The best James Earl Jones’s drama movies on Apple iTunes

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

17/01/1931 (93 años)
We present our ranking of the best James Earl Jones’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about James Earl Jones.

The Lion King

The Lion King
8.5/10
A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?

Sneakers

Sneakers
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/09/1992
  • Character: NSA Agent Bernard Abbott
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

Click

Click
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFantasy
  • Release: 23/06/2006
  • Character: Narrator of Michael's Past (uncredited)
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 29/01/1964
  • Character: Lt. Lothar Zogg
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Sommersby

Sommersby
6.3/10
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic
3.8/10
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 21/04/1989
  • Character: Terrence Mann
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

Patriot Games

Patriot Games
6.8/10
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger
6.9/10
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/10/2013
  • Character: Frank McCarthy
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/02/2008
  • Character: Papa Jenkins
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Gardens of Stone

Gardens of Stone
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/05/1987
  • Character: Sgt. Maj.'Goody' Nelson
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/05/2014
  • Character: Ruben
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

Warning Shot

Warning Shot
4.8/10
A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out of control.

Heat Wave

Heat Wave
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/08/1990
  • Character: Junius Johnson
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris
5.7/10
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Convicts

Convicts
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Ben Johnson
Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn a living. Horace eventually learns, through his associations with Sol, Ben (James Earl Jones) and others, that life, though it isn't always fair or just, is worth rising for every day.

Finder's Fee

Finder's Fee
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/01/2001
  • Character: Avery Phillips
After finding a wallet in the street tepper calls the owner in order to return it. After making the call he discovers that the lottery ticket inside is a $6 million winner. To add to things his friends are on their way over for their weekly poker night & the groups tradition is to bet their lottery ticket.

Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/12/1995
  • Character: Rev. Stephen Kumalo
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

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