Basic (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Starring: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt
Director: John McTiernan
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Years after the man once known as Tarzan left behind the jungles of Africa for a gentrified life in London as Lord Greystoke with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie), he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom.
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou
Director: David Yates
African Cats (2011)
Adventure | Documentary
A nature documentary centered on two cat families and how they teach their cubs the ways of the wild.
Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Stewart
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Years after the man once known as Tarzan left behind the jungles of Africa for a gentrified life in London as Lord Greystoke with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie), he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom.
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou
Director: David Yates
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Cell (2016)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, John Cusack, Stacy Keach, Owen Teague, Wilbur Fitzgerald
Director: Tod Williams
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Western
In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Zoë Bell
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Twisted (2004)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Ashley Judd is sensual and stunning"* as Jessica Sheppard, a San Francisco police inspector prowling the wharf for a serial killer whose victims all have one thing in common: her. The investigation becomes more and more twisted as her partner (Andy Garcia) behaves strangely, and the police commissioner (Samuel L. Jackson) is being asked to remove her from the investigation as she is a prime suspect. All the clues point to her and Jessica begins to suspect that she might be the killer she is looking for.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy García, David Strathairn, Russell Wong, Camryn Manheim
Director: Philip Kaufman
Chi-Raq (2015)
Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Starring: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack
Director: Spike Lee
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
Crime | Drama
An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss. While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.
Starring: John Travolta, Tim Roth, Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Plummer, Uma Thurman, Eric Stoltz
Director: Quentin Tarantino
In My Country / Country of My Skull (2004)
Drama | Romance
A cynical American journalist's affair with a beautiful Afrikaans reporter opens his eyes to the healing powers of forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson
Director: John Boorman
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Drama
An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back.
Starring: Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daisy Eagan
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Drama
A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ten-year-old girl whose father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is a successful and well-liked doctor in an African-American community in Louisiana. Louis is a good father and an excellent provider, but he also has a way of attracting the ladies, and he's not inclined to turn them away. One night, the Batistes hold a party, and Eve, her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good), and their mother Roz (Lynn Whitfield) all notice that Louis is spending a great deal of time dancing with the same woman. Eve later spies her father and the woman in an embrace in the carriage house, though Louis unconvincingly claims that nothing untoward was happening. The evidence of Louis' infidelity takes a toll on the entire family: Cisely, who at age 14 is walking the middle-ground between being a girl and a woman, becomes sullen and confused about her new emotions, Roz takes out her frustrations on her loved ones, and Eve visits Elzora (Diahann Carroll), a voodoo priestess, looking for advice and possibly revenge. Meanwhile, Eve's Aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan), who claims to have psychic powers, arrives to stay with the family after the death of her third husband, though she isn't lonely for long after meeting the eccentric Julien Greyraven (Vondie Curtis-Hall). Eve's Bayou was the first project as writer-director for actress Kasi Lemmons; leading man Samuel L. Jackson also co-produced.
Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Meagan Good, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Debbi Morgan, Diahann Carroll
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Barely Lethal (2015)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld, Sophie Turner, Dove Cameron, Thomas Mann
Director: Kyle Newman
Big Game (2014)
Action | Adventure
A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Felicity Huffman, Ted Levine, Onni Tommila
Director: Jalmari Helander
Black Snake Moan (2006)
Drama | Music
When ex-blues musician Lazarus finds the town nymphomaniac Rae left for dead on the side of the road, he vows to nurse her back to health…and cure her of her wickedness. Until then, she'll be chained to the immovable radiator in his home. But Lazarus has demons of his own: his wife just left him for his own brother. While Lazarus and Rae struggle to fix their broken lives, the situation threatens to explode as Rae's boyfriend Ronnie – a roughneck soldier just back from Iraq – comes searching for his missing lover.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran, David Banner
Director: Craig Brewer
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Comedy | Crime
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. Amos is to pretend to take Andrew prisoner and hold him for ransom but let him go and escape. Amos and Andrew suddenly realize that the Chief's problems are all gone if the two of them both die in a gun battle. The worst partnership in film history then tries to get away from the local police.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Dabney Coleman, Brad Dourif, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin
Director: E. Max Frye
The Man (2005)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer, Luke Goss, Susie Essman, Anthony Mackie
Director: Les Mayfield
Kingsman: The Secret Service / Kingsman (2014)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing. Based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Starring: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Mark Hamill
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing. Based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Starring: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Mark Hamill
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 / Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, William Shatner, Kathy Ireland
Director: Gene Quintano
