Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American. With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fuelled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.

The Journey of August King

1995

English

6.5

♡ 9

57%

70%

Drama

John Duigan Director

Thandie Newton as Annalees

John Doman as Bolton

Larry Drake as Olaf Singletary

Graham Paul as Wade

The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.

Besieged

1998

Italian

6.8

♡ 1

75%

Bernardo Bertolucci Director

Claudio Santamaria as Agostino

David Thewlis as Jason Kinsky

Cyril Nri as Priest

Thandie Newton as Shandurai

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.

Shade

2003

English

6.3

♡ 10

67%

Damian Nieman Director

Tony Amendola as Dr. Daley

Jamie Foxx as Jennings

Sylvester Stallone as Stevens

Thandie Newton as Tiffany

Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.

Vanishing on 7th Street

2010

English

4.9

♡ 17

47%

Brad Anderson Director

Neal Huff as Chicago Reporter

Hayden Christensen as Luke

John Leguizamo as Paul

Thandie Newton as Rosemary

A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.

Retreat

2011

English

5.8

♡ 20

62%

Carl Tibbetts Director

Jimmy Yuill as Doug

Jamie Bell as Jack

Thandie Newton as Kate

Cillian Murphy as Martin

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

Beloved

1998

English

6.1

♡ 13

71%

70%

Action

affectation

based on novel or book

Jonathan Demme Director

Charles Napier as Angry Carny

Thandie Newton as Beloved

Kimberly Elise as Denver

Wes Bentley as Schoolteacher's Nephew

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

For Colored Girls

2010

English

6.3

♡ 2

31%

Tyler Perry Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Alice / White

Richard Lawson as Frank

Tessa Thompson as Nyla / Purple

Thandie Newton as Tangie / Orange

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

God's Country

2022

English

5.6

♡ 36

88%

50%

Action

Thriller

Julian Higgins Director

Tanaya Beatty as Gretchen

Joris Jarsky as Nathan

Thandie Newton as Sandra

Jeremy Bobb as Wolf

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

Half of a Yellow Sun

2013

English

6.1

♡ 1

50%

Biyi Bandele Director

Susan Wokoma as Amala

Thandie Newton as Olanna

Joseph Mawle as Richard

Grainne Keenan as Susan

An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.

All the Old Knives

2022

English

6.1

♡ 77

63%

45%

Action

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Janus Metz Director

Jonathan Pryce as Bill Compton

Thandie Newton as Celia Harrison

Colin Stinton as Moscow Station Chief

Laurence Fishburne as Vick Wallinger

When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.

Gringo

2018

English

6.1

♡ 108

40%

38%

Action

boyfriend girlfriend relationship

Nash Edgerton Director

Thandie Newton as Bonnie Soyinka

Charlize Theron as Elaine Markinson

Bashir Salahuddin as Stu

Amanda Seyfried as Sunny

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Norbit

2007

English

4.3

♡ 79

9%

Brian Robbins Director

Marlon Wayans as Buster

Rob Huebel as Excited Man on TV

Thandie Newton as Kate Thomas

Eddie Murphy as Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Mission: Impossible II

2000

English

6.1

♡ 291

58%

42%

Action

Adventure

central intelligence agency (cia)

John Woo Director

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt

Brendan Gleeson as John C. McCloy

Anthony Hopkins as Mission Commander Swanbeck

Thandie Newton as Nyah Nordoff-Hall

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

Good Deeds

2012

English

5.7

♡ 5

37%

fiancé fiancée relationship

Romance

routine

single mother

Tyler Perry Director

Rebecca Romijn as Heidi

Thandie Newton as Lindsey Wakefield

Gabrielle Union as Natalie

Brian White as Walt Deeds

For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.