Movies by CCH Pounder
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My Girlfriend's Back (2010)
Cast: Tangi Miller, Malik Yoba, Mandy Amano …
Directed by: Steve Ayromlooi
Businessman Derek (Malik Yoba) has worked long and hard to carve out a high-profile career and is engaged to smart and beautiful Becca (Victoria Platt). But just as Derek begins to enjoy the…
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Avatar (2009)
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver …
Directed by: James Cameron
Disabled Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) travels to planet Pandora to become an avatar, ingratiate himself with the natives and help Americans mine lucrative unobtainium. But he finds…
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Orphan (2009)
Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard …
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
Picking up the pieces after their baby's tragic death, the Colemans -- Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) -- adopt 9-year-old Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) from an orphanage,…
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Brothers: Season 1 (2009)
Cast: Michael Strahan, Daryl Mitchell, Colton Dunn …
Directed by: Ted Wass
Michael Strahan stars in this comedy series as Mike Trainor, a recently retired NFL star whose dreams of the good life are sidelined when his mother (CCH Pounder) calls him home -- and home…
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Cast: CCH Pounder, Clancy Brown, Allison Mack …
Directed by: Sam Liu
In the ultimate play for power, megalomaniacal villain Lex Luthor pits Superman and Batman against the public by stripping away their hard-earned superhero status and re-branding them as…
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Brothers (2009)
Cast: Michael Strahan, Daryl Mitchell, Carl Weathers …
Former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan stars in this sitcom as a retired NFL star who moves home to Houston to help his mother manage family drama -- including an accident that…
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Breaking the Maya Code (2008)
Cast: Michael Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube …
Directed by: David Lebrun
Inspired by archaeologist Michael Coe's best-selling book, this fascinating documentary traces the extraordinary efforts to decode a writing system that has mystified historians for…
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Rain (2008)
Cast: Renel Brown, Nicki Micheaux, CCH Pounder …
Directed by: Maria Govan
Following the death of her beloved grandmother, Rain is (Renel Brown) forced to leave her idyllic life on Ragged Island to live with her drug-addicted mother in a poverty-stricken Nassau…
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Redemption (2004)
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, CCH Pounder …
Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall
When her son Charles falls in with the infamous Crips street gang, Professor Barbara Becnel (Lynn Whitfield) decides to write a book about them. Eventually, she lands an interview with the…
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Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives (2002)
Cast: Roscoe Lee Browne, Ruby Dee, LaTanya Richardson …
Directed by: Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
Throughout the 1930s, journalists and writers accumulated stories and photographs from former African-American slaves and compiled more than 2300 first-person accounts of this horrifying…
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Boycott (2001)
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder …
Directed by: Clark Johnson
Interweaving vintage newsreels, stock footage and home movies with scenes depicting events surrounding the birth of the civil rights movement, this made-for-cable drama recounts the story…
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Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Cast: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Aria Alpert …
Directed by: Allison Anders
Underground singer-songwriter Sherry McGrale (Kim Dickens) makes a name for herself with a powerful song about her rape. A rock journalist (Gabriel Mann) pitches a story about Sherry, but his…
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Disappearing Acts (2000)
Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, Regina Hall …
Directed by: Gina Prince
Music teacher Zora Banks (Sanaa Lathan) yearns for a successful career as a singer-songwriter -- and for a decent man in her life. While moving into a new brownstone, Zora meets rough-edged…
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Cora Unashamed (2000)
Cast: Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth …
Directed by: Deborah M. Pratt
An African-American housekeeper named Cora (Regina Taylor) -- the only black person in a small Iowa town -- must wage battle on two fronts against the looming Depression and the racism that…
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End of Days (1999)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney …
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Burned-out ex-cop Jericho Cane is suddenly tasked with saving the world when Satan takes over the body of a Wall Street banker in a bid to mate with an innocent woman before the…
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Final Justice (1998)
Cast: Annette O'Toole, Michael McKean, CCH Pounder …
Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Michael McKean is a corrupt lawyer who'll do anything to get his murderer client off the hook, and he succeeds. Annette O'Toole plays the victim's sister, and she's out…
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Face/Off (1997)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen …
Directed by: John Woo
An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look…
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan …
Directed by: Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy reprises his role as tough cop Jack Reed in this made-for-TV movie co-starring Charles S. Dutton. Jack's protecting a woman whose life is in such danger that the only safe…
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Zooman (1995)
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Cynthia Martells …
Directed by: Leon Ichaso
When his 9-year-old daughter is accidentally killed in the crossfire of a gang shootout, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.) pleads with his neighbors who witnessed the crime to identify the…
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Sliver (1993)
Cast: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger …
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Sexy divorcée Carly (Sharon Stone) moves into a highly sought-after New York City apartment, but as she settles into her new digs, little does she know that an admirer is keeping an eye…
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RoboCop 3 (1993)
Cast: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Mario Machado …
Directed by: Fred Dekker
When the corrupt company Omni Consumer Products employs brutal mercenaries to push destitute Detroit residents out of their homes, RoboCop quits the police force and joins the revolution in…
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Lifepod (1993)
Cast: Robert Loggia, Jessica Tuck, Stan Shaw …
Directed by: Ron Silver
Actor Ron Silver's directorial debut is a futuristic adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat. In this nail-biter, a spaceship blows up on Christmas Eve. Eight passengers survive,…
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For Their Own Good (1992)
Cast: Laura San Giacomo, Elizabeth Perkins, CCH Pounder …
Directed by: Ed Kaplan
When a manufacturer learns that substances used in its factory cause birth defects, it gives female workers an ultimatum: Get sterilized or find a new job. This is the true story of one woman…
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Murder in Mississippi (1989)
Cast: Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood …
Directed by: Roger Young
Blair Underwood, Jennifer Grey and Oscar nominee Tom Hulce star in this made-for-television film that centers on the 1964 slaying of civil rights workers at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan.…
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Homeless (1989)
Cast: Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kyndra Joy Casper …
Directed by: Lee Grant
After their apartment burns down, Mike and Zan Cooper (Jeff Daniels and Christine Lahti) move with their two children into the home of Mike's brother, but tension between the families…
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Bagdad Cafe (1988)
Cast: Marianne Sagebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance …
Directed by: Percy Adlon
Bavarian tourist Jasmin (Marianne Sägebrecht) fights with her husband in the Mojave Desert and storms off to a nearby café-motel, where she develops a prickly friendship with the…
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Resting Place (1986)
Cast: Richard Bradford, Richard Brooks, Morgan Freeman …
Directed by: John Korty
Heroism comes in many guises. For Maj. Kendall Laird (John Lithgow), it means determining why a black lieutenant (Richard Brooks) killed in Vietnam isn't allowed to be buried in his…
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston …
Directed by: John Huston
Jack Nicholson stars as dim-bulb Mafia hit man Charley Partanna, who falls hard for sultry freelance killer-for-hire Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). But the lovebirds are facing double…
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)
Cast: Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, James Bond III …
Directed by: Stan Lathan
James Baldwin's literary gem is adapted for the screen in this spellbinding film about three generations of an African-American family struggling to find footing in America, a place…