Movies starring Jeffrey Wright

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Quite possibly the most underrated and underexposed actor of his caliber and generation, Jeffrey Wright's undeniable talent and ability to successfully bring to life any role he undertakes is on a par with the most praised and revered A list actors in the business. Born and raised in Washington DC, Wright graduated from the prestigious Amherst college in 1987. Although he studied Political Science ...  show all 

The Invasion (2007)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Daniel Craig | Jeremy Northam | Jackson Bond | Jeffrey Wright | Veronica Cartwright | Josef Sommer | Celia Weston | Roger Rees | Eric Benjamin | Susan Floyd | Stephanie Berry | Alexis Raben | Adam LeFevre | Joanna Merlin
Directors: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son becomes infected, she and a colleague must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost…

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Timothy Olyphant | Maggie Q | Justin Long | Jeffrey Wright | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Cyril Raffaelli | Yancey Arias | Yorgo Constantine | Allen Maldonado | Chris O'Brocki | Chris Palermo | Tim Russ | Jonathan Sadowski | Kevin Smith
Directors: Len Wiseman
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When a criminal plot is in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States (and the world), it’s up to a decidedly “old school” hero, police detective John McClane (Willis), to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker (Long).

Lady in the Water (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Giamatti | Bryce Dallas Howard | Jeffrey Wright | Bob Balaban | Sarita Choudhury | Cindy Cheung | Freddy Rodríguez | Bill Irwin | Mary Beth Hurt | Noah Gray-Cabey | Joseph D. Reitman | Jared Harris | Grant Monohon | John Boyd
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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The super Cleveland Heep finds a woman swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium during the night; he slips, hits his head on the floor and faints in the water, and she rescues him. He discloses that she is a “Narf” called Story, a character of bedtime stories, that is chased by a “Scrunt” and she needs to return to her Blue World with an eagle. Cleveland convinces the tenants to help and protect Story.

Casino Royale (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kayvan Novak | George Clooney | Amr Waked | Christopher Plummer | Jeffrey Wright | Chris Cooper | Robert Foxworth | Nicky Henson | Nicholas Art | Matt Damon | Amanda Peet | Steven Hinkle | Daisy Tormé | Peter Gerety | Richard Lintern
Directors: Stephen Gaghan
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Wright | Pablo Schreiber | Anthony Mackie | Dorian Missick | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Teddy Dunn | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Tim Artz | Denzel Washington | Robyn Hitchcock | Liev Schreiber | Antoine Taylor | Joseph Alessi | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Bill Irwin
Directors: Jonathan Demme
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Shaft (2000)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Vanessa L. Williams | Jeffrey Wright | Christian Bale | Busta Rhymes | Dan Hedaya | Toni Collette | Richard Roundtree | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Josef Sommer | Lynne Thigpen | Philip Bosco | Pat Hingle | Lee Tergesen | Daniel von Bargen
Directors: John Singleton
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Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father’s money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who’s willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?

Ali (2001)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Jamie Foxx | Jon Voight | Mario Van Peebles | Ron Silver | Jeffrey Wright | Mykelti Williamson | Jada Pinkett Smith | Nona Gaye | Michael Michele | Joe Morton | Bruce McGill | Paul Rodriguez | Barry Shabaka Henley | Giancarlo Esposito
Directors: Michael Mann
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In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American’s in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali’s personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.