The best Bill Nunn’s drama movies

Bill Nunn

Bill Nunn

20/10/1953- 24/09/2016
Today we present the best Bill Nunn’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Bill Nunn’s movies.
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Kiss the Girls

Kiss the Girls
6.6/10
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Glory

Glory
7.8/10
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Runaway Jury

Runaway Jury
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/01/2003
  • Character: Lonnie Shaver
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Regarding Henry

Regarding Henry
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/07/1991
  • Character: Bradley, Physical Therapist
Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.

Mad City

Mad City
6.3/10
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/06/1989
  • Character: Radio Raheem
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option

The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
4.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/04/2001
  • Character: Luther
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.

School Daze

School Daze
6.1/10
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

New Jack City

New Jack City
6.6/10
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

People I Know

People I Know
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 21/11/2002
  • Character: The Reverend Lyle Blunt
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1995
  • Character: Easy Wind
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Cadillac Man

Cadillac Man
5.7/10
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.

The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction
7/10
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory convinces her husband, Clay, to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale. After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.

Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues
6.7/10
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900
8/10
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.

He Got Game

He Got Game
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1998
  • Character: Uncle Bubba
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/2012
  • Character: Principal Holland
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 27/09/1996
  • Character: Det. Bob Burke
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

Idlewild

Idlewild
6.2/10
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 21/03/1998
  • Character: Howard M'Shalla
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

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