Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Dirty Pretty Things (2002): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez; A tightly–wound, satisfying British melodrama about illegal immigrants in London that find themselves exploited by a medical scam. Chiwetel…
Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003): Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…; A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
Melinda and Melinda (2004): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Will Ferrell, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Woody Allen's tweaks his formula in a clever conceit that alternates a comic and tragic version of the same romantic story. Australian actress…
Red Dust (2004): Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor; A boldly straightforward courtroom drama set during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission era of post–Apartheid South Africa, where a former…
Four Brothers (2005): Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin…; Four adopted brothers of mixed race band together – despite their differences and life problems – to avenge their elderly mother's murder…
Kinky Boots (2005): Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor; Likeable British comedy adds a quirky twist to the usual battling 'dreamer' storyline, with a struggling Northampton shoe factory (inherited by an…
Inside Man (2006): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…; Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
Children of Men (2006): Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Clive Owen is pursued across a dystopian England of 2027 in this stimulating, pertinent sci–fi parable, rendered with stunning virtuosity by…
Tsunami: The Aftermath (TV Mini-Series) (2006): Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Hugh Bonneville…; Inspired by the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the…
American Gangster (2007): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Hefty gangster flick in the tradition of SCARFACE, SERPICO, et. al., but based on an amazing true story: Washington plays Frank Lucas, the driver to…
Talk To Me (2007): Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Feat. Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen; Don Cheadle talks the talk and walks the walk in a dynamite turn as ex–con turned people’s provocateur Ralph Waldo ‘Petey’ Greene Jr., an…
Redbelt (2008): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen…; Upright and mature David Mamet offering examines the principles behind jujitsu through a small–time, but respected martial arts instructor…
2012 (2009): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…; Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…
Endgame (2009): Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller…; South Africa's fraught history is tackled in this solid, involving account of President P.W. Botha’s segregationist regime, and his secretive talks…
Salt (2010): Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; Outlandish thriller with Jolie as a C.I.A. agent accused of being a Russian spy, and with the C.I.A. in pursuit she must fight to clear her name.…
Shadow Line, The (TV Series) (2011): Dir. Hugo Blick
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall…; This quality BBC production builds a compelling and morally complex story around the death of a convicted drugs smuggler, whose murder is…
Phil Spector (2013): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; David Mamet brilliantly dramatises Phil Spector's trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson in this self–proclaimed "work of fiction", in which the…
12 Years a Slave (2013): Dir. Steve McQueen
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti…; Steve McQueen (HUNGER, SHAME) directs this powerful historical drama of a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery.
Dancing on the Edge (TV series) (2013): Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Angel Coulby…; Aided by beautiful period detail, Stephen Poliakoff's latest drama richly explores the rise and fall of a black jazz band embraced by the aristocracy…
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013): Dir. Biyi Bandele
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Boyega…; A moving, if overly melodramatic rendering of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about the Nigerian Civil War as experienced by two…
Savannah (2013): Dir. Annette Haywood-Carter
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander…; In this good ol' southern drama, Jim Caviezel plays a drifter who rejects his plantation heritage for a life on the river with his friend, a freed…
Z For Zachariah (2015): Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie; Compelling sci–fi drama in which New Zealand stands in for the pastoral American South, set in the wake of a nuclear war that wipes out most of…
Martian, The (2015): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig…; Ridley Scott adapts the acclaimed novel by Andy Weir as an unabashed crowd–pleaser about an astronaut who is left behind after a manned mission…
Secret in Their Eyes (2015): Dir. Billy Ray
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts…; Efficient remake of the acclaimed Argentinean thriller that boasts some serious star power. Kidman, Roberts and Ejiofor star as a tight–knit…
Triple 9 (2016): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie…; Bruising slice of pulp cinema features a team of entirely corrupt cops, in hock to the Russian mob, planning a heist that goes dramatically wrong
Doctor Strange (2016): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams…; The fourteenth film from the Marvel superhero franchise stars Cumberbatch as the title hero, a neurosurgeon disabled in a car crash who turns to a…
Mary Magdalene (2018): Dir. Garth Davis
Feat. Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor…; The director of LION delivers this sombre biopic of the Saint and disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, who caused conflict with Jesus's other disciples in…
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019): Dir. Joachim Roenning
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson…; Sequel to the 2014 Disney fantasy, with Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and her goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) returning to new adventures, this time…
Earth From Space (TV Mini-Series) (2019): Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor; Captivating documentary miniseries presenting earth from never–seen–before perspectives, and exploring how fast our planet is changing.…
Locked Down (2021): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Merchant…; Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a newly separated couple confined to their swanky London apartment during a mandatory lockdown, with…

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Filmography (All Films)