Cast: Frankie Faison

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frankie Faison. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Wire (TV Series)

2002 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Simon · Joe Chappelle · Ernest R. Dickerson · Clark Johnson

Cast Dominic West · Lance Reddick · Sonja Sohn · Clarke Peters

Synopsis TV Series (2002-2008). 5 Seasons. 60 episodes. This unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a...

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8.9

46K votes

8.9

46K votes

The Silence of the Lambs

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Synopsis Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" who skins his victims and who has...

8.2

171K votes

8.2

171K votes

Mississippi Burning

1988 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Gene Hackman · Willem Dafoe · Frances McDormand · Brad Dourif

Synopsis In 1964, when three civil-rights workers, two white and one black, mysteriously disappear while driving through Mississippi, two FBI agents, Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Anderson (Gene Hackman), are sent in to investigate. While Ward is young and by the book,...

7.5

17K votes

7.5

17K votes

Do the Right Thing

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the...

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

Banshee (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Schickler · Jonathan Tropper · Greg Yaitanes · Ole Christian Madsen

Cast Antony Starr · Rus Blackwell · Hoon Lee · Matt Servitto

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2016). 4 Seasons. 38 Episodes. Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-con and master thief assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff where he continues his criminal activities. His past seems to haunt him by those he betrayed years...

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7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

Ragtime

1981 · Movie · 155 min. · United States

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Moses Gunn · James Cagney · Brad Dourif

Synopsis Based on the acclaimed and popular E.L. Doctorow novel, RAGTIME tells the intricate story of four New York families--three of which are fictional--at the turn of the 20th century, each indicative of that time in American history, and highlighting some...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Banshee Origins (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 5 min. · United States

Direction David Schickler · Jonathan Tropper · Greg Yaitanes

Cast Antony Starr · Hoon Lee · Ivana Milicevic · Rus Blackwell

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2016). 4 Seasons. 41 Episodes.

6.9

95 votes

6.9

95 votes

My Blueberry Nights

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Norah Jones · Jude Law · Natalie Portman · Rachel Weisz

Synopsis A young woman (Norah Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. In Wong Kar Wai's debut English-language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his...

6.6

24K votes

6.6

24K votes

Red Dragon

2002 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Brett Ratner

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Edward Norton · Ralph Fiennes · Harvey Keitel

Synopsis Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, RED DRAGON stars Edward Norton as Will Graham, the intuitive FBI agent who captured the notorious Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). When another killer, dubbed "the Tooth Fairy," begins a series of...

6.5

39K votes

6.5

39K votes

Adam

2009 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Max Mayer

Cast Hugh Dancy · Rose Byrne · Frankie Faison · Peter Gallagher

Synopsis Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer, encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment. A pleasant chemistry flows, but his awkwardness is perplexing. Whether avoiding eye contact or standing by blithely while Beth drags...

6.5

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

Direction Jill Sprecher

Cast Matthew McConaughey · John Turturro · Clea Duvall · Amy Irving

Synopsis A man approaching middle age decides to change his life. A rising young attorney's plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single act. A woman faces her husband's infidelity. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Direction David Midell

Cast Frankie Faison · Steve O'Connell · Enrico Natale · Ben Marten

Synopsis Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on...

6.4

469 votes

6.4

469 votes

Hannibal

2001 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Julianne Moore · Gary Oldman · Ray Liotta

Synopsis Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, ten years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests...

6.4

75K votes

6.4

75K votes

Permanent Vacation

1980 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Chris Parker · Frankie Faison · John Lurie · Sara Driver

Synopsis In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy (Chris Parker) whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along...

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6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Till

2022 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Chinonye Chukwu

Cast Danielle Deadwyler · Jalyn Hall · Frankie Faison · Haley Bennett

Synopsis The story of Emmett Louis Till and the legacy of his mother who pursued justice for her lynched son.

6.2

554 votes

6.2

554 votes

The Thomas Crown Affair

1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction John McTiernan

Cast Pierce Brosnan · René Russo · Denis Leary · Frankie Faison

Synopsis A multi-millionaire (Brosnan) is looking for a little excitement in his life and decides to execute the perfect crime by emptying out a bank’s safe in broad daylight. A female insurance investigator (Russo) attempts to get the goods on him...

6.0

16K votes

6.0

16K votes

Luke Cage (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 55 min. · United States

Direction Cheo Hodari Coker · Paul McGuigan · Guillermo Navarro · Phil Abraham

Cast Mike Colter · Mahershala Ali · Simone Missick · Rosario Dawson

Synopsis TV Series. 2 Seasons. Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

6.0

6K votes

6.0

6K votes

The Money Pit

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Tom Hanks · Shelley Long · Alexander Godunov · Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously...

6.0

24K votes

6.0

24K votes

Cat People

1982 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Nastassja Kinski · Malcolm McDowell · John Heard · Annette O'Toole

Synopsis A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex....

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

Gods and Generals

2003 · Movie · 223 min. · United States

Direction Ronald F. Maxwell

Cast Jeff Daniels · Stephen Lang · Robert Duvall · Mira Sorvino

Synopsis A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War (1861-1863) and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the...

5.8

698 votes

5.8

698 votes