Aunjanue Ellis Movies

List of the best Aunjanue Ellis movies: The Volunteer(2013), The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel(2019), Money Matters(2010), Abducted: The Carlina White Story(2012), Cover(2007), Of Mind and Music(2014), The Hungry Ghosts(2009), Pimp(2018), The Opponent(2000), Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story(2009), Brother to Brother(2004), Girls Town(1996) ... ...

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The Volunteer

After quitting her stable but soul-crushing job, Leigh passes her days in an apathetic fog. Bored and feeling a vague sense of guilt, she volunteers at a local soup kitchen where she begins... See full summary »

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The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel

Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On is a unique documentary feature, telling the untold, colorful story of the self-proclaimed 'greatest club in the world'. Founded ... See full summary »

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Money Matters

A moving and intimate film that follows Monique "Money" Matters (Terri Abney) caught at the brink of adolescence. Her relationship with her mother Pamela Matters (Aunjanue Ellis- RAY, MEN ... See full summary »

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Abducted: The Carlina White Story

Ann Pettway (Aunjanue Ellis) kidnaps an infant from a New York hospital and raises the child as her own daughter.

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Cover

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Of Mind and Music

A renowned neuroscientist (Joaquim de Almeida) tries to find the long-lost son (Marcus Lyle Brown) of a talented singer (Aunjanue Ellis) who has Alzheimer's disease.

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The Hungry Ghosts

A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.

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Pimp

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female Pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

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The Opponent

Patty , a victim of domestic abuse, meets her match in Tommy, a former boxing hopeful looking for a new star to put in the ring. But he never could have imagined it would be Patty.

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Inspired by his mother (Kimberly Elise) to never give up, Detroit native Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) overcomes poverty and prejudice to become a neurosurgeon.

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Brother to Brother

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

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Girls Town

A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. Nikki and Emma have a heart to heart talk one evening about how much they'll miss ... See full summary »

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The Caveman's Valentine

A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.

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Lovely & Amazing

Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.

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The Birth of a Nation

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.

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The Resident

When a young doctor suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft, she learns that her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her.

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Ray

Blind since childhood, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) overcomes poverty, hardship and addiction and becomes an American music legend.

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If Beale Street Could Talk

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.

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Miss Virginia

A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.

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Notorious

The life and death story of The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.

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The Help

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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Get On Up

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

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The Taking of Pelham 123

Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

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