Movies by Angela Bassett
As part of the cast:
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This Means War (2012)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy …
Directed by: McG
Each determined to win the heart of a sexy blonde bombshell, two best friends and CIA spies turn their secret-agent skills against each other, heedless of the ever-widening trail of wreckage…
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Green Lantern (2011)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard …
Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), a brash, talented test pilot, is chosen by an alien force of warriors to become their representative on Earth and use his new powers as the Green Lantern to…
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Jumping the Broom (2011)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso …
Directed by: Salim Akil
It's a comedic clash of African-American cultures when the hoity-toity clan of bride Sabrina Watson and the proudly blue-collar family of groom Jason Taylor gather on Martha's…
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Notorious (2009)
Cast: Jamal Woolard, Anthony Mackie, Derek Luke …
Directed by: George Tillman Jr.
Based on the story of Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G. (played by Jamal Woolard), this insightful biopic chronicles the gangsta rapper's troubled life as a drug…
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Bill Bellamy, Jeff Clanagan …
Directed by: Robert Townsend, Quincy Newell
Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg and other notables illuminate the evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy. Accompanying film clips explore the history of black…
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Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Sofía Vergara, Tyler Perry …
Directed by: Tyler Perry
When Brenda (Angela Bassett), a struggling single mom in Chicago's inner city, learns that the father she never knew has died, she heads to Georgia with her three kids in tow for the…
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Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett …
Directed by: Rod Lurie
Journalist Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) turns Washington on its ear when she outs a casual acquaintance (Vera Farmiga) as a CIA agent. The government's formidable prosecutor (Matt…
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Gospel Hill (2008)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Danny Glover, Julia Stiles …
Directed by: Giancarlo Esposito
In a small Southern town, the longstanding residents of the Gospel Hill neighborhood are being forced out of their homes to make way for a pricey housing development, pushing race relations…
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Of Boys and Men (2008)
Cast: Robert Townsend, Angela Bassett, Victoria Rowell …
Directed by: Carl Seaton
When his wife (Angela Bassett) dies in a tragic car accident, Chicago dad Holden Cole (Robert Townsend) suddenly has his hands full raising three anguish-stricken boys while simultaneously…
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Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Cast: Daniel Hansen, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett …
Directed by: Stephen J. Anderson
In this kid-friendly computer-animated adventure, brilliant preteen inventor Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen) creates a memory scanner to retrieve his earliest recollections and find out why…
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer …
Directed by: Doug Atchison
Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson is determined to spell her way out of South Los Angeles and make it to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. With a tutor behind her, Akeelah may even…
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn …
Directed by: Doug Liman
Marriage has gotten stale and predictable for John and Jane Smith, an average-on-the-surface husband and wife who don't yet know that they share the same undercover line of work:…
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Mr. 3000 (2004)
Cast: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli …
Directed by: Charles Stone III
A baseball star (Bernie Mac) who retired with exactly 3,000 hits -- and soon dubbed himself "Mr. 3000" -- learns that three of his hits didn't count, and now he's making a comeback…
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Masked & Anonymous (2003)
Cast: Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jessica Lange …
Directed by: Larry Charles
Amid a decaying society in the future, troubadour Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) is busted out of prison by his former manager (John Goodman) so he can perform one last concert that may rekindle his…
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Sunshine State (2002)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Timothy Hutton …
Directed by: John Sayles
In this tale about small-town folks battling big-time business, Desiree Perry (Angela Bassett) returns to her hometown of Plantation Island, Fla., to resurrect herself and reconnect with her…
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The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Peter Francis James …
Directed by: Julie Dash
Angela Bassett stars in the story that sparked the birth of the modern civil rights movement in the late 1950s. Parks took the only available seat in the first row of the "colored" section on…
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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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The Score (2001)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando …
Directed by: Frank Oz, Robert De Niro
Ready-to-retire safecracker Nick, flamboyant fence Max and talented but volatile thief Jackie team up to rob the Montreal Customs House. The score could put them all on easy street, but Nick…
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood (2001)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Kevin Anderson, Brian Mitchell …
Directed by: Peter Werner
Ruby Delacroix (Angela Bassett) owns a popular juke joint on the Louisiana bayou, circa 1960. When she loses her star performer, she reluctantly hires a white singer, Billy Dupre (Kevin…
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Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Joanna Lumley, Anne Archer …
Directed by: Dereck Joubert
This live-action Disney entry uses film of wild animals in their native African environs to chronicle the story of baby pachyderm Whispers, who gets separated from his mother after an…
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Supernova (2000)
Cast: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forester …
Directed by: Walter Hill, James Thomas Lee Knight
When a deep-space rescue ship answers a distress call from a mining planet, the crew leaps light-years to find a lone survivor. When the man joins them, crew members start disappearing thanks…
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Boesman and Lena (2000)
Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Willie Jonah …
Directed by: John Berry
Homeless and impoverished, a South African couple (Danny Glover and Angela Bassett) suffering under the oppression of apartheid finds a place to settle down for the night in this acclaimed…
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Music of the Heart (1999)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman, Henry Dinhofer …
Directed by: Wes Craven
In director Wes Craven's inspiring Oscar-nominated drama -- which is based on a true story -- a violinist and single mother struggles to convince the administration at an East Harlem…
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Our Friend Martin (1999)
Cast: Edward Asner, Vincenzo Trippetti, Angela Bassett …
Directed by: Rob Smiley
Talk about high concept! This animated special, inspired by the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., posits the question of what the 1990s would have been like if the famed Civil Rights leader…
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Stella, a stressed-out single mother and stock broker, gets a new lease on life when she takes a much-needed vacation to Jamaica and strikes up a steamy romance with a handsome younger man.
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Contact (1997)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
When Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) hears a signal being broadcast from outer space, the race is on to interpret humanity's first contact with alien intelligence in this adaptation of…
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Strange Days (1995)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis …
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Ex-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is a pusher of potent -- and illegal -- virtual-reality clips, peddling sex and violence to the masses in Los Angeles in this quasi-futuristic thriller set…
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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Cast: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine …
Directed by: Forest Whitaker
Holding their breath waiting for the elusive "good man," four female friends and confidants -- each one cheated on, mistreated and stepped on by less-than-stellar lovers -- talk it all out,…
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Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Wes Craven
Fright master Wes Craven and superstar funnyman Eddie Murphy meet in the middle for this horror-comedy featuring Murphy as Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires who comes to…
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What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Rae'ven Kelly …
Directed by: Brian Gibson
Anna Mae Bullock (Angela Bassett) is a little girl with a man's voice, whose life changes forever when she meets slick musician Ike Turner (Laurence Fishburne). Ike grooms his budding…
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Innocent Blood (1992)
Cast: Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia …
Directed by: John Landis
A sexy vampire (Anne Parillaud) neglects to finish off the mob boss (Robert Loggia) who was her latest snack. When he awakens to find he's a member of a new underworld family, he wastes…
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Malcolm X (1992)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Spike Lee …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated drama illuminates the life of black nationalist Malcolm X (Denzel Washington), following him from his early days in prison to his conversion to Islam,…
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Passion Fish (1992)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks …
Directed by: John Sayles
May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell) is a soap opera star who's left paralyzed after a car accident and, left with few other options, returns to her Louisiana home. Her heavy drinking and…
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Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube …
Directed by: John Singleton
In this thoughtful drama, a South Central Los Angeles high schooler struggles to stay straight in a community polluted by drugs, violence and racism -- and his cynical but devoted father will…
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Critters 4 (1991)
Cast: Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne …
Directed by: Rupert Harvey
After being hunted nearly to extinction on Earth, the dangerous, razor-fanged fuzzballs are frozen and shot deep into space. When they are taken onto a space station more than 50 years later,…
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City of Hope (1991)
Cast: Vincent Spano, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco …
Directed by: John Sayles
In Hudson City, N.J., whites, blacks, unions and the police form their own tribes and jockey for influence over pieces of hard-won turf. This drama's multifaceted storyline follows…
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Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed …
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the…
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990)
Cast: Raymond Burr, Vanessa Williams, Angela Bassett …
Directed by: Ron Satlof
Gorgeous singer Terri Knight (Vanessa Williams) has just been found murdered in her apartment. The first person everyone accuses is her husband, Jack (Tim Reid), who was recently seen arguing…
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F/X (1986)
Cast: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora …
Directed by: Robert Mandel
The Justice Department enlists special-effects wizard Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) for the most elaborate assignment of his lifetime -- to fake the murder of a high-profile mobster (Jerry…