It all begins with an anonymous text message with a party invitation. A dozen young men and women gather, eat, drink, party, and have the time of their lives inside the doors of a dilapidated mansion -- that is, until it's time to go. The front door doesn't open; the back door doesn't open.

Trigger

2020

English

4.4

♡ 2

Action

Thriller

Chris Stokes Director

Obba Babatundé as Chief Keaton

Wesley Jonathan as Collin Mass

Flex Alexander as Michael Mass

Jeremy Meeks as Trey Mass

Collin escaped the hood and found his wife and fortune. His brother Trey is paroled from a murder charge and comes to stay with him. After a disastrous accident, Trey holds Collin and friends hostage vowing he is never going back to prison

Multiplicity

1996

English

6.1

♡ 37

45%

Harold Ramis Director

Glenn Shadix as Building Inspector

Jim Piddock as Maitre d'

Obba Babatundé as Paul

Julie Bowen as Robin

Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.

The Celestine Prophecy

2006

English

4.9

♡ 3

5%

54%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Armand Mastroianni Director

Hector Elizondo as Cardinal Sebastian

John Aylward as Dobson

Obba Babatundé as Miguel

Georgia Chris as Villager

A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999

English

7.0

♡ 9

83%

Martha Coolidge Director

Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge

Obba Babatundé as Harold Nicholas

Klaus Maria Brandauer as Otto Preminger

Michael Laskin as Radio Announcer

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

How High

2001

English

6.2

♡ 48

25%

Jesse Dylan Director

Obba Babatundé as Dean Carl Cain

Essence Atkins as Jamie

Martin Klebba as Party Guest

Jeffrey Jones as Vice President

Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.

Mr. Soul!

2018

English

7.8

♡ 1

96%

71%

Documentary

Sam Pollard Director

Blair Underwood as Narration

B.B. King as Self

Patti LaBelle as Self

Obba Babatundé as Self

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the national television stage. He was hip. He was smart. He was innovative, political, and gay. In his personal fight for social equality, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised. The man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was soul!

The Millennial

2022

English

6.7

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Khalil Kain Director

Terrell Carter as Erik

Erica Mena Samuels as Lola Etienne

Obba Babatundé as Mr. Burke

Terri J. Vaughn as Mrs. Sterling

A young privileged African American millennial recently receives his master' degree from a prestigious university and sets out to pursue a career in his chosen field only to find out it's not the plain sailing he imagined.

The Wild Thornberrys

2002

English

5.7

♡ 5

Jeff McGrath Director

Obba Babatundé as Boko

Marisa Tomei as Bree Blackburn

Tim Curry as Nigel Thornberry / Col. Radcliff Thornberry

Roger Jackson as Reggie

Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza might have to give up her power to talk to animals....

Miss Evers' Boys

1997

English

7.1

♡ 4

70%

Joseph Sargent Director

Laurence Fishburne as Caleb Humphries

Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez as Chauffeur Driver

Ossie Davis as Mr. Evers

Obba Babatundé as Willie Johnson

The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

Revival

2018

English

6.6

♡ 1

Danny Green Director

Michelle Williams as Mary Magdalen

Paula Newsome as Mother Mary

Obba Babatundé as Nicodemus

Ahmed Ahmed as Satan

A unique visual and musical experience based on the Gospel of John. Originally a Passion play, it freely blends elements of stage and cinema, creating a fresh take on this well known story.

Noble Intentions

2022

English

4.6

♡ 5

96%

James C. Turner Director

Daniel Hall as Dabs

Lisa Thomas as Dr. Turner

Aaron D. Spears as Mr. Green

Obba Babatundé as Pastor Stevens

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does not come easy. When an old family friend makes him a syndicate boss, jealousy and greed immediately turn his friends against him. With pressure mounting from all sides, he must choose between saving his mother’s life and saving his own.

Cover

2007

English

5.4

♡ 2

Bill Duke Director

Obba Babatundé as Attorney Miller

Paula Jai Parker as Monica Wilson

Patti LaBelle as Mrs. Persons

Vivica A. Fox as Zahara Milton

When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.

City of Lies

2018

English

6.5

♡ 75

50%

83%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

los angeles, california

Brad Furman Director

Chris Jai Alex as

Obba Babatundé as Chief of Police

Angela Gots as Detective Amy Lefferts

Johnny Depp as Russell Poole

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 Tupac Shakur -- but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why. In search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.

Material Girls

2006

English

4.0

♡ 8

4%

Martha Coolidge Director

Dot-Marie Jones as Butch Brenda

Obba Babatundé as Craig

Faith Prince as Pam

Kim Estes as Security Guard

Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

Life

1999

English

6.8

♡ 54

53%

Ted Demme Director

Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Biscuit

Barry Shabaka Henley as Pokerface

Eddie Murphy as Rayford Gibson

Obba Babatundé as Willie Long

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Born to Be Wild

1995

English

5.2

♡ 8

John Gray Director

John Pleshette as Donald Carr

Obba Babatundé as Interpreter

Janet Carroll as Judge Billings

Frank Welker as Special Vocal Effects

Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.

John Q

2002

English

7.1

♡ 115

26%

parent child relationship

Thriller

Nick Cassavetes Director

Simon Sinn as Fong

Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald

Robert Duvall as Lt. Frank Grimes

Obba Babatundé as Sgt. Moody

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Undercover Blues

1993

English

6.1

♡ 23

37%

new orleans, louisiana

vacation

Herbert Ross Director

Dennis Quaid as Jeff Blue

Stanley Tucci as Muerte

Obba Babatundé as Sawyer

Marshall Bell as Sikes

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.

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