"Alfre Woodard" Filmography
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
2010, USA
- Actors: Halle Berry, Avery Brooks, Colin Powell, John Amos, Angela Bassett, Tom Berenger, Roscoe Lee Browne, LeVar Burton, Anthony Chisholm, Chris Cooper, Barry Corbin, Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Robert Culp, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Michael Clarke Duncan, Charles S. Dutton, Robert Duvall, Sam Elliott, R. Lee Ermey, Oded Fehr, Morgan Freeman, James Garner, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, John Goodman, Louis Gossett Jr., Isaac Hayes, Dulé Hill
- Genre: Documentary
- Director(s): Frank Martin
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Available languages:
- English English.
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American service men and women since the earliest days of the republic. The story spans the Revolution to Iraq and examines why, despite enormous injustice, these heroic men and women fought so valiantly for freedoms they themselves did not enjoy.
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American Violet
2007, USA
- Actors: Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard, Michael O'Keefe, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott A. Martin, Malcolm Barrett, Jackson Beals, Michael Beasley, Samantha Beaulieu, Tody Bernard, Allen Boudreaux, Jeanne Bourgeois, Andrew Buchler, Kesha Bullard, J. Omar Castro, John Will Clay, Portia Cue, Daurice Cummings, Charles S. Dutton, Roslyn D. Evans, Jon Eyez, Rodney Hebert, Louis Herthum, Elton LeBlanc, Jerry Leggio, Jessie Blake Lough, Anthony Mackie, Christopher McCann, Hunter McGregor
- Genre: Drama
- Director(s): Tim Disney
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Available languages:
- English English.
A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007, USA
- Actors: Ridge Canipe, Eric Crump, Julie Ann Emery, Jodelle Ferland, Judith Ivey, Joanne Kimm, James Leard, Sissy Spacek, James Tupper, Alfre Woodard, Desiree Zurowski, Jacqueline Brown, Denis Corbett, Yolanda Corbett, Vince Rizzi
- Genre: Drama
- Director(s): Tony Bill
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Available languages:
- English English.
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. Hollis is a talented artist and her life stories unfold through her pictures. One revealing picture is the "W" picture Hollis drew for a first grade class assignment on the letter "w". Hollis drew her Wish, her Want. She drew a picture of a family. Hollis had that family in the Regan's, but fear of attachment and motional turmoil caused her to run away. As Josie's forgetfulness grows worse, Hollis is forced into the role of caretaker. Through her artwork and her care of Josie, Hollis Woods finds her family. Based on the Newberry Honor award winning book with the same name.
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Something New
2006, USA
- Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Fuzzy Fantabulous, Katharine Towne, Stanley DeSantis, K.C. Clyde, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Golden Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, Marcus Brown, Russell Hornsby, Simon Baker, Danny Wooten, Mike Epps, Lee Garlington, Tonita Castro, Matt Malloy, David Monahan, Gabriel Tigerman, Donald Faison, Tanisha Harper, Alfre Woodard, Earl Billings, Michelle Griffin, Tanya Wideman-Davis, Rocklin Thompson, Sommore, Eric Ekholm, Henry Simmons, Kimberly Barnett, Blair Underwood
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Director(s): Sanaa Hamri
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Available languages:
- English English.
Kenya McQueen is a successful African-American CPA, working her way to the top of the corporate ladder -- but her life has become all work and no play. Urged on by her friends to try something new and to let go of her dream of the "ideal black man," she accepts a blind date with an architectural landscaper named Brian, only to cut the date short upon first sight, because Brian is white. The two meet again at a party, and Kenya hires Brian to landscape her new home. Over time, they hit it off, but Kenya's reservations about the acceptance their romance will find among her friends and family threatens everything. An intelligent romantic comedy that chooses to deal with issues of race and perception in a straight-forward way, from a point of view not often seen: that of a successful, upper-class black woman.
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Take the Lead
2006, USA
- Actors: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard, John Ortiz, Laura Benanti, Jonathan Malen, Jasika Nicole, Shawand McKenzie, Dante Basco, Elijah Kelley, Jenna Dewan, Marcus T. Paulk, Brandon D. Andrews, Lauren Collins, Katya Virshilas, Alison Sealy-Smith, Phillip Jarrett, Jo Chim, Volodymyr Vynogradsky, Kevin Hanchard, Joseph Pierre, Lyriq Bent, Heidi von Palleske, Darren Marsman, Kofi Payton, Sharon Matthews, Frank Spadone, Yvonne Myers, Tony Craig
- Genre: Drama, Music
- Director(s): Liz Friedlander
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Available languages:
- English English.
In New York, the polite dance instructor Pierre Dulaine sees a black teenager vandalizing the car of the director of a public school and on the next day he volunteers to teach dance to students to give respect, dignity, self-confidence, trust and teamwork. The reluctant director Augustine James offers the troublemakers that are in detention expecting Pierre to give-up of his intentions. Pierre struggles against the prejudice and ignorance of the students, parents and other teachers, but wins his battle when the group accepts to compete in a ballroom dance contest.
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Beauty Shop
2005, USA
- Actors: Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Alfre Woodard, Mena Suvari, Della Reese, Golden Brooks, Laura Hayes, Paige Hurd, Little JJ, LisaRaye, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Sherri Shepherd, Kimora Lee, Sheryl Underwood, Bryce Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Omari Hardwick, Adele Givens, Jim Holmes, Larissa Bordere, Brian Williams, Nancy Lenehan, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Crystal S. Garrett, Suzanne Covington, Joyful Drake, Tawny Dahl, Mary Wickliffe
- Genre: Comedy
- Director(s): Bille Woodruff
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Available languages:
- English English.
You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.
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The Forgotten
2003, USA
- Actors: Julianne Moore, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz, Anthony Edwards, Jessica Hecht, Linus Roache, Gary Sinise, Dominic West, Katie Cooper, Scott Nicholson, P.J. Morrison, Robert Wisdom, Tim Kang, Kathryn Faughnan, Alfre Woodard, Felix Solis, Susan Misner, Lee Tergesen, Ken Abraham, J. Tucker Smith, Ann Dowd, Zoë Raye, Brielle Barbusca, Ismael Peter Casillas III, Frank Stellato
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Director(s): Joseph Ruben
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Available languages:
- English English.
A grieving mother, Telly Paretta, is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son's friend who is having the same experience, Telly embarks on a mission to prove her son's existence and her sanity.
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The Singing Detective
2003, USA
- Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Jon Polito, Carla Gugino, Saul Rubinek, Alfre Woodard, Amy Aquino, David Dorfman, Eddie Jones, Lily Knight, Clyde Kusatsu, Earl Poitier, Don Fischer, Andy Umberger, David Denman, Alec Puro, Renn Hawkey, Bryan Law, Carla Anderson, Sandahl Bergman, Rita Bland, Billy Bonsangue, Sergio Carbajal, Leonard Crofoot, Erin Crouch, Kiva Dawson
- Genre: Comedy, Musical, Mystery
- Director(s): Keith Gordon
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Available languages:
- English English.
"While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark reworks his first book in his head. Feverish, paranoid and prone to musical outbreaks, he confuses himself with his protagonist, a detective investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles."
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The Core
2003, UK, USA
- Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Eileen Pedde, Rekha Sharma, Stanley Tucci, DJ Qualls, Tom Scholte, Richard Jenkins, Glenn Morshower, Bruce Greenwood, Anthony Harrison, Tchéky Karyo, Bart Anderson, Nicole Leroux, Justin Callan, Chris Humphreys, Dion Johnstone, Alfre Woodard, Fred Ewanuick, Hrothgar Mathews, Shawn Green, Ming-Tzong Hong, Jennifer Spence, Michael St. John Smith, John Shaw, Nickolas Baric, Fred Keating
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Director(s): Jon Amiel
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Available languages:
- English English.
The Earth's core has stopped spinning. Disasters are appearing all over the world: Birds acting crazy, powerful thunderstorms, 32 people die within seconds of each other when their pacemakers quit working. Dr. Josh Keyes and his crew of five (total members: 6) go down to the center of the Earth to set off a nuclear device to make the Earth's core start spinning again or Mankind will perish.
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Radio
2003, USA
- Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brent Sexton, Chris Mulkey, Sarah Drew, Riley Smith, Patrick Breen, Debra Winger, Bill Roberson, Kenneth H. Callender, Michael Harding, Charles Garren, Rebecca Koon, Hi Bedford Roberson, Michael Kroeker, Mark Robert Ellis, Ron Shelley, Evan Aldrich, Megan Coffman, Benjamin L. Peters Jr., Leonard Wheeler, Therond Justin Adams, Othello Coleman III, Bert Beatson, Ty O'Farrell, Dorothy McDowell, Jim Gooden, Joseph E.G. Barrett
- Genre: Drama, Sport
- Director(s): Michael Tollin
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Available languages:
- English English.
Football coach Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
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K-PAX
2001, USA, Germany
- Actors: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Ajay Naidu, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray, John Toles-Bey, Kimberly Scott, Conchata Ferrell, Vincent Laresca, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Brian Howe, Mary Mara, Tess McCarthy, Natasha Dorfhuber, Brandon de Paul, Aaron Paul, William Lucking, Kelly Connell, Peter Maloney, Lance E. Nichols, Paul Linke, Christopher Jason Brown, Greg Lewis, Clarke Peters
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Director(s): Iain Softley
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Available languages:
- English English.
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
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Love & Basketball
2000, USA
- Actors: Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard, Chris Warren Jr., Kyla Pratt, Alfre Woodard, Naykia Harris, Harry Lennix, Debbi Morgan, Dennis Haysbert, Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Colleen Matsuhara, Al Foster, Nathaniel Bellamy Jr., Regina Hall, Shar Jackson, Gabrielle Union, James DuMont, Christine Dunford, April Griffin, Boris Kodjoe, Erika Ringor, Kara Brock, Aichi Ali, Charles O'Bannon, Robin Roberts, Dick Vitale, Jimmy Lennon Jr., Terry Cummings, Andre Bellinger
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
- Director(s): Gina Prince-Bythewood
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Available languages:
- English English.
In 1981 in L.A., Monica moves in next door to Quincy. They're 11, and both want to play in the NBA, just like Quincy's dad. Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school, with Monica's edge and Quincy's top-dog attitude separating them, except when Quincy's parents argue and he climbs through Monica's window to sleep on the floor. As high school ends, they come together as a couple, but within a year, with both of them playing ball at USC, Quincy's relationship with his father takes an ugly turn, and it leads to a break up with Monica. Some years later, their pro careers at a crossroads, they meet again. It's time for a final game of one-on-one with high stakes.
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Dinosaur
1999, USA
- Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese, Matt Adler, Sandina Bailo-Lape, Edie Lehmann, Zachary Bostrom, Cathy Cavadini, Holly Dorff, Greg Finley, Jeff Fischer, Barbara Harris, David Allen Kramer, Susie Stevens-Logan, David McCharen, Tracy Metro, Daran Norris, Bobbi Page, Noreen Reardon, Chelsea Russo, Evan Sabara, Aaron Spann, Melanie Spore
- Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Thriller
- Director(s): Eric Leighton
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Available languages:
- English English.
During an attack on a pack of Iguanodon, an egg is separated and ends up with the possession of a group of lemurs. The lemurs care for this egg and the young creature born from it, which they call Aladar. When a meteor shower hits earth, Aladar and his family must leave their homeland. Away from home and as close to danger as they have ever been, they meet up with a huge group of dinosaurs, led by Kron and Bruton. All together they are trying to reach the nesting grounds, but it's not going to be easy.
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Gulliver's Travels
1996, UK, USA
- Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, John Standing, John Wells, Alfre Woodard, Edward Woodward, Peter O'Toole, Warwick Davis, Kate Maberly, Tom Sturridge, Annette Badland, Mac McDonald, George Harris, Ricco Ross, Gordon Sterne, John Bardon, Geraldine Chaplin, Graham Crowden, John Gielgud, Isabelle Huppert, Shashi Kapoor, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Director(s): Charles Sturridge
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Available languages:
- English English.
All star adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical tale about a normal man who, after returning home following eight years of absence, relates fantastical tales about how he was thought to be giant in the Land of Lilliput, but was only six inches high in the Land of Brobdingnag. He also tells of his visit to the floating island of Laputa populated by scientists who are so obsessed with reason that they act with no common sense. Finally, he tells of his journey to the land where his disturbing likeness to the bestial Yahoos and his inferiority to the intelligent horses there makes him question the very worth of his humanity.
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Primal Fear
1995, USA
- Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Terry O'Quinn, Andre Braugher, Steven Bauer, Joe Spano, Tony Plana, Stanley Anderson, Maura Tierney, Jon Seda, Reg Rogers, Kenneth Tigar, Brian Reddy, Christopher Carroll, Wendy Cutler, Ron O.J. Parson, Sigrid K. Zahner, Diann Burns, Linda Yu, Andy Shaw, Mary Ann Childers, Lester Holt, Sylvia Gomez, Jon Duncanson, David Eckert, Robert Jordan
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director(s): Gregory Hoblit
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Available languages:
- English English.
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
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Heart and Souls
1993, USA
- Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Calvert, Lisa Lucas, Shannon Orrock, Michael Zebulon, Chasiti Hampton, Wanya Green, Janet MacLachlan, Javar David Levingston, Robert William Newhart, Sean O'Bryan, Steven Clawson, John Stuart Morris, George Maguire, Marc Shaiman, Richard Portnow, Jacob Kenner, Janette Caldwell, Eric Lloyd, Janet Rotblatt, Bill Capizzi, Will Nye, Eric Poppick, Susan Kellermann
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Director(s): Ron Underwood
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Available languages:
- English English.
This movie is about four people who die in a bus crash and have to take care of some stuff they didn't before they died. At the same moment they died, a baby is born. They are stuck to him forever. Can he help them to finish their business?