Alfre Woodard Movies

List of the best Alfre Woodard movies: Crooklyn(1994), Clemency(2019), Juanita(2019), Miss Evers' Boys(1997), Passion Fish(1992), Reach for Me(2008), Burning Sands(2017), The Piano Lesson(1995), Pictures of Hollis Woods(2007), Holiday Heart(2000), The Water Is Wide(2006), Love & Basketball(2000) ... ...

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Crooklyn

Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.

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Clemency

As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

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Juanita

Fed up with her life, Juanita leaves her grown kids behind and hits the road in search of a fresh start.

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Miss Evers' Boys

A nurse (Alfre Woodard) becomes involved in a government experiment to withhold treatment for syphilis from a group of black patients.

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Passion Fish

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

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Reach for Me

Dying is hell - and Alvin's going to make sure everyone knows it. Academy Award nominees Seymour Cassell & Alfre Woodard star. AARP Movies for Grownups Award-winner.

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Burning Sands

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

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The Piano Lesson

An heirloom handed down by slaves divides a brother (Charles Dutton) and sister (Alfre Woodard) in 1936 Pittsburgh.

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Pictures of Hollis Woods

A 12-year-old orphan (Jodelle Ferland) develops a strong bond with a retired teacher (Sissy Spacek) who becomes increasingly forgetful.

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Holiday Heart

A drag queen (Ving Rhames) mourning the loss of his lover takes in a drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter (Jessika Quynn Reynolds).

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The Water Is Wide

Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.

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Love & Basketball

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

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American Violet

A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.

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Cross Creek

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

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Bopha!

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist ... See full summary »

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Extremities

A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.

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The Ambush Murders

Two astronauts return to Earth to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw bikers. Cutter rapes and pillages. There are also... See full summary »

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K-PAX

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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Mumford

In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.

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Miss Firecracker

Carnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.

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Annabelle

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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Follow Me Home

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on ... See full summary »

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Saint Judy

Attorney Judy Wood leads a legal battle that changes the law for immigrants who seek asylum in the United States.

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Mississippi Grind

Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.

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Blue Chips

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.

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Steel Magnolias

Six Louisiana women (Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye) gather at a beauty salon for their daily dose of female bonding.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy ... See full summary »

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Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

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How to Make an American Quilt

Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.

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The Core

The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.

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Scrooged

A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

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12 Years a Slave

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

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Captain America: Civil War

Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man.

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