The best Forest Whitaker’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

15/07/1961 (62 años)
Today we present the best Forest Whitaker’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 Forest Whitaker’s movies.
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Arrival

Arrival
7.9/10
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Platoon

Platoon
8.1/10
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Bloodsport

Bloodsport
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/02/1988
  • Character: Rawlins
U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?

Southpaw

Southpaw
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/03/2015
  • Character: Titus 'Tick' Wills
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

Panic Room

Panic Room
6.8/10
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

Street Kings

Street Kings
6.8/10
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace
6.7/10
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

The Butler

The Butler
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/2013
  • Character: Cecil Gaines
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Freelancers

Freelancers
4.7/10
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.

Blown Away

Blown Away
6.2/10
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.

Phone Booth

Phone Booth
7.1/10
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

Phenomenon

Phenomenon
6.4/10
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

The Crying Game

The Crying Game
7.2/10
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.

Bird

Bird
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/07/1988
  • Character: Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/08/1982
  • Character: Charles Jefferson
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. At the center of the film is Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer who faces-off with the resolute Mr. Hand—a man convinced that everyone is on dope.

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are
6.7/10
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/12/2007
  • Character: Dr. James Farmer Sr.
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.

The Last King of Scotland

The Last King of Scotland
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/01/2006
  • Character: Idi Amin
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

The Experiment

The Experiment
6.4/10
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Catch.44

Catch.44
4.6/10
The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a bizarre situation involving a psychotic hit man, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.

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