond & Ray
(2022)Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they’ve become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.

Janet Planet
(2024)A young girl spends the summer enthralled by her extremely detailed inner world and her mother.

Heart of Stone
(2023)To her elite MI6 team, Rachel Stone's a rookie. They don't know she's a skilled spy for a rogue agency — and that her dual lives are about to collide.

Æon Flux
(2005)Academy Award®-winner* Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the underground operative fighting totalitarian rule in 25th-century Earth’s last living city.

Dirty Pretty Things
(2002)Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 YEARS A SLAVE) star in a gritty urban thriller in which two immigrants learn that everything is for sale in London's secret underworld.

The Secret Life of Bees
(2008)A young girl escapes her abusive father and finds refuge with an eccentric beekeeper.

Catherine Called Birdy
(2022)Lady Catherine (known as Birdy), like all the great teen heroines, is spirited, clever and adventurous – and ready to put off any suitor that comes her way. With her family desperate to marry her off, Birdy’s imagination, defiance, and modern independence put her on a collision course with her parents. Relationships are put to the test when the most vile suitor of all arrives to claim her hand.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
(1995)Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.