Cast: Alfre Woodard

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


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

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

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