Cast: Alfre Woodard
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alfre Woodard. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 95
Primal Fear
1996 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Hoblit
Cast Richard Gere · Laura Linney · Edward Norton · John Mahoney
Synopsis In Chicago, an Archbishop has been brutally murdered, and a sweet-faced altar boy named Aaron -- who was seen fleeing the scene of the crime and whose clothes were soaked in blood -- is charged with the crime. Aaron claims...
7.3
30K votes
7.3
30K votes
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Steve McQueen
Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor · Michael Fassbender · Lupita Nyong'o · Paul Dano
Synopsis 12 Years a Slave (2013) tells the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free African-American man living in New York in the 1840s. Lured by a promise of work, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South....
7.3
62K votes
7.3
62K votes
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise
2016 · Documentary · 114 min. · United States
Direction Bob Hercules · Rita Coburn Whack
Cast Maya Angelou · Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Common
Synopsis The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
7.2
24 votes
7.2
24 votes
Passion Fish
1992 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction John Sayles
Cast Mary McDonnell · Alfre Woodard · Leo Burmester · Angela Bassett
Synopsis Mary McDonnell stars as May-Alice Culhane, a New York-based soap opera star who is paralyzed in a road accident. She returns to the Louisiana bayou where she grew up and becomes the patient from hell, discharging one caretaker after another....
7.0
920 votes
7.0
920 votes
K-Pax
2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Iain Softley
Cast Kevin Spacey · Jeff Bridges · Alfre Woodard · Mary McCormack
Synopsis K-Pax (2001) follows Prot, a mysterious patient at a psychiatric hospital who claims to be an alien from the planet K-Pax. Dr. Mark Powell, a skeptical but compassionate psychiatrist, is assigned to evaluate him. As Prot shares vivid details about...
6.9
36K votes
6.9
36K votes
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Movie · 147 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Russo · Joe Russo
Cast Chris Evans · Robert Downey Jr. · Sebastian Stan · Scarlett Johansson
Synopsis In Captain America: Civil War (2016), the Avengers are divided after a mission leads to collateral damage. Governments demand oversight, splitting the team. Tony Stark supports accountability, while Steve Rogers resists, fearing compromised freedom. Tensions escalate when Bucky Barnes, Rogers'...
6.8
39K votes
6.8
39K votes
St. Elsewhere (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Brand · John Falsey · David Anspaugh · Eric Laneuville
Cast William Daniels · Ed Begley Jr. · Howie Mandel · David Morse
Synopsis This hour-long dramatic series featured life at St. Eligius Hospital, headed by Drs. Donald Westphall and Daniel Auschlander. Every year, new residents would walk down the halls of St. Eligius; learning to deal with perfectionist Cardiovascular Surgeon Mark Craig was...
6.8
241 votes
6.8
241 votes
Grand Canyon
1991 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction Lawrence Kasdan
Cast Danny Glover · Kevin Kline · Steve Martin · Mary McDonnell
Synopsis Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself...
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
Desperate Housewives (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 40 min. · United States
Direction Marc Cherry · Larry Shaw · David Grossman · David Warren
Cast Teri Hatcher · Felicity Huffman · Marcia Cross · Eva Longoria
Synopsis Desperate Housewives (TV Series) (2004) follows the lives of four women living on Wisteria Lane, a seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. Through the eyes of their late friend, Mary Alice Young, the series unravels the secrets, lies, and scandals hidden behind...
6.7
29K votes
6.7
29K votes
A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV Series)
2017 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Mark Hudis · Barry Sonnenfeld · Mark Palansky · Bo Welch
Cast Neil Patrick Harris · Patrick Warburton · Malina Weissman · K. Todd Freeman
Synopsis TV Series (2017). 3 Seasons. 25 Episodes. After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Mumford
1999 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Lawrence Kasdan
Cast Loren Dean · Hope Davis · Jason Lee · Ted Danson
Synopsis A man gives up his job with the IRS and relocates to a small town named Mumford of which he takes the name and passes it off as his own by being a psychologist. Having only set up practice for...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Frakes
Cast Patrick Stewart · Jonathan Frakes · Brent Spiner · LeVar Burton
Synopsis The time is the 24th century and the ship is the newly commissioned Enterprise-E. It's captain, Jean-Luc Picard, has been ordered not to interfere in a combat between a Borg Cube and ships from the Federation. However, seeing the Federation...
6.5
5K votes
6.5
5K votes
Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove
Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen
Synopsis TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials, this program set out to produce high-quality classic entertainment that...
6.4
119 votes
6.4
119 votes
Radio
2003 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Michael Tollin
Cast Cuba Gooding Jr. · Ed Harris · Debra Winger · Alfre Woodard
Synopsis James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, the mentally disabled man played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Radio", attended the premiere last week and gave his opinions about seeing himself on the big screen.
6.4
8K votes
6.4
8K votes
Crooklyn
1993 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Spike Lee
Cast Alfre Woodard · Delroy Lindo · David Patrick Kelly · Zelda Harris
Synopsis From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
6.4
911 votes
6.4
911 votes
See (TV Series)
2019 · Series · 57 min. · United States
Direction Steven Knight · Francis Lawrence · Anders Engström · Stephen Surjik
Cast Jason Momoa · Alfre Woodard · Yadira Guevara-Prip · Nesta Cooper
Synopsis See takes place in "a future when the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, to build, to hunt, to survive. All of that is challenged when a set...
6.2
851 votes
6.2
851 votes
Cross Creek
1983 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Mary Steenburgen · Rip Torn · Peter Coyote · Dana Hill
Synopsis The time was 1928. The place was Cross Creek, a remote, unremarkable hamlet in a wild, untamed portion of Central Florida. After 10 years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, a city-born-and-bred Northerner,...
6.2
150 votes
6.2
150 votes
Heart and Souls
1993 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Ron Underwood
Cast Robert Downey Jr. · Charles Grodin · Elisabeth Shue · Kyra Sedgwick
6.1
925 votes
6.1
925 votes
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States
Direction Rosanna Arquette
Cast Patricia Arquette · Rosanna Arquette · Emmanuelle Béart · Katrin Cartlidge
Synopsis Rosanna Arquette informally interviews several contrasting actresses about how they cope with being a woman in the entertainment industry. The chauvenism of male crew is discussed, the pretentiousness / stereotyping of female characters in American film now. Interviews include those...
6.1
216 votes
6.1
216 votes
Bopha!
1993 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Morgan Freeman
Cast Danny Glover · Malcolm McDowell · Alfre Woodard · Marius Weyers
Synopsis In his directorial debut, actor Morgan Freeman cast a knowing eye on the ways the racist apartheid movement in South Africa--now demolished--divided South African blacks even from each other in this story of a black policeman. Danny Glover plays the...
6.1
155 votes
6.1
155 votes