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Forest Whitaker

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
Winged CreaturesWinged Creatures (Fragments) (2008)
Dir. Rowan Woods
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce
A tired formula is tackled admirably by Australian dir. Rowan Woods in this high–strung melodrama, revolving around half–a–dozen…
Dragon HuntersDragon Hunters (2008)
Dir. Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Vincent Lindon
French–produced animated tale of two dragon hunters in a world that has become infested with a terrible plague, with famished, mutant creatures…
Where the Wild Things AreWhere the Wild Things Are (2009) Aro Favourite
Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini
Expanding on the simple text of Maurice Sendak's modern children's classic, this glorious, visionary adaptation from director Spike Jonze and writer…
Repo MenRepo Men (2010)
Dir. Miguel Sapochnik
Feat. Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga
In a derivative future–world where artificial organs are readily sold and repossessed, this cocksure shoot em up pits a debt–riddled repo…
Experiment, TheExperiment, The (2010)
Dir. Paul Scheuring
Feat. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr.
Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker chew the scenery in this slick, if largely diminished remake of the 2001 German thriller, itself a dramatisation of…
LullabyLullaby (Lullaby for Pi) (2010)
Dir. Benoît Philippon
Feat. Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy, Forest Whitaker
A jazz–playing, Some Like it Hot–idolizing drifter mourning the death of his soul mate strikes love with an idiosyncratic woman with a…
Ernest & CelestineErnest & Celestine (Ernest and Celestine) (2012) Aro Favourite
Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Lauren Bacall
A bear and a mouse become firm friends in this lovely French animation.
Out of the FurnaceOut of the Furnace (2013)
Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson
Christian Bale plays a destitute ex–con whose resolve to cut ties with his past is tested when his brother falls in with a notorious group of…
Last Stand, TheLast Stand, The (2013)
Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his first love – blowing shit up – in this explosive comeback vehicle for the former action star, in…
Butler, TheButler, The (2013)
Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey
A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
Taken 3Taken 3 (Tak3n) (2014)
Dir. Olivier Megaton
Feat. Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace
Third addition to the Liam Neeson action franchise has our hero accused of a murder he never committed or witnessed. More scowling and punching…
SouthpawSouthpaw (2015)
Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker
Jake Gyllenhaal gets in the ring in this downbeat boxing drama as a former champ struggling to get his life back on track after losing his wife in a…
Roots (TV Mini-Series)Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke
A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
ArrivalArrival (2016) Aro Favourite
Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryRogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Recommended
Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk
The phenomenal mythology of Star Wars expands again with this first of the "standalone" films, a suitably epic adventure that inaugurates a fresh…
Black PantherBlack Panther (2018) Recommended
Dir. Ryan Coogler
Feat. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
Another massive hit, and considered one of the best of the eighteen films in the Marvel Comic Universe, and the first to feature a predominantly…
Finding Steve McQueenFinding Steve McQueen (2019)
Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner
Lighthearted heist caper set in the 1970's, following the unlikely attempt by a group of small–time crims to steal $30 million from Nixon's…
RespectRespect (2021)
Dir. Liesl Tommy
Feat. Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans
Musical biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as singer Aretha Franklin in the first two decades of her life, culminating with the recording of her…

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