List of the best Nelsan Ellis movies: Get On Up(2014), Little Boxes(2016), True to the Game(2017), Secretariat(2010), The Express(2008), The Soloist(2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist(2012), True Blood(2008), Lee Daniels' The Butler(2013) ... ...
6.9/10
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
2014
138 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Nelsan Ellis Dan Aykroyd Viola Davis Lennie James Fred Melamed Craig Robinson Jill Scott Octavia Spencer Josh Hopkins Brandon Smith
james brown singer entertainer musician audience mother brash confident creative jail house stage recording studio car hotel music singing entertainment abandonment prison
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
5.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
84 Minutes
Melanie Lynskey Nelsan Ellis Armani Jackson Oona Laurence Janeane Garofalo Nadia Dajani Veanne Cox Julie Hays Miranda McKeon David Charles Ebert Maliq Johnson
black student mother father professor unrestrained amusing confident hilarious intricate small town washington state college house restaurant interracial conflict racial issues discovery growing up love rivalry
An interracial family struggles to adjust when they move from New York City to a small, predominately white town in Washington State.
5.2/10
Drama
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Tyrik
Erica Peeples Vivica A. Fox Nelsan Ellis Nafessa Williams Columbus Short Jennifer Freeman Malcolm David Kelley Andra Fuller Annika Noelle Draya Michele Starletta DuPois
A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia.
7.2/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2010
123 Minutes
Eddie Sweat
Diane Lane John Malkovich Dylan Walsh Dylan Baker Margo Martindale Nelsan Ellis Otto Thorwarth Scott Glenn Fred Dalton Thompson AJ Michalka Kevin Connolly
housewife father trainer horse husband gripping passionate virginia farm horse track horse racing inheritance training jealousy determination mother/child relationship quest rise transformation 1970s
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
7.3/10
Biography, Drama
USA|Germany
2008
129 Minutes
Will Davis Jr.
Dennis Quaid Rob Brown Clancy Brown Omar Benson Miller Charles S. Dutton Darrin Dewitt Henson Nelsan Ellis Nicole Beharie
college student football player coach teammate uplifting engaging new york state college football field football college civil rights racism heisman trophy sports transformation quest 1950s
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
6.7/10
Biography, Drama
UK|France|USA
2009
117 Minutes
David Carter
Jamie Foxx Robert Downey Jr. Catherine Keener Tom Hollander LisaGay Hamilton Stephen Root Nelsan Ellis Rachael Harris Jena Malone
journalist homeless person ex-wife sister cellist doctor tender heartwarming los angeles street opera house schizophrenia unusual friendship music life lessons rise underdog transformation 2000s
A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.
6.9/10
Drama
USA|UK|Qatar
2012
128 Minutes
Wainwright
Riz Ahmed Liev Schreiber Kate Hudson Kiefer Sutherland Om Puri Shabana Azmi Haluk Bilginer Martin Donovan Nelsan Ellis Adil Hussain Christopher Nicholas Smith
fundamentalist professor pakistani emotional engaging new york wall street life story middle class chases transformation underdog future
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller
2008
Minutes
Anna Paquin Stephen Moyer Sam Trammell Ryan Kwanten Rutina Wesley Alexander Skarsgård Chris Bauer Kristin Bauer Lauren Bowles Nelsan Ellis Joe Manganiello Carrie Preston
Vampires walk the Earth using synthetic blood.
Drama, History
2013
132 Minutes
Forest Whitaker Oprah Winfrey John Cusack Jane Fonda Cuba Gooding Jr. Terrence Howard Lenny Kravitz James Marsden David Oyelowo Vanessa Redgrave Alan Rickman
butler wife cook harry s. truman richard nixon nancy reagan calm solemn relaxing moving heartwarming powerful white house washington, d.c. family home american south capitol building street politics race relations
A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).
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